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Agree that navigation of the northern passage of itself is not new, but the anticipated year round transit without icebreaker is.

But yes, this was a company that found a niche, grew into it and could go elsewhere. Amazon will presumably change that, though in the end I doubt WF will be recognizable.

Because nobody in their right mind is going to snitch while obviously on camera. You can call them "informants" or whatever, but cops rely on community sources for what's going on all the time. Those are informal relationships and documenting them on camera erodes trust of the folks giving up info.

25g NIC is an awful lot of 60byte packets. I'm not saying this is going to be a common concern, just that like any other shared kernel resource cgroups and namespaces aren't going to help.

0: https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/8-ip-tcp_metrics...

All for containers but they don't solve the hard problems folks often ascribe to them, really just shows in most cases you don't need to solve the hard problems. Most of the time what containers are buying you is an easy deployment method that leverages some nice features in the OS to make believe you're on separate machines.

Super disagree with that one. WF stores pay a premium for location and are full of, you know, food. Amazon has opened up a in-city distribution center in my city - not surprisingly in a closed down Sears location. Its in a crappy part of town, by railroad tracks and the home depot. They use it for some limited pickups and uber-style delivery drivers. There's no reason they'd need the kind of setup WF has in our area - either ultra urban locations or suburban with tons of parking when they can just pickup closing brink and mortars in undesirable locations.

Grocery is hard for a bunch of reason, one of key ones being location. Why you'd give up that location to use to dispatch items out of it beyond me, and I suspect not what Amazon is intending here.

There are two packages for the model S which add up to $9k extra[0]:

Enhanced Autopilot

Full Self-Driving Capability

The fact those are add-ons and their descriptions seems at odds with the statements made on the page.

0: https://www.tesla.com/models/design

I had signed up for a trial of one of these drugs. Having grown up in the 80s with a severe peanut allergy that required the use of the epipen more than a few times I was keen for anything that could help, even just something that would lessen the reaction so maybe I could choke down some benadryl rather than stabbing myself with that ~2 gauge (hyperbole) epipen that now costs a fortune.

First thing they did during the trial was give me two peanut tests, skin prick and blood test. Both came back negative despite positive results decades earlier as a child.

I would have never thought to get tested again on my own. Not being allergic has made such a huge difference in my life - I was always flippant about my allergy and had developed good safeguards to protect myself. But the amount of stress is caused me was amazing to have lifted. Hope that these drugs can bring that to others (or just get tested again and maybe you're one of the lucky ones!)

Gotten a lot of mileage out of the various seldom used options of uniq, diff and cut too.

There's a bit of encouragement from the state government and the rural providers also get free money that everyone else in these United [sic] States pays on their telecommunications bills. However it is still a good example of what can be accomplished in consumer Internet if not for the mega-corporations we have doing it today. If a small provider who's customers are frequently over a mile apart can do fiber to the home, why can't we have the same in metros?

The one disadvantage is the transit providers they plug into aren't the best - IIRC I was going through cogent in MSP to get to most popular cloud providers. Their network is worth looking at though[1][2]

0: http://www.csgmidwest.org/policyresearch/0616-fiber-optic-No...

1: http://dakotacarrier.com/services/overview/ 2: http://broadband.nd.gov/nd-broadband-map

If someone got it in their head that non-gas cars were what they should be doing in North Dakota, it would happen.

I think poorer states with more conflicted interest would have a harder time.

(Sorry for the OT NoDak rant)

eg:

set -euo pipefail

foo() {

   false

   echo "hello world"

 }

foo | do_stuff # fails

My preference is to handle things as streams

Amazon recently reorganized itself into three gorups, with Andy Jassy becoming CEO of AWS, Jeff Wilke CEO of retail, and Bezos keeping digital.

Not sure how much still goes all the way to the top but the impression from an investment perspective is the three main arms of the company can operate more independently.

It is easy to forget what the real world looks like when staring at a screen all day. We take out tech debt like a mortgage - sometimes that debt doesn't make sense and we end up having to foreclose on it, other times we're able to pay it off slowly over time and it all works out.

Where the analogy to debt falls down is that sometimes you luck out and don't have to repay tech debt. Maybe your legacy manufacturing system gets replaced with something modern and all of that horrible code magically vanishes - maybe your single threaded software from the 90s is finally outdated and you need something modern and would have had to rewrite it anyhow.

6) reproducibility: vendors could version the download links but I've not seen that done, so you're always getting the latest version which depending on what you're doing might not be what you want.

7) uninstall: maybe the vendor was nice enough to include an install script? Sure with deb/rpm a vendor can screw up the uninstall but the framework is there for them to do it right, with curl | bash the vendor needs to understand that's something they need to do and implement a solution on their own.

8) am I really running bash? And the version you expect me to be? Hopefully your distro isn't evil, but I have more than once found bash just a sym link to something less feature rich. Same goes with older versions, you'd be surprised what features are "new"

I also find it a bit odd because the cranky old sysadmin who solves everything with unintelligible shell scripts is often made a mockery of in this world of saltstack, docker, cloud and other buzzwords - yet now we're just signing up for an even worse version of it?

When a router receives a packet destined for a multicast group and that router has multiple destinations for that pocket, it must store that packet in memory until the last interface associated with that group can be written to. On networks which aren't heavily used that's not problem. Once you start utiziling your network however, the routers will be busy storing packets and their sensible-for-simple-cases buffers will become overwhelmed and you've got a multicast storm on your hands.

Great on paper, even works in test setups. Call me when you're running your kit to the limits, and I'll let you know you have a multicast problem.

Once the economy picks up people have jobs so they stop going, those who want to go to school feel good about their odds of taking on a ton of debt and go to a larger school.

(source: father was a professor at a vey large community college for ~40 years, mother is a prof at a university)

Also the paper notes this approach has fewer privacy concerns than other tracking systems, which is true to the degree your goal is tracking locations in a house. However if all the sudden we all ended up with tracking systems in our house that would be a privacy concern.

Sure you can dump additives in the ground and boost this years crop but that isn't going to create long term healthy soil which can support farming. Fertilizers are just another dependency on fossil fuels.

Water is certainly a part of terraforming a desert, but only a part of it.

Also would be great to see it tie into other devices like cadence / speed sensors for bike rides.

Does show that these types of devices are just around the corner, which is exciting. For me, I'll keep on trucking my phone with me until I get full integration with tracking heart rate and cycling metrics.