stereosky

Congratulations on launching your project! We spoke back in March at a Kafka Summit London social meetup and talked all things Python and Kafka (I work on https://github.com/quixio/quix-streams). Always great to see a new stream processing project tackle a new segment

Akka was indeed inspired by Erlang. For a modern take, there's Apache Pekko (incubating), a fork of Akka 2.6.x https://github.com/apache/incubator-pekko

Any idea how long has this been possible in Japan and Taiwan?

I remember around 15 years ago in Bangkok my friend broke his glasses so went to the first opticians he found in a mall. He didn't have his prescription so they took some eye tests, he then picked out his frames and lenses and then was asked to return later that day for pickup. Absolutely blew our minds that this was possible

I feel that we need to see an uptick in automation/computer vision in the machines at the opticians before we're likely to see any sort of capability of the same at home. I would feel safer if the machines made diagnoses and there was an onsite optometrist/ophthalmologist for verification.

Also some conditions such as glaucoma can be difficult to test (http://www.glaucoma.org/glaucoma/diagnostic-tests.php). I remember one of the tests is to use a tonometer to check pressure by firing a puff of air at the eye, so for any of the tests today that give output values, these could feasibly be administered at home but wouldn't form a complete picture of our eye's health.

Interesting to think what an "opticians" could be in 20 years from now.

Couldn't agree more, from one foamie homie to another! I often go foam when I take coaching, just so I can be sure the board is under my control when working on something new. One of my favourite sessions was one where clean 3-4ft waves just kept rolling in out back (a rarity here) and whilst everyone of us on epoxy/fibreglass got to surf, no one had wave counts higher than a local shop owner on a 9-10ft board. If I could have taken a poll that day it was clear judging by everyone's faces who would have won the vote for happiest person in the water. That to me is what surfing is all about

Also, a small baggie of drugs or something from McDonalds is not the recommended way to generalise how musicians spend their distribution cheques :p