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Comment Re:I doubt they will survive my hood (Score 1) 72

Tangential knee jerk thought regarding Waymo.

What happens when Amazon creates their own driverless vehicle (or joins forces with Waymo). You now have driverless vehicles with robots capable of bringing the packages to your location, and they replace a large part of the delivery people with people who handle "rescue" scenarios....

Comment Re:AI my ass (Score 1) 220

My last company they took it a step further and did stuff like "suggesting" that the teams had to incorporate technology/platform XYZZY that they called out.

One of the teams showcased a really neat system that could have (given some additional effort) have led to some major cost savings, but ignored XYZZY--this was just a "suggestion" after all. The judges pretty much on learning this didn't touch their pet platform unofficially disqualified them.

After this if memory serves, they "clarified" the rules---so that teams understood that they needed to incorporate the next wiz bang platform/tech--and I promptly lost any further interest in the hackathons (most of the folks I worked with expressed a similar distaste)......

Comment Re:Are there build tools to scan for credentials? (Score 1) 18

There is in fact, the two tools to check into are
* Trufflehog: https://github.com/trufflesecu...
* BFG Repo Cleaner: https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-r...

Trufflehog handles the scanning for credentials. BFG handles cleaning up the repo once a discovery is made (for instance the history clean up required when you find out a credential/key was checked in 2 years ago)

Comment Re:My son has a chromebook for school (Score 1) 46

My kids' school started issuing these to the kids (grades 7-12), and they are a royal PITA. Not only are they horrifically underpowered, but if you look at them cross eyed, they refuse to work, and after that are further crippled by the security policies forced on them.

I've also lost count the number of times my kids had to submit something, couldn't get the things to cooperate, and had to resort to using their personal devices (usually in the form of a photo of their assignment, emailed to the teacher).

Then there is the district wide midterm and finals which are computerized, and they mandated that the kids are to take them from their shiny chromebooks.

Finally, I am dreading when my kids hit 12th grade, and are on the same device they were issued as 7th graders (I'm fairly confident the district does not have a proper refresh policy in place), with the original battery.....

Comment Maricopa County libraries switched to this model (Score 1) 163

They don't charge fines, but they do have a policy to disallow any further materials from being checked out, which seems to be a good middle ground. I'm also guessing that the librarians may like this as well--they don't have to be "the bad guy" or deal with grumpy patrons who have to pay their fines

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