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Ugh - USAA continues its trend of getting worse. With the old bill pay fund withdrawal occurred when the check or funds transfer actually cleared. Now with the new process funds are withdrawn immediately. This is significant should the check get lost in the mail or if the transfer fails.

For oh five years or so my RVR has been sitting on a shelf. I have a pi mounted on it but the SDK was awkward to use and it took too much effort to have fun with the excellent hardware that is the RVR. A few months ago I had some buddies over, they saw the RVR and we started chatting about why this awesome toy wasn't doing something.

So... I've got a fun little side project to develop an MCP server for the RVR. If you have a pi mounted to your RVR you can install Claude Code or use your favorite MCP compatible LLM to drive the RVR using plain text. It also opens up capabilities like "Explore the room" and "Return all sensor readings". More to come on that as there are some interesting u

https://pypi.org/project/sphero-rvr-mcp/

I've been working on a fun little project to make my Sphero RVR more accessible to my kids (middle school age). I created a RVR MCP server that simplifies AI integration. I can now use plain text to interact with the RVR. Right now it's really simple and is a bit buggy (sometimes unexpected instructions are composed by the LLM) but it's still pretty fun.

I plan to go a couple of directions - first I'd like to be able to distribute the install as right now everything runs on the pi with Claude Code handling the LLM interface. I'd like to be able to run with Claude desktop and ChatGPT on my PC. Also I'm plan

This is not intended to be a post in support or against the DRP. I believe this information might be helpful for others who accepted the DRP and are concerned about its soundness.

I had an appointment with an employment lawyer this morning to go over the template of the DRP agreement. I had what I think is the latest version of the document. This is the one that includes the language about over 40 folks.

My biggest concern was paragraph 14 where we basically agreed to surrender all claims. I was worried that this might be prospective meaning we would be surrendering our rights to make claims should the government not follow the agreement. The lawyer's response was that it's not possible to

Xbox X

My son and I are playing Dungeons a lot and having an issue where his character is rolling constantly. Controls are at the default map. Dead zone on right stick is set to 99%. His character will roll with the controller sitting on the floor. No other issues in any game.

I saw a lot of traffic about this issue four years ago, but nothing current. Anyone know of a fix?

Seems counterintuitive, but there’s no native method of sending a web page or pdf to the kindle library from the kindle fire. Can do this both from real android and iPhone.

Note I realize that there is an email method as well as a web upload, but both are janky. It’s two clicks on my iPhone.

Is there a hack to make this work?

Anybody in regular contact with Talend? I'm working on a AWS DMS replacement project and Talend was on my short list. Four "call me" forms and an email direct to the Chief Revenue Officer and I haven't heard anything. It's been 10 days... All other vendors responded within hours. Anyone have a clue what's going on?

Edit2 - to Talend's credit they did reach out to me via Reddit DM. Thank you again everyone for the thoughtful responses.

Edit - lots of comments about Talend the company and its software - all appreciated! One clarification though is that I was going to focus on Stitch not the traditional ETL tool. Nevertheless, thank you again for all of the comments - keep them coming if you

I'm looking for pool noodles for a birthday party project. Does anyone know of a local source?

I signed up yesterday and none of my friends nor I have heard anything. I don’t have to get the patch, but it would be nice. How long does it take to get a confirmation?

I'd love some thoughts - anything is fair game here. I've been struggling with Azure off and on for months to set up a viable data lake architecture. My requirements are quite modest and I've been able to implement on AWS without a whole lot of trouble. I'm passing along my experience in both clouds to show that what I'm trying to do is technically possible - actually quite common. This challenge represents a major issue because I anticipate a mandate to use Azure coming soon from big IT. This is driven by other enterprise requirements.

AWS Experience

My AWS architecture is S3 for storage with Athena/Redshift/EMR for querying depending on use case. Using Athena browse queries return in

Has anyone used ELB or another load balancer to support a failover requirement for EMR? I'm going to be using EMR to support analytics and don't want to be sweating cluster failure 24x7.

Any ideas appreciated.

Thanks!

Is there an Azure data lake ad-hoc query story?

I work for a mid-sized federal agency. A year ago we were comparing the various data lake solutions provided by Azure and AWS. At the time our conclusion was Azure is great because of ease of use and general enterprise integration, but when it came to data lake/big data use cases it didn't have a good ad-hoc query solution. Hive on Tez is still Hive - it may be faster, but it's still quite slow relative to Impala and Presto. At the time I was dismayed by the lack of a valid solution. AWS has Athena that kicks HDInsight's tail. I'm querying billions of records in seconds. If that won't work then I can spin up an EMR cluster with Presto already