rvanniekerk

Exactly, suspension with pay is NOT a justified punishment for an unjust murder.

Cops are quick to jump in and defend the department for firing this guy, but when is the last time you've seen a cop speak out against an unjust shooting?

Maybe if "suicide by cop" wasn't such a guaranteed outcome for brandishing a weapon near a police officer, people would be less inclined to attempt it.

This cop tried to treat the victim like an actual human being in distress and got fired for it. Guy that popped off 4 shots gets praised for being a "good cop".

But you are in 3D space, hence your view rotating in the direction that you drag the mouse (think first person shooter, you wouldn't invert controls for that).

Super creative use of A-frame, nice job. I spent the last month or so building a VR project and I found A-frame itself is still very early on and has a number of quirks, any particular issues you ran into?

Just use Prometheus, nothing else comes close to it. It also just hit 1.0

EDIT

Should have mentioned how well it pairs with Grafana ;)

Personal anecdote, of course, but Uber saved my ass while I was in Europe (specifically Paris and Madrid).

Immediately upon arriving via train to Paris from London we were harassed by a number of sketchy looking individuals claiming to be "taxi" drivers, of course not speaking French I really had no way to validate the claims, they all became hostile towards me the minute I took my camera out.

I resorted to opening the Uber app and lo and behold had a validated ride within minutes. The service was exceptional and they even spoke English relatively well.

Fast forward 24 hours, I thought I had booked a flight out of the airport in the city about 20 mins drive, turns out my flight was actually out of the airport much further north of Paris.

I rushed to get an Uber and my driver was extremely friendly and not only brought me to the exact bus station I needed to be at, also showed me exactly which ticket to purchase and where to wait.

Never in my life have I received close to that level of service from a taxi driver.

A couple weeks later in Madrid we found ourselves pretty far away from our flat, not well equipped for the weather and ready to head back. We saw several advertisements for the local taxi services "ride sharing" app and decided to give it a shot. After jumping between a couple starbucks to find reasonable wifi, we ordered a taxi and proceeded to wait 20+ minutes for a driver to finally show up in the app as our pickup, however, the actual taxi was nowhere to be found. No text / call / messages in the app ever succeeded. Once again we resorted to Uber and had a painless experience.

I guess my point overall is that Uber offers a familiar service no matter what country I happen to be in. It's simply not viable for a foreigner to arrive in a new country, find out what ride sharing taxi service is allowed existence there, download the app, finagle my way through the most-likely non english friendly sign-up process and enter my personal banking details only to find out the service doesn't even work for whatever reason.

Don't get me wrong, I love traveling to new places and truly exploring a city without all the luxuries and convenience of home, but when I arrive in a new place with expensive items in tow, I'd MUCH rather pay for the convenience of a safe and familiar ride to get to my destination then risk getting scammed or taken advantage of otherwise, I also don't always arrive with local currency in tow and don't like paying exorbitant fees at major transport hubs.

Another anecdote here, no prior boarding experience, I've put over 500 miles on my boosted board and only fallen once. I ride full speed in the street ~90% of the time.

In my experience, the vibrations on the board are far too strong to get any type of decent video while riding down the road. Always comes out looking extremely shaky.

Boosted rider with over 500 miles so far here. 0 boarding experience prior to purchasing my Boosted Board. The learning curve will be steep if you have no experience commuting on something like a bicycle.

A lot of the challenge is in learning the roads and behavior of the drivers. I biked for ~ 3 years prior to getting my boosted board which contributed a lot towards knowing some of the "safer" routes.

That being said, your legs and calves will hurt like hell until you start to adjust to riding every single day. I go the gym 5x a week and still get achy calves from riding long distances.

I've only taken a single spill thanks to losing and regaining bluetooth connectivity going full throttle through a turn (mostly my own fault).

I can't recommend Boosted Boards enough. Extremely reliable piece of tech.

This is only an issue if the battery is already fully charged. I live on a very steep incline ~18%, I know if I charge my battery 100% that I can't ride it downhill for the first leg of my trip, I simply unplug it a few minutes early to leave room for the extra charge that comes from riding it downhill first. Really not a big deal at all.

"We have a big public safety issue here, and we need to get them to understand that this a problem ... and that we do not intend to ignore it."

What an absolute cop-out this is, no pun intended.

Can't say enough good things about Ansible. Just finished migrating 90% of our provisioning scripts away from Chef (they were due an overhaul anyways) to Ansible.

It feels liberating to say the least and knowing that I no longer have to train people to use Chef or worry about my remote Chef server going down unexpectedly is a big benefit.

Ansible:

- faster

- drop-dead simple syntax (easily extendable with modules)

- did I mention modules? There are a TON.

- readable playbooks

- just plain fun

RDS issues.