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Wait what? They are/were only stacking 2 containers high? When I google on how another big port is doing it, or example Rotterdam, I get a 5 year old video of 5 high stacks and a fully automated system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60Fz5gZRX9c.

What's going on in Long Beach?

And that is the price they pay for trying to be Chrome clone UI wise and not listening to to the "power users". I hate to use the words "power user" but it is the small group of very active and enthusiastic users that you need to give the appears to every one else that they are missing out on something cool.

I still use Firefox because it works reasonably for my usage but I stopped promoting it to other people around me. For the average user Chrome is good, very good even. And Firefox lost its uniqueness and UI differences that made it stand out. And if nobody talks anymore about your product then you are done.

Like already said in this thread: the Amiga was a product of its time because it introduced some hardware and software features that were radical at that time.

If you want to make an Amiga 2020 today you will really need something that the normal PC/Apple/phone/console does not do.

For example:

The Amiga 2020 needs: a 64 core CPU in which each core or set of cores can run a fully independent&secure version of the OS. I'm thinking switching between OS's like the Amiga workbench could switch between resolutions.

The Amiga 2020 needs of course a hardware chip that does perfect speech interpretation. None of this half/half Siri or Ok Google stuff. The local AI on chip will handle that all.

The Amiga 2020 needs a hardware chip that will control any set of VR glasses easily. The OS will of course have a graphical layout that will fully use AR and VR capabilities such that the user can do cool things with it like AR augmented desktops that exist both on computer and physically on the desk in front of you. I want to have my AR rolodex as my address book.

The Amiga 2020 needs 21st century expansion to talk to external devices. Either via 4G/5G such that computer and peripheral can always talk to each other no matter how far away they are. Or something more fancy like low power led/laser beam comms so that you just have to place the peripheral next to the computer to make them sync up.

The only thing missing is the spirit of the "future of the computer". Do not underestimate how optimistic we were at that time that computers, with their endless possibilities, would solve just about any problem in the world. The 21st century is a very different place.

Just as the BMW i3 the Alfa Romeo 4C also has a carbon fiber monocoque: https://www.toraytac.com/media/story/XkKY/Alfa-Romeo-4C-Mono.... And Alfa Romeo has published a 162 page manual for bodyshops on how to do repairs. The PDF is out there in the internet for people that want to know the technical details.

And with all that thinking on models, sizes, and how to build the sets, they still got it wrong. See the link below: the Millennium Falcon interior and exterior dimensions do not match.

The original page seems long gone but web archive has it: http://web.archive.org/web/20010330140327/www.synicon.com.au...

SoX is amazing because it indeed makes very nice spectrograms which visually show how audio is encoded. It makes it easy to see if this really is a lossless FLAC or a crappy 192 VBC mp3 audio source.

If you personally hear the difference is a completely different subject of course.

The hot question is of course: can this be used with a Pi as a web Cam? Because with the current homeworking enthousiasm so many people buy good quality webcams that almost everything is sold out. And to rub it in the current best selling webcam is a 4 year old Logitech 920. Did technology not improve since?

I saw on the Pi forums that somework is being done by people but it is not there yet.

Are there masks for sale then? Here in The Netherlands there are no n95 masks available for the average person. I understand that hospitals and 1st aid responders need them now, but in the short term I would like to be able to get some.

It is probably nr 1 because it still has very clear audio and video while the performance of Skype for Business and Microsoft Teams is dramatic at this moment. And the last two are supposed to be the standard tools in the very large organization that I work for.

Hoarding is only a part of the problem. A company in The Netherlands producing chloroquine has got 24/7 police protection as of this weekend because some people came to them and were very insistent that they would like to have some product.

Link in dutch: https://eenvandaag.avrotros.nl/item/fabrikant-van-coronamedi...

I've used Kubuntu as a normal every day desktop for some time and there are two simple annoyances that popup in my mind:

- when I get a notification in the systray that there is an update I click on it but nothing happens. Then I have to click on the Update Manager which also presents itself in the systray as having an update to start the actual update process. Why can't the program giving the notification be started directly from the notification popup window?

- the restart/shutdown dialog is infuriating!. When I click on restart or shutdown I get presented with a full screen overlay in which I have to click again on restart or shutdown. Ok: I understand the need for a confirmation. But the click area is very sensitive and I you accidentally just outside of the icon area you will be dropped back to the desktop. ARGH! Why do UI designers always think that everyone has some sort of FPS aiming capability with the mouse and can repeatedly click with pixel accuracy?

The thing that raised my eyebrows was that my work laptop had this issue. And this is a serious work laptop, managed by a large & conservative IT org. I'm so locked down with GPOs/McAfee/Zscaler/Cylance/always-on-VPN that I have trouble opening my normal applications that I need for my job. And then Microsoft comes along and breaks stuff locally on my machine by changing something on their servers. So all the firewalls/VPN/proxy/cylance smart rogue program detection failed to do their job...

