I would I have tried that. Presumably it either didn't look as good, or there was something about the bad-word checker that required me to run it server-side. Maybe we didn't want a list of rude words sitting around in a .js file for anyone to look at. I don't recall, but whatever the reasons the imagemagick solution worked best for us.
Tangentially related: If I wanted to play Half-Life: Alyx, and spend as little money as possible whilst still having a good experience, what do I need? (I already own a beefy desktop computer)
It's not a business of selling/repairing vending machines. It's operations of a single vending machine. Correct me if I'm wrong: the vending machine (soda, snacks) has long been automated, with no AI in sight. And the vending machine does not adjust prices. What matters is that (1) the vending machine sees some foot traffic, and (2) nobody sets it on fire. So what was the point of the exercise again?
Apple was a very segmented company back then (I've no idea what it's like now) and the online store had three groups that contributed to it: my team, which designed the pages; an engineering team, which took our designs and transformed them into WebObject templates that ran the site; and a content team, which controlled the database that spat out the images and prices.
I did my work in HTML/CSS/JS (and some PHP for the imagemagick stuff in this case), which the engineering team then had to adjust to fit the code their templates could output.
I don't recall much detail about how WebObjects was viewed. I do remember that at the time the store used a version of WebObjects that could only run on old hardware, so there was an impending deadline for a total re-write before the hardware stopped being available. I've no idea if they did that rewrite or swapped to a different system altogether.
Ah no. There's pain, and then there's pain that I would never wish on my worst enemy.
The pain I suffer gets worse with every setback and affects my work life for extended periods of time. Past a certain point you need to weigh the risks and tradeoffs, and in my calculus, for my own survival, it swung in favor of no relationships.
Everyone has a different strategy and I prescribe nothing, that is my own way
For code reviews I believe yea luna is mostly good but for finding security issues something more well versed with it might be more helpful like astra. This also depends on the scale and the impact of the application or the code where it will be used too, I guess
I got hired to do it. The internet was quite small back then, and some people on the team read my blog and knew what kind of things I might do for them. It was a very fortunate time to be a creative web developer wanting to work at interesting places. Today is a nightmare in comparison.
I have been trying to find underutilized government and free data sources that people can use to make better decisions. As a result, I made a proof of concept application to aid students in making decisions about college and career with realistic future budget forecasting.
Most college search tools stop at tuition. GradCast connects actual degree-level earnings to real local rent, federal/state taxes, and student loan amortization to show your real monthly take-home.
A proof-of-concept web application that helps students simulate their financial future after graduation — based on real college costs, program-level earnings data, local housing markets, and tax calculations. Built on the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard API and HUD Fair Market Rent data.
I like reduce in principle since it generalizes a simple concept pretty nicely. I don't use it that much in practice since its alternatives just require less brainpower. It competes against using local mutable state with a loop or iterator combinator which I would argue are easier to wrap your head around (i.e. loop with variable/map with closure). I would argue its one of those cases where something is just harder to do/understand in functional vs imperative programming.
forgot to mention: I use my language to run code in a browser, so people can try ML experiments and visualization with no download, no sign up, no colab, no GPU.
Also, I'm working towards running my code on embedded systems, including bare metal (no Linux, no RTOS). I'm looking into custom FPGA circuits, too.
Python isn't great for me, for these uses. Rust is, and my language is a Rust DSL.
Headsets like the Bigscreen Beyond 2 are basically the weight and size of goggles. Wearing headphones isn't actively comfortable either but very few people would say that that is prohibitively uncomfortable relative to their desire to listen to music. It's not unreasonable to think that the privacy and convenience of a VR workspace could eventually reach that level of convenience for a significant number of people.
The real issue for replacing monitors seems to be screen fidelity.
I guess. But we've never survived something smarter than us (that we know of.) I feel like the analogy of how we kill animals off without having malice simply because it fulfills a need in our current goals that an animal would have no basis for understanding. Something more intelligent than us would probably view us similarly. And their reasoning would be just as incomprehensible. Like a monkey in a jungle that is being set on fire for palm oil plantation doesn't comprehend reasoning for what we are doing.
Please state your conflicts of interest before you diminish the impact of that research some more. Can you make yourself argue for the positive effect that article has even a tiny bit? That we are a happy peoples who are discovering just how profound of an effect nACHR agonists like nicotine can have? Focus on the positives.
They are genuine just like hurricane warnings are genuine. But filtering out attention economy amplification layer and nonsense you land on a simple truth - no one controls weather systems yet the chimp troupe has survived them for thousands of years. The hurricane is already out of the box.
I have released the first version of VentureRanker.
Its basically a tool I made to make my own own business research easier, then decided to formalize it after a friend showed interest. What is it? its a way to evaluate a business idea from multiple angles and perspectives - similar to what a VC would do, only via a simple wizard that asks you to score the business from different angles. The next version will let one or more AIs answer the wizard so you can compare your evaluation with theirs.
Two scores come out the other end, kept deliberately separate — how good the opportunity actually is, and how good a fit it is for you specifically.
