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by phicoh 6y ago
One thing to consider is that it takes a very long time for the 'cars first' mentality to change. Both in drivers and in planning. Ideally, people who drive a car should also cycle, to know what to expect from bikes. Same for peop
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by phicoh 6y ago
The side road can be restructured to give bikes priority. And put some good speedbumps on the side road to give cars a hint that they need to pay attention.
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by phicoh 6y ago
One thing that is not often done, is to have bikes on a smaller parallel road. Often there is an attempt to cram everything on one big road, when there are perfectly fine residential roads next to the big road that just need connecting.
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by phicoh 6y ago
In openstreetmap, tracks should get additional tags such as tracktype, surface, smoothness. If such tags are present and seem to be reliable, then OSM can be used to plan trips. Otherwise it is just too risky to rely on OSM. In particular i
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by phicoh 6y ago
What happened was that wind mills were fitted with a steam engine in the 19th century. And later, end of 19th century, factories were built to be powered by steam from day one. Steam came to the Netherlands relatively late. The Netherlands
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by phicoh 6y ago
That does not factor in the money you make with the solar panel. I.e., if having a solar panel nets a profit of 10% of the cost of the solar panel, than installing one now makes more money than waiting a year.
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by phicoh 6y ago
That does not compute. The netherlands needs about 40000 wind turbines to cover current needs. The Netherlands is about 40000 km2. So you need roughly 1 wind turbine per km2 for current needs which is completely doable. Of course we need mo
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by phicoh 6y ago
This very much depends on how you do the heating / cooling. An efficient way to heat a house is to have a heatpump plus low temperature floor heating (and cooling). This system works best by keeping the floor at a constant temperature,
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by phicoh 6y ago
There is a science of color reproduction. It is quite tough because they way we perceive colors is amazingly complicated. But it is quite possible to make an effort. Of course, most photography is not about color reproduction but about tell
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by phicoh 6y ago
I wonder how combining 2 GPS satellites with 2 Galileo satellites would work in a realtime setting. As far as I know, GPS and Galileo have a different timebase. If you don't know the time difference, you can be way off.
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by phicoh 6y ago
My experience with the Amsterdam Compile Kit (ACK) is that while ACK successfully managed to separate frontends, optimizers and backends using a single intermediate language, at the end it was the intermediate language that held it back. Th
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by phicoh 7y ago
The problem seems to be that both the IEEE and the IETF don't want to do anything. IEEE could define a way to support larger frames. 'just wait 10 years' doesn't strike me as the best solution, but at least it is a solut
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by phicoh 7y ago
The way it works in Europe, is that copyright is implicit: you create something, you get copyright. With copyright you get to control who can copy your work. Copyright is more seen as a natural right then as a law that has an economic purpo
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by phicoh 7y ago
The model in most software that allows self-signed certs is that you eiter disable checking all together, or that the user accepts a specific cert. If you disable checking all together, then an attacker doesn't need to compromise a pri
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by phicoh 7y ago
What I find bizarre is software that accepts a self-signed certificate only to then reject the cert because it has expired. What security problem are they trying to solve there?
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by phicoh 7y ago
The problem in the Netherlands is that the Natura2000 areas are too small. So any activity next to such areas immediately affects rare species. The other problem is that the government, in cooperation with many sectors, has created paper re
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by phicoh 7y ago
The service is that you can receive messages. The service is not that you are the only one who can receive those messages. If someone commits fraud and obtains a SIM with your number then the telco is in general quite willing to correct the
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by phicoh 7y ago
Normal defects are 'easy': you have a contract to obtain a product or service with certain features. If the product or service doesn't have those feature, it is defect and failure of the providing party to comply with the con
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by phicoh 7y ago
That's rather bizar logic. An obligation to keep something secure comes either from a specific law, or from something specific in a contract. The fact something is important to you, and you failed to negotiate that in your contract, do
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by phicoh 7y ago
As far as I know, the service telcos provide is the ability to make calls, receive calls, send text messages, receive them, etc. Telcos don't get paid to securely provide SIMs. They make hardly any claims regarding the security of your
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by phicoh 7y ago
I'm curious, how does IRC handle history and multi-device sync? How does IRC handle end-to-end encryption in groups? How does IRC handle editing messages?
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by phicoh 7y ago
I think the key thing is how the MCAS added new failure modes that the pilots where not briefed about. There should be way more strict user interface requirements. Including how humans are supposed to react to failures and whether that make
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by phicoh 7y ago
Another way to look at it is that we keep reinventing the wheel. Why are there so many filesystems? Because everybody starts from scratch. Then everybody writes code first and later a description of the filesystem. We need a way to learn fr
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by phicoh 7y ago
Higher minimum wages to solve imbalances in the Euro-zone would probably result in a disaster. In areas where countries like Germany directly compete with poorer countries, they do so by having more and better automation. Productivity is no
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by phicoh 7y ago
At the introduction of the Euro, many were quite concerned about Greece joining. The EU consists of independent, co-operating countries. This is quite different from the US. There is very little the EU can do without votes from the individu
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by phicoh 7y ago
POSIX supports sharing filedescriptors between processes. For example, you can have a process that reads a few bytes from a TCP socket and then passes the socket to another process. Unix tries to model all I/O, including networking, as
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by phicoh 7y ago
The thing that got me to stop buying CDs for the most part is how badly they are mastered. In past it was some labels that put out badly mastered CDs, these days artists that once produced excellent albums now seems to accept a final result
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by phicoh 7y ago
This about engineering choices. No doubt a phone can report on traffic without the system as a whole storing which phone it was. You could run ML locally. If you want to know how long patients are waiting, you can just record wait time with
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by phicoh 7y ago
I'd say, release early, release often. In general, *BSDs take more time to work out technical details, make sure that the design is right. The approach in the Linux communtity is much more, release something that mostly works now and f
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by phicoh 7y ago
One option would be to evaluate if it would be safe to delete the data. In that case you could offer to delete the data. Countries typically have some expensive way to proof identity. So, delete or actually proof who you are. Of course, sen

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