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- Episode 168: #TrashCasket
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: Needles in stomachs, worms in faces, drunks in Ubers, and meetings in Amazon
- RHEL 7.6 is out!
- #TrashCasket: Someone actually threw out a casket with the garbage in Akron and we know the story behind who picked it up
- Browns fans finally open those Bud Light fridges to celebrate a win
- D&G Mailbag: D&G Superfan Andrew Sanders says "I do not recall laughing harder or being any more horrified than when listening to episode #165." He also asks “in D&G 165 did Gunnar intentionally made a biblical reference to 3:16 when he joked about the hug request for train car 316?”
- Afraid of needles? These start-ups are working on alternatives
- Selfies show worm slithered through woman’s face for 2 weeks
- Uber can tell whether you are drunk by the way you hold your phone
- PSA: Signal and Whatsapp Are Only as Private as the People You Talk To
- See also: "Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead." - Benjamin Franklin
- Amazon Has Come Up With a Genius New Way to Run Productive Meetings
- Open sourced as aws-ops-wheel
- Why Jeff Bezos makes Amazon execs read 6-page memos at the start of each meeting
Cutting Room Floor
- This Coder Fit a Bootable CD and Video Game Into a Tweet
- Get your own HAL-9000 replica with Bluetooth and voice command
- Candle that smells like Chinese takeout
- Bacon-scented mustache
- Clam-flavored candy canes
- Meat vending machine
We Give Thanks
- The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
- Andrew Sanders for the viewer mail!
35 min - Episode 167: Here you go, Kyle: All about Serverless and FaaS
This week Dave talks with Gordon Haff about the importance of serverless computing, Functions-as-a-Service, and what Red Hat’s doing about them.
- Gordon’s What is serverless? article
- Gordon’s Cloudy Chat podcast
- Serverless computing
- Functions as a Service
- AWS Lambda
- Knative
- Red Hat Summit 2019
We Give Thanks
- Gordon Haff for being our special guest star!
- Kyle Petrosino for making the recommendation!
Special Guest: Gordon Haff.
20 min - Episode 166: Manifesto at 30,000 Feet
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about what works and doesn’t work when trying to do Deep Work
- Tesla Adds New "PIN To Drive" Security Feature
- D&G Book Club: Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
- I Can’t Stop Dreaming of Eudaimonia
- Meanwhile: Open offices are as bad as they seem—they reduce face-to-face time by 70%
- How to Live on 24 Hours a Day by Arnold Bennett
- The Shape of Automation by Herbert A. Simon
51 min - Episode 165: If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about China. That’s all. Just China.
- iOS 12 Preview tracking of activity: good!
- Google My Activity
- China will start using car surveillance system in July, says WSJ
- Hack Your E-ZPass So It Alerts You Whenever It's Scanned
- Chinese debtors shamed with broadcast of names and faces on giant screens on May 1 holiday
- Jaywalkers under surveillance in Shenzhen soon to be punished via text messages
- The panopticon meets the Broken Windows Theory?
- Chinese school uses facial recognition to monitor student attention in class
- See tweet with images here
- See also: FacePause Chrome Extension Pauses a YouTube Video When You Look Away
- ‘Forget the Facebook leak’: China is mining data directly from workers’ brains on an industrial scale
- Almost-related, almost palate cleanser 1: Researchers claim to have transferred a memory between two sea slugs
- Almost-related, almost palate cleanser 2: Researchers are keeping pig brains alive outside the body
- See also:
- The Brain That Wouldn’t Die
- Johnny Got His Gun
- One by Metallica
Cutting Room Floor
- It’s Friday so relax and watch a hard drive defrag forever on Twitch
We Give Thanks
- The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
43 min - Episode 164: The Fine Line Between Firefighters and Arsonists
This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Bob St. Clair about managing his time, managing his people’s time, and managing his managers who manage their people’s time
- Day One
- Todoist
- Remember the Milk
- Google Home recipes
- HBR: Why Women Volunteer for Tasks That Don’t Lead to Promotions
We Give Thanks
- Bob St. Clair for being our special guest star!
Special Guest: Bob St. Clair.
49 min - Episode 163: Gaia Hypothesis, But for Email
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: discrimination paranoia, microphone paranoia, more microphone paranoia, and rhetorical paranoia. Finally: vacation message protocol.
