I'm currently using a System76 laptop, but it's for sure my last one. The build quality is pretty poor and the touchpad is so annoying that I disabled it. When the fan broke and had to be replaced I had to take over the shipping costs and replace it myself. While I don't matter replacing parts, I don't see why I have to pay for the shipping during the warranty. Now this article on top, I'll see if I can get rid of it quickly, I went back using my old Lenovo X230 again anyway.
You could use microg, then nothing goes to Google. https://lineage.microg.org – This together with yalp gives you a good experience and keeps you private.
I think a drone id is a good thing, but not to identify criminals. They’d reset the id or falsify it. It would be helpful to monitor drone airspace though, e.g. to see who’s using drones too close to restricted zones etc.
We have a Redis+Memcached frontend with an Apache Ignite Backend. Now we can re-use existing functionality in the clients and have new features like read-through based on a MySQL database or an automatically updated near cache on the instances themselves.
I’m living in SG 5 years now, moved in from Europe. You get used to the temperature outside (Took me two months to get adjusted), so wearing long trousers and a shirt is ok now. That also works for inside. When I’m back home now everything < 25°C is cold!
Wow, that’s awesome, I was looking for something like this a while ago to visualize a state machine. I ended up using graphviz, but I’ll have a look at mermaid for presentations, my diagrams always look super embarrassing.
Last time I was at Google for a workshop (If you have the chance to visit Google, do it. The food alone is worth it), they didn’t seem to push CloudSQL a lot, because they wanted to guide people more in the spanner direction.
Without a solid RDS counterpart however, I don’t think bigger companies will consider moving from AWS. Happy to see they changed their mind and continue to expand their SQL services. The competition by Google put a lot of pressure on AWS who seemed to be gotten a bit lazy. Google was ahead of the game with their global load balancers and network speed and quality. Now AWS countered with their 5th series C5/M5, which solve the bandwidth problem of the smaller C and M instances
Most of the whois hiding services cost money, so if I get this “service” for free now, I don’t have much sympathy with the whois guys.
If it’s about contacting people, they could make the abuse@ or webmaster@ address mandatory, then you can separate it from your normal email accounts, because the majority will be spam anyway.
We have PayWave in Singapore where you can just swipe your credit card for amounts under 100$, but most of the time you have to wait pretty long for the approval to go through, it feels a bit like the time benefit is eaten up by that. Only very few merchants have fast lines, but then it’s really fun!
Is there any open source S3 compatible software? I know Riak Cloud Storage (http://docs.basho.com/riak/cs/2.1.1/), but I think it’s not maintained anymore.
Responsible and ethical are usually not words which are used together with Uber, but in this case it seems like it was simply an accident. Computers cannot beat Physics, if the woman suddenly stepped in front of a car which is unable to brake, it’s a tragic accident.
The idea of the investigations compared to air-travel is pretty good and also much easier to execute given they record everything on camera.
That would make sense, instead of breaking the cog-setup, the little plastic part breaks off and saves the motor. Thank you for the explanation, one conspiracy theory less!
Those cafes are a great idea! I recently opened a high quality blender (forgot the brand) and found a cog made partially of metal with one small part made of plastic which will break first due to wear and tear. Otherwise this little motor would run forever.
Is it normal these days to put in breaking points to artificially shorten the life of appliances or does this have a purpose?
Yes I understand that they want to offer their services in Europe, but the servers are in the US and billing is also not handled by a European branch company afaik. I’m really just wanted to know if and how the EU could force GitHub to comply with this law. Ban their service?
Or could it have to do with the successor agreement of safe harbor?
Amazon Prime Video has all movies and series in English, German, French and a couple of more exotic languages. I think they have a 30 day trial, it might however be different in every country.
They don’t. I’m living in Singapore, but have family in Germany and Thailand. If you want to have Thai subtitles in Singapore or Germany, you can create a User with Thai set as the UI language, then you also get offered audio and subtitles in Thai.
It’s not documented and totally not intuitive, I only discovered that by accident, but it works very well.
This is exactly the problem you run into when sending mails to Gmail: For them there are only bulk senders and gmail address owners. In their whole documentation / faq they don’t even mention small businesses or regular people owning a mailserver to just get contact other human beings.
People at Google might be the smartest under the sun, but they don’t understand email: It’s primarily a way for people to communicate with each other. In Google’s eyes it’s only a way to deliver advertising to end users.
A database which utterly fails the Jepsen test should not be considered for production. It might be good enough for a cache, but trusting it with real data is reckless.
In Singapore the Apple Maps capabilities seem to be a little better, after they introduced bus lines a couple of months ago I’m using it as my main guide to go around the city or when I’m lost. The general direction is always correct, points of interest or businesses are sometimes missing, but it feels like they’re improving, so I don’t think they gave up on it. I think they just don’t put so much effort on it compared to Google, because the data gathered from the service doesn’t have the same value for Apple.
I’m also letting my 10 year old daughter use the MRT in Singapore on her own, but also really only in Singapore, any other country I’d be worried too much. There is MRT staff everywhere who help everyone and after I explained to her that the police helps everyone here, so she asked a patrol when she wanted to try a new route. The streets might be cleaner in Tokyo, but I think the sense of community is similar
Including the Spring-Cloud config server would have been interesting , because it has all the mentioned features, but is running on top of git. If you are on AWS, you can use one if the free CodeCommit repos.
The cool thing is obviously the spring integration, which pulls the secrets on app startup and overwrites or augments the values in the application.(properties|yml)
It can also run kind of serverless by embedding it in your app.
“Most recently I launched 10 Startups in 24 Hours.” – And that should make me feel better as a customer? I’d prefer someone who customises advice and plans...
Apple Maps in Singapore is perfect since they added support for public transportation (bus system is a little confusing in Singapore). Now it's so easy to take a bus home when you got lost.
I gave it a try and I really like the Webmailer and the apps, but not having IMAP/SMTP is a dealbreaker, because you can't import/backup your mails at all. As soon as they add those features, I'll sign up for a paid plan again.