jozzas's comments

This is very, very wrong. If you want to cherry pick, I can too - literally days ago, western Sydney recorded its hottest ever temperature (48.9C, 120F). This is a region adjacent to where a number of fires are still burning.

2019 was Australia's hottest year on record.

I quite like the Paul Verhoeven '80s angular action movie aesthetic in general, but this just looks bad. The proportions are all off. I thought it was a joke and they were going to bring out the actual truck at some point.

There are some HUGE benefits to this type of architecture (services + lambda where required) for large corporations, the main one being an insane reduction in a bunch of worthless crap that you no longer have to do:

- OS version patching, patch windows & outages, change mgmt relating to patching and reporting relating to OS patching

- antivirus, the same patching management and reporting as above

- intrusion detection / protection, host based firewalls, the same patching and management as above

- Other agents (instance health monitoring, CMDB, ...)

- Putting all this junk on a clean OS image any time something changes, re-baking and regression testing everything

This all adds up, and can be a significant cost to an organisation - team(s), licenses, management, etc.

> with Mlab you were able to specify the cloud provider and zone IIRC

That's correct, you specify a provider and region but can also set up VPC peering so all traffic remains within AWS' network within a region. I've used this setup - mLab on AWS with VPC peering and it worked great.

Who is using CRTs? Mobiles have incredible pixel density, high-pixel-density displays and TVs are becoming the norm, etc. Is this even an issue? Who only has 7 pixels for their text?

Snapchat, whatsapp, FB messenger, kik, viber, instagram, twitter ("slide in my DMs"). What I'm unsure about is anonymous online interaction. Is reddit and topic-specific forums all that are available? Maybe FB groups?

I follow local market and food truck events, a couple of cool bars and arcades I like that frequently have events on, a place that does dog-centric events, local car shows that are of interest to me, etc. Facebook then surfaces other events that it thinks are of interest to me, and most of them are. I'd say 75% of my social calendar comes from Facebook events. I can understand young people not being interested in any of this and following their specific interests, like following a band on instagram rather than a venue on facebook.

When combined with her walking a bicycle, I suspect this is an edge case they never tested. It may have tripped up their pedestrian detection or path prediction (or both) if they got inconsistent hits on the bike.

I suspect she was picked up by the sensors and categorised as an object. These are absolute fundamentals, and I can't fathom the car working at all if it can't do this. If it was being driven with a limited set of sensors or a malfunctioning sensor, hoo boy the NTSB will have a few things to say.

I reckon it's more likely that this is was due to a software issue where she was flagged as "not a collision concern" or similar due to being in the other lane on a 2-lane road, or due to her path not being predicted accurately due to the odd returns received by a bicycle in profile at that range (it may have thrown off their regular pedestrian detection). In any case a terrible shame.

How would this have helped at 40MPH? The user would have milliseconds to react and hit the brakes. The point is that the car is self-driving. If a user has to watch a video display and intervene for every edge case it's more dangerous than just driving yourself.

I really don't bundle Tesla in with Waymo, Lyft, Toyota, Uber that are trying to build ground-up self driving cars. Are Tesla actively testing self-driving cars on public roads yet? Are their included sensors even up to the task? I didn't think they even have LiDAR?

Waymo actively test edge cases like this both in their test environments in the desert and via simulation, they have teams dedicated to coming up with weird edge situations like this (pushed bicycle) where the system does not respond appropriately so that it can be improved. All of these situations are kept and built up into a suite of regression tests. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/08/insid...

Directed Acyclic Graphs / block lattices in Cryptocurrency, like those used in IOTA and RaiBlocks: https://raiblocks.net/media/RaiBlocks_Whitepaper__English.pd...

Mesh networking apps get around this, and there are a few of those available now. Signal even has an offline mode that does this.

My employer's AWS footprint is 5000+ EC2 instances. We use CloudHealth for:

- Reserved Instance recommendations & purchasing - typically 12 month partial upfront

- CPU, Mem, Disk stats pushed up for EC2 & EBS to identify wastage & generate rightsizing recommendations

- Reports generated that go to management of "Optimization Opportunities" in $ for all areas that report to them (this one has the greatest effect in getting things actioned)

- Regular reports also go direct to application owners of potential optimisations on EC2, EBS, config, unused ELB, old snapshots, etc.

We also have a tool that starts and stops instances for people based on a schedule tag, which saves us a LOT of money. We report on people not using it for dev / test / uat.

nothing at the moment, it's being used as a speculative investment. I imagine in time the volatility will reduce as other cryptocurrencies become more mainstream and actually used for real-world purposes.

> If you buy stock in a random Fortune 500 company and nobody wants it, you can take possession of a bunch of desks or factories or inventory or whatever their deal is

Not really, the value of the stock approaches zero, and when the company closes up shop I doubt you get anything at all as an investor. Assets would typically be sold to pay off outstanding debts.

Bitcoin is becoming a value store. With slow transaction confirmation and high fees, what are the real-world applications for Bitcoin supposed to be now? And for those applications, are there not other cryptocurrencies more specifically targeted at being better at that application?

Stellar (https://stellar.org) - is trying to solve real problems: low-cost cross-currency payments, micropayments, enabling mobile bank branches, mobile money and services for the underbanked. Their tooling for integration with FSPs is looking very good.

Most houses burn down due to embers igniting in the roof, subfloor or against the side of the house. You need to actively protect the roof with sprayers. There are systems that already do this, as well as ember-proof subfloor vents.