And to top things of the issue did not fix itself, as of Friday afternoon my start menu search still did not work.

3 out of the top 5 dredging firms are from the Netherlands and one is from Belgium, right next door.

The Netherlands will be fine. Actually the Netherlands will make bank selling water management knowledge to others.

It is not in the Calibre preferences but in the Viewer preferences. Open an ebook in the Viewer and while in the Viewer press ESC to get to the menu, then the option is under Miscellaneous.

If I understand correctly he uses a dataset called CFSv2, which goes back to 1979, and then July 2019 is the 4th warmest on record after July 2016, 2002, and 2017.

If these were numbers (range 1979-2019, winning numbers 2016, 2002, 2017, 2019) that could be used to predict the odds of winning in a lottery then I would be very happy to use them and buy a 2020 lottery ticket.

That was maybe 15 years ago. These days cars have multiple CANbus networks running and there are control unit everywhere.

Below the details for an Alfa Romeo Giulia, which is interesting because it was a complete new design when introduced in 2016, not a rework of a previous platform:

3 networks run in parallel: These networks and their subnetworks are protected by a Security Gateway Module (SGW).

  - CAN-C (high-speed 500 kb/s)
  - CAN-CH (high-speed 500 kb/s)
  - CAN-IHS (medium-speed 125 kb/s)

Modules connect to 1st network:

  - Body Control Module (BCM)
  - Instrument Panel Cluster (IPC)
  - Occupant Restraint Control (ORC)
  - Radio Frequency Hub (RFH) Module
  - Antilock Brake System Module (ABS)
  - Adaptive Cruise Control Module (ACC)
  - Emergency Assistance Module (EAM)
  - Primary Powertrain Control Module 2.9 V6 (PCM - P)
  - Powertrain Control Module 2.0 I4 DI (PCM)

To 2nd network:

  - ABS Module
  - BCM
  - Electric Steering Lock (ESL)
  - Park Assist Module (PAM)
  - Electric Power Steering (EPS)
  - FFCM - Haptic Lane Feedback (FFCM - HALF)
  - Occupant Restraint Control (ORC)
  - Active Aerodynamic Module Left – Front left Splitter actuator (AAML)
  - Active Aerodynamic Module Right – Front right Splitter actuator (AAMR)
  - Adaptive Front Light System (AFLS)
  - Chassis Domain Control Module (CDCM)
  - Torque Vectoring Module (TVM)

To 3rd network:

  - Instrument Panel Cluster (IPC)
  - Comfort Seat Wheel Module (CSWM)
  - Left Blind Spot Sensor (LBSS)
  - Right Blind Spot Sensor (RBSS)
  - Amplifier (AMP)
  - Trailer Tow Module (TTM)
  - Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC)
  - Entertainment Telematic Module VP2, VP4 (ETM)
  - BCM
  - Entertainment Multimedia Control Module (EMCM)
  - Secondary Powertrain Control Module 2.9 V6 (PCM - S)

Looking at the numbers it should not move that much. According to this article, https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190307005812/en/TRE..., in 2018 912 exabytes of HD and SSD storage was sold. 800 exabyte for HD and 112 exabyte for SSD. And the SSD market grew 45% in 2018. If manufacturers project to grow at the same rate then 2019 SSD shipments will be around 162 exabyte. This puts the 6 exabyte loss at around 3.5%.

But we all know that markets are driven by emotion: losing 3.5% of your raw materials in a market that is projected to grow 45% will cause big fluctuations. But that is just my opinion.

Indeed, this is something that needs to be blocked asap by ublock origin or a browser setting. Taking over my screen full-screen with whatever they want to stream to me.. ??? I'm already thinking about streaming a full-screen image of a generic Windows desktop with a Chrome browser. Just to trick people into thinking they are not looking at a full screen video.

Lesson for web designers: do not do this. Now we are talking about a silly web feature while we are supposed to look at whatever message your website is trying to convey.

And sharp 15:15 local time my add-ons got disabled and now I have a yellow sign saying "One or more installed add-ons cannot be verified and have been disabled".

Same here. Both on Windows 10 and Kubuntu my Firefox 66.0.3 instances seem to have working add-ons (uBlock Origin) as of now. Both systems have been up for weeks.

Let's see what the day will bring...

Vinge's "A Deepness in the Sky" can be used to explain current big industrial control systems. A typical distributed control system these days transfers data across many different layers, transforming the data when it crosses each layer. Starting deep down in the plant:

* reading the 0-10V or 4-20mA signals from sensors.

* AD converters convert the values into a digital representation in field devices.

* move the data to real-time controllers that run control algorithms and send outputs back to motors/valves/pumps/etc.

