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by wlievens 14y ago
> Can we see earth? At night, as a pretty bright star, I'd guess. That would be an awesome picture, especially if they expose it long enough.
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by wlievens 14y ago
To clarify that a bit more: consumer camera's use a Bayer filter, which is an alternating R/G/G/B filter over your pixel array. So, with a consumer camera you take just one picture, and then software assembles that into a color picture. For
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by wlievens 14y ago
> Let's reformulate the question: Why not keep the same enclosure, the same lens assembly, the same mechanical parts and simply swap the 2MP sensor for a 20MP sensor? You do know that a 20MP sensor is significantly (~10 times) larger th
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by wlievens 14y ago
There is, that's the role MSO is performing, no? What you'd need is a whole series of them to increase coverage.
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by wlievens 14y ago
Yeah, unless you do it consistently everywhere, which again defeats the purpose. Maybe you could do something like consistently answer the previous question from the dropdown?
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by wlievens 14y ago
> The recent iCloud breach makes me believe that in many cases the "security questions" practice is by far the weakest link in modern web authentication. Isn't that how the Sarah Palin thing happened?
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by wlievens 14y ago
Generating ideas requires fairly intimate knowledge of a niche. The only niches I have that kind of knowledge of are geeky interests (such as games) which are already hugely overserved with quality software. I need to acquire deep knowled
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by wlievens 14y ago
> More and more it seems that the only smart way to make money writing code is selling SAAS B2B apps. The problem with that is mining good ideas. I seem to only come up with "fun" ideas, i.e. games, with certainly have the aforementione
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by wlievens 14y ago
> that is a vestige of times of hard manual labor And a lot cheaper to produce
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by wlievens 14y ago
If the laws are drawn up well, then option (1) is in no sense unethical.
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by wlievens 14y ago
I think the problem is with "intent of laws". Laws should minimize the degree to which intent plays a role, because intent is subjective, and therefore subject to very expensive and wasteful litigation.
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by wlievens 14y ago
I'm not expert on labor laws in Europe, sorry. I do know that my country's labor laws are certainly more strict than Germany's. I'm from Belgium.
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by wlievens 14y ago
That's not what I meant. I simply meant to explain what I meant by fair: the same laws apply to everyone, i.e. corruption and tax avoidance are to be minimal, if people are to accept taxation.
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by wlievens 14y ago
That looks like a giant fault in employment law to me. I don't understand why a severance package should be something subject to negotiation. Write a law with a very simple function of years of service, pay and age and let that spit out a n
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by wlievens 14y ago
If fired for an urgent reason, without compensation, then surely. If fired with a sensible (defined by law) severance package, then absolutely not.
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by wlievens 14y ago
Germany's labor code is very flexible compared to the rest of Western Europe.
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by wlievens 14y ago
I think the argument here is not that it's a bad idea to create a safety net state. The argument is that as long as no law is broken, there is no such thing as "exploiting a loophole". Politicians should just learn to design better laws wit
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by wlievens 14y ago
I don't see anything wrong with laying someone off for any reason if it's under a fair and generous severance package. It happened to me and I have no hard feelings about it at all.
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by wlievens 14y ago
It's probably more about fair taxation: knowing that you get something back and your neighbouring isn't paying less though making more.
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by wlievens 14y ago
That doesn't look like something you can't automate for most of those cases.
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by wlievens 15y ago
The only theoretical hard limit that makes sense is a limit on information. If you can't transmit information from A to B faster than C, then yes you've got a hard limit. Every other natural phenomenon that doesn't obscure infromation that
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by wlievens 15y ago
> To be realistic, Ray Kurzweil's conviction that there will be strong AI in his lifetime is just wishful thinking. Feel free to prove me wrong. Well that's what the bet is about.
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by wlievens 15y ago
I would think it depends entirely on the subject matter of the text conversation. It's probably possible today to make a chat bot that can converse about (nothing other than) the weather.
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by wlievens 15y ago
Why is this post written as if this is some kind of surprise?
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by wlievens 15y ago
Some language make it a lot easier, of course.
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by wlievens 15y ago
Indeed. There are other integers that are illegal for other reasons. For instance, the integer that encodes the string text of your email to a hired assassin.
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by wlievens 15y ago
If the game starts right away, maybe it's the best way to guarantee all images are loaded.
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by wlievens 15y ago
Do write them a supportive letter instead.
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by wlievens 15y ago
Cool, PostGIS! What are you building? I worked as GIS engineer in 2010. PostGIS is pretty cool technology.
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by wlievens 15y ago
> Umm no Read that post again very carefully. Either you look for the wrong women, or you do something women dislike. Both are relatively easy to fix.

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