j-a-a-p

10 ms·

91.
by j-a-a-p 3y ago
Meh. Project management is all about risk management. This blog does not defuse that wisdom. This blog counters the (attempts to) mitigate the risk to third parties. I agree that is not a wise strategy.
92.
by j-a-a-p 3y ago
> The Apollo Syndrome > This page describes 'The Apollo Syndrome', a phenomenon discovered by Dr Meredith Belbin where teams of highly capable individuals can, collectively, perform badly. If I try to imagine the Apollo proj
93.
by j-a-a-p 3y ago
Really an incredible story. TL;DR 48M Americans have a 'substance use disorder'. 5% gets treatment. And treatment in the US is more often based on ideology than on evidence. I could not find any hope in this article contrary to wh
94.
by j-a-a-p 3y ago
I agree, also my thought, but that is a principally different case then requiring consent from the author. That suggests that OpenAI would have downloaded pirated material, or hacked paywalls, how did they get this material? BTW I noticed t
95.
by j-a-a-p 3y ago
> I have occasionally wondered how easy it would be to bootstrap your own models using models from the big players. I guess OpenAI did the same. If you read their API terms one of the first things they prohibit is to use it to train a co
96.
by j-a-a-p 3y ago
I have yet not seen a definite conclusion that training a model equals breaching intellectual property rights. There is always the right of citation, and as long as the model is not producing copies of copyrighted material: where then is th
97.
by j-a-a-p 3y ago
Solution: 'slow' cooking at 250C. First put the dough in the oven, then put it back in with toppings.
98.
by j-a-a-p 3y ago
We decided for OpenCV (on a project that provided vision to a production line, think 50 images per second). The speed and computational cost advantage weighed in favour of OpenCV. I don't think this has changed so much in the last coup
99.
by j-a-a-p 3y ago
Color only hints to heat reflective properties. Most of the heat of the sun is not carried in by the visible spectrum. And concerning snow, it is not particularly good at reflecting IR (1). More a conceptual objection to using blankets. Fee
100.
by j-a-a-p 3y ago
I respect the 40B investment by Paris, but also mentionable is that city by car is very doable. It almost felt like a secret treat we had this rainy summer holiday - no congestions and we could park side of street at all the hot spots payin
101.
by j-a-a-p 3y ago
Bashing Canada is like hitting Mickey in Disneyworld. Having said that, just google 'an honorary member of the Third World' to find the answer is (was actually) Canada.
102.
by j-a-a-p 3y ago
Tomorrow's fuel should be the battery. A battery can only solve a local issue: a system for locally produced and consumed electricity, If the sourcing solar or wind is transformed to fuel, you also have storage, probably a gas or liqui
103.
by j-a-a-p 3y ago
00100011 01101101 01100101 01110100 01101111 01101111
104.
by j-a-a-p 3y ago
The glass wind shield mounted on a Vespa, commonly referred to as a 'Holleedertje', has a similar effect and it keeps you dry in the rain as well.
105.
by j-a-a-p 3y ago
> I've fired a 9mm pistol from a moving motorcycle... I am curious, why would you do that?
106.
by j-a-a-p 3y ago
Ha! One of my all-time favourites, the fuck-you position. The Gambler, the uncle giving advice: You get up two and a half million dollars, any asshole in the world knows what to do: you get a house with a 25 year roof, an indestructible Ja
107.
by j-a-a-p 3y ago
According Wikipedia (1), Lou Ottens, the inventor of the compact cassette also formed a team to develop the compact disc. (1): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Ottens
108.
by j-a-a-p 3y ago
Lies, damn lies.... All these metrics should just support a much needed trend towards renewables. For me the metric days off grid is very compelling, that is what we are trying to achieve aren't we? PT is at 6 out of 365, where is DE?
109.
by j-a-a-p 3y ago
Just recently I got downvoted questioning the reason behind that logic that e-fuel is bad, because when you burn it, CO2 is produced. Climate and energy are complicated things, but even the simple stuff seems to be difficult to grasp for a
110.
by j-a-a-p 3y ago
Not the product is the goal, it is the journey.
111.
by j-a-a-p 3y ago
Don't get me started. If you ever have eaten that, don't click on this link and surely don't scroll down to the stinky tofu paragraph (1) (1) don't click: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_safety_in
112.
by j-a-a-p 3y ago
> Are you sure that’s the sewer? It are always grease traps, but it is the same pipe that is used by the toilet, so I would say it is technically just the sewer. And ss the saying goes: if it looks like sewer, smells like sewer, it proba
113.
by j-a-a-p 3y ago
In my country the tax law has a reversed proof clause. Meaning, you are guilty until proven innocent. This clause is activated after you get caught, or even when you did not comply with administrative requirements. Other countries have simi
114.
by j-a-a-p 3y ago
Perhaps you need to consider when you want to buy a switchover system from eBay: If caught, obviously by police with a nose for chips. They will take your car milage multiply that by the amount of fuel tax you did not pay, double it as puni
115.
by j-a-a-p 3y ago
Even plants breathe CO2, that alone does not make the fuel unsustainable.
116.
by j-a-a-p 3y ago
If you wonder where all this cooking oil comes from? Go to China. Regularly you see old, small trucks with open containers and a worker collecting the oil straight from the sewer. If you pass them you automatically go to the other side of t
117.
by j-a-a-p 3y ago
More on topic. Half of the complaints are data issues (I can not see things the way want to see them). That is easy to solve without killing GIT. And the argument that it is too complex, I see the contrary evolving where everybody is follo
118.
by j-a-a-p 3y ago
How should other people look at us? We always have to change these core things. From proprietary source control to CVS - that was actually a good idea because it was the open source standard. Then we all changed again to SVN for reasons I c
119.
by j-a-a-p 3y ago
I guess that some developers requirements are orthogonal to those of citizen developers. For example version control could be a must have for us, but for others a layer of complexity that is just waiting to stand in the way of getting thing
120.
by j-a-a-p 3y ago
I was wondering what would be replacing Excel/VBA after 3 decades as a citizen developer alternative. I could not think of something that even comes close. Any ideas?

More ›