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by agentx3r 5y ago
In Canada we have these refillable prepaid VISA cards https://www.koho.ca/ . Not a plug, but it's honestly solved money management for us. Every week, my wife and I load some amount into the 'joint' card, and
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by agentx3r 5y ago
I've been using AWS Route53 DNS for my domain for many years, very cheap and easy to automate a DDNS setup if desired (e.g. https://crazymax.dev/ddns-route53/ )
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by agentx3r 5y ago
Yes, making me migrate manually means I'm very likely to migrate to Outlook365
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by agentx3r 5y ago
If you want to try some modern-er noir, American Tabloid by James Ellroy is a wild ride.
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by agentx3r 5y ago
> Someone donating large amounts of money to charity just to write it off on their taxes isn’t doing so altruistically I mean, it's still altruistic because they're going to 'lose wealth' by donating. You're neve
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by agentx3r 6y ago
most accessible device these days is probably the realsense
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by agentx3r 6y ago
Disclaimer, I like the snap packaging format, and I'm not familiar with the history of launchpad. Operationally: - I can trivially host and control my own apt repository, either as a mirror of some upstream repository, or with bespoke
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by agentx3r 6y ago
Hear hear. I imagine for dogfooding, LXD is only packaged in snap, so we can't use apt as the source anymore. After migrating, an upstream push to a 'stable' LXD snap channel introduced a regression that borked our environmen
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by agentx3r 7y ago
Foundational seems like a strong word here - this is a thin wrapper on top of two popular components from ROS (Navigation and MoveIt), and bringup for a specific robot (LoCoBot). I appreciate the effort here though - ROS feels like it'
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by agentx3r 7y ago
I really love the ideas/architecture behind Concourse, but there's a few things that disqualified it in favour of Jenkins for a new CI pipeline during prototyping: - no hooks to manage worker scaling ( https://github.com
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by agentx3r 8y ago
Trump is a symptom, not the disease.
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by agentx3r 8y ago
I imagine it's more practical to try to 'get out the vote' without all the marketing in the middle, than try to bribe a person to vote against their interest.
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by agentx3r 8y ago
For n=1, sure, not necessarily.
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by agentx3r 8y ago
If you have two systems generating UUIDs, and their probability distributions are non uniform and overlap in any significant fashion, then your odds of collision are no longer on the order of 'heat death of the universe'. TIL only
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by agentx3r 8y ago
> If you used UUID() for data that is supposed to be secret (like passwords), you have a serious problem, as these secrets can now be easily guessed. I've never used UUIDs for secrets, but I've often dependended on UUIDs to be
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by agentx3r 8y ago
Ubiquiti makes great prosumer stuff, if you're willing to pay ~$120 for the 'router', and then another ~$100 for the wireless access point. That's not 'cheap', but it's about on par what you'd pay for
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by agentx3r 9y ago
I've been using Lineage on my oneplus 3 for some time, and it's very stable. https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/cheeseburger
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by agentx3r 11y ago
Likely refers to sensor fusion ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensor_fusion ), which is an algorithmic process. A 4-hour MTBF window (even for a subsystem) is terrifying considering modern vehicles like this are likely
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by agentx3r 11y ago
At the point when the system is unable to analyze the static environment (e.g. lane markers) due to poor visibility, it's probably unable to analyze and deal with dynamic situations safely.
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by agentx3r 12y ago
Traffic lights will often have sensors to prevent switching when no cross traffic is waiting. There are also centrally controlled systems that incorporate adaptive control methods. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_