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I know it’s not ideal, but why not give the main competitor a go? I have great experience of using OpenAI Codex, and frequently switch between it and Claude on a whim, often playing them off against each other to review one another’s PRs.
If you had a 3dfx card it would run silky smooth on a Pentium-120 (what I had at the time)! Quake 2 ran pretty well too if I recall.
And so the enshittification begins. Such a shame to lose another set of solid, non-subscription-based desktop apps.
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That means you can power the Mini dish for two to three hours from something like an Anker Prime 27,650mAh (99.54Wh) power bank, or a little over an hour with smaller 10,000mAh (40Wh) portable batteries you probably already have laying about. It requires a USB-C PD power source with a minimum rating of 100W (20V/5A).
There’s a pretty entertaining movie about this from 2023
Who’s to say there wouldn’t be more flights per day if the airlines didn’t need to compete with 33 bullet trains per day?
https://maplibre.org/ is a free fork of Mapbox v1.x before they brought in their licensing model.
I 100% agree. You mention some pretty scary KG numbers there though (but we’ll done)! I just wanted to mention to readers that even squatting a ‘measly’ 50KG or deadlifting 30KG can immensely help with back pain and the physical challenges everyday life throws at you.
Beauty of that though is that you can CMD+click on each one and open all 50 into separate tabs, then work on each one whilst the others load in the background. Want to cross-reference? Easy, just shift a tab to a new window. All likely not possible in an SPA, either because links don’t work like links, or because it’ll muck up state.
Perhaps they’re intending on a means to say whether your content can be used within an AI training model or not.
100% truthfully, I wrote it all myself, but tweaked the opening paragraph with ChatGPT to improve my grammar slightly. It’s a great tool, and one that should not be dismissed, just like spell checkers and the grammar checkers of old in the likes on MS Word. Maybe it does come across a bit ChatGPT-like which is unfortunate I suppose.
As for the suggestions of me asking it to write the comment from prompts, then I’m afraid that’s 100% wrong.
All I was really getting at was that it sapped the love (and money) out of the job, like the OP was suggesting for them and Midjourney. Once your art/talent has become something that either the common person or a machine can do, your only option as a career is to move on and diversify. It’s unfortunate, but has been happening for decades in all industries. Anyway, just sharing my experience of it happening to me.
The rise of website builders like Wix, Squarespace, and Shopify has drastically changed the web design and development industry. As a co-founder and lead developer of a small design/development team, I loved my job and was passionate about creating beautiful and functional websites. However, as more and more clients turned to these DIY platforms, I found it increasingly difficult to justify our higher prices. While our work was more sophisticated and better optimized for SEO, clients often didn't see the value in paying £10,000 or more for it.
Ultimately, I realized that our trade had become commoditized, and I made the difficult decision to sell the business and move on. I transitioned to a new role as a Product Manager, and over the years, I've climbed the ranks to become a CTO at a scaling startup. Although I miss the thrill of being a developer and creating websites from scratch, I've found new challenges and fulfillment in my current position.
If you're facing a similar situation, I'd suggest exploring other avenues to keep your passion for development alive. Consider taking on side projects as a hobby, collaborating with industry friends to start an indie project, or even teaching others about web development. Just be sure to carefully review any non-compete agreements with your current employer before pursuing any new ventures. Remember, although your job may have changed, your passion for creating great websites can still thrive in new ways.
Tidal locking is common. The moon being visually the same size as the sun is not.
That’s actually fairly common. The really unsettling question is “why is the moon exactly the same size in the sky as the sun?”. A little bit smaller and we wouldn’t see full solar eclipses, a little bit bigger and we wouldn’t see the suns corona during an eclipse. Another unsettling feature is that the moon is moving further away from the earth so in a few million years’ time, we won’t even have full solar eclipses. So now what are the chances that in the 4B years the earth’s been around, we’re alive at the relatively short time period that we can witness this earth/moon/sun relationship?
Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug is an absolute must book for any UX beginner. Easily digestible and lasts through the ages as an example of good rules to follow.
I very much agree. Ironically the only relevant 3rd option who truly felt like they were trying to innovate was Microsoft+Nokia (the real Nokia) with Windows Phone.
But failures to market and encourage adoption, and perhaps staining it with the “windows” brand, just led it down the path of being forgotten about by developers and so it withered and died.
Changing router means you have to re-block. Plus nothing better (more reassuring) than an actual air-gap from the internet.
