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I have a similar issue where it ignores step by step instructions. I have a detailed step by step playbook and QA checklist to follow, but it will make up its own checklist with fewer items on it and say it's finished the job! I think about half my time is spent getting the very clever code it has written out of large singular files and into an organised structure which was specced from the beginning.
Thanks! Is it possible to include the metadata in the images? So we can know the artist's name, the title of the piece and the subject, e.g. strawberries? It seems to be available on the site when you click one on the images.
Does anyone else have issues with the cells overlapping or shrinking in vscode? I've had this issue for months. Created an issue on GitHub, but there's been no improvements. It can be very frustrating, sometimes I have to completely close vscode and reopen to get it to stop glitching constantly. I tried switching the GPU to the nvidia card, but it somehow uses 30% of the GPU when a cell is running.
These large cost increases have been great for businesses. If your company buys a widget for $10 and sells it for $50 and the cost goes up 20%, you can tell your customers our costs have gone up 20% and we can't afford not to pass on the increases, etc. The thing is the business is only paying $2 more, but the customer is paying $10 more. Plus we also have businesses like supermarkets that saw a huge increase in demand during the COVID restrictions, where people couldn't travel, eat out, go to concerts. But even after the record breaking year due to a non repeatable event, they still expect to grow on top of that. When demand falls, the only way to keep or grow your revenue is to increase prices.
I am finding that I use YouTube a lot less these days. Back in the late 2000s I remember when I watched a music video, the recommended videos would be other videos by the same artist. Now it's just videos I've watched before and unrelated videos. The front page is mostly videos I've watched before and ones that it has shown before that I didn't click on. So there is not much difference between the front page and the recommended videos section. It doesn't even really show new videos from channels I've subscribed to, I have to go to the subscriptions page and look for them there. So I just get bored easily and do something else. I tried the shorts page, but I have no interest in the toxic political and far right garbage from the US, since I'm from Australia, so that was useless. I even tried looking for a page that showed what live videos are currently playing, like a twitch page, but the only live page only had a few videos listed.
The tags could be added by a model rather than the user submitting the image. Maybe do both and verify the tags with a model? Users could get a rating based on how reliably they tag their pictures and are trusted to add more niche tags at higher ratings. You could even help tag other pictures to improve your rating.
Could you not use tags used to label the image? If your image contains more niche tags that match the user input, your revenue share will be higher. Depending how much extra people earn for certain tags, it might incentivise people to upload more images of what is missing from the training data.
I wonder how they simulate the displacement of water since it's not from how tsunamis usually occur. A lot of water you think would be vaporised into the air and moved with the shockwaves. Plus there is only so much water at the impact site, not an unlimited amount. Given the speed of the impact, would it move as much water? They say when you jump off a bridge, the impact is like hitting cement.
Maybe it's a voltage thing (120V vs 240V)? In Australia you can pick up a Bosch induction cooktop starting from $899 ~$620USD including tax.
I also subscribe to choice. They do lots more than product reviews. They have general guides on how to get the best use out of products, mystery shoppers reviewing customer service, tools to compare health insurance, etc. The reason I stay subscribed is they campaign about consumer rights issues which actually cause industries as a whole to change, e.g. bank fees. They also have the shonky awards which usually gets a bit of media attention each year, where they shame companies for poor behaviour, quality, outright scams, etc. I think of it like a lobby to help us consumers out, which we need more of. Too often we are listening to the advice of the industry bodies that represent the companies rather than the consumers.
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I just did a search for a python problem and got a stackoverflow clone on the front page. From a few different searches I found a clone with most of them. They weren't at the top, usually after 5th place. I've also seen sites that have just copied github issue posts.
In SA the codes are fairly small and scan very fast from a distance. Even if they are laminated and placed behind a window they scan easily. Meanwhile the gigantic QR code printed on a 7 foot poster which was used for express check-in at the Wayville showgrounds vaccination hub just did not work on my phone.
The last time I accidentally installed malware on my computer was when the top Google result pointed me to a site masquerading as the official site for the software. That thought me a lesson to pay attention to the domain name.
And most physical items in a store can easily be replaced. If a criminal is holding your shop ransom, it's not for intellectual property.
The big two supermarkets in Australia use tablets attached to the trolley so the picker doesn't have to carry the PDT with them. The pickers, delivery drivers are all employees of the supermarkets. In areas where they have enough customers, they have 'stores' that are only for online fulfillment. You have to reserve a time slot, usually closer and more convenient equals more expensive. I once price checked the groceries compared to a receipt from shopping in person, and there was a 5% markup on items that weren't on promotion. You can 'click-and-collect' to save on delivery fees, but you still need to reserve a time slot well ahead, during the lock downs it wasn't unusual to have to book a week out.
I worked in a DC for one of the supermarkets and the pick rate is closer to 200 cartons per hour. Cartons contain multiple units and can be pretty heavy depending on the product. It's not for everyone, even with incentive paid on top of a healthy union wage, most people would quit after a few months. The good pickers made it look easy. Some had been working there 10, 20 years.
The two biggest supermarket chains in Australia, and some independently owned supermarkets in my area offer home delivery. I know Coles and Woolworths do have what they call dark stores, which are set up to serve home deliveries and not open to the public, but most orders are picked at your closest store. I even order produce from the farmers market since you can get home delivery. Most places charge $10 for delivery, but offer free delivery if you spend over $100, $200.
Food is more expensive in Australia and serving sizes are smaller.
