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And here I thought after reading the headline: finally a reliable Arabic OCR. I've never in my life found a good that does the job decently especially for a scanned document. Or is there something out there I don't know about?

I wouldn't say it's a downgrade, but I had to run Windhawk and other mods just to make sure the start menu doesn't look like a phone's app drawer.


Interestingly while the minorities have a higher birth rate compared to the majority Chinese, the ethnic breakdown remains the exact same throughout the decades. This is because Singapore's unsaid migration policy is such that the government takes in more immigrants of Chinese ethnicity to make up for the shortfall.


Keeping it at a fixed ratio indefinitely has a plausible legitimate reason, preventing the inevitable backroom political battles and bribery schemes by various groups seeking to tilt the immigration ratio in their favour.


This is obvious yet brilliant. I've been working for so long without realising that meetings are a process, not the end. I.e. they have to lead to something.


I would appreciate an archive link though



I'm sad Bookdepository is closing.


Notice they don’t make independent or sell it to management, they kill it.


How many buyers are there for a company in a declining niche that did a $6m loss? Is it worth anyone's time?


If it had a significant customer base, lots. There are lots of 'turn around' experts out there.

Most of the tech companies people on this site work for are making a loss, but they still find buyers.


Where are you getting the $6m loss from? I can't see anything about it online.


You seem to be describing an Android tablet with e-ink display. Aside from Remarkable, what else is out there worth buying?


Supernote, Onyx have a wide range of options.

Onyx relationship with Open Source licensing is… delicate. This could be a stopper for some.

I had a Remarkable 1 but I feel the company is trying to be the next Apple. Everything now is subscription. Shame, as The reading experience was good, writing was excellent, software was open but clunky.


I can't wait until e-paper tablets become mainstream and more companies start making them. Having a generic OS like Android or Linux, instead of the closed off system of a kindle or whatever, would be amazing. Imagine how many different kinds of apps you can run on something like that.

With colour e-paper screens slowly picking up speed it's going to be even more interesting. Right now their quality is going to be disappointing if you expect the same quality as your phone or laptop, but it's an enormous step up from greyscale screens - and it's still getting better.


I used the Remarkable 1 for many years, until recently I got bored of hum converting hum my kindle library to epub to read on the remarkable.

I switched to an Onyx Boox Tab X (effectively an android tablet with eink screen) and wouldn't go back.

I have the Kindle reader app and can read very comfortably all my books, with the same comfort as with a Kindle device.

But I can also take meeting notes, brainstorm, etc thanks to the writing capabilities similar to the Remarkable.

As a bonus, I can also use it as a whiteboard in video calls.


> $879.99

Jeepers - not sure I am going to swap my $50 kindle for that one.


Calibre let's you convert in bulk fwiw


Indeed, but I was really over with the process of maintaining a Windows partition with a 10 years old version of the Kindle App, with updates disabled, for the sole purpose of manually downloading Kindle books for conversion to epub for transfer to the Remarkable.


Kobo Sage or Libra 2 are also worth a look.


I always have this problem. Not sure if I want the mouse pad to be totally deactivated while typing. I don't mind the pointer moving (might be a valid input anyway), but the clicking should be disabled so that the typing doesn't accidentally appear on an unintended area of the screen.


Well these days they call it ASMR. But you're right he's one of the first to strip away all unnecessary sounds. Makes for a very therapeutic video.


No audio effects != ASMR.


True, though his videos often fit the criteria of including "tactile" or "natural" sounds and he seems careful not to add anything that would get in the way.


It doesn't fit the criteria, because being outside is not ASMR either.


i would be really surprised to hear that anyone had experienced the asmr from watching the videos on this channel


I wouldn't. One of the main asmr triggers is watching someone focus and work on something.


Well, depends on the person I guess. Personally I can not stand all those Asmr videos, (restoration, bladesmithing stuff)


I have no intention of being snarky here, but perhaps someone can break it down to a layman how this might differ from Theranos' approach?


In almost every way, aside from the use of "a drop of blood"?

Snark aside, this article is claiming testing for a single blood parameter, clotting time, using purpose built hardware / software methods, vs the Theranos claim of building a single lab-in-a-box type device, that could test for myriad conditions or parameters all via a single drop of blood.


Measuring clotting time with a single drop of blood isn’t new. This is already done in doctors offices.

Doing it with a smartphone is new. I don’t think Theranos ever claimed their tech could work on just a smartphone.

So this claim is really, really different from Theranos.


This is one of the worst aspects of frauds like Theranos. They poison the well for others attempting to address what are genuine problems.


Some tests work fine in a single drop of blood. Some need more volume to pick up the very tiny concentrations of what you are trying to detect, particularly antibodies or antigens.

If you're trying to find a needle in a haystack you can't grab a handful, look at it, and say "nope, no needle in this stack!"


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