October 2020 – Page 6

October 9, 2020

The Best Humidifier

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The best humidifiers can relieve dry skin and sinuses, but running one for months involves a lot more maintenance work than most people have in mind. Great humidifiers do the job without much inconvenience, and that’s why we recommend the Honeywell HCM-350 Germ Free Cool Mist Humidifier—it’s quiet, durable, and easier to fill and clean than any other humidifier we’ve tested.

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October 9, 2020 at 08:03PM

October 9, 2020

Vitess Online Schema Migration Automation – Percona Live ONLINE Talk Preview

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Percona Live Online Agenda Slot: Wed 21 Oct • New York 2:30 p.m. • London 7:30 p.m. • New Delhi 12:00 a.m. (Thur 22 Oct)

Abstract

For many, running an online schema migration operation is still a manual job: from building the correct command, through identifying where the migration should run and which servers are to be affected, to auditing progress and completing the migration. Sharded environment poses an additional burden, as any logical migration must be applied multiple times, once for each shard.

What if you could just issue an ALTER TABLE … statement, and have all that complexity automated away? Vitess, an open source sharding framework for MySQL, is in a unique position to do just that. This session shows how Vitess’s proxy/agent/topology architecture, together with gh-ost, are used to hide schema change complexity, and carefully schedule and apply schema migrations.

Why is your talk exciting?

My work unifies multiple open source solutions (gh-ost, freno, and others) in a single, managed place. Vitess becomes an infrastructure solution, which can automate away the complexities of schema migrations: running, tracking, handling errors, cleaning up. It offers a completely automated cycle for most users, yet still gives them the controls.

Whether with gh-ost or pt-online-schema-change, vitess is able to abstract away the migration process such that the user will normally just run and forget. Having worked as an operational engineer, and having developed schema migration automation in my past experience, I’m just excited to think about the users who will save hours of manual labor a week with this new offering.

Who would benefit the most from your talk?

Operational DBAs and engineers who perform manual schema migrations, or are looking to automate their database infrastructure.

What other talks are you most looking forward to?

I’m in particular curious to hear about what’s new in distributed databases and geo replication. Otherwise, as always, I’m keen to hear about open source tools in the MySQL ecosystem.

Is there any other question you would like to answer?

Q: Is this work public?

A: Yes, it is. This work is expected to be released as an experimental feature as part of Vitess 8.0, end of October 2020. It is public, free and open source.

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October 9, 2020 at 08:53PM

October 9, 2020

Knife Aid Knife Sharpening Service

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You can sharpen knives yourself, but you’ll never get them as sharp as a professional can. Knife Aid’s mail-in kit lets you ship up to five knives to their team of expert knife smiths, then ships them back to you within about a week, often sharper than the day you bought them.

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October 9, 2020 at 11:44AM

October 9, 2020

How Candy Corn Is Made

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We’ve seen two different ways how NOT to make candy corn, now watch how the pros do it. This 2014 clip from The Washington Post takes us inside of the Jelly Belly factory in Illinois for an explanation of the “kernel” making process starting from individual ingredients until they’re bagged and show up on store shelves.

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October 9, 2020 at 12:30PM

October 9, 2020

Defending Against Riots and Mobs – Armed Citizens Legal Defense Network

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And as usual, I need to readjust a couple of my strategies to follow the good advice given my Marty Hays and Massad Ayoob. This is not a Chest Thumping video, this is a survive (in more ways than one) video. Make time since it is long and pay attention.

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October 9, 2020 at 06:09AM

October 9, 2020

Laravel Surveillance

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Laravel Surveillance is a package by Neelkanth Kaushik to put malicious users, IP addresses, and anonymous browser fingerprints under surveillance. Once a user is under supervision, this package logs the URLs they visit and even blocks users deemed malicious.

This package consists of a CLI to manage surveillance and a PHP API to survey users programmatically.

Here’s a few CLI examples of what this package can do:

# Survey ip, user id, browser fingerprints
php artisan surveillance:enable ip 192.1.2.4
php artisan surveillance:enable userid 1234
php artisan surveillance:enable fingerprint hjP0tLyIUy7SXaSY6gyb

# Block IP, user id, etc.
php artisan surveillance:block ip 192.1.2.4
php artisan surveillance:block userid 1234
php artisan surveillance:block fingerprint hjP0tLyIUy7SXaSY6gyb

Using the package’s PHP API, you can do the same things programmatically:

use Neelkanth\Laravel\Surveillance\Services\Surveillance;

// Enable IP surveillance
Surveillance::manager()
    ->type("ip")
    ->value("192.5.4.1")
    ->enableSurveillance();

// Block User
Surveillance::manager()
    ->type("userid")
    ->value(2121)
    ->blockAccess();

You can learn more about this package, get full installation instructions, and view the source code on GitHub at neelkanthk/laravel-surveillance.