* those controllers move the data often via raw Ethernet packets to other real-time controllers and Windows stations used for operator visualization.

* some Windows workstations gather data into databases for historical usage. Sometimes this is a SQL type database, sometimes a flat database used to get better storage performance.

* then data is moved to local databases that can be used by the onsite teams to analyze it in an office environment.

* then that data is then moved into big data offsite/remote storage for analysis of how the medium and long term performance of the industrial installation and comparison to other installations in other parts of the world.

* from that reports are made with key performance indicators and graphs.

And each time the data is passed up a layer the format of the data and timestamps may be adjusted to match operating system that the data is passed to.

It is much to easy to blame Windows for everything. If this is another TRITON level attack then it did not matter what operating system is used, the attackers would have come in anyway. With enough resources you can break anything.

Check out the DEFCON 2018 talk "Through the Eyes of the Attacker" to see to what lengths the TRITON attackers went. These guys were dumping eeproms from boards running obscure MIPS processors and were looking at raw ethernet packets in Wireshark and flipping bits in the packets to see what would happen. That their command&control was running on Windows was just coincidence.

The airgap question comes up every time an industrial system is attacked. The thing is that these days all systems are connected via several layers to the outside world. Because a modern oil refinery is of no use if you cannot track what product is being made at that moment. And the people tracking the data are often in completely different locations or even different countries.

The main line of defense is these days is "layers of an onion" network with (physical) controls such that data easily can get out to a higher layer but that it is very difficult to get in from a higher layer back down into a deeper layer.

A completely airgapped network is not practical anymore because the alternative is even worse: nobody wants to have dozens or 100ths of operators, maintenance engineers and 3rd party contractors running around the facility with usb sticks because there is no network to move stuff around. If you have a network then you can control where the data comes into your network, who copies the data to where and what data is visible for which user.

I use a very simple test to verify if fonts are usable in programmer/technical environments:

- check the readability of lower and upper case "i" (india) against the number "1" (one)and the lower and upper case "l" (lima).

- Check the readability of the lower and upper case "o" (oscar) against the number "0".

- check if the font can be used monospaced with being reasonable to good readability.

If it passes those checks then it is often good enough for me.

And diesel cars like yours are THE reason why these type of legislation is being put into place. Your 2001 diesel is most likely a euro 3 emission type and that put on average 3x more NOx and 10x as much diesel particulate matter in the air per km driven than a 2010 euro 5 diesel (1).

Of course you can do a calculation on how it is economically better to drive a car for a longer period of time compared to factories using resources to make new cars. But at this moment all the focus is to get NOx and particulate matter emissions down, preferably in cities.

So noone, except you, cares about how fuel efficient your old car is because even the biggest modern Mercedes, BMW or Audi luxury barge is more environmentally friendly than yours. Buy any modern (less than 5 years old) normal everyday car and immediately you lower the amount the amount you pollute in your everyday driving.

1: http://ecoscore.be/nl/legislation/european

I have a bit more positive look on the future: Jan-2038 is just before my retirement. I can make some money with old computer knowledge while the post-post millennial generation does not even know what the inside of an old operating system looks like.

I'm by no means an expert on this, but I do follow some trucking vlogs on youtube, but it amazes me how inefficient the loading and unloading process is. Sometimes truckers have to waiting many hours just to get a place at a loading dock and then again many hours just so that a dedicated team can unload the trailer. What a waste of driver, truck, and trailer resources.

The autonomous truck will most likely happen but my prediction is that the real revolution will be automated loading/unloading. And the automated forklifts will unload into fully automated warehouses. And fully automated pickers will pick orders for delivery to your doorstep via fully automated drones. And driven from the doorstep to your fridge by a cargo roomba...

Sounds like an variable frequency drive in combination with tire noise. Youtube has some good videos on how VFDs sound like.

Are there any detailed specs on how Tesla controls the electric motor(s) in the truck? AC, DC, controller types,etc..?

One word: privacy. They are already trying to create an image that what is on an iphone is yours, that osx does not send endless amounts of telemetry back to the mothership,etc.. But I think that in the next 5 years this image will become a very important differentiator.

In the near future there will be services like the amazon and google voice assistants that rely on you being the product and there will be services that you use in private without relying on them sucking up all your meta data.

I recognize this. I live in a part of the Netherlands where there is only ONE highway going through the area. Yet Google Maps and TomTom both want to send me through the nature reserve instead of via the highway running parallel to the nature reserve. The reason is that the route through the nature reserve is a few kilometers shorter and the speed limits are set wrong. Both Google Maps and TomTom think you can drive at highway speeds on those roads.

Signs have been setup to block cars from entering those roads during morning and evening rush hour. But still you see many people taking that road, blindly following the map instructions.