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Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real

Brew Bundle Brewfile Tips

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Checkbox Tables in Markdown

An attempt to make a list of the supported ways to make a table with checkboxes in Markdown.

Results as of October 2023.

Below is the style element that formats the colors of the colored check mark emojis.

Oh my zsh.

Install ZSH.

sudo apt install zsh-autosuggestions zsh-syntax-highlighting zsh

Install Oh my ZSH.

Install remote desktop / remote control for Jetson Nano

Anydesk doesn't support and doesn't work on Jetson Nano (aarch64). So you will need to install VNC, the easiest and fastest is to install the X2Go server. NoMachine, TeamViewer, AnyDesk, OpenVino, VNC, RDP, XRDP, Remote access for Jetson Nano / Xavier.

Installation

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install openssh-server vim git gcc g++ net-tools
sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop (select lightdm)

Before I start, I am going to mention that Fidelity does support a 2FA by using Symantec VIP Access to accomplish this. You can follow the instructions here https://www.fidelity.com/security/soft-tokens/overview. This requires you to install an app from Symantec VIP on your computer/phone.

With that out of the way, I am personally not a fan of using Symantec products, nor interested in install a separate third party app to accomplish this when most of us, including myself use some form of OTP/2FA app like Google Authenticator, Authy, 1Password, or what have you.

If you share the same sentiment as I, don't worry I have good news.

Symantec VIP Access actually uses a completely open standard called Time-based One-time Password Algorithm for generating the 6-digit codes that it outputs. The only non-standard part is the provisioning protocol used to create a new token.

In other words, this means that we can use OTP on our favorite app. The question

	version: '2'
	services:
	wekandb:
	#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
	# ==== MONGODB FROM DOCKER HUB ====
	image: mongo:6
	#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
	container_name: wekan-db
	restart: always
	# command: mongod --oplogSize 128

	Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
	----------------------------------
	L1 cache reference 0.5 ns
	Branch mispredict 5 ns
	L2 cache reference 7 ns 14x L1 cache
	Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns
	Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
	Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns 3 us
	Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network 10,000 ns 10 us
	Read 4K randomly from SSD* 150,000 ns 150 us ~1GB/sec SSD

	#!/bin/sh
	# https://github.com/greymechanic/loopVideo

	# clear terminal text, set background to black, and hide the cursor
	setterm -cursor off
	setterm -term linux -background black
	setterm -term linux clear

	# this is the path to the directory containing your videos
	VIDEOPATH="/home/pi/Videos"

	{
	"id": "51da5b68-7b4b-4bc2-92c9-3fd35ccd61a8",
	"name": "Triggered Campaigns Data Extension",
	"version": 1,
	"appVersion": "9.3.2",
	"references": {
	"dataExtensions/477f4bed-1da1-ec11-ba36-d4f5ef3de2b5": [
	"categories/509296"
	],
	"categories/509296": []