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But why not say "starting working at the correct time" and address the issue head on vs. playing psychological games?

I use ABBYY for Linux: http://www.ocr4linux.com/

Everything about it sucks, cost, anual page limit license, I can only run it as root for some reason, but the OCR quality is superb.

here's the scripts I use if it's useful: https://github.com/cove/scanbd

This is practically a startup, a service that just monitors and automatically updates your passwords as they get leaked over time.

Here's the crux of the memory issue from one of the link in the article:

DDR memory is laid out in an array of rows and columns, which are assigned in large blocks to various applications and operating system resources. To protect the integrity and security of the entire system, each large chunk of memory is contained in a "sandbox" that can be accessed only by a given app or OS process. Bit flipping works when a hacker-developed app or process accesses two carefully selected rows of memory hundreds of thousands of times in a tiny fraction of a second. By hammering the two "aggressor" memory regions, the exploit can reverse one or more bits in a third "victim" location. In other words, selected zeros in the victim region will turn into ones or vice versa.

what is wagon?

Glad to see this fixed, overloading backspace has caused enough lost input on websites, the binding was a short sighted mistake, there's plenty of other key combinations that make more sense.

That was quick. Otto is a few months old?

do you know what software(s) do they use to implement these processes?

All these are cool features, but it would be great if there were a higher level expert system too.

For example, have expert templates for Subaru cars, that integrates dash.by and jiffy lube, my insurance, waze, the manufacture etc. then just apply common things I'd want in a single click.

* Such as schedule an oil change on my calendar on the weekend when I'd normally get my oil changed.

* Does my manufacture have any serious issues I should know about?

* Check how many miles I'm driving, and see if my insurance policy could be updated to reduce my rate.

* Suggest a gas station that's on my routes that are more cost effective than the one I'm using.

* Remember where I parked my car in case I forget.

* If I park in a 2hr zone, use pay by phone to pay the parking automatically for me.

* If I'm going to the Symphony, schedule a Lux to meet me out front.

Looks like the stars are for the food and the forks and spoons are for everything else accoding to this anonymous inspector interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J2YpV2442w&t=3m42s

I thought Michelin stars were about the whole restaurant experience, and especially the consistency. That's interesting they said it was just about the food in the video, that really opens up the award to a more contemporary foodie audience, which is interested in where to get the most delicious X, which is rarely even expensive.

Saving Private Ryan dubbed in German was very confusing too. :)

Many companies would be better off however using cloud services since the "lockin" still costs them less than the overhead of running xyz service them self. Lock-in is only important if you have a cheaper way to run something, not if you're hiding costs in IT salaries for operations. :)

US phones roaming in China aren't blocked from using Google services, they may make an exception for Uber too.

Here's what it looked like for me last May: https://www.dropbox.com/s/9rkor22hn3q6z5t/IMG_2183.jpg?dl=0

Na, this happens everywhere with software, startups too. The dev just wants to throw more resources at a problem than fix the complexity problems that make it inefficient. Perhaps it's a sign the dev is just out of their depth.

Britain has never really considered itself part of Europe, they've historically taken amusement in the irony of how they refer to "Europe" and "the continent" to refer to not the UK, as though they're not part of it. They don't learn the languages of Europe more than what's needed for a vacation, at best. They didn't join the EEC, which certainly looked a lot like they wanted to use their pound sterling more than to help the community. And now of course Brexit, which makes no sense at all from a rational perspective.

The argument of doing what's best for everyone is just not something that resonates in their politics, much in the same way that's it's not a mainstream value in the USA either. Rather it's about "what's in it for me". Those are not the values of the majority in continental Europe thankfully, asking the question of what's best for everyone resonates stronger.

Good for them!

On a side note, GCE has a similar feature with Stackdriver: https://cloud.google.com/error-reporting/docs/viewing

This is great news! Would love to see your tech in a datacenter in US central, would use it in a sec. :)

Because a rifle isn't practical for close targets. A handgun is much better suited for that.

That's the point, that same impractical rational gets applied everywhere. Even in cases where people get hurt.

