In earlier drone shows, they moved the drones into position to make the image they were going for, so navigation and collision avoidance was an issue.

With 7500, it feels like they can just set up a pixel grid in the sky, never move the drones (other than adjusting for wind), then just change the colors to get the image they need.

Conclusion: Tim Walz is just too nice a guy to say what needs to be said.

Will the fly be there to fact-check?

I'm getting one of those chargers installed at home next week. The giant mushroom cloud you might see is nothing to worry about.

I just watched JW4 on Bluray. Big fan of 1 & 2. Thought 3 was silly. 4 was just out and out cartoonish.

Everyone starts wearing the magic impregnable suit, so all you do is duck behind the jacket flap and bullets don't do anything. Felt the same way about the last Matrix installment where Neo is basically untouchable. At that point, all the fight scenes are just pointless videogame cut-scenes. Doesn't matter how many bad guys you throw at it.

The first John Wick is still pretty dope because it was the one with the love interest and dog revenge storyline. The rest, meh.

Has he tried siphoning American water from the ocean? It's much closer and there's lots of it. Could even bottle it directly at the source and slap his logo on it.

If only they could introduce a cheap narrative gimmick like 'multiverse,' then all sequel plot problems could be solved with a ...

Tried it with ChatGPT 4o with a different title/author. Said it couldn't find it. That it might be a new release or lesser-known title. Also with a fake title and a real author. Again, said it didn't exist.

They're definitely improving on the hallucination front.

Dangit, copy-pasta from an unrelated comment. Fixed.

https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics/privacy/how-to-turn-off-smart-tv-snooping-features-a4840102036/

Lot of people saying they don't give internet access to their TVs.

Fine, but that doesn't work for cord-cutters who opted out of cable to go with streaming. And if you keep your TV away from internet but have a cable box, it will be doing all the tracking in this paper (and worse) then sending it to the cable provider.

So short of sticking with DVD/Bluray (unconnected) or over-the-air broadcast TV, there's no way to stop from getting tracked.

The paper also lists domains where the data is being sent. You could always try blocking the destination addresses at the router level.

"There's always money in the banana stand."

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UuHILqDIvis

They should put that across the top banner on Audible.

Our home came with a gas stove. Was ready to get rid of it once it died. But a few years ago, there was a multi-day electrical outage. The stove could still be lit with a match, so we could at least have warm water to wash and cook.

Local utility has also been jacking up electricity prices (30% last time). Suspect people want to keep their gas stoves for the sake of reliability and cost, despite pollution concerns.

If you use github pages, you can create, deploy, and host static websites for free. Only cost, if you want your own URL, is for a custom DNS name.

You can use their default Jekyll static rendering engine, and create the content using Markdown. And with github actions, all you need to update the content is create markdown, then push the change to the same repo. After a few minutes, the new content shows up.

https://pages.github.com/

Hugo can also be used, but it takes a few extra steps: https://gohugo.io/hosting-and-deployment/hosting-on-github/

You can also find 'themes' to customize the look and feel of the site, specific to the site generation tool.

If you want a lot of extra features, Docusaurus is pretty much as good as it gets, and you can set it up to push out to GH pages: https://docusaurus.io/docs/deployment

I wouldn't put any load on it until it was stained. At least two coats and a sealer.

OK, you wanted a conversation… :-)

I did read the post, but I assumed it was the starting point of a system or mechanism, not the end-point. Wanting to just run "docker compose up" is fine, but there is more to developing and deploying to production (and continuing post-launch).

That's why I mentioned the CLI. It lets you go from a simple local app (Django on sqlite) to a Docker one (postgres, celery, redis, etc.), to all the way out to the cloud (ECS/EKS/serverless lambda/RDS), without having to remember what commands do what or managing lots of separate docker-compose files.

I can see we are VERY far apart on how docker should be used in moving toward a production-ready system.

For one thing, recommending putting secrets inside docker-compose is an instantly disqualifying piece of advice. There's a whole 'secrets' section of docker compose that is there to prevent people from inadvertently including those in cleartext and baking them into images: https://docs.docker.com/compose/how-tos/use-secrets/.

Github itself has a secret scanning mechanism to prevent leakage: https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/secret-scanning/introduction/about-secret-scanning. For gitlab, there's also Blackbox or HashiCorp vault. Putting AWS key/secret inside a repo can be VERY expensive and open one to legal liability if the account is misused. Repeated infractions could lead to AWS banning one's account.

I really recommend you take down that part of your post, instead of proliferating bad practices.

As for the rest, to each their own.

Making way for a new race of hardened, pissed off acid-fish.

Good stuff.

A few things I'd change:

• A CLI to simplify local vs docker vs cloud operations. Reduces chance of operator error. Have had good luck with python click library.
• Moving config settings into separate JSON and .env files to avoid loading too many config and secrets in the docker-compose file.
• For AWS, I'd go with CDK. That way, cloud deployment is all in python (or typescript).
• For cloud, you can also package Django into a single lambda, with dependencies inside a lambda layer. Not sure I'd use it in heavy production, but for small apps, really handy.
• Inside Django settings, you can switch DB and services whether running local (sqlite, Redis), docker (postgres, RabbitMQ), or cloud (RDS, SQS).

Wish somebody would plot public chargers per 100,000.