We have those in London too under the name InLink and are run by BT (the main telephone company here). BT used to offer free calls on them, but they had to stop because it was mostly being used by purchasers of drugs as an anonymous means of putting in an order. In terms of charging, they’re well used by homeless people.
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The company I work for have built a form of indoor positioning system using the Earth’s magnetic field. We are currently deploying it to Frankfurt Airport to aid connecting passengers in travelling from gate to gate for certain airlines.
“Solution Architect” is normally the role that lies between Product Owners and the Dev team. It’s somewhat technical, especially if you don’t have a Technical Architect counterpart.
Ditto for me except swap RoR for PHP monoliths. Gone are the days where my only cognitive overhead was deciding between Less or Sass and CodeIgniter or “the fancy new” Laravel. Likewise I got fed up of where dev was going in the workplace, and moved into a Solution Architecture / Product Manager role. I still get a lot of satisfaction creating side projects in the tools of old (which IMHO work much nicer than 95% of “modern” applications), but thinking about doing development in my day job would give me a headache from the outset.
My hatred is due to the fact that if you image search for something, e.g. a product, click on what you think is the product’s site, however you end up on someone’s Pinterest board. From there, there’s no way to get back to the original site. And the biggest annoyance is that the search results always seem to rank better than originals.
And that’s when you become a master of your tools and can wield immense power with them! But in all seriousness, PHP is a good language, and coupled with a modern framework like Laravel, it’s great to use.
I’ve used it since 2002, and have recently got back into it properly after a decade in architecture roles, and it feels very welcoming and love using it. And I _have_ tried the whole JavaScript thing, but simply find it’s ever changing build tools, package managers, etc a pain. Just my opinion though.
If it is what you/your team are most confident in and it is suitable to solve the problem (i.e a typical MVC web application), then yes, it is a very sensible choice. If your confidence lies elsewhere, then no, choose that instead. End of the day you’re just solving a problem using code.
Hey all. This is my first iteration of a simple news aggregator for the Cannabis industry, with a focus on it being mobile (or narrow browser window) -friendly. I'm pulling in articles from a number of sources, with more being added by every few days.
Over the coming weeks, I'll be looking to add some filtering options to allow users to filter by source, categories, or keywords. I'll also be looking to add an RSS feed for either the full list, or for filtered lists.
The intentional use case (and my personal reason for making it) is to replace the loss of the RSS feed, which most of these news sources fail to provide these days.
Anyway, I hope it goes down well, and if you have any comments, please feel free to post them.
Thanks!
True, but the other direction is simply the rubber necking as it’s single lane on the approach. Plus in the direction you are stating, there’s a clear backlog from directly next to the henge - 20mph traffic until the instant people are past where it heads straight back to 60mph. A hedge can only but help that situation.
I have driven past this stretch of road a hundred times, and it’s painful. 15-20mph for a good 10 mile stretch all because of people “rubber necking” to see the henge. As soon as you’re past it, instantly back up to 60mph.
But you know what would sort it… a hedge. A simple hedge. Stick something in the way of the drivers seeing the thing from the road, and you’ve cured the problem.
Why it is insisted that a multi-million (probably billion as costs will overrun) pound highway tunnel project is required, I have no idea. Just plant a bloody hedge!
As an urban car owner with a car that has a 300 mile range, when I am running low on “energy”, I will drive the car to a dedicate place where more “energy” is put into the car. ICE or EV, it makes no difference to me, energy goes in at an external place.
What EV has over ICE is that these energy-giving places can be located anywhere - my work, the supermarket, a town car park, a mate’s house, an extension cable pit my window in absolute emergencies, etc. I really don’t see why this is a good argument against EV. Yes I can’t fill up outside my house, but I can’t do that with a petrol car either.
Please add an ATOM that connects to anything which allows for a decent Gantt chart. As an architect-come-product-manager, I really need visibility of a gantt to see where we are in a delivery cycle, against what your other ATOMs provide (issue tracking, PRs, etc). No tool comes close to offering this, especially when my team is tied to Jira. There are Jira plugins but they suck, there are calendar views but they suck, there are gantt tools, but they’re external to Jira/GitHub so break context when jumping between them, or require some browser-window-fu to lay out nicely on my screen. The latter is impossible with an iPad, and not great if I want to present either in a meeting or permanently on a wall mounted TV.
Also something that could maybe display some charts based off a JSON URL, that could be sweet for viewing data, and allow us devs to specify the data we want.
I’ve signed up for a beta so would love to give it a go.