Pixel phones seem to have the best low light performance. They apparently have larger sensors than most phones, at the expense of optical image stabilization which they offset by doing it in software.
Low light is always a weak spot for iPhones. The colour always looks artificial and they get a lot of bloom and wash out. Apple has tuned their software to make the subject bright and as clear as possible which isn't a bad thing for selfies and portraits, but there is obviously a cost to doing that.
The thing that tends to limit point-and-shoot cameras is the crappy software. Software is also what makes phone cameras great.
If you could get a point-and-shoot that had, say, the computational photography stuff in a Google Pixel phone it would be awesome. But you can't, so there is a very good chance that despite the smaller sensor and technically worse optics the Pixel will give you a better photo.
I found that what puts older people off smartphones is often that they get a crappy one. They aren't sure if they want one so get the cheapest or a hand-me-down just to try it. The phone is slow and unresponsive, the touchscreen barely works and even I find it frustrating and annoying.
My mum had this issue until I got her a decent phone and now she is fine with it.
I have a decent camera, it's even quite compact, but since I got a Pixel XL I didn't use it, The photos from the Pixel are excellent, good enough that the upgrade I'd get from carrying a real DSLR just isn't worth it.
Only ever buy DRM infected media if you are 100% you can rip it to a free format.
I usually get the download from the Pirate Bay or wherever first, and then buy the physical media. Aside from not wasting energy re-encoding stuff, the pirate version will have been checked, tagged, artwork included and all files named correctly.
I've soldered a lot of 0.5mm pitch TQFP chips by hand with just a decent soldering iron (Hakko, but cheaper ones can be used) and a concave tip using the drag soldering method.
I start by tacking down two opposing corner pins to give a bit of mechanical stability and ensure that the part is placed properly. Then apply flex all along one side (I like the pasty stuff that liquifies when heated) and apply solder to the iron. Then just drag from one end to the other, touching each pin and letting the flux do its work.
Do that for all four sides and then inspect for bad joints. With a little practice you can usually get everything perfect first time. A chip like this takes maybe 5 minutes to do this way, less for smaller parts.
Allwinner have a much better attitude towards open source support than Broadcom (the Raspberry Pi CPU manufacturer). They have been opening up more and more hardware documentation.
The main issue seems to be that they are a Chinese company which makes it harder for westerners to interact with them, but they are getting better.
The pre-orders distort the sales figures for the Model 3. We shall see how it does when the years of backlog are cleared. I'm sure it will sell well, but not as well as it is now.
Tesla definitely helped popularize the concept of EVs and demonstrate that with big batteries and decent charging range wasn't an issue. But they are mostly a US thing, and a lot of progress has been made by other manufacturers, especially in Europe and China.
Nissan was the first to market with affordable, practical EVs, and rolled out their own charging networks. Korean and Chinese companies have done more than anyone to really push battery prices down - for all the hype that the Panasonic/Tesla gigafactory gets they are far from the only game in town, and their packs are more expensive than the competition.
There is also a lot of unseen R&D that other companies have done which goes unnoticed. Again, Nissan deserves a lot of credit here for building a drive system that felt familiar and easy for drivers used to fossil cars. They figured out a lot of the EV specific usability issues early on too, something Tesla continues to struggle with.
Tesla has this problem. Both the instrument cluster (IC) and large screen can crash and need rebooting... While you are driving. There is some button combo you have to do, holding down the steering wheel controls to force a reset.
So you can suddenly lose your IC, or it can freeze and give you false information. The main screen controls everything else, including basic stuff like windscreen wipers and lights in the Model 3, so that crashing is pretty serious too.
This is the problem with allowing software updates - you get beta quality code with vague promises to fix it later that never get fulfilled.
Linux support for self encrypting drives (OPALv2) is janky. It kinda works but isn't reliable, especially if you need to sleep your machine sometimes.
You can use software encryption but then you take the performance hit. So Windows host makes sense, and then the Linux VM benefits from the encryption transparently too.
The problem with some people working more hours than others is that the ones working longer hours expect more pay. A solution is flexible working time. Minimum 6 hours a day, and if you do more you can take them off on Friday.
I have to say though, if you need to be working regular 10 hour days to finish your projects then you are overworked. They need to hire more people.
