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Comment · 3 days ago
"or else" is right in the second image, and it's clearly not "else".

Even if it hasn't been invented as the author claims, the question of who used it in code first is a valid one, right?

Comment · 19 days ago
You sure? Maybe I like Mozilla getting some money?
Comment · 1 month ago
Not only that, it also means that some other researcher can't do it either, and I can't get free access to the results.

In any case, do you have some helpful comments too, maybe?

Comment · 1 month ago
You can look at small parts of it there. And sometimes you can't even buy what you're looking at, GMaps API won't hand out public transport trips in some countries. And where you can, it's fairly expensive. (No idea about traffic or people movement data.)
Comment · 1 month ago
This is not quite a spherical cow and there is something to be learned here, but really, I'd like to see this with

- non-square-grid cities with highways, public transport, …

- realistic synthetic populations doing non-random destination selection (nobody randomly goes to a supermarket at the other end of a city, after all)

- actual traffic simulation with jams (or at least using real traffic data)

and then evaluate both the energy use and travel times. That being said, doing this kind of thing, e.g. with ActivitySim, even for one real city, is quite a bit of work.

Comment · 1 month ago
That's terrible as a signal. It's too late for anything, and there's many reasons things get abandoned.

> code maintainability and good architecture don’t have good measurements that we can apply, because it takes months, years even, to notice the effects of bad architecture or of unmaintainable code.

One way of understanding "good" here is "actionable", imho.

Comment · 1 month ago
Needs a (March 19) (I know HN only does this for years, but this being about vulnerabilities…)
Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 1 month ago
opens wikipedia (Emphasis mine:)

> Moats were excavated around castles and other fortifications as part of the defensive system as an obstacle immediately outside the walls.

Unfortunate wording?

Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 1 month ago
For Tokyo, https://minitokyo3d.com/ is just based on a static GTFS file. Or is it realtime? Nobody knows the difference.

(I'm joking. Local trains in Tokyo area are late quite often. Doesn't matter much when there's one every <5 minutes though.)

Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 2 months ago
other than what others have said: there's rootless docker too, e.g. as virtualisation.docker.rootless under NixOS. It doesn't have to be this way.

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