I'd probably think people getting bills for hundreds in the mail is a good catalyst to take action on a speed camera. A camera that is used for serious crimes, not speeding, is not going to be nearly as inflammatory.
> You do not want local govt each building their own “secure” system
I really do. A centralised, insecure [1] database could lead to America losing a war.
A distributed system of low-reliability nodes is more robust than a centralised system that's very reliable. "ARPANET," after all "was built to explore technologies related to building a military command-and-control network that could survive a nuclear attack." (That's not what it wound up becoming.)
To be fair, systems like Flocksafety really help departments being squeezed for funding. It's one of the ways the system is sold. It's an effective tool.
I worked for Flock. I was sold during the recruiting process on high ethics and morals and an idealistic vision.
The reality was a surveillance state, and questionable policies on data sharing between agencies, and private installations (HOA, etc.), and a CEO with a weirdly literal belief on how Flock should "eliminate all crime". Not "visionary", but far more literal. Way too Minority Report for my liking.
They have a public "disclosure" site that supposedly shows the agencies using Flock that is absolutely inaccurate (there are three agencies in my County alone using it that are not listed there).
Yup. I plugged the numbers in just to check it out and for our very busy service, the storage costs eat up the savings from the reduced GET and PUT pricing. For us, express is still 8x more expensive.
We're pursuing Fsx NetApp ONTAP to store the objects in the short term in our processing pipeline. Unfortunately, we may need to build our own lifecycle management component if we go that route.
I'll have to look into that. We heavily bias towards AWS offered managed services. We have a massive enterprise support contract and we use it. We're almost always going to look for something AWS can provide directly as long as it meets the requirements.
The new generation is "Series", with the X being more powerful than the S. So the Xbox Series X is the best model, and the Xbox Series S is the same generation, but less powerful. It's like if the PS4 and PS4 Pro came out at the same time.
Also you have the Xbox one (original vcr model with kinect) Xbox one S, and Xbox One X.
Then on the "Series" line you have Xbox Series S and Xbox Series X.
So many people can think "X" or "S" as being a "Series", something of a kind, and confusing a "xbox one X" with a "xbox series X".
- You have a series X? oh yeah, i have the xbox one X.
Also the looks of the xbox one S and the xbox series S is quite similar...
Not sure why didn't called xbox 2022 pro and slim or something.
And it's a shame, i have an xbox series x and is actually a great product.
Yep! Xbox One was their generation parallel to the Playstation 4, and Xbox Series is their current generation parallel to the Playstation 5. All the X and S after those are tier differentiators.
They really need someone better naming their consoles.
Ugh, yeah, finally something with even worse version naming than the Apple Watch. (There's a thing called an Apple Watch Series 1. Confusingly, it's _not_ the first one; it is the cheaper cut-down version of the _second_ generation product; the first-gen product didn't have a version name at all).
I mean, I still don't see why the XBox 360 isn't the most powerful of the series.
I jest, but then, I also don't.
The WiiU attracted a lot of justified derision on its naming scheme, but I wonder if it also got a lot because it was still legible enough to be seen by people as mistake. Speaking for myself, even as a bit of a gamer (not a major one, but I'm in touch with the scene in general), the XBox line is just a cognitive blur to me. I couldn't even name them correctly any more. If they come out with an XBox XS I would literally need to read an article pointing out that it's a new release. The line is so illegible as naming schemes I can't even make fun of them properly.
Fun fact. My uncle is a professor of geosciences and goes on expeditions to drill these cores in Antarctica, analyzing their gas contents back at the university. When we'd visit my uncle and his family. My Dad and uncle would commonly head to the university and collect cores which were set to be disposed of and make martinis with 40,000+ yr old ice. The gases have been compressed over time and the weight of the ice, so it would crackle as it melted.
I feel like this is a beginning of a movie where a terrible bacteria gets frozen for 40,000 years and then someone puts it into a martini and it causes a worldwide outbreak.
This has it's benefits. Helps smooth demand. Really sucks for anybody expecting their meal/item to be a specific price, then you arrive and it isn't. I understand this may be a point to drive people towards ordering on an app, further smoothing demand during busy hours. There is something dark about having to watch the market price of a Dave's Single on my phone and locking in my order. Can I set a strike price?
This really screws anybody with limited income and who isn't "savy" enough to order their burger on an app.
The derivatives market is where it’s at. Sophisticated Doordashers will keep an eye on the prices for Quadruple Baconator futures and buy low in order to be able to sell into the peak demand prices later.