People are absent from work all the time for things like holidays, medical appointments, sickness, kid's emergencies etc. If the company can't cope without them then it has a problem anyway.
For something like customer service there just needs to be someone around for the full 8 hour period, e.g. one person starts early and the other starts later and both do 6 hours.
This would also help with traffic and cut down commute times, which will also help people be less tired and more productive during those 6 hours.
If it's a pattern of behaviour like that then the way to deal with it is witnesses. Point it out to another colleague, ask them to observe.
My point was merely that this claim you will be destroyed with a sexual harassment claim merely for gazing in the direction of a women, as some people claim, is rubbish.
You can, but it doesn't recycle the reactor casing and contaminated cooling system. So if you are designing lots of smaller reactors that are only supposed to last 20 years that's an issue.
I also question this idea that these things will be so robust and maintenance free as claimed, because the more of a sealed unit they become the harder they will be to decommission.
Strong language can be fine when you know the person, when you are in a private office etc. This CoC is specifically about public facing members of the project using official email/social media accounts or hosting official events, so it's a little different.
You have a point about less direct language though, especially for people with austism. It's a very tricky one but at least initially erring on the side of caution seems like a good idea.
Not at all. A lot of the best parts of the kernel started out buggy and were then improved from prototype level by a number of different people. Very few parts were written by one person and delivered as a flawless fait accompli patch.
In fact the original CoC noted that almost no patches are accepted first time without changes. And Linus has reversed direction a number of times on things he realized he was wrong about.
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Take a look at this review of the Pixel 2 and the example photos in it:
https://www.dxomark.com/google...
That's not a snapshot camera. The results are excellent in a variety of difficult conditions. And presumably the Pixel 3 will be even better.
Pixel phones seem to have the best low light performance. They apparently have larger sensors than most phones, at the expense of optical image stabilization which they offset by doing it in software.
Low light is always a weak spot for iPhones. The colour always looks artificial and they get a lot of bloom and wash out. Apple has tuned their software to make the subject bright and as clear as possible which isn't a bad thing for selfies and portraits, but there is obviously a cost to doing that.
The thing that tends to limit point-and-shoot cameras is the crappy software. Software is also what makes phone cameras great.
If you could get a point-and-shoot that had, say, the computational photography stuff in a Google Pixel phone it would be awesome. But you can't, so there is a very good chance that despite the smaller sensor and technically worse optics the Pixel will give you a better photo.
I found that what puts older people off smartphones is often that they get a crappy one. They aren't sure if they want one so get the cheapest or a hand-me-down just to try it. The phone is slow and unresponsive, the touchscreen barely works and even I find it frustrating and annoying.
My mum had this issue until I got her a decent phone and now she is fine with it.
I have a decent camera, it's even quite compact, but since I got a Pixel XL I didn't use it, The photos from the Pixel are excellent, good enough that the upgrade I'd get from carrying a real DSLR just isn't worth it.
Fair copyright would be:
- 10 years, an additional 5 if the holder is still alive
- Personal copies/backups allowed
- Mandatory licencing scheme for remix/sampling
- Mandatory licencing for re-use, e.g. in YouTube videos
- Harsh penalties for false copyright claims where due care and attention was not used
- Anything that limits these rights must be clearly marked on the product, similar to health warnings on cigarette packets etc.
Only ever buy DRM infected media if you are 100% you can rip it to a free format.
I usually get the download from the Pirate Bay or wherever first, and then buy the physical media. Aside from not wasting energy re-encoding stuff, the pirate version will have been checked, tagged, artwork included and all files named correctly.
Oh, and I should add that I solder these mostly on to low cost PCBs manufactured in China for $0.50 each. HASL finish, 6mil min spacing.
I've soldered a lot of 0.5mm pitch TQFP chips by hand with just a decent soldering iron (Hakko, but cheaper ones can be used) and a concave tip using the drag soldering method.
I start by tacking down two opposing corner pins to give a bit of mechanical stability and ensure that the part is placed properly. Then apply flex all along one side (I like the pasty stuff that liquifies when heated) and apply solder to the iron. Then just drag from one end to the other, touching each pin and letting the flux do its work.
Do that for all four sides and then inspect for bad joints. With a little practice you can usually get everything perfect first time. A chip like this takes maybe 5 minutes to do this way, less for smaller parts.
