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> If they want to salvage Alexa, they need to forget shopping and start doubling down on the smart home and assistant experience [...] and I wouldn't mind paying a subscription fee for it

Why do you say that (both parts)? Alexa has done a good job to integrate with lots of other devices. I can control many aspects of my house through Alexa - lights, blinds, AC, sound, etc. I value that, but I don't think I value it enough to ever want to pay a subscription for it. That's as silly as whoever though selling heated seats in your BMW would fly. I made sure that in each home component I chose a solution that works locally (only AC I had to compromise for lack of options).

And with all that value it provides as a hub? My alexa can't be used to buy anything, call anyone, etc. None of that is configured or permitted as much as I can shut it down. I don't personally see the value there.

I for one am curious where Amazon chooses to draw the line. I don't want to pay a subscription to shout out local hub control commands, but they could be draconian to extra value.

Vancouver is one of the cities where the incumbent taxi lobby won concessions to allow ride hailing, one of those being they all have to charge the same base rate. While some companies like Uber have checkered growth history, ride hailing in general has been a boon where taxi oligopolies have treated their customers poorly (Vancouver was no exception here). I personally love that Evo car sharing in Vancouver extends to the airport, so I have a real option to both.

Having one of the possibly effected devices, I typed in my serial number and it claims to not be effected (has an updated firmware). There is no date on that web page about when the firmware was issue. Is this a case of the issue actually being fixed with the firmware update, so they can just blame those with data loss that they didn't keep up to date, or is this a problem even after?

Curious what the justification is for 0.9375% (very precise number), given the report 0.3% interchange fee cap in EU noted in this thread? The vendor can charge you more than it costs them to accept the card?

A very recent BBC article substantiates the hostility to immigration in Japan, and is an interesting read overall: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-63830490

Certainly it does, but one can guarantee more than 30min wait time at some emergency rooms coming up as they are closing outright due to staffing issues. https://bc.ctvnews.ca/8-more-overnight-closures-on-the-way-f... It's a real problem, and not just in BC. Some have argued this is a politically manufactured issue to force more talk of private care ... regardless, people are suffering in the mean time.

"tax bureaucrats" are what took down Al Capone. These days Al would have much better lawyers and layers of shell corporations in various tax havens. He would be untouchable merely because the effort to sleuth out the truth has become much harder. Laws and regulations subdue any advantages transparency tech could bring.

Wait though ... how can you make that assumption without actually testing it? For science!

I feel you hit reply on the wrong thread ... this seems to have nothing to do with Rancher Desktop?!?

A key point around Rancher Desktop's k8s (actually k3s) support that stands out is that it allows you to use any k3s version and swap between them. This is great for those that want to test their workloads on different k8s versions right on their desktop.

In the 50s there was US agent repression and intimidation of beliefs around communism (see McCarthyism). The KKK was also still rampant and had members that were police or other "state officials". So ... maybe US isn't so different after all?

"Over a third of the country’s vegetables and two-thirds of the country’s fruits and nuts are grown in California."[0]

I'd be careful to imply blame on a single state, when it is a large part of the population that relies on the output. There are certainly ways to target water waste in agriculture, but the whole nation has a stake in successful water management.

[0] https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/Statistics/

> There are a lot of decent folks in a terrible situation solely because of their awful and incompetent politicians.

Politicians are elected. If the people don't approve, they have a recourse. People pile on Texas (or insert favorite punching bag of the day) because the majority (or plurality in voting) asked for these people to represent them.

I suspect your experience with Tcl is a bit old. Tcl finally standardized on a single core OO library several years ago.

The quoting issues can be a pain, but if you learn to treat it like a language rather than extended shell, you learn the tricks to avoid escaping/quoting issues.

Most of the car share companies operate this way near me. It's not "exclusively via app", but most people rely on the app and NFC to unlock/start and lock/end their trips for convenience.

That said ... you are in a car that can charge your phone too.

Actually it's quite possible to run a full Cloud Foundry environment in a single VM, as seen with Stackato (http://www.stackato.com/), which can then be scaled out as necessary.

Most people are actually unaware of Ford's "innovations" on pay, or the reasoning behind them, but that does not dilute the profound impact the actions had.

ActiveState Software - Vancouver, BC

We are working on private cloud platforms (the P in PaaS), based on Cloud Foundry and Docker. Also well known for language distributions like ActivePerl and ActivePython and the Komodo IDE. Stackato development is done in a mix of languages (Ruby, Go, JS primarily).

