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by edejong 9y ago
Perhaps. The number 35 is a US factor, but similar orders of magnitude can be seen on the Dutch roads (factor of 22 if I recall). On Dutch roads, we have mandatory motorcycle training, obligatory helmet wearing and relatively save drivers.
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by edejong 9y ago
I'd prefer to give a reference to how risk-taking while involving others is an undesirable trait. When I mortally hit a motorcyclist, even without a fault of my own, I might feel guilty the rest of my life. So indirectly, the irrationa
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by edejong 9y ago
> Finally, there are motorcycles. Absolutely, I wish every prospective motorcyclist would study the stats (more than 35 times increased mortality rate per driven km [1]) and discuss this with their loved ones. Those who insist driving a
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by edejong 9y ago
This is exactly what is wrong with: “Be liberal with what you accept”. Millions of variants as weed in a garden, making computer parsing impossible.
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by edejong 9y ago
Or you use scala: case class Baz(foo: Int, bar: Float) Gives you a free hashCode, equals and copy as well.
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by edejong 9y ago
Pro tip: when the app asks for permission for full access to your phone, it will get all your data. So, don’t install it, simple.
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by edejong 9y ago
Bit of a late reply. I find this difference so difficult to grasp. We use our bikes as a utility first and recreation second. Here the bicycles are generally sturdy, heavy, robust. They can take rain, wind, sand, dust for years with minimal
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by edejong 9y ago
When I did analysis of hundreds of millions of predictions to analyze our prediction algorithm for trucks, I had a couple of metrics I would look at: MAE: mean absolute error: easy to understand metric. Given a stable system, this was my go
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by edejong 9y ago
Been there, done that. Catch yourself on your hands/elbows. If you can’t, then perhaps you should go slower over such terrain. We dutchies coast on average around 20 km/h (12.5 mph). Anyone going above 30 is deemed “racing bicycli
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by edejong 9y ago
Arguments: 1. Wearing makes you less cautious 2. Car drivers think ‘you’re protected’ thus make larger risks 3. Helmets are inconvenient to carry around at your destination 4. It hampers the development of saver bicycle road situations, sin
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by edejong 9y ago
Almost everyone in the Netherlands is driving without. Should give a good comparative analysis.
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by edejong 9y ago
You have a point, but we need to take into account that the technology has been around for a long time, the risks are well known and documented, and safety concerns of most of these package managers have been addressed to maintainers. The e
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by edejong 9y ago
I am very surprised that a package manager of this calibre and impact abstains from best practices when it comes to authentication through code-signing. Other package managers are miles ahead of NPM. For example, Nix, which uses immutabilit
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by edejong 9y ago
The audio samples [1] of this paper are very interesting. [1] https://google.github.io/tacotron/publications/tacotron2/ind...
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Natural TTS Synthesis by Conditioning WaveNet on Mel Spectrogram Predictions(arxiv.org)
2 points by edejong 9y ago|1 comments
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by edejong 9y ago
Since the transmission is not authenticated, I wonder if it is possible the shield or interfere with your own transmission and broadcast a fake report instead.
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Darksky Emoji weather map(maps.darksky.net)
2 points by edejong 9y ago|0 comments
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by edejong 9y ago
Hopefully robots will eventually be intelligent enough not to willfully damage their central processing unit.
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by edejong 9y ago
It’s all about opportunity, risk and reward. Hack a phone and you win some bitcoins. Quickly patched. Hack an exchange and you’re rich beyond belief.
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by edejong 9y ago
ad 1. Citation needed ad 2. From the article: "Let’s begin with the common sense, IOTA’s Tangle is a significant leap forward from blockchain". Why do you believe this subjective superlative when the protocol is still in beta and
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by edejong 9y ago
Hate to be grammar police, but 3x it’s -> its. Can read over it once, but the third time becomes annoying.
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by edejong 9y ago
Yes, I agree with that standpoint. The agile manifesto is too vague to be used prescriptive. It requires a certain amount of intelligence and wisdom to acknowledge that. It's also not able to bootstrap: you need to be grounded in the p
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by edejong 9y ago
I was trying to convey that fostering an environment within which tools and methodologies can be understood for their specific merits is more important than the tools and methodologies themselves. Or: a tool shouldn't be a crutch, but
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by edejong 9y ago
Well, at least I now know why you down-voted :) Sometimes I ask because I feel a comment was properly written, non-offensive and with reasonable argumentation. I put time and effort into finding the right words and thought through my argume
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by edejong 9y ago
It's not exactly how I interpret it. I believe a methodology functions due to proper embedding in the team. The embedding happens (or has happened) due to good personal interaction, shared beliefs and shared knowledge. In other words,
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by edejong 9y ago
The manifesto emphasises the importance of sharing the values of a method, before actually applying the method. It's the difference between wisdom and dogma. Take tests for example: blindly going for coverage metrics will be much less
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by edejong 9y ago
Seems to me yet another confirmation of the first rule of the Agile Manifesto: "Individuals and interactions over processes and tools." The methodology cannot be effective without creating the right personal dynamics.
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by edejong 9y ago
Browser vendors usually do not have this choice. Either they proposed the change themselves, forcing other vendors to follow, or a prisoners-dilema occurs where either all vendors act, or non at all. These are well studied problems in oligo
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by edejong 9y ago
That implies a binary decision. The war is won in many battles. Deciding which ones to go into is the deciding factor. Bringing your men to each is a sure way to lose, and it’s what is currently happening with the modern web.
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by edejong 9y ago
The reason why it’s expensive is that no HTML5 proposals are taking into account the cost of development and maintenance. “Anything goes” as long as it competes with the walled-garden platforms. Spending without budgeting nor cost evaluatio

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