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New comment by edejong in "Artificial-life: A simple (300 lines of code) reproduction of Computational Life"

edejong — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 07:51:07 +0000

For those interested in the topic. The system I am more familiar with is Avida https://github.com/devosoft/avida "Digital Evolution Laboratory"

New comment by edejong in "Obsidian Note Codes"

edejong — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 08:12:18 +0000

The OP may find the Wikipedia article on the birthday paradox helpful.

New comment by edejong in "The EU could be scanning your chats by October 2025"

edejong — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 07:53:36 +0000

Crowd control, psyops, trend analysis. EU is quickly becoming authoritarian and the change is instigated by the sitting parties.

New comment by edejong in "A kernel developer plays with Home Assistant"

edejong — Sat, 17 May 2025 06:32:57 +0000

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 know our way around Debian/Ubuntu/Nix/etc.?

New comment by edejong in "Creating Bluey: Tales from the Art Director"

edejong — Sat, 03 May 2025 07:02:37 +0000

Your position is indeed supported by the data presented here: https://ourworldindata.org/rise-of-social-media

New comment by edejong in "Chroma: Ubisoft's internal tool used to simulate color-blindness"

edejong — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 15:40:37 +0000

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 bright green or red? No problem at all.

New comment by edejong in "Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf]"

edejong — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 15:05:22 +0000

No, these are not disruptors. Substantial incremental improvements, but part of the larger battle.

New comment by edejong in "Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf]"

edejong — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 14:47:31 +0000

"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.

New comment by edejong in "The reproducibility crisis and other problems in science: John Ioannidis [video]"

edejong — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 00:26:06 +0000

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 3.4%? Isn’t that an upper bound?

New comment by edejong in "How I configure my Git identities"

edejong — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 11:39:57 +0000

People paid him for such nonsense?

New comment by edejong in "Get me out of data hell"

edejong — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 13:27:44 +0000

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 should leverage other BI-class tooling.

New comment by edejong in "[dead]"

edejong — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 05:33:19 +0000

The title should be: “Critical flaw in title causes HN readers to click on mostly irrelevant article.”

New comment by edejong in "Researchers find Alzheimer's-like brain changes in long Covid patients"

edejong — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 08:52:17 +0000

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: “Biological markers of brain injury, neuroinflammation and Alzheimer’s correlate strongly with the presence of neurological symptoms in COVID-19 patients.”

[1] https://aaic.alz.org/releases_2021/covid-19-cognitive-impact...

New comment by edejong in "Major IT Outage in Netherlands"

edejong — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 10:51:19 +0000

Quite crazy that this major, multi-system outage has been going on for nearly 14 hours now.

New comment by edejong in "Defenders think in lists, attackers think in graphs (2015)"

edejong — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 07:03:46 +0000

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.

New comment by edejong in "Defenders think in lists, attackers think in graphs (2015)"

edejong — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 07:01:12 +0000

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 right because they employ the best security management systems.

New comment by edejong in "Deutsche Bahn introduces "MetaWindow""

edejong — Fri, 17 May 2024 06:47:08 +0000

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 their personal predilection unto others?

In other words, given your reasoning, what’s stopping me from playing John Coltrane at 110dBA the whole day and night?

New comment by edejong in "Deutsche Bahn introduces "MetaWindow""

edejong — Fri, 17 May 2024 06:37:26 +0000

One bad does not legitimize another.

New comment by edejong in "DeWitt and Stonebraker's "MapReduce: A major step backwards" (2009)"

edejong — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 16:46:35 +0000

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.

New comment by edejong in "What the heck is a homomorphic mapped type?"

edejong — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 16:20:43 +0000

...and shorter variable names.