We prefer on-site in Vancouver and would relocate the right candidate, but make exceptions for top talent with a proven track record of remote contributions.

http://www.activestate.com/company/careers/

> "I already had a hunch that it would automatically load in external images" ??

Excuse me, but if the author was clueful enough to expose this issue, why didn't they explain the very simple setting that changes this (unfortunately) default behavior? Head in to Preferences > Viewing > and remove this behavior. It should be the default, sure, but this post makes it sound intractable.

Just a bump to support this comment. Too many people do not realize that the privacy breaching laws (public and secret, if they are even adhered to by the govt) extend to any US entity wherever the data is in the world.

This is why data on Amazon, Google or Microsoft data centers in Europe and elsewhere are still open season for US authorities. The same would apply to Mozilla.

As a recipient of that email (several times), it's apparent a script went bad that had all users on the To: line, though still iterating through each company account. IMO it looks like a pretty basic coding error ... something that should have been checked before sending of course. No real account info aside from email addrs and company name was exposed.

Github did follow up with a "sorry" email. Note that it wasn't all true enterprise users. I did trial enterprise, but my company stayed with the hosted version only. Also, lots of the names on there were evidently @github test users and others I recognized as tire kickers (knowing they use only hosted GH as well).

End result - a little egg on face for Github, one very sad day for script kiddie email coder, and an indication (if complete) that Github has << 3000 GH Enterprise users.

Disclaimer: I work at ActiveState, named in the article.

I'd just like to point out that ActiveState is not VC funded and is profitable. We are able to grow other parts of the business from core products that are enhanced open source (much, but not all, of which is contributed back to the core open source projects). Most of this is in support and services, but we also have highly regarded tools products and a popular IDE (Komodo, of which we fully open sourced the core editor).

Not sure why there are so many negative vibes to this article.

You make a claim that this is specifically for Chrome on OS X, yet I don't think you've done enough homework to make such a broad statement. I am using Chrome 23.0.1271.101 on OS X 10.8 no a retina MBP, and fonts looks beautiful across the board (with no mods on my part). All those in your post look the same to me. What gives?

I first clicked on the article hoping to get an answer for the crappier font rendering in Chrome on Win32. Font rendering is one thing IE still does better than Chrome/WebKit.

While the EIAS philosophy is true in Tcl, at the real guts level, the actuality is "Everything must be representable as a string". EMBRAAS it! There is an object system underneath which handles native or user defined types.

And somehow VMware Fusion doesn't have any problems after the same update ... sometimes you do get what you pay for (then again, I remember when an earlier Fusion update bricked itself, so YMMV).

ActiveState's Stackato private PaaS platform (http://www.activestate.com/stackato) has support for Heroku buildpacks to deploy (http://docs.stackato.com/deploy/buildpack.html), as well as the usual options for polyglot app deployments (it also has a 100% compatible Cloud Foundry API). This is useful when you want portability (deploy on a PaaS that you have full control over).

While it was a disaster, the current Tcl package implementation surpasses many other languages. It's possible to have multiple versions installed and have different runtimes choose a version they want. The biggest advantage though is binary version independence through stubs (http://wiki.tcl.tk/stubs). Compile a binary package for 8.x, it will work in 8.y where y >= x.

This was in the recent Heroku down thread. You might be interested in Stackato (http://www.activestate.com/stackato). It is based on Cloud Foundry, with numerous enhancements, including support for Heroku buildpacks (http://docs.stackato.com/languages/buildpack.html). Heroku-in-a-box - give it a try.

BTW, while the point is to enable private paas, you won't get around the issues that hit sites like this without heeding all the warnings and recommendations about building in redundancy for high availability.

This was noted well in this post: http://www.newvem.com/blog/main/2012/06/aws-cloud-best-pract...

"""It is a lot cheaper to add 1% uptime to a 95% SLA than it is to add 0.09% to a 99.9% SLA. Cloud application vendors (SaaS) need to pay very close attention to the additional resources that are invested in order to support a 99.9XX…% uptime SLA, and perhaps build it into their pricing plans."""

You should have a look at Stackato (http://www.activestate.com/stackato). While it is Cloud Foundry based, it is a fork with significant improvements, including secure containers, integrated web console useful to both users and admins, user/group delineation, and ... Heroku buildpack support. Heroku-in-a-box, you run it where you want, on your terms.