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I use Hey.com for E-mail / G-Mail replacement. Huge fan of the "The Feed" and "The Papertrail" organization boxes. As email has become more of a dumpster fire, being able to curate the things I actually want to look at has made using e-mail a pleasure. - the feed, especially as I use it for newsletters I subscribe to.

from the article: "Big Blue’s major blockchain networks are FoodTrust, a farm-to-supermarket tracking system backed by Walmart; and TradeLens, a shipping container logistics blockchain backed by Maersk. IBM has also added the Trust Your Supplier network and previously had a go at payments via World Wire."

Watched this with the family on Saturday after reading the piece in Vulture. I honestly was expecting a trainwreck of a film, but really enjoyed it.

The key take a away from the Vulture article for me was the Fulmer quote: "I met a very nice woman on a plane once coming back from New York, where we’d recorded Sting. She was like, “Oh, you work at Disney. What are you doing?” Blah, blah, blah. “Oh, my. So, what the movie’s about.” I feel like I talked until we got to Los Angeles, trying to explain it all. And I realized, Okay, this is not good. There’s too much here."

I think that applies to any product. If you can't tell the story in a concise manner, nobody is going to be interested.

Current resident here! I can relate to some of your experiences. I will say though that Houston, like a lot of the sunbelt cities has multiple urban cores, the sprawl kind of connects them.

Going from one urban core to another can take some time, indeed an hour in some cases from one close-in area to another. (Close in meaning ~20 - 40 miles). It's very much like the East Bay in that regard.

Living in an urban area like Med Center / West U, or Galleria, energy corridor on the west side, most folks don't suffer, everything is nearby in those communities.

Houston does have a good park and ride bus system for the outer burbs, and it's been successful. They've added a light rail in town connecting downtown entertainment with the medical center and convention areas, and just launched BRT services that connect hubs in the Galleria to some of the park-n-ride depots in the city.

Lots of problems, lots of opportunities to improve, but for the price, the great airports (which I miss thee days with COVID), and these massive freeways to move us over great distance quickly, I'm still a fan.

Agreed, congrats on getting this published and sharing your passion. I learned a lot of org mode basics from videos, so I admire your effort here. I still refer back to Rainer's series from time to time on you tube. Some good material here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVtKhBrRV_ZkPnBtt_TD1...

This is why I love using Emacs. It's great for one-off tasks, super customizable, and yet easily replaced by the right tool when needed.

I'm now in technical sales working with clients, meetings, deliverables, etc. I've migrated from paper to Evernote, to emacs, out of emacs, and now journal and take notes in emacs with org-mode and org-roam, and use evernote for reference material. Searching notes is now a snap, and I can trust that my reference material is indexed. I'd like to quit evernote, but the OCR, web clipping, and mobile application are still working well enough for me. (although I do monthly exports from evernote and import _what_I_can_ into emacs and file system)

According to IBM this is not even an active product [1]. Although after some reading it does appear that if a client was still using this solution and was paying for extended support that IBM would take care of them.

I wonder if the security researcher knows if this is a COTS product. I could not find it to download, isn't generally available, and appears to be deprecated by IBMs more cloud centric security solutions

[1]https://www.ibm.com/support/lifecycle/#/details?q45=I355654S...

I wonder why/if you looked into OKD?

https://www.okd.io/

This is incredible. The Pepsi Ratio vs the golden Ratio.

I hired a housekeeper that comes every other week. This raised the base line of how tidy my home is that I can focus household chore time on organizing and refining my living space. This has created a virtuous cycle of constant improvement and much more enjoyment at home.

The author is Robert Krulwich, co-host of "Radiolab". Try not to imagine his voice while reading it. Here's a related piece: https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/from-tree-to-shining-tree

My theory: Slack did this rough shot to get a deal signed with a major new client and to support the due dil.

Also note that all the major cloud providers in the US do not do business with embargoed countries. They all block IP from Iran, et al. to compute within the US, but allow it to compute within other geos, this extends to tech support, sales, etc.

I'm honestly surprised that Slack users within Iran could access the service running in US to begin with. In all likelihood they could only access edge servers located in other geos in APAC or the EU.

Look closely at everything Slack says in this message and others. "Enterprise Software" is tossed around a lot. They want to be the communications platform for the enterprise and have to meet these standards to compete with other offerings that exist today.

> With Softlayer, you're inviting IBM into your house, which is rarely a good idea. Give them an inch, they take a mile.

Not a very accurate statement. SoftLayer is IaaS, everything is monthly or hourly on the compute, storage, and networking side. You pay SoftLayer monthly for VSphere 6 licenses with zero contracts.

It's all about Linux. IBM's running Power8 with RedHat in SoftLayer data centers. Hadoop and jboss are some of the target workloads.

Now you can suffer like the rest of us. :) I recommend adopting children to lower your tax burden.

That's a pretty serious limitation of their automation if they are unable to just whack the ACLs on the private network to the affected customer nodes.

E-Commerce Home Ordering?

This tube despite the music streaming features, is a novel vector for ordering products online. If it was water proof, I'd use it in the shower.

Exactly. This prevents the Talking TV from turning itself off. From 30 Rick: "First, I'm going to go home and delete everything on my DVR."

I wonder if I used your add-on. There is some very interesting stuff available now, like ask Mr. Robot.

For sure. Or offer "Vanilla" servers. I remember back in the day Ultima Online servers would pop up form time to time with the classic UI.

Or just use Windows Datacetner Ed on your hypervisor. Most cloud providers have that as an option. It's like $200 a month and you can run as many VMs as your hardware will support.

The vast majority of FB uses are using an app, not a browser. clicking a link in the FB app does not take out "out of Facebook" they know if you clicked the back arrow within the app, and went back to your feed.

The things they were doing with cameras reminded me how Android started out as a camera project and not a smart phone. I wonder if there's any relation...

That's how SoftLayer does it, since 2005.

You could do that on SoftLayer with monthly GPU servers. There's not an hourly option yet though.

SoftLayer has been doing this since 2005. One API to provision and deploy compute on demand physical or virtual. Over 90% of their customer bases uses bare metal servers.

SoftLayer has supported IPv6 for years. All their servers have IPv6 enabled.

Why? This would work... until the surprise bandwidth bill comes in.You could just do this for free using dropbox though, or another less expensive object storage.

https://sites.google.com/site/torrenttricks/use-dropbox-as-a...

Would these be too pricey as hypervisors for cloud compute? It seems to me to be ideal for CPU thread intensive applications like databases, on-demand transcoding.

What are some use cases for a server like this for Google? I'd love to see these available in the IBM Cloud (SoftLayer) but I think they will be too pricey and reserved for enterprise.