holy cow this is amaaaaazing, u/ellipsis753. My god. I want the t-shirt, I love the love for bell bollards, I obviously had a photo of one in the post but i didn't know there was so much love for them!!!!! I <3 this
I used these in London and they were magical and extremely convenient. I would show them to visiting friends as if they were one of London's main tourist attractions!
I knew they relied on some manual labor (bills were delayed), but assumed this was only an intermediate step to collect more real-world training data (until they sorted out the AI).
I still think this is the future though. They could reduce staffing costs and free-up floor space that would otherwise be used for self-checkouts. All the while actually drastically improving the customer experience too.
If someone cracks it, it may make it impossible for other supermarkets to complete economically.
As a fun aside, all the stores were incredibly over-staffed and helpful. If you couldn't install the app they had a browser-based fallback (type "fresh code" into the amazon searchbar on a mobile). They could also lend you a battery bank if you were low on battery. I think they even had phones to lend out to those without smartphones. It was all very optimized around customer experience first and foremost and with no real attempt for the stores to be profitable.
We had a bug on the 1st of this month. Some billing code liked to invoice on the last day of the month and failed to account for this month having an extra day. Interesting it happened as soon as the "leap month" started. Easily fixed though.
This is for cracking password _hashes_. Most websites won't store a user's plain-text password but will only store the hash of it. Then a hack/exploit might later reveal the website's password hashes. This program helps you turn the hash back into the original password. Assuming you have a hash already, you own the hash, so it's not possible for anyone to impose a rate limit on how quickly you can attempt to break it.
My cousin runs a very small home-made html blog. I really like it and it gives me that early 2000s nostalgia. I'm sure he'd be psyched if some people here were to read it.
I doubt it. My guess is that you have speakers/headphones connected to your dock and they're picking up some kind of transients when you plug it in. Capacitors charging can also have some sound, but it's usually quite high pitched. If you're docking station has an external power source, you might find that adding/removing/changing it helps. Or connecting speakers/headphones via a usb DAC.
Interestingly, because your program runs on Linux and is run 5 times, Linux will almost certainly cache the 12gb file to RAM on the first invocation.
This means that future invocations don't have to load the file from disk. This also makes it pretty critical that your program doesn't use more than 16gb of ram itself (out of the server's 32gb) or it'll push the file out of cache making future invocations of your program slower.
We have bell bollard t-shirts: https://www.zazzle.co.uk/be_more_bollard_t_shirt-23500842774...
And we like to take photos pretending to be bell bollards: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23bellbollard
If anyone else wants to get in on this action, you're more than welcome. :D