The irony being is that the gun community acts just as irrational and certainly impractical. Even as a non-gun owner, I know what gun I'd rather have for self defence than these guys. :)

Does a 50cal really seem like a sport rifle? The inventor goes on towards the end of this video to suggest it's useful for personal self-defence?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n3usocws0E&t=0m42s

Here's an example of a guy who has 1.5M subscribers explaining how he'd protect himself answering the door in the middle of the night with a completely impractical close range weapon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLiWhFTfUCg&t=3m33s

I disagree, I'd say it means there's too much day to day running of the org that their key people aren't able to focus on the longer term. That's pretty common.

Here are the cases you need support:

- instance needs to be force stopped, that doesn't always work in the AWS console, you have to open a support case

- scaling things up: s3 buckets that get sudden amounts of traffic need to be manually partitioned, ELBs as well

- they have more logs on the backend you can't see: ELB logs aren't complete for example, they have more detailed logs only support has access to

- RDS failovers: determining if a RDS failover was due to a maintenance period or a hardware problem

- SNS/SQS errors: 5xx from SNS/SQS due to backend issues you have no control over

- Accidently used the official CentOS AMI? Oops, that AMI is "locked" and doesn't let you mount the image on another instance to get your data, you have to use support to get them to remove market codes

- New instance types don't alway boot correctly, this happened with i2s, they'd just fail to boot sometimes

- Accidently use CloudFormation to deploy your stacks? Lots of support tickets to fix all the backend problems with that, but at least Terraform solves that now :)

You have to run their images however, but yeah, that's a nice feature esp. if your org uses GA already.

GCE is less expensive than AWS for on-demand instances, but not compared to AWS's RIs.

Unless there's a specific feature that you need in GCP, AWS is a safer bet from scalability, stability, support and cost.

GCE has an edge on performance, per minute billing, custom machine types, and some datacenters in areas AWS doesn't cover, however they're learning how to be a public cloud, so you will run into beta level bugs, scalability issues, support issues (they also limit how many people can open a ticket in your org), and stability problems. If you do go GCP, make sure you have a rep and a high level support contract, otherwise it's going to be hard when you run into issues.

It's amazing how pushing technical boundaries is seen as worthy challenge, but helping the those who are struggling with basic needs is seen as impossible and an irritating overstep by the government.

Likewise, CF is the leading cause of outages in our infrastructure. We've completely abandon it in favor of Terraform.

* CF gets deadlocked if resources are changed outside of it, and there's no way to prevent people from doing that either

* No concept of a rolling update to a fleet or any warning it's going to cause an outage with out having to dig through fine print in the docs on every single change, just terminates all the EC2 instances in an ASG/ELB in some cases

* If you have a template, remember any change you make to that template has to be applied to every single stack you have, otherwise you'll either damage something or deadlock the stack when updating it later, it can't figure out what's deployed on it's own and maintains its own state that can be different from the real state. We had to stop using templates at all and just store a copy of each template in our local git repo.

* If you have more than 100 stacks searching the list of stacks requires clicking a handful of times on the "show more stacks" button before it'll show the one you typed in

* Stupid slow, esp. compared to Terraform

* Doesn't delete Route53 DNS records even after saying it does in the log outout

* Can break ELB configurations, such as sticky sessions and cause outages

* Doesn't actually support deploying all AWS resources, SNS/SQS perms/rules aren't complete for example.

Well that's good, the law is there, but ultimately you still don't want to make someone sick. ;)

Microsoft sent out a high level research team to a company I worked at to collect data and feed back on Outlook. During my interview I asked the lead researcher why he's going through all this trouble to collect data, when he uses the same product himself, and can pay attention to how he's using it and see the disconnects between the use cases and the UI directly? It was a fair question, but I don't recall him having a good answer, other than jotting a note and agreeing. My follow up question was surly there's innovation in Microsoft around UIs, why not interview those folks? To which he and his team laughed and said you don't want any of those folks ideas. Amusingly honest, which I didn't expect.

I have a MBP, and recently bought a Lenovo X1 for Linux, but have found the trackpad is pretty awful compared to my MBP. Even with Windows, so it's not Linux specific. Despite numerous attempts at tuning one of it's 200 settings, I can't seem to get it to not move the cursor a few pixels before I tap it to click, and thus clicking the wrong thing. Good luck.