Would having a "license" for companies instead of individual devs make more sense? Imagine Google losing its license to use personal data to target advertisements - this would make them much more sensitive to protecting their users from malicious entities.

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I suspect the sweating would factor in as well. I'd probably double the 8 liters just to be safe. Dehydration is real.

I mean, this is a funny troll, but I hope nobody actually packs 16 liters of water for a one day hike. This is a recipe for hyponatremia, a rare yet serious condition of too low blood sodium levels from overhydration.

I don't think most adults should need more than 3 liters of water for a day long hike if they are already properly hydrated. The idea is to hydrate for 24 hours before you exercise. Then during the exercise, you take small sips occasionally. After an hour, you may need to begin replacing lost electrolytes. You also want to drink more often at high elevation and in the cold.

You can actually check how much water you'll need during exercise. Weigh yourself, exercise for an hour, and weigh again. The lost weight is the water you lost and need to replenish.

In any case, you should be peeing every 2 to 4 hours. If the water is clear, you're hydrated. If the water is dark yellow, you're really not hydrated.

Not trolling. And it's 8L of fluid if I hiked 12-15 miles in hot climate that day. Not 8L on the hike itself

Look at https://twitter.com/year_progress for some ASCII goodness.

It's someone standing in front of a green screen. You don't need ML to find a person's silhouette.

To be fair, they do have examples that aren’t chroma keyed; they just lead with one that is.

Which is not to say that ML is necessary for this sort of computer vision task, but I wonder if it yields better or sharper results than other techniques?

Same. As someone who has spent an embarrassing amount of time keying and tracking video footage over the years, I’m surprised ML isn’t being used for this more often in studios by now.

Surprisingly, imagemagick already supports this.

Link: http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/resize/#liquid-rescale. Seems like it was added as an experimental feature in v6.3.8-4. It requires compiling with the option `--with-liblqr`.

You can sell papaya seeds for $200/treatment.

Only until people find out they're papaya seeds and just go buy a papaya for $3.

That papaya might not be safe though.

Why wouldn't a papaya be safe? Everything I've seen says that the seeds are always edible.

Ironic comment : Drug companies tell us we can't buy their products through other countries (at much lower cost) because "safety".

In fact they have been used to adulterate stocks of black pepper since a long time.

Just like that?? Papaya seeds are good, but the papaya itself is not safe? — this does not make sense anyway you look at it.

I've noticed that the agile model doesn't work well for a lot of technologies too. Things that have been well studied (for example, creating a webapp with X frontend and Y backend, or creating a graphics engine with DirectX) have known costs and estimates. There are answers you can look up on StackOverflow. Not all realms of technology have such luxury.

Is there an alternative to agile that's available out there?

I am not sure that agile is the right term for what you are both describing.

It doesn't mean releasing things before they are ready. Agile is about potentially shippable increments and customer collaboration. Again this doesn't mean testing in production.

While the manifesto was written for software, with minor changes it can applied to most industries. Even with hardware, agile principles can be used to iterate on design, not necessarily physical production.

  http://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html

Did you remember other languages by Google? Dart anyone?

Google did not come up with this - JetBrains developed the language and use it to develop their tools.

A fair comparison might be something like microsoft's cognitive services or google's cloud vision.