The move to paperless movement of goods in these extraordinarily complex logistics chains has the potential to unlock massive benefits, reducing the cost of movements, by shortening the time it takes for goods to cross checkpoints and borders – an example 32 day journey of perishable goods could be completed in 20.
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Globalization has brought the most advanced trading networks the world has seen, with the biggest, fastest vessels, robot-operated ports and vast computer databases tracking cargoes. But it all still…
I have no idea about the game that the author is engineering manager for, but this is a good write up of a framework for assessing technical debt, including the value of resolving it now vs later (never)
https://rob.al/2ELJgox
Bill Clark discusses classifying and managing tech debt at Riot.
While I’m sure that eventually, the process could have been automated, anyone who’s tried this even at a trivial scale would tell you to get the process working first, then to automate. So I don’t get how Tesla ended up in this position.
https://rob.al/2IW0qCf
Tesla Inc.’s Elon Musk, who’s built up an aura around how automated his car assembly plant will be, has good news for humans: We still need your help.
The clothing industry has long relied on low cost labour in developing countries, but advances in industrial robotics and machine learning and vision, at reducing cost, mean even those jobs are now at risk.
https://rob.al/2JGpjTO
Georgia Tech spin-off SoftWear Automation is developing ultrafast sewing robots that could upend the clothing industry
"For the past two decades, it was China who learned more from the US," he says. "But in the next 10 years, we'll ride on each other's successes. There's no point thinking who will surpass who."
https://rob.al/2EIUv0S
The head of China’s ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing says his team is young, idealistic and full of surprises.
An interesting move from hardware vendor to PaaS provider: The NVIDIA GPU Accelerated Cloud (NGC) for Deep Learning and HPC
https://rob.al/2tnW3gH
A GPU-accelerated cloud platform with access to catalog of fully integrated and optimized containers for deep learning and HPC frameworks. Learn more.
LetsEncrypt with DNS-01 validation for Unifi
Update 2021-01-08: this is now out of date. See my updated post with a much easier method. I have a number of Ubiquiti UAPs, and I manage them with the UniFi app, installed on a linode server. Like any publicly hosted server, i want to use a trusted SSL certificate, and for that, I…
How to upgrade VMWare ESXi on HP Gen8 Microserver
go to VMware ESXi Patch Tracker and check for the latest ImageProfile e.g. ESXi-6.5.0-20170404001-standard Shut down all VMs and turn on maintenance mode allow outbound firewall requests esxcli network firewall ruleset set -e true -r httpClient execute the update: esxcli software profile update -p ESXi-6.5.0-20170404001-standard -d https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml Disable firewall ports esxcli network firewall ruleset set -e false…
Fix: /var/lib/docker/aufs/diff is consuming entire drive
Some of my docker containers were complaining that they didn’t have enough drive space. This looked odd – so i logged in to the host and checked around: All space used up. Huh. Wonder why? I did a quick check to see what’s using most space: clearly /var/lib/docker/aufs/diff is what’s causing it. Let’s clean that…
Creating a VM to test Docker – migrating from Unraid to Napp-It
onwards… downloaded the Ubuntu 16.04 Server LTS CD Created new VM Connected ISO to virtual DVD in console in VMWare vSphere client booted to the ISO pressed F4 and selected “minimal” pressed F6 and selected minimal VM walked through and added SSH at the right point SSHd to the server I installed docker using…