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ezioamf

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ezioamf··on Amazon to hire 100k warehouse and delivery workers
At some point even Amazon workers will have to stop working to contain the virus. How Amazon if going to provide safety to workers when even doctors with all protection still gets the virus?
ezioamf··on Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says
I did not said that we are prepared for it. What I was saying that we need extreme measures to slow down the number of cases and not that we will have full success at doing it but we can save a lot of lives and this the only thing that really matters.
ezioamf··on Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says
Extreme measures is to slow down the first wave of cases so the number of patients needing medical attention is under the local capacity. Death rate is between 0.6% to 8% depending on how you can treat the patients and that requires that you have enough capacity to handle it. Over time we will have better medicines to reduce the need of ICUs and vaccines and then containment will not be necessary but we will continue to handle it as a seasonal disease.
ezioamf··on Ford CEO says the company 'overestimated' self-driving cars
You are right. The main problem is that companies thought the full solution would come in a few years and not on a few decades.
ezioamf··on Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?
https://github.com/ecthros/uncaptcha
ezioamf··on Model predicts we're the only advanced civilization in the observable universe
We could just be a pet civilization from an nearby advanced civilization that blocks all signals coming to us.
ezioamf··on A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Performance
To be clear: 0% would be when current voltage or current mAh level is bellow what the phone needs to operate at maximum capacity.

“Voltage and mAh are two different, but interrelated, things. voltage is a measure of the electrical power a battery can deliver, while mAH (milli-Amp hours) is a measure of how long the battery will maintain usable voltage at a given output current.” https://www.quora.com/How-much-mAh-will-equal-to-1-v

ezioamf··on A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Performance
I think you don’t read the comment. If the battery do not have enough power the level would be 0%. The time from 100%(plugged in) to 0% will depend on how degraded is the battery. It is not difficult to understand. You are repeating Apple excuses. Mobile phones had been dealing with degrading batteries for a long time.
ezioamf··on Microsoft gives up on Windows 10 Mobile
MS need to create a windows phone that runs Android + Windows apps + can be turned on a full Windows Desktop running on ARM when docked up.
ezioamf··on Yahoo Triples Estimate of Breached Accounts to 3B
All personal data should be public (in effect it is public after all leaks). Personal data should not be used for user authentication.
ezioamf··on Artificial intelligence pioneer says we need to start over
How to create intelligent systems are already encoded in human DNA. You just have to find a way to decode it
ezioamf··on Can QML become the next standard for web UI?
Looks very similar to NCL https://github.com/PayWithMyBank/ncl but not having a easy way to create rules to override previous definitions.
ezioamf··on The Limitations of Deep Learning
This is why I don't know if it will be possible (at current limitations) to let insect like brains to fully drive our cars. It may never be good enough.
ezioamf··on Show HN: NCL – New Configuration Language
I found hashicorp hcl after starting to think about what we wanted internally at PayWithMyBank.

The concepts are similar but we needed a language to change the composition and configuration of our screens that had the same kind of flexibility as the CSS language.

It is used as a replacement to XML/HTML to define visual components of the page, having a better structure, and to easily change the screen to different merchants, and to easily implement variations for A/B tests using CSS like rules.

Ex:

B { value = "1"; }

Defines B as having value = "1".

A > B { value = "2"; }

Define B as having value = "2" if direct child of A.

So the definition:

C [ B, A [ B ] ]

The first B will have value = "1" and the second value = "2".

Each definition act as a template (like XSLT) to create the elements.

Also there is a main difference that element composition is separated from element definition. So:

A { B { value = 4} }

Do not define the element A as having the element B. It define that if there is an element B having a parent A the value will be 4.

The language do not hard define the elements but define how to create the elements. You ask the language to create an specific element and all the rules will be evaluated to return the desired element.

Edited: Clicked enter before finishing the message.

ezioamf··on Apple TV Markup Language
The main problem is that we are still using XML to do component definition and composition. We need to better language (no, json and yaml are not the answer).

I am working on a new language concept (still at early thinking) but the alert template document would be defined as:

  alert#update_available [  //Composition is separated from definition
     btn#update,
     btn#cancel
  ]

  alert { //All alert elements are defined as alertTemplate
     type: alertTemplate
  }

  btn { //All btn elements are define as button
     type: button
  }

  alert#update_available { //Define the title and description for the alert with ID update_available
     title: Get the latest tvOS version
     description: Get the latest tvOS version
  }

  btn#update {
     text: Update Now
  }

  btn#cancel {
     text: Cancel
  }

  //We could override the settings like CSS
  (@language = "pt_br") { 
  //If variable language is pt_br override the content with Brazilian Portuguese texts
    btn#update {
       text: Atualize Agora
    }

    btn#cancel {
       text: Cancelar
    }
  }
ezioamf··on Thorskan – Better Reality 3D Scan
I can't wait to have it on Google street view.
ezioamf··on Facebook's AI lab
Google has won the search indexing game. Who will win the next level when robots understands the content?
ezioamf··on Why are payment forms so complicated?
Credit card numbers are not something that you keep secret (you give it every time you use it). This is why you need that much "fraud" detection. So we need a better alternative to pay like PayWithMyBank (http://www.paywithmybank.com). You can try how it works at http://try.paywithmybank.com
ezioamf··on I'm an American and I want to watch the Olympics. What do I do?
You can try http://esportes.terra.com.br/jogos-olimpicos/londres-2012/ao...
ezioamf··on Was Megaupload Targeted Because Of Its Upcoming Megabox Digital Jukebox Service?
;)

https://plus.google.com/u/0/111314089359991626869/posts/HQJx...

ezioamf··on "Profilers don't help you find memory leaks, they just make your app slower"
if you do not know how to use a tool then the tool is not useful.
ezioamf··on Skype protocol reverse engineered, source available
Skype superiority will finish when IPV6 be fully adopted. When this will happen? Never?