I do. The find and replace is better. You can do it across multiple cells. I don't like the drag and drop method of moving cells. Switching between notebooks is faster if you normally use multiple large notebooks at the same time. I am biased against JavaScript heavy UI. I just have had so many bad experiences with single page apps. The only problem I have with notebooks is the mathjax J's seems to cause the browser to hang on opening or running large notebooks. But it was the same in labs, but even worse with the tabs being handled by the UI instead of the browser. Switching back and forth between tabs and having to wait for them to render was annoying. I gave it a good go for a while recently, but the find and replace in classic notebooks is just so good I couldn't make the switch permanent.
I know your pain all too well. I hate when people say stuff like 'Did you go to Harvard?' after I help them print a document. I knew managers who didn't know what < and > meant. They think creating a pivot table is genius work. I actually heard someone say you don't have to put .au on the end of the email address if you live in Australia. I sat next to one guy in a meeting who was typing away on his laptop keyboard without looking at the screen for about 5 minutes and then used spell check to fix every second word. These are the people running these old corporations.
This has frustrated me as a python user for the last 7 years, working as the only python user in business environments dominated by Excel. People will say things like, "if you leave, who can support this report you made in python?" Well I say, who can support the bloated 40mb spreadsheet that would take forever to unpick and figure out how to update with new data? No one can, because I've seen people would rather rebuild their own spreadsheet from scratch, than use the files they inherited from the last person.
If these tools are necessary to conduct business and they are so worried about being able to support it, why don't they use proper software for that process?
A lot of people who make these bloated spreadsheets are people with no education in computing, and don't think about the basics of how to store data that is easy to analyse later. If they are building a weekly report, they build the report and enter the data directly into the report structure, which then makes it almost impossible to analyse later. Next week they just copy the file, rename it and update the data. If you want to analyse that same data over a year, good luck! You can't even count on the data being in the same place over the 52 weeks, since they would have added and removed data points over time.
Once I got the process down in a jupyter notebook, handling all the oddities with the data coming from whichever website, CSV file, data warehouse report I need, I can just save it as a .py file and run it as a scheduled task on a virtual computer forever. The data is kept in a format that can be appended to with each update, and can be easily analysed later.
The most amazing thing with replacing excel with python is you don't need to manually perform the update process yourself. Which means it doesn't cost anything to run the process more often. Weekly reports can become daily, or even hourly email updates that are only sent when something interesting happens. People can start reacting to things shortly after they happen, rather than having to remember what happened a week or a month ago. The iteration on improving becomes so much faster. People spend more of their time discussing how to fix problems, rather than spending time building problem finders. You can even start to automate the fixing of the problem in python and people don't even have to spend time on that thing at all, ever again.
How is this different to the already widely available bamboo or sugar cane single use containers?
I'd imagine you could swap out your current Volvo trucks with these for supermarket DC to store deliveries in Metro areas. The DCs already have electric power on every dock to hook up the trailer's refrigerator while parked. And DCs I know of here in Australia are being covered in solar panels because of their large foot print. The suppliers who deliver to the supermarket DC from their own DCs could do the same. Long distance are usually done with road trains (3+ trailers), using much more powerful trucks, and then the trailers are split up outside of the city area and completed by towing single trailers. So again you could use the electric vehicle to complete the last leg.
As someone else mentioned, if they are quieter than the diesel equivalent, you may be able to start delivering to supermarkets in areas where they have curfews on deliveries after a certain time because of the noise.
Semis are used to for DC to store within urban areas. With groceries, the trucks are usually plugged into an electrical outlet while parked to keep the refrigerator running and saving fuel. So it seems the infrastructure is already in place for those applications.
Compact cars are popular in Australia, even though we have big open roads and most people live in the suburbs. I think running costs are a big factor in choosing a car, if you are comparing between 5L per 100KM and 15L per 100KM, and the price of petrol is around $1.40 per litre ($3.70 USD per gallon). Registration and insurance is also more expensive the bigger the engine. Once popular sedans like the Holden Commodore and Ford Falcon have all but died out, as people no longer wanted a petrol guzzling 6 or 8 cylinder engine.
I think an electric car the size of a Toyota Yaris / Honda Jazz would be a big hit in Australia, since that category has been popular for decades. Whereas I think the only popular sedan nowadays would be the Camry, and they are mainly used for taxis. Family cars tend to be SUVs with underpowered petrol or diesel engines to try and get the fuel economy, even if it struggles to climb hills.
Another big seller I think would be a plug in hybrid ute similar to a Hilux, since they are the main vehicles used by tradies. If you could get maybe 100 - 200km of travel using electric only and then petrol for the rest, I think that would be suitable for people who mainly work in metropolitan areas. You could also use the battery instead of carrying a petrol generator.
Also car advertisements have to show the actual drive away price including all extra fees and taxes. If you advertise anything on TV, you can't get away with putting small print in the commercial that changes what a customer would be getting for the price displayed, e.g. unlimited internet. You can't reasonably expect a customer to pause the tv, get off the couch and get up close to be able to read the small print, only to discover that speeds would be capped after a certain amount of usage.
I've managed to automate SharePoint data uploads and downloads using the SOAP API.
Do employers care about what grades you got in university?
I've discovered if you search for local online shops you get poor results, but if you visit the websites of local businesses, quite a few have implemented home delivery. I guess they aren't good at SEO.
Sounds like you are off to a good start!
Another tricky problem I thought of would be a double trailer that can be side loaded would take a single dock, but a double trailer that has to be rear unloaded would take two docks. Also zoning docks so a refrigerated truck can't dock at a dry goods dock, or customers may want to make sure certain suppliers use the dock closest to where they need the goods. As in you wouldn't want to unload the truck and then have to move the pallets hundreds of metres to the storage location.