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October 9, 2020 at 09:22AM

October 8, 2020

You Can Rack up as Much as $165 in Amazon Credit To Spend on Prime Day, Here’s How

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Top Offer: Spend $10 at Amazon Small Biz, Get $10 Back

Amazon Prime Day is less than a week away, delivering a 2-day bonanza of fantastic deals all across the retailer. We’re expecting thousands of items on sale, including some of the best prices we’ve seen all year.

If you’re planning on jumping on some serious deals come October 13-14, Amazon is offering a handful of ways to build up a cache of Prime Day credit that Prime members can spend freely during the event. You can earn Prime Day credit by buying groceries at Whole Foods, for example, or shopping at Amazon-partnered small businesses.

All told, as of this writing, you can earn up to $165 dollars in Amazon credit. Here are the promotions that Amazon is offering ahead of Prime Day.

Here’s one promo that yields considerable returns for a good cause: Support small business, and still get a bonus reward in the end. Simply spend $10 or more at one of the small businesses of Amazon’s choice and you’ll get a $10 Prime Day credit (limit one per customer). Whether it’s pet supplies, toys, skincare, or electronics, you’re bound to find something you’d like.

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Need groceries? Perfect: Prime members who shop at Whole Foods and spend at least $10 in a single transaction will get a $10 Amazon credit specifically for Prime Day. Whether you shop in-store, online, or via the mobile app, you’ll get the bonus bucks (one per customer).

If you have an Amazon Books or Amazon Pop-Up physical retailer near you and don’t mind making a visit in the next week, you’ll get a $10 Prime Day credit after spending at least $10 at either store. Amazon has 29 total locations in the United States between the two store types, although you’ll only get credit at one or the other (not both).

Amazon 4-Star is another type of Amazon retail store, featuring an array of items with at least a 4-star rating on the site—including books, gadgets, kitchen appliances, and more. Still, you can take home a separate $10 Prime Day credit if you spend at least $10 at a 4-Star store, separate from the aforementioned Books/Pop-Up deal. Amazon currently has 4-Star stores open in 15 states, with more on the horizon.

What’s this? Another Amazon retail shop? Amazon Go is a bit different, taking a contactless approach in which you can get things like breakfast, lunch, and snacks without dealing with a cashier—the items you carry out are billed to the Amazon account on your phone. As with the other shops, you’ll get a $10 Prime Day credit for spending at least $10 at an Amazon Go location.

Here’s a promotion in the same Prime Day window that doesn’t lock you to spending earned credit during Prime Day itself. Right now, if you spend $20 or more on eBooks via Amazon’s Kindle platform by October 12, you’ll get a $5 credit towards future eBooks. The credit is good for 21 days upon receipt, so at least you’ll have wiggle room to pick your next reads after Prime Day.

If you happen to live in the vicinity of the single current Amazon Fresh grocery store in Woodland Hills, California, then you can take advantage of this bargain. Spend $10 or more at the store between now and October 14 and scan the QR code in your Amazon app and you’ll get a $10 credit for Prime Day. According to the terms and conditions, this deal does not apply to the Amazon Fresh delivery service, only in-store purchases. More Amazon Fresh stores are coming to California and the Chicago area, but at least for now, this promo is exclusive to that one location.

If you shop at Amazon a lot and are on the hunt for a new credit card—or possibly a better one than what you have—then this deal might entice you to apply for the Amazon Prime Rewards Credit Card. Sign up now, and you’ll get a $100 Amazon gift card you can spend whenever you want. A lesser deal is available to non-Prime members, as well: Sign up for the standard Amazon Rewards Credit Card and you’ll receive a $50 Amazon gift card. The standard card has fewer benefits, but you will need a Prime subscription to sign up for the Prime Rewards card mentioned above.

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October 8, 2020 at 06:39PM

October 8, 2020

AI Restoration Makes Apollo Moon Landing Footage Look Like It Was Shot In HD

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shirappu writes: AI technology is getting better and better at improving old video footage by adding new frames to improve smoothness and adding color to black and white footage (a great explainer for the techniques can be found here). Now, YouTube channel DutchSteamMachine is applying the same techniques to the moon landing in 1969. The AI-restored footage stabilizes the shaky old footage, adds frames, and motion smooths the whole thing to essentially bring the footage into the present. Though it can be difficult to improve these videos because high-quality source footage is a necessity, it’s still a good example of how improved these technologies are becoming with the development of AI support. The actual improved video of the moon landing can be found here.

