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Bookmarked. Definitely will use this for the Mongol Rally next year

There was a scare that BSE time bomb would explode in the UK in the 2010s

As prions in children of 1990s brains would develop as they matured into adults.

Never happened...

I would argue that growing up in a comfortable Western lifestyle is contributing to this infantilism and will be one of the contributors of the decline of the western world.

If you are a Syrian refugee, the last thing you are caring about is the new Mario Nintendo game and Starbucks frappucino.

Time to get serious and have children (me talking to myself)

No stress testing the servers, naughty naughty.

Elon please hire me, I can use Jmeter to scale a 1000 users per second on my IBM Thinkpad to put load on the servers.

/s

I think Github have already won the cultural dev war. I hear many a developer saying Github instead of "Git".

A recent example from a mid level dev:

"I'm gonna branch from the github repository" - when the repository is self hosted

I currently need to take the car to the gym as I am recovering from a broken leg. I tried walking but by the time I got there I was in too much pain.

Once my rehab is complete then I'll cycle or walk.

On a tangent; the calf muscle is a real hard muscle to build back...

Really appreciated Villeneuve adding small scenes to the movie like the gardener watering the date palms and the ecology outpost. It rewards people who read the book and also helps people who are just watching the movie with understanding the world.

Curious to see what other tid-bits from the book they will keep in part 2. Hopefully we can see some Fremen Sietches.

On another note, I've always wanted to write a load tester library, I would call it Gom Jabbar. If the service falls over it fails the test.

1. Swag

2. Fancy swag (that is definitely not a bribe)

3. Being wined and dined by sales people (that is definitely not a bribe)

4. Networking

5. Learn niche aspects of a programming language or framework, and prepare yourself for the future features

6. Food platters (can be hit or miss); word of advice, watch out for the fat Developers with the goatees and ponytails, or the skinny developers who dive bomb the food queue, they will clean up the buffet of the good stuff before you get there. Also duck out the presentation 5 minutes before lunchtime so you beat the queues.

CAN bus is a brilliant thing for car diagnostics and modification but with every good system normally has a sword of damocles.

I would imagine my Passat which has a CAN interface on the headlight cluster would be vulnerable to this attack as well. Maybe even the bonnet sensor could be vulnerable.

Car manufacturers could remove CAN interfaces from peripheral systems (lights, wing mirrors) but they probably won't because it would make maintenance a little harder and less cost effective.

The idea of a software update by the security researchers sounds sensible but updating ECUs (engine control units), CCU (climate comfort units), infotainment systems of legacy cars will not happen.

Say goodbye to the old car thieves with their manual tools, hello techy thieves.

Beko is a Turkish company, not Eastern European.

Another piece of evidence that Mesopotamia was the cradle of civilisation.