There was, I believe, a hairdresser rounded up by ICE and sent to CECOT with images/video of his head getting shaved and audio of him crying for his mother. I think about him all the time, and wonder what happened to him because it's so horrific. He doesn't strike me as the kind of person who would survive a situation like that, and yet nothing on his status, or his family, has noticably trickled out as information in the last nine or 10 months. My short little comment here will do nothing to encompass the context of the situation, but to have this humiliating experience documented and highlighted only to have it disappear so quickly and easily it's downright depressing.
Check out the wide breadth of tuts provided by Digital Ocean. This is just one post, misleadingly titled at that, whereas DO has LOADS of excellent and clearly explained tuts.
Because corporate blogs are predominantly nothing but marketing fluff that dominates search results so thoroughly that they drown out any actual useful information.
> Now imagine for a second, that the whole universe was a big cycle, and that you are going to be repeating this very same life in a “future” cycle, and maybe infinitely many times
I've heard this called 'Eternal recurrence of the same' in a past life (pun not intended). It fascinates and terrifies me at the same time.
Thank you. Hadn’t heard the name. Apparently it was a central part of Nietzche’s thought and similar to the concept of Eternal Return. Fascinating!
And yes, it’s a bit like the scene in Dune 2 when Paul’s mother, after taking the water of life, tells him he needs to drink it too, that his mind will open so he can see «the beauty and the horror»
Borrowing from signal processing, you could also call this “life aliasing”
Litter box cleaner: A kinect, a digital weight scale, a couple of cameras, a robot arm, a litter box, an internet connection and I would pay 25c for people using Amazon's Mechanical Turk to manipulate the robot arm and clean the litter box for me. And people would wait in line to take the job.
This blows my mind, and I love it. What sort of limits did you put on the Mechanical Turk service to keep people from farming the... you know... turds.
It posted a MT task when it detected weight in the litter box that was less than a cat but more than a little pee. Very sensitive digital weight platform and some fine tuning of the heuristic to get it just right. Then the MT task had to be finished in X minutes from when they start, but the Turker could request extra time on the task. But if they didn't, it would time after N minutes. Then, if they have clicked "done", two more MT tasks would get generated for two new people, where the MT worker would be asked to look at a before and an after shot of the litter box and decide if it was clean.
I kept it online for about six months. It was obviously a "dumb idea taken to the extreme" project, which included "and what can I do with computer vision and robotics for my final project with this really expensive Fujitsu robot arm I picked up from a surplus auction?"
You may be referring to the "farming" to be first in line to get the job. I didn't really prevent anything like that. Cats poop at different times, so no real way to predict when the job would pop up on MT. The Kinect and weight sensor in combination determined there was no cat present, and then the job would post. The job would always be gone in seconds. People got very creative with their cleaning, treating it like a Zen sand garden. I would come back and see pure art at times. Once, the MTurker stacked up the excrement like they were recreating the mashed potato scene from Close Encounters. They were not invited. Much like the popular meme: "Except for Billy. Billy has created the opposite of art."
I did have the usual "if the person who cleaned it last didn't do a job that passed review, they would be barred from taking future cleaning jobs."