Allwinner have a much better attitude towards open source support than Broadcom (the Raspberry Pi CPU manufacturer). They have been opening up more and more hardware documentation.
The main issue seems to be that they are a Chinese company which makes it harder for westerners to interact with them, but they are getting better.
The pre-orders distort the sales figures for the Model 3. We shall see how it does when the years of backlog are cleared. I'm sure it will sell well, but not as well as it is now.
Tesla definitely helped popularize the concept of EVs and demonstrate that with big batteries and decent charging range wasn't an issue. But they are mostly a US thing, and a lot of progress has been made by other manufacturers, especially in Europe and China.
Nissan was the first to market with affordable, practical EVs, and rolled out their own charging networks. Korean and Chinese companies have done more than anyone to really push battery prices down - for all the hype that the Panasonic/Tesla gigafactory gets they are far from the only game in town, and their packs are more expensive than the competition.
There is also a lot of unseen R&D that other companies have done which goes unnoticed. Again, Nissan deserves a lot of credit here for building a drive system that felt familiar and easy for drivers used to fossil cars. They figured out a lot of the EV specific usability issues early on too, something Tesla continues to struggle with.
I suggested that Geekbench add a pre-heating function, but no sign of it yet.
Tesla has this problem. Both the instrument cluster (IC) and large screen can crash and need rebooting... While you are driving. There is some button combo you have to do, holding down the steering wheel controls to force a reset.
So you can suddenly lose your IC, or it can freeze and give you false information. The main screen controls everything else, including basic stuff like windscreen wipers and lights in the Model 3, so that crashing is pretty serious too.
This is the problem with allowing software updates - you get beta quality code with vague promises to fix it later that never get fulfilled.
It's just a shit study, I wouldn't read any more into it than that.
Alpha/beta males aren't even a thing. Even the guy who invented the term has disowned it and wrote a whole book correcting himself.
Also, self centredness decreases with age? That doesn't seem very likely in light of recent political events.
The whole study is a joke.
Linux support for self encrypting drives (OPALv2) is janky. It kinda works but isn't reliable, especially if you need to sleep your machine sometimes.
You can use software encryption but then you take the performance hit. So Windows host makes sense, and then the Linux VM benefits from the encryption transparently too.
The problem with some people working more hours than others is that the ones working longer hours expect more pay. A solution is flexible working time. Minimum 6 hours a day, and if you do more you can take them off on Friday.
I have to say though, if you need to be working regular 10 hour days to finish your projects then you are overworked. They need to hire more people.
People are absent from work all the time for things like holidays, medical appointments, sickness, kid's emergencies etc. If the company can't cope without them then it has a problem anyway.
For something like customer service there just needs to be someone around for the full 8 hour period, e.g. one person starts early and the other starts later and both do 6 hours.
This would also help with traffic and cut down commute times, which will also help people be less tired and more productive during those 6 hours.
If it's a pattern of behaviour like that then the way to deal with it is witnesses. Point it out to another colleague, ask them to observe.
My point was merely that this claim you will be destroyed with a sexual harassment claim merely for gazing in the direction of a women, as some people claim, is rubbish.
You can, but it doesn't recycle the reactor casing and contaminated cooling system. So if you are designing lots of smaller reactors that are only supposed to last 20 years that's an issue.
I also question this idea that these things will be so robust and maintenance free as claimed, because the more of a sealed unit they become the harder they will be to decommission.
Can you show us an example of this actually happening?
Maybe I am blind but I've never seen it, and whenever I ask for examples I never get anything that matches the description.
Strong language can be fine when you know the person, when you are in a private office etc. This CoC is specifically about public facing members of the project using official email/social media accounts or hosting official events, so it's a little different.
You have a point about less direct language though, especially for people with austism. It's a very tricky one but at least initially erring on the side of caution seems like a good idea.
Fired for being wrong, and nothing to do with a CoC, and certainly nothing to do with this one in particular.
That was my point. Your perception of a look is never going to be enough for any kind of complaint.
Not at all. A lot of the best parts of the kernel started out buggy and were then improved from prototype level by a number of different people. Very few parts were written by one person and delivered as a flawless fait accompli patch.
In fact the original CoC noted that almost no patches are accepted first time without changes. And Linus has reversed direction a number of times on things he realized he was wrong about.