How to Watch Tonight’s Vice Presidential Debate

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Somehow, it has only been a week and a day since the first presidential debate of the 2020 election season. If you watched it, you may even still be recovering from the chaos. Well, it’s time to regroup, because the first and only vice presidential debate is on tonight. Here’s what to expect from the face-off between Vice President Mike Pence and Senator Kamala Harris—and how to watch it, whether over the air, on cable, or online.

What to expect from the VP debate

After last week’s debate, having a “what to expect” section seems a little pointless, but here goes. Vice President Mike Pence (the Republican nominee for vice president) will debate Senator Kamala Harris (the Democratic nominee for vice president) tonight at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City starting at 9 p.m. ET. This time, Susan Page, USA Today’s Washington bureau chief, will moderate.

The debate will run for 90 minutes and consist of nine 10-minute segments without commercial breaks. At this point, a list of topics to be covered in the debate has not yet been released—though it’s difficult to imagine that COVID-19 won’t come up.

Pence and Harris will be seated 12 feet apart with a plexiglass barrier between them, as well as with another between the two candidates and Page. Though the Cleveland Clinic—which hosted the last debate and has been providing health and safety protocols for in-person campaign events—approves of this measure, the Pence campaign opposes it. “If Sen. Harris wants to use a fortress around herself, have at it,” Katie Miller, a Pence spokesperson, told Politico.

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How to watch the VP debate

Like the first presidential debate, there are plenty of ways to watch this round for free. It will be shown live on every major network and cable news channel, including ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC and C-SPAN. There will also be multiple livestreams of the debate on YouTube, including ones from CBS News and C-SPAN. Viewers can also stream the debate through Twitter’s US Election hub in the “Explore” tab.

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October 7, 2020 at 09:37AM

October 6, 2020

Watch: The Jerry Miculek Story

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“One thing I was taught is to never waste a sunrise. My dad was a hard worker, so it kinda instilled into me the fact that when the sun come up, you should be up.”

Professional shooter Jerry Miculek is well-known by shooters and gun folks, and he’s known for posting short videos… but this one is a little different. It’s called “Get Some! The Jerry Miculek Story” and it’s about 44 minutes long.

Obviously I’m not going to try to do a blow-by-blow on this video, but here are some highlights:

– Both Jerry’s parents were hard-working farm kids from Texas, and his father was raised on a small farm with three brothers.
– Jerry loves revolvers because when he was coming up, revolvers were king and some of his role models (Bill Jordan, Ed McGivern) did impressive speed work with revolvers
– Jerry’s job is shooting, and he’s done it in 20 countries — including Russia, where he competed with a semi-auto rifle.
– He grew up in south Louisiana and has always loved guns and the great outdoors.
– Jerry worked as a mechanic at a chemical plant for about 15 years before he was able to start shooting for a living.
– He grew up with 4 brothers and no sisters.
– When he worked as a mechanic, he exercised his trigger finger during his daily commutes using an old K-frame S&W revolver that had been through a fire.
– He prefers speed shooting because there’s always room for improvement; there is no perfect score, so he can always improve and do better.
– He’s done a lot of competition with pistols, rifles, and shotguns as well as revolvers.
– Jerry’s wife was a gunsmith and skilled competitive shooter before they even met.

“I had to marry the lady. She just shot too damn good.”

– Jerry and Kay’s daughter Lena Miculek is also an award-winning competitive shooter who currently works as a shooter for Sig Sauer.
– Jerry owns a large shooting range where he can train in any shooting skill at any time.
– Jerry’s reloading shop is set up to load about 60 cartridges and he keeps enough lead alloy on hand to cast roughly 4 million bullets.
– He’s been accused of using substances to enhance performance — but says the only ones he’s used are chocolate syrup, chocolate bars, candy cigarettes, and wax lips.
– Jerry’s been competing in shooting since 1976.
– He tries to forget past wins and performances whenever he shoots a competition; this helps him concentrate on the “here and now,” which is the only place/time in which we live.
– Jerry, Kay, and Lena like to get together and shoot side by side to push one another to do better.
– At age 65, Jerry is still looking to get better every day.
– Jerry has a special secret warmup routine for his trigger finger — which he says he will “take to his grave.”

“To be quite honest with you, I can’t wait for the next sunrise; I get to do it all over again.”

What a great outlook. Gotta love Jerry!

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October 6, 2020 at 11:02AM