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I think the whole step to integrate with the fediverse would have taken too much time and too many resources. Seems like a massive rewrite of the codebase to me, if it wasn’t taken into account from the very start.

I was actually making a tongue-in-cheek reply to the comment above yours, but damn. Interesting stuff, thanks for sharing!

Zittende in de decathlon nu hoor ik 5 medewerkers gezellig met elkaar kletsen in het Nederlands. Verschilt denk ik een beetje per filiaal.

I swear it was ~4,000 ministries… hmm.

It is possible. My country has laws that specify penalties such as “x months in jail and/or a monetary fine of the nth degree” where the amounts for each degree get updated every once in a while.

For a big road/street, whatever the main flow of traffic is following. So for a north-south street that’s busier than the east-west street intersecting with it, optimise the flow for traffic going north-south, including the intersections ahead. A “green wave” or “groene golf” in Dutch would work wonders. Stick to the advised speed on the digital signs and you get a wave of green lights for x amount of upcoming intersections. I’ve had them for up to 9 in a row. For the streets crossing the main road, you get some sensors, probably inductive loops to check if there are cars waiting. If there are, periodically give them green and turn the main road to red. If there are no cars on the main road (e.g., at night), you could have an extra induction loop ahead of the crossing so that the light turns green for the crossing road whenever someone approaches, before even having to stop at the light.

Sure, you could use reinforcement learning there. But you really don’t have to. Analyse the traffic for a while, and it’ll stay pretty much the same for a long, long time. Just optimise the cycles according to the time of day and day of the week and you should be good.

That’s why you take into account the traffic lights/intersections ahead as well. Works fine over here in NL.

Yes.

Have a robot vacuum, can confirm house is less dusty. Still baffled by the amount of dust it picks up in its little dust container. Where does it all come from??

Designed in California. Reminds me of the missing rain gutter around the boot of the model 3. When you open(ed) it while it was raining, all the water would pour right into your boot, onto your stuff.

… what? Have you considered the possibility of one person being attracted to the other (or at least liking their face), while the other doesn’t reciprocate that?

Woah, that is neat. Diagonal I would’ve thought of, but conic slicing is quite an ingenious idea.

I tend to agree with you. Something that subtitles even miss sometimes are the subtle jokes or nuances in the source language. Human dubs often miss those, and I doubt AI dubs will be any better, at least for the foreseeable future.

Mostly just safety from yourself/your own little errors in input, but it can’t hurt for sure! Input sanitation is mostly relevant to fend off script kiddies. Relevant xkcd

Short story, haters gonna hate ¯(ツ)/¯ Long story, see my comment to the commenter below you. :)

I can see why people might dislike them. Adds some bloat perhaps. But at the same time, I like the idea that my input is definitely sanitised since the ORM was written by people who know what they’re doing. That’s not to say it won’t have any vulnerabilities at all, but the chance of them existing is a lot lower than when I write the queries by hand. A lapse of judgement is all it takes. Even more relevant for beginning developers who might not be aware of such vulnerabilities existing.

Have a look at an ORM, if you are indeed executing plain SQL like I’m assuming from your comment. Sequelize might be nice to start with. What it does is create a layer between your application and your database. Using which, you can define the way a database object looks (like a class) and execute functions on that. For instance, if you’re creating a library, you could do book.update(), library.addBook(), etc. Since it adds a layer in between, it also helps you prevent common vulnerabilities such as SQL injection. This is because you aren’t writing the SQL queries in the first place. If you want to know more, let me know.

That’s for certain

If you like tinkering, go for it! If you expect hassle free setup the first time, might want to look elsewhere. I’ve got mine dialed in so that I only need to wipe the bed clean with a cotton pad and some rubbing alcohol. Took a while and some upgrades, though. ;)

The bike racks on buses seems to be a North American thing. I've never seen them where I live (NL) or any of the countries I've been to in Europe.