- Lesson learned: do the Safari
- Lesson learned: 4 years old don’t care about American History
- Lesson learned: Tracksmith running shorts + swim trunks
- Props to Debbie, Stow’s Public Service Supervisor, and the Stow Street Department
- Facebook, Amazon, and hundreds of companies post targeted job ads that screen out older workers
- Amazon wants to automate your hotel stay with Alexa for Hospitality
- These Academics Spent The Last Year Testing Whether Your Phone Is Secretly Listening To You
- Your Phone Is Listening and it's Not Paranoia
- IBM’s Newest AI Can Probably Argue Better Than You
- The Most Honest Out-of-Office Message
Cutting Room Floor
- Bread can be made from a gangrenous wound's bacteria
- The Story of a Voice: HAL in ‘2001’ Wasn’t Always So Eerily Calm
- 24-Channel Raspberry Pi Fireworks Control System
- ‘Skirmish Time Is Now!’: 6 Mediocre Catchphrases Michael Buffer Dabbled With Before Landing On ‘Let’s Get Ready To Rumble’
We Give Thanks
- The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
39 min - Episode 162: Salad Cream
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about making things worse with technology: Metallica, AI, locks, and Salad Cream.
- Dave can’t stop eating Golden Gate Taproom Cali Warrior Burgers
- Thunder in the Valley
- Home delivery: revelling in it!
- Red Hat reaches the Summit – a new top scientific supercomputer
- First look at Tesla Model S using George Hotz’s comma.ai semi-autonomous driving tech
- Facebook AI translates Metallica to Beethoven-style piano
- See also: The Klezmonauts and Hayseed Dixie
- Bad things happen when you train AI using ‘the darkest corners of Reddit’
- Check out ink blots on http://norman-ai.mit.edu/
- Actually this is a common misconception: "psychopath" is the scientist, the AI is “psychopath’s monster”
- Give Out These Fake Prank Numbers to Creeps
- High tech lock is "invincible to people who do not have a screwdriver"
- See video review here
- North Korea furnishes USB fans for all journalists. For your computer!
- Nap Pods With Netflix Are Coming to Airports This Year
- Dave saw this in LGA: These Private Airport Booths Are an Introvert’s Dream
- Don’t forget the Akron-Canton Airport Morris Office Business Lounge
- Salad Cream: Heinz 'considers Sandwich Cream re-brand'
Cutting Room Floor
- Meet the Tattoo Artist Creating Incredibly Realistic ASCII Portraits
- Bob Ross sleep meditation app
- Fall asleep in seconds by listening to a soothing voice read the EU’s new GDPR legislation
We Give Thanks
- The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
39 min - Episode 161: Continuous Improvement
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about improving AI with improv, improving the internet with the air travel experience, improving fraud with spacesuits, and improving online dating with the gig economy
- Foam Pits
- NeverSSL
- Kent State Tuscarawas wrestler born without legs teaches students it’s OK to be different
- Google used improv rules to deal with a farting Assistant
- D&G Gunnarbait of the Week: ISPs should charge for fast lanes—just like TSA Precheck, GOP lawmaker says
- Intelligence2 Debate
- Indian pair arrested after using 'space suits' to con investor out of $200,000
- Google Duplex calls hairdresser, terrifies everyone else
- You could be flirting on dating apps with paid impersonators
- Zero-width Unicode for steganography
Cutting Room Floor
- Bite-Sized Linux: a zine collecting awesome *nix tutorial webtoons
- Welcome to Fear City: A Survival Guide For Visitors to New York City (1975)
- Purrli: a customizable cat-purr emulator
- If you ever wanted to print out a square km of black toner, here’s your chance
- Hey I got an idea: What Scientists Saw When They Put a Crocodile in an MRI Scanner and Played Classical Music
- Solve 3 Rubik’s Cubes while juggling
40 min - Episode 159: Authors in Action
This week Dave talks with Jamie Duncan and John Osborne about their new book OpenShift in Action!
We Give Thanks
- Jamie Duncan and John Osborne for being our special guest stars!
Special Guests: Jamie Duncan and John Osborne.
34 min - Episode 160: Our other favorite RPM
This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Rachel Meyers about navigating the wild and wooly world of diversity and inclusion
- Dave and Gunnar talked in D&G 155 about how inadequate we felt considering D&I issues
- Chris Grygo at the Ford Foundation suggested distinguishing between
- Tradition
- Preference
- Requirement
- Rachel recommends
- Relevant Articles
- Delivering Growth through Diversity (McKinsey)
- What Corporations Can Learn about Diversity from the Rooney Rule
- Related: If There’s Only One Woman in Your Candidate Pool, There’s Statistically No Chance She’ll Be Hired
- How to Keep Bias Out of the Hiring Process
- The Only People Who Aren’t Penalized for Promoting Diversity at Work are White Men
- 2017 Women in the Workplace Study from McKinsey
- 6 Ways that Men in Tech Can Fight Sexism
- 2017 LGBTQ Workplace Equality Fact Sheet
- How to Shut Down Microaggressions at Work
- For Women and Minorities to Get Ahead, Managers Must Assign Work Fairly
- And a great newsletter for ongoing education:
- RaceAhead from Fortune: Deep daily insights on culture and diversity in corporate America
We Give Thanks
- Rachel Meyers for being our special guest star!
Special Guest: Rachel Meyers.
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About Dave & Gunnar Show
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David Egts and Gunnar Hellekson discuss privacy, security, robots, and internet ephemera.