robinwassen

For that they would need to market it as a rolling spyware

I have tested this and they are very capable, replacing the modern windows calc (38mb mem) with an identical app (ux, looks, features, accessibility, localization) ended up with an app using 2MB memory.

You just need to point it in the right direction (c/rust/go etc) and be harsh with the requirements, especially memory usage.

If I was Microsoft I would use AI for this rather than badly embedding AI everywhere, a lot of power users would be overwhelmed by a win 11 update where OS apps/features dropped mem usage by 90%+

They kind do if you prompt them, I had mine reimplement the Windows calc (almost fully feature complete) in rust running with 2mb RAM instead of 40mb or whatever the win 11 version uses as a POC.

A handwritten c implementation would most likely be better, but there is so much to gain from just slaughtering the abstraction bloat it does not really matter.

Last maintenance I did on my Volvo was to replace the battery which should be quick for a non-mechanic as myself.

I spent more time building a make shift tool to detach/attach the battery than I did actual work. This due to them placing a bolt really bad so you can't access it with a normal wrench.

Not offering a paid upgrade to a 4G modem for the app features when they kill the 3G network in Sweden is also a bummer (they do in the US though, guess they are afraid of law suits).

I like the car in general, but they do some bad decisions that make me look at other brands when considering a new car.

You can schedule the takeout to Drive, then use a tool such as rclone (amazing tool) to pull it down.

It should not add any costs except the storage for the takeout zip on drive.

Look at supported providers in rclone and you might find easy solutions for some hard sync problems: https://rclone.org/#providers

Did a similar thing when we needed to do complex operations towards aws.

Instead of wrapping the aws cli command I wrote small Go applications using the boto3 library.

Removed the headaches when passing in complex params, parsing output and and also made the logic portable as we need to do the builds on different platforms (Windows, Linux and macOS).

I agree that this is spot on.

The last part missing is "build a flawed product and bake it into the contract so you charge high consultant costs to the customer to fix it" which is where the cash cow is for many enterprise / B2G products.

I would like to say thank you for posting this, I am currently building a similar toolkit in Lua and will most likely restart and just port your code instead :)

It is extremely clean and concise.

I am thinking of the more basic air/air units rather than this air/water.

One well placed air/air can reduce the need for direct electricity heating a lot, even though some might be needed to assist in a bedroom or so.

My parents installed a air/air unit in the middle of the house (180kvm) for $2.5k this summer and it keeps the whole house heated except one bedroom that needs some assistance from a radiator.

I do not understand why heat pumps are so expensive in the article.

In Sweden the hardware cost around $1k - $2.5k and installation $500 - $1000. It's not a complicated task.

Geothermal heating on the other hand cost around $15k - $20k.

Most people I know have one of these, direct electricity to heat is not really an option.

Not sure if you are to do any super sensitive work on the tablet or not.

But a home folder encryption rather than full disk might solve the touch input problem.

Daycares did not close during covid in Sweden.

On the topic there are a category of preschools in Sweden called "Ur och skur" which have most education outdoors.

Back in the 90s I know some primary schools in Sweden also had education outside, but I think that have changed with schools becoming more competitive lately.

The problem is most likely how do you know it's the ms source unmodified?

I had an idea for a similar project (1) a few years back, but abandoned it after reaching the state where I had a node module to attach an Electron window to the wallpaper in Windows.

Fun to see a project that has reached further, remember how cool I used to think dashboards/widgets for the PC stats were when I was younger.

(1): https://github.com/robinwassen/electron-wallpaper

Well, there are highs and lows when it comes to being known a century later.

From my hometown I think there are two past living things that people are aware of a century later.

First is Alfred Nobel of the Nobel Prize, no further explanation needed I guess.

The second is a circus horse that I couldn't explain why people care about 100 years later even if I tried.

Public data is not always that nice.

In Sweden most government data is public which includes individuals tax records.

That generates things such as news articles "The 50 people in your area that had the highest income last year" with home address and everything and that you can look up income instantly on the web.

Some level of privacy for this would be nice to have.

Roblox are doing steady incremental progress to their platform/engine.

Epic released Unreal Engine for Fortnite about one month ago.

Meta have some interesting stuff in their pipe.

I think that especially Roblox will shift how the younger generation view games, with more emphasis on social. It is their MMOs.

Kind of yes, but the scale of the amounts is a bit different.

I quit my $60k CTO job and they paid me $140k to stick around as a contractor. Most

$300k is CEO of a large company salary in Sweden. The prime minister earns around $200k.

Self-hosted?

I can also strongly recommend Gandi. Used them to manage 40+ domains for my old company. Professional and good coverage of the TLDs.

Nice is also that you can buy credits - that way I could renew a bunch of domains that expired at different times and filing only invoice to bookkeeping.

The site is a listing site, it's not like you click a buy button and then you all of a sudden own a project.

Following your logic they now have dozens/hundreds of projects risking $550 million fines.

If I was Facebook I would become quite uneasy by that.

It can be - if you have client side code that you do not wish people to mess around with it's all about adding resistance to convince the person who attempts that it's not worth the time and effort.

Some examples:

- Licensing logic

- Anti-cheating for games and similar

Most likely it will be breached eventually, but no reason to leave the door unlocked.

100% of all gov customers.

Basic accessibility tool support is not a feature, it just becomes a part of the frontend workflow when you get into it.

My flow is basically:

- Develop some frontend stuff

- Check that I can use it with only keyboard

- Check that it looks OK at 200% zoom

- Run Devtools + axe audit

- Fix any issues found

Of course there are odd cases such as complex custom components that are really hard to get right, but mostly it's quite easy and goes fast.

I think the reason is that GitHub lowers the barrier of entry to distribution of OSS.

This makes more people distribute OSS, and most devs do probably not care as much about OSS licensing as RMS would like and therefore do "mistakes".

RMS has a high horse stance, I think that easier access to OSS is better even though it might come with some side effects.

It is basically the same phrase as the site you currently are on use in its Privacy Policy.

I am working with reducing the time teachers spend on exams and assessments. I have access to a cleaned and manually scored dataset of 550k essays that is exponentially growing. Looked at creating at a model based on this dataset to automatically score essays with NLP parameters such as grammar, structure, spelling, word complexity, sentiment, relative text length etc.

The problem that I encountered was actually how to apply it in a useful way, since the problems mentioned in the article are quite obvious when you design the model.

Options that I saw:

1. Use it as autonomous grading with optional review by the teacher, see the linked article for the problems with this.

2. Use it as a sanity check on the teachers manual scoring, but it would not reduce the work load and probably just undermine the teacher.

Do you have any suggestions for how such a model could be applied in a practical and ethical way?

Had some thoughts on how to measure actual knowledge about a subject, but that would require a massive knowledge graph which would introduce a huge amount of complexity just to see if it would be a feasible approach.

Google Cloud as a package is different.

But since I started to use GCP 2012 a number of services has been left to die by abandonement.

Most of the times you get a clear migration path to a new service, but sometimes you dont such as when they kill the devserver for appengine standard in go 1.12 without giving a proper migration strategy. Everyone I know dread when they decide to deprecate go 1.11 support.

User script that overrides the API to noop. :)

Apple has a tool where you can lookup your DUNS number directly for free.

https://developer.apple.com/support/D-U-N-S/