edejong

7 ms·

1.
by edejong 6mo ago
For those interested in the topic. The system I am more familiar with is Avida https://github.com/devosoft/avida "Digital Evolution Laboratory"
2.
by edejong 1y ago
The OP may find the Wikipedia article on the birthday paradox helpful.
3.
by edejong 1y ago
Crowd control, psyops, trend analysis. EU is quickly becoming authoritarian and the change is instigated by the sitting parties.
4.
by edejong 1y ago
Because we want to run more than just Home Assistant on the same OS? Because traditionally OS and application layers were separated? Because we trust mature Linux distros more when it comes to LTS and security patches? Because we already kn
5.
by edejong 1y ago
Your position is indeed supported by the data presented here: https://ourworldindata.org/rise-of-social-media
6.
by edejong 1y ago
Not exactly. It’s not that I can’t see the colors, I just need more contrast to pick up red or green. A grayish green looks the same as plain gray to me. A small bright green dot? Might as well be gray or brown. But a large, solid area of b
7.
by edejong 2y ago
No, these are not disruptors. Substantial incremental improvements, but part of the larger battle.
8.
by edejong 2y ago
"Even though Steve Jobs emphasised iPhone superiority to "Buttons", it is to be expected that the consumer QWERTY category will continue to succeed." Their key mistake.
9.
by edejong 2y ago
Early research always had 1.0% in its confidence intervals, which is most likely the right IFR during the first phases. The 0.1%-0.2% was just bad science, taking medians over countries with lagging statistics reports. Where did you find 3.
10.
by edejong 2y ago
People paid him for such nonsense?
11.
by edejong 2y ago
Totally agree. Observability is just another dataset and should be modeled, managed and governed as other datasets. Data quality controls should be equal or of higher standard than regular data sets. Monitoring, dashboarding and alerting sh
12.
by edejong 2y ago
The title should be: “Critical flaw in title causes HN readers to click on mostly irrelevant article.”
13.
by edejong 2y ago
I thought this was already well known. A study in 2021 [1] found this relationship. However, it is good to keep people informed because it seems we are letting a potentially severely disrupting disease shred our society to bits. From 2021:
14.
by edejong 2y ago
Quite crazy that this major, multi-system outage has been going on for nearly 14 hours now.
15.
by edejong 2y ago
For cloud providers, security is their raison d’etre. On the cloud you can have confidentiality, integrity and availability that was unheard of two decades ago.
16.
by edejong 2y ago
Security management services balance confidentiality, integrity and availability. Spending more on security means you can have great availability despite the measures on integrity and confidentiality. Look at any cloud provider. They get it
17.
by edejong 2y ago
If you dive into: [wine, jazz, modern art, craft beer, tennis, …] (pick one), you’d also appreciate it more. Thing is, if I decide not to do that, the impact on my life is relatively minor. What gives graffiti artists the right to impose th
18.
by edejong 2y ago
One bad does not legitimize another.
19.
by edejong 2y ago
The 'no schema needed' paradigm that persisted within DE is finally replaced with the hard lessons learned in the 70's. Systems die, data stays.
20.
by edejong 3y ago
...and shorter variable names.
21.
by edejong 3y ago
WhatsApp before acquisition had 55 employees and was well known.
22.
by edejong 3y ago
“Full access to everything we need.” == “We have our hands around your…”
23.
by edejong 3y ago
Where I’m from, every driver knows how to use these and use them safely.
24.
by edejong 3y ago
Interesting, no mention of Scala at all. Did Netflix say goodbye to Scala altogether?
25.
by edejong 3y ago
Formatting doesn’t remove bugs, but it’ll help you detect them. Linted code helps you scan the code faster and provides valuable pattern recognition, allowing us to detect common mistakes. There have been numerous bugs caused by incorrect c
26.
by edejong 3y ago
It’s it interesting how many meaningful conversations we’ve all had on IRC, lacking all those essential features you mention?
27.
by edejong 3y ago
There are some studies showing a correlation between antibiotics usage in third term pregnancy by the mother and subsequent chronic allergies and development of asthma by the child. This also has led to an advice to change the treatment of
28.
by edejong 3y ago
It could also have been prevented by… not using user credentials on a server to access services? By doing regular checks on your inventory? By using IDS on your complete network? But not trusting your network? (Zero trust security). By regu
29.
by edejong 3y ago
On point
30.
by edejong 3y ago
In 2000 we organized a large outdoor LAN party for a week in the middle of nowhere hosting around 600 Unix/Linux aficionados. I was very proud to have found Bram to speak there at our event. On the days ahead I became very anxious to w

More ›