Honest question from someone with no hardware knowledge:
How technically possible and commercially feasible would it be to make these huge lenses and camera components removable? For example, imagine if Apple made a phone with no built-in camera, where the camera is instead a separate magnetic component that you attach to the phone only when you want to use it.
We have had modular phones already, and I wish I bought one for posterity. Time travel back to 2016 and get yourself an LG G5. There was also Google's 'Project Ara'.
Whilst you are in your time machine, pick up one of Amazon's smartphones with a 3D display and stereo cameras (or did they have four?).
It all made sense in theory, but we went the other way, to make it so that not even the battery could be swapped out.
I am no Apple fan boy, however, my hunch is that they know their customers and that the iPhone Air is perfect for people that want to show how high status they are primarily by taking photos that are exclusively of themselves. Programmers in basements are not the customer for these gadgets.
A particularly genius move of the new iPhones is the square image sensor, which is what you want if your life has to be documented on Instagram.
Image, and status, is never about practicality, it is all about peacocking, and there is nothing wrong with taking money from those that want to peacock.
> there is nothing wrong with taking money from those that want to peacock.
There _is_ something wrong with using that money to buy up supply chains and thereby undermining the viability of alternatives for more sensical people.
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I’m an ex-tcf banker turned software developer (mainly frontend). I’ve worked 10 years in trade finance world as a relationship manager and credit analyst and i know from first hand how pain in the ass it is to deal with the archaic methods in the tcf world.
I’m keen on learning if you already have ideas around improving the financing side of things. In the end, finance is big part of the commodity business. Also it would be a huge benefit if you can improve the processes around fraud prevention. Not an easy task and not necessarily a tech problem, but definitely a historically huge problem in commodity trade.
Also any ideas around making this more like an open api where banks, warehouses, logistics companies and traders can integrate and stay in sync with each other?
Just wanted to mention these few big pain points from my experience.
I hope your platform can address some of these issues.
This could be a really exciting roadmap for the long run. We actually believe there is enough of a market just selling solutions and tools to traders and producers that we haven't really thought about an "open API" sort of solution.
We have had ad-hoc conversations about the possibility, but I do think it could be an impactful solution if done correctly.
If you’re into that stuff and also like animes, recently I finished watching the “Pantheon” series and it has an even more interesting and somewhat more realistic plot compared to Matrix and super scary and exciting at the same time.
Sorry for hijacking the topic. I also live in the Netherlands and my backyard perfecty faces south, which means i get huge sunlight on that side of the house. But because my house has a glass-roofed extension on the ground floor, all solar companies i spoke say they can’t install panels on the roof because they can’t build scaffold on that side.
Here’s an image to explain a bit better. [image](https://imgur.com/a/WE1Qojf)
So the red area is the glass-roofed extension on the ground floor. And blue area is the space on the roof that solar panels should be placed. Green is a dormer (which they said they can’t also put panels on top)
I was wondering any dutchies might know a solution/advice a company about this? Also is there any portable panels that i can put on top of the glass extension?
Hi, fellow Dutchie here. I've just built something quite similar and I took a bit of a shortcut: I've used the panels as the roofing. This was a bit tricky to do properly but now that it's done it looks gorgeous and works quite well. Drop me an email if you want pictures or if you want to come look at the setup in person. It's 18 panels, 3 'long' and 6 'wide' for a total of a bit over 32 square meters.
It isn't clear from the picture and I guess it's too obvious, but if you have a neighbour, they can climb from their roof. That's how my neighbour got his installation done.
I have seen them do more complicated installations (4 floors scaffolding + crane to lift panels), I don't know why they refuse that one.
I replied about this on another comment but have a look at "We Do Solar" their product is designed for installing on balconies but I guess there is nothing to stop you installing it where ever you like! (You might just need to add a bit of a frame to support them?)
not in NL but my parents have the same problem - glass roofed extension stops the installation
I dont understand why they can't just access the roof from the other side, climb over the apex and down. They walk all around on the roof once they're up there, does it really matter which side they climb?
My sister, now 27, was diagnosed with psychosis about 10 years ago. Her real social life was plummeting and i couldn’t notice it since i was living away. But apprently she was obsessed with social media, particularly twitter back then. At one point, she came to our parents saying thay “people put cameras at home and they are watching her”. So, she totally lost it. Immediately diagnosed and started using heavy medication. She totally lost touch with real life and human interaction. She still wouldn’t talk for hours if you sit in the same room. Still obsessed with social media. She has 20k followers on instagram (not sure how much of it is real though). And if you look at her instagram profile, it
‘S totaly a different person. Fancy dresses, fancy restaurants, bars etc. but in real life, she’s a total loser with no single friend. Doctor says it’s only medication that can help. I don’t believe it. I believe she has to also get therapy sessions. But my family doesn’t believe it. They are old , too tired to deal with this. Probably they also need therapy. And i do as well. But living abroad, with my wife and little daughter, i can’t really influence these decisions. So all i do is being sad. A teenager’s life was totally ruined because of this. Maybe it’s not entirely social media’s fault but i’m sure it plays a big role.
Just a little advice, if you see your kid or sibling being isolated, untidy and spend more and more time on social media, please try to stop it before it gets out of control.
Just my 2 cents.
Personal note: My sister (now 26 yo) was diagnosed with psychosis about 6 years ago and I attribute it to her extensive use of social media. I can’t prove it but I’m sure that social media either created or triggered her psychosis. Today she’s still on drugs.
I would appreciate companies like fb to work more on the effects of social media on society and people’s psychology rather than creating fake worlds so that people get hooked more on it. But of course corporates only care about profit. Heck, I would still appreciate them if they tried to create a competitor to spacex or blue origin. Of course they are also commercial organizations but least there’s some side effect of space exploration that would benefit humankind in the future. But metaverse looks like just another social media platform packaged differently. I don’t see it helping humanity. And fb at this size should do more to help society rather than trying to plug everyone to matrix.
spotify early this year pulled out of all dj apps. as a user, i hate spotify for this. why wouldn't you let me dj with the music? it's not like i'm david gueatta, playing to 5000 people.
How technically possible and commercially feasible would it be to make these huge lenses and camera components removable? For example, imagine if Apple made a phone with no built-in camera, where the camera is instead a separate magnetic component that you attach to the phone only when you want to use it.