depending on your original account, if it has a minimum balance to avoid fees you might want to leave the minimum balance in there and transfer the rest first. Then close the account officially and get a check for the remainder. the reason is that if you transfer it all and it goes under a minimum deposit, you could get a fee and then you are overdrawn, generating more fees and more overdraw. Generally just taking all money out of an account doesn't automatically close it.

But, closing an account does result in all of the money coming out, avoiding any potential balance issues since the deposit is refunded upon closure, in full.

a big drawback is not performance but that most lidars are expensive and fragile.

This was true... until recently when Luminar announced a fairly affordable (for an automobile BOM) ~$1k version to be available this year. https://www.engadget.com/2019/07/12/luminar-affordable-lidar...

Article clearly mentions that these will be ready for production not before year 2022, until then it's all speculation.

the draw back for autonomy you need to recognize objects.

yes chances of getting more than a few bucks are slim. $125 is the max payout. if everyone affected signs up the payout is a few cents. so its somewhere in the middle.

I didn't see much evidence in the article about 'ghost towns'. it may be true but the article didn't back it up.

Freakonomics speculated that it was because of Roe vs Wade in 1972.

Would that imply that unwelcome babies are more likely to become criminals?

More about single mothers, lack of oversight/parenting because she's struggling to put food on the table.

That is the claim.

Question : so what do you do besides host it yourself? Do you set up a backup on a different cloud service so that at least you can failover without too much downtime? you then have to at least pay for the some of the resources even if there is no traffic. or backup locally but have a process set up with the different service so you can provision and get back up quickly? or is there a better solution?

At least have a plan (which you test out once) of how you will migrate to another provider in case your current one screws you like this? All you will need to do continuously then is dump a backup copy of that data into they providers storage..

thanks for telling me about 'git amend'. I frequently screw up and fail to add the files I want or as soon as I commit I remember I needed to change something else. So my projects all have strings of commits that are a few seconds apart.

`git amend` and `git rebase -i` are two core features of git. It's okay if especially interactive rebasing takes some time to get used to. But it should certainly be part of every users standard tool set.

I'm a casual GitHub user, and for me the fork button enabled me to grab a copy of some other repo, make changes , commit to my github repo without perturbing the main project and still keeping an online history at github. Its a step above just downloading the zip file and below getting commit rights to the original project. If I just made a personal branch, then I would have everything but the online backup because I couldn't commit.

One example is used by many online learning companies: they provide some baseline of code for use in a course. you need to get it to use in the lessons (edit: and make changes that you want to save). You can download a zip, clone or fork the repo. zip and clone don't get you the online backup.

It would be interesting to see how many people use Github for the reasons cited in the article (using a fork as staging for a pull request) or like I do.

As I wrote this, it made me realize I am a parasite on GitHub and the projects I fork, since I rarely contribute back (mainly because I don't have anything useful).

You aren't a parasite, you are an intended user like every other. A parasite is one that consumes the host, not one that merely benefits from it.

You don't need a fork button for that.

  git clone ssh://example.com/repo.git
  [... Edit ...]
  git push ssh://myserver example.com/myrepo.git master

Benefit of the fork button is that GitHub links those repos on their site.

Ah yes, all of the students in GP's example need merely need to learn how to provision, DNS-associate, and maintain a server, then they can store their Git repositories on it. That will surely not add any undue overhead for them.

There is no need to run a server. This is only about the "fork" button. You could but GitHub.com in the place of example.com. Git hosting existed before GitHub.

its like the difference between Overhaulin and Pimp My Ride

just an anecdote about UTC vs GPS time. GPS time doesn't have leap seconds.

So my team was testing a system with some devices, one of which was a GPS and the main system had UTC from NTP. We had a big display that showed all our data including both times, so we could monitor what was going on. So the two displayed times were 13 seconds apart (the number of leap seconds then). Our program manager was a smart guy but gaffe prone. So in a demonstration of our system he blurted out to the whole room of observers, 'hey something is wrong, those two times are different'. We cringed and explained, but it sounded like we were covering up an error. But he would go on to repeat the gaffe again to a different group.