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What tools do you use for load testing / benchmarking?

Same here, on occasion, but I've found they typically make you whole when you get a dud.

Good example:

I bought two collapsible milk crates. They loaded all my groceries into them in the store.

When I got home and lifted the first crate out of the car, it had too much weight inside, the bottom fell out and two bottles of wine shattered.

I told them the story when returning the crate two weeks later, they waved me off when I said I had a pic, told me it wasn’t necessary, and refunded the wine without being prompted.

Trying to get wine refunded with most other retailer would probably require talking to a manager and making a scene.

2) The cone was a temporary icon

Turn it sideways (5 degrees per major release) and keep the colors. Eventually it will be a Play Button.

Yup.

Storytime!

When I worked for MSN/Hotmail around 2000-2003, there were dozens of helpdesk folks who had access to an admin panel to easily view any email and could view/edit PII for anyone with very little (if not zero) accounting or auditing. It was protected by plaintext auth and open to the internet.

One employee told me that he caught his wife cheating by reading her mail.

Another used it to recover their own stolen EQ account worth thousands.

I personally used this access to help a friend recover a hacked/stolen Hotmail account. I told them the email address, what had happened to it, and they forwarded me a screenshot of their Passport.NET PII details for them to use the self-service password reset.

Obviously not much has changed.

AvE tore one of their machines down awhile back[0]. It's so over engineered, I was wondering how they'd ever make money back with their business model.

[0] https://youtu.be/_Cp-BGQfpHQ

Pay more and cut the line all day long, access to exclusive restaurants, private meet and greets with characters, etc.

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Previous gen Xbox dev kits generally had double the RAM and came with a Visual Studio license. They were very expensive. Now you can pay $19 to unlock a retail Xbox One to run any code you like with a 1GB RAM limit.

If you're that paranoid, you might want to also keep in mind that it would be far more reliable to shoulder surf via video surveillance. As a bonus, it even works with radios disabled.

Source Depot. Forked years ago with tons of added features. Various Halo titles also used it and had easy to use integrations with most of the art and design pipeline tools.

I tried to flag a taxi in downtown Shanghai for 45 minutes and finally gave into the broken English speaking motorcycle taxi who had been circling the block every five minutes.

Riding bitch through Hangpu to Pudong with a laptop in one arm while lane splitting with aggressive (and otherwise bad drivers) all around was a rather exciting experience.

Even with a skilled pilot, the adrenaline rush was similar to my first time tandem skydiving.

Yep! Plenty of pedestrians with strollers/dogs/bikes/etc, vehicles stopping in moving lanes for pickups or dropoffs, a mixture of stop signs and traffic lights, one-ways, two lanes, four lanes, divided roads, and the cherry on top: a two lane roundabout, which endlessly baffles drivers here.

I'm not sure there's a better spot in Austin to test autonomous cars.

That said, they aren't perfect. 1. They wait just long enough at stop signs when it is their turn, which confuses other drivers. 2. They drive well under the limit, causing small jams at peak congestion.

Initiating a chargeback is tantamount to terminating your Google Account at a random time in the future when they find in your favor.

Just bought my first house a couple months ago. Despite picking a lender that seemed to have their ducks in a row, I wound up 'at the table' from 9AM to 6:45PM. Everybody involved was surprised it actually got done. Fundamentally broken is an understatement.

This reminds me of Bert Kreischers' story about his travels in Russia as part of a language immersion trip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PAtFsJY5q0

Remove the extra step going from Phone to Chromecast (plenty of phones have HDMI OR the Chromecast can run an SSH client) and this a great solution with minimal latency. Anything remotely comparable in the 80s/90s would have been totally out of reach on a student budget.

Or any cell phone.

After SF collapses, housing prices will drop and the Phoenix will rise again.

My first NAS build used FreeNAS. For a simple Samba box, it's just about perfect. However, I wanted my NAS to run a few more services than the ones that were easily available and pre-built "blessed" plugins.

I had a low spec CPU in the NAS and went through hell and back to build/install/jail a few packages from source (along with their dependancies). It was a steep learning curve and wasn't terribly fun.

When it came time to add a second NAS, I chose Ubuntu and ZFS on Linux. It's been running like a champ for well over a year without a single hiccup. I don't think I've even built a single package ever. Best of both worlds, in my opinion.

This.

I missed repeated posts from a good friend asking for help. If I had seen them, I would have been there in 10 minutes. They committed suicide exactly 1 month ago. Just goes to show how incredibly important some algorithms can be.

SickRage is a good fork if you're not into Usenet.

I'd wager the largest market for this service is b2b companies of all sizes. Hand this to the entire sales team. Sit back and watch the money roll in.

That is the RasPi port of Plex Home Theater -- the previous player which is no longer being developed.

"Is Plex Home Theater still around? Plex Home Theater is still available and open source. We’re no longer actively developing it and are focusing our efforts on making Plex Media Player the best experience possible. (We’ll continue to make bug fixes for PHT for now.)"

Can't watch their demo video -- blocked because of copyright infringement. Whoops.

Working link for instructions: http://www.aftvnews.com/how-to-launch-kodi-xbmc-spmc-and-oth...

I've been driving for a few weeks with Waze running most of the time and the human generated alerts are incredibly useful.

Accident ahead. Object on road ahead. Car stopped on shoulder ahead.

There will be a way for self driving cars to broadcast these types of alerts for human drivers. I would expect that the self driving car would attempt to preserve itself (and prevent harm to its occupants) before trying to protect a human driver from harm.

It'd be awesome if AutoDesk unleashed some super programmers on their online store and subscription management portal. Both are an absolutely abismal experience.

Wide-area Bonjour and Bonjour forwarding are things. It works if your IT department cares to figure it out.

Sanborn was forced to provide Webster with the solution to the puzzle to reassure the CIA that it wasn’t something that would embarrass the agency.