Sadly, although this would seem to be a bonus for the environment, I don't think it is. A lot of people have been tempted into buying diesels based on the claimed fuel consumption and emission figures. I was one of them. However, unless you are regularly making long journeys these figures are a false economy. I moved closer to my work and ended up making a lot of short trips in my car. The result? The engine's Exhaust Gas Recycling (EGR) unit clogged up after several months which cost a fortune to replace (and of course the environmental impact of more of these units being manufactured). The garage's suggested fix for this was to make a weekly superfluous trip up and down the motorway in 4th gear to burn off clogged particulates (thus wasting fuel that was supposed to be saved). Other 'fixes' I found on the internet were to apply a kit to bypass the EGR entirely (thus re-emitting the particles that were supposed to be cleaned up).
My fix? Sell the car and go back to a guzzly petrol model.
Did you know you could simply delete EGR? And that removing this contraption would result in smoother engine and ~3% better fuel consumption?
Its as simple as unscrewing this piece of crap and mounting a blocking plate (plus sensor bypass in some cases). You can even buy easy install delete kits.
There is just no upside to this kind of response. Surely for any tech company that has reached a certain size, the only workable approach is to recruit an appropriately sized security team and politely welcome and respond to each and every security report received, triage them as quickly as possible and fix the ones that are found to be real vulnerabilities. Even if you aren't happy with the motives or the methods they employ, they are potentially finding flaws in your products for you.
There are command line tools available to help the transition from 'hack' one liner to a more maintainable / supportable solution. For instance drake (https://github.com/Factual/drake) a 'Make for data' which does dependency checking would allow for sensible restarts of the pipeline.
The O'Reilly Data Science at the Command Line book (linked elsewhere in the comments) has a good deal to say on the subject: turning one liners into extensible shell scripts, using drake, using Gnu Parallel.
I've been using GNU Parallel for orchestrating running remote scripts/tools on a bunch of machines in my compute and storage cluster. Its now my goto tool for almost any remote ssh task that needs to hit a bunch of machines at once.
According to Wikipedia her kid is less than 1 year old. It's tricky to involve them in your interests at that age :)
I can just about get my 5 year old interested, but my 2 year old is more keen on pressing the off button on my laptop.
It's hard to appreciate unless you get to hold one in your hand and play with it. The phones are exceptionally well made - not just robust but well crafted. The sound reproduction from the external speakers is pretty amazing too - I'd quite happily listen to music playing on it.
