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They’ve been flipped, kicked and even hit by trains, all in the name of delivering food

In American cities, legions of robots carting takeaway food orders are testing whether humans and robots can co-exist. Early signs are not promising.

smh.com.au ·

They’ve been flipped, kicked and even hit by trains, all in the name of delivering food

We haven't written up this one. The Sydney Morning Herald has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.

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Modelling Swedish intestate succession in TypeScript

When someone in Sweden dies without a will, the Inheritance Code ( ärvdabalken , SFS 1958:637) decides who gets what. The rules fit on two printed pages.

  • Sweden's intestate succession law is outlined in the Inheritance Code (ärvdabalken)
  • TypeScript calculator adapts this algorithm for Swedish users
  • Pure function vemArver(input) determines inheritance without DOM or I/O

·dev.to

ssh-keygen -N Puts Your Passphrase in ps

I'm writing a small GUI that walks a person through creating an SSH key. The core of it is one call to ssh-keygen , and on paper that call is trivial: ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -f ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 -N…

  • Passing passphrase via -N argument is insecure as it resides in /proc
  • Pseudo-terminal approach depends on exact prompt text which changes over time
  • SSHASKPASS mechanism securely retrieves passphrase without exposing it in argv

·dev.to

Implementing kubernetes node bin packing

  • Node rightsizing is akin to vector bin packing in Kubernetes.
  • Greedy packing algorithm leaves capacity on the table for different workload types.
  • Formalized as d-dimensional Vector Bin Packing problem, NP-hard for d≥2.

·blog.costgraph.ai

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