Personally, I've had good luck with Reolink cameras. I block them from the Internet at the router, just in case, but they do seem to respect your choice if you disable the cloud/mobile app feature.
The cameras will upload jpegs and mpegs to a local FTP server based on configurable triggers, which include 'AI' detection of animal/vehicle/human, all running on-camera.
I wrote a simple script to put all the daily uploaded jpegs on a HTML webpage (each linked to the video) for review. Home Assistant also has an integration that can do streaming and grabs the detection triggers as well.
Well at least one possible reason is that for live events, the company that has an effective monopoly is Live Nation. And they also own at least one of the platforms where scalpers sell their tickets; Ticketmaster.
I also imagine that as an event promoter, being able to say some variation of "Another sold out show", or "Tickets sold out within seconds" creates pressure for buying early for all future events.
It also takes active planned work to implement these solutions. And if they have a monopoly, they have no incentive to do that work.
Are you by any chance talking about Mirage online (and it’s many other servers)?
I remember loving that game (or the Jerrath Online server anyways) and being amazed by it. I knew enough about computers to know it was programmed in VB 6, but not enough to actually code.
But the desire to eventually make something like it definitely had to do with my interest in coding later on.
I think the parent comment was referencing that, at least in the US, dentistry is treated differently in many ways. For example, it’s a different health insurance with its separe premiums and limits, and you’ll never find a dentist in a hospital; instead they have their own offices.
This really opened my eyes to some historical context I never thought of before.
My initial gut reaction was judgmental about the way billionaires spend their money; thinking it might involve some amount of hubris.
Then I realized I have no idea of how sculpture that are now show in museums as treasured historical art pieces were judge in the time they were created. Today we treasure them. But what did the general population think of them? I have no idea.
I imagine that at the time of their commissioning they were also paid by affluent people that could afford such luxuries. People that probably mirror today’s billionaires in influence and access. So what’s different about these?
The difference is that Roman sculpture is revered for it's ingenuity and craftmanship at a time where that style of sculpture was being developed with the more limited resources they had back then, and it often depicted important motifs from religion, society, etc. Whereas this is just a copy of that with limited cultural relevance (no one is going to be talking about Priscilla Chan in 20 years, let alone a couple thousand).
I'm not sure on hard hiring numbers; but I imagine that since Ubisoft is a French company, they have a much larger presence in France than other large studios.
It depends. I suggest you first try to work at your desk with a tray on top or something that lets you try out switching between standing and sitting all the time. See if you’ll actually be switching between standing and sitting and enjoy it.
I have one. Bought it about 9 years ago. Thought it was so cool. After the first week I barely ever moved it to standing.
Fast forward to now. I have some pretty bad lower back pains that I do like standing frequently. Unfortunately the desk I have is motorized not manual; and it stopped working. So I now have a tray that I switch in and out during the day to sit and stand.
It may be worth finding out if it’s a motor issue or a power supply issue. I thought my IKEA standing desk was broken for 3 years or so, then Covid hit and I really needed to stand at home.
I’d lost the receipt and couldn’t get help from them. Then I emailed the motor manufacturer and they sent me a free power supply replacement. (I heard a few stories about it being the power supply rather than the motor, of course that may not be the case for you)
When I was young, the first profession I said I wanted to be was a Vet. I was obsessed with it. I loved all animals, but dogs the most. Still do.
Over the years of having my own pets at some point I realized I would be dealing with animals in their worst condition. Sick, injured, and suffering. I knew I would be bonding with animals I would rarely see and maybe even be responsible for putting them to sleep when the time came. I knew I definitely did not want to be a vet.
I know a few vets, and I know they have that same love for animals. I don’t know how they do it.
> When I was young, the first profession I said I wanted to be was a Vet. I was obsessed with it. I loved all animals, but dogs the most.
Same with my 10 year old. We had a nice "what do you want to be when you grow up" conversation in the car the other day and of course she decided she'd be a veterinarian because she loves animals. I don't want to be Mr. Negative Dad or discourage anything, but we had a "let's think about that for a minute" talk and she figured out the unpleasant side of the idea pretty quickly.
I have four young girls who all talk about wanting to be veterinarians when they grow up. They're young enough that I don't put much stock in that yet. I already had some sense that being a veterinarian has a lot of downsides, but reading this thread is really making me hope that they change their own minds in a few years. Like you said, I don't want to be the one to discourage them.
You're also often dealing with people at their worst. I know of two vet clinics in my area have had to put up signs warning that they will not tolerate abuse and berating at their staff, obvious signs of intoxication, etc. How many businesses have to do this?
One of the first things my wife was told in vet school was, "Most of you are here because you want to deal with animals and not people. In reality, if you are not good with dealing with people, you are not going to make it in this field."
I was truly mind blown by how amazing those tools were in the browser. And so many different applications too!
Really impressive product! I can’t imagine it was easy trying to find a profitable market with the competition you had. But it was an infinitely useful suite and a technical marvel.
I'm not affiliated with them, but I recall this being marketed at some point as giving you the flexibility and customization powers that the Googles and Facebooks of the world have with their on-prem infrastructure without needing to have as deep of a dedicated staff as they do to just this which allowed them to develop all their custom tooling in the first place.
Basically if you are on-prem, and you are dissatisfied with what you are getting out of today's onprem sellers. Things like bad firmware with slow update cycles, issues with rack/power supplies/cabling/interconnecting systems. Closed down systems that don't allow much customization, etc. They are open sourcing a lot of their work along the way
Again, I'm not affiliated with them, and my info may be outdated so take it with a grain of salt. But that's how I've seen them for some time.
I would say Oxide is inflexible and non-customizable since they have exactly one hardware configuration and few software features at this point. Their claim is more that their rack works and everything else on the market is full of bugs.
I'm not an infra engineer, but this claim "everything else on the market is full of bugs" might be the killer app. Of course, it needs to be true. What if they iterate to an insanely stable embedded code base (BIOS, etc.)? Then, continuously upgrade the hardware to use the latest CPU/RAM/NVME. I could see that being very valuable.
I fully expect there will be data-loss bugs and poor performance during recovery in their in-house distributed block storage solution. That's just in the nature of the problem domain, and this is all new code:
