I think it’s much more likely that the videos they promote to protect their political interests get large amounts of downvotes, and removing ratings looks like bending the knee.
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Experience working on site in manufacturing facilities in China. Developed complex ERP systems from scratch, some EE/low level experience as well.
Bachelors in Comp. Sci. + Chinese Language from Clemson University. Bilingual in English/Mandarin. Conversational Japanese.
Would like another manufacturing-adjacent role but open to exclusive software development, currently employed in the gov space with security clearance.
This seems like a perfect use case for a small home server. If they find a revenue stream then they can scale to renting some rack space somewhere. I know its not as easy as clicking a button in AWS but its not totally debilitating.
I understand that we now have wonderful tools like cups that abstract a lot of the worst of it away from us, however even today minor discrepancies between models/drivers/environments have always given me headaches. Especially when trying to deploy systems in facilities with physically antiquated hardware. I swear I would encounter issues similar to the one described in this article every time I had to make a new deployment.
I really wish this was an industry with a little more standardization.
I'm not an iOS dev but I believe that it also uses some weird iOS APIs that I've never seen other apps use. The way it makes your phone continuously vibrate with certain notifications is one example.
Youtube music has all of the music ever posted on youtube which is nice because it means you can generally find almost anything there (even obscure stuff not on Spotify). Unfortunately this can also make it harder to find what you are looking for, youtube music is full of low quality user submitted covers/remixes of songs that I don't want to hear but sometimes it plays anyways. Sometimes youtube music will have versions of songs that were really meant to accompany a music video and not the standalone song itself which is annoying to say the least.
The app is also far less capable as a standalone music app. Never has any lyrics, this weird concept of switching between video and audio, hard to view all fo the work of a particular artist/group on one page, no continuity between mobile and desktop a la Spotify. The hand curated playlists are also updated less than the ones on Spotify. Interestingly the machine generated recommendations from Spotify have also always been much better than that of Youtube Music, which is strange given how good Youtubes video recommendation algorithm has gotten in recent years.
On top of all of this I have been using Spotify since 2013; I have a massive amount of music in my library there that I have no way of porting over to Youtube Music.
The wests adoption of the personal computer introduced video editing there, and the companies who make the editing software have mostly kept it there.
AFAIK the app is still being used in the field and maintained (my internship was over 4 years ago). This was a rare case of hiring interns to build something and it actually working out.
The Wii is old enough that modern commodity hardware can emulate it well enough that it almost indistinguishable from running games on the actual device. Wii clones already exist as emulator boxes and that will continue to be the most financially sound way of producing clones.
If this leak were to include design specifications of more modern hardware (such as in the Switch) I think you _would_ see some good clones in Shenzhen in less than a year.
Later on I realized that most jobs that ask for a CS degree don't actually have you doing any computer science. More often you are glueing together tools or writing a bunch of boring business logic for some specific application at best. At worst you are maintaining an old monolith trying to figure out someones logic from 15 years ago.
Having a CS background in most software jobs is useful in the same way having a chemistry background is useful to someone working as a nurse. Sure there will be situations where that knowledge might help you make a connection more quickly, but you're sure as hell not a chemist.
I write a lot of internal tools for my company used in manufacturing/fulfillment. We generally deploy these as fleets of Raspberry Pis. The front ends for these systems are generally pretty simple, they just walk an operator through what they should be scanning, and for hardware interaction I use a small node server. I serve a React App to these stations (from an internal server) to render this UI.
What (modern) alternatives are there for this that do not use web technologies? I've recently grown an affinity for ruby and attempted to rewrite my frontend in Shoes, but the barebones documentation and lack of SO answers made that a huge pain in the ass, not to mention the added steps in deployment of updates. Going any other route just seems like so much more work for no true benefit.
We had one a freshman join during my senior year who was a huge advocate of Toki Pona as a conlang. We decided to devote a month of the club to Toki Pona instead of Esperanto and it was mind boggling how quickly everyone was able to get a grasp of it. Granted Toki Pona is much more "wordy" than Esperanto, you often have to use many words to convey an idea that you could express quickly in a language with a larger vocabulary. Regardless it was an absolute blast to learn and I'm surprised by how much I remember.
Once I got to college there seemed to be a severe lack of interest in Esperanto, or any conlang for that matter, amongst the student body. I could never really keep enough people interested the same way I could in high school so I gave up after my sophomore year. I really miss teaching people Esperanto. I believe the club at my high school still runs to this day, I'd love to be able to go back and visit one day.
I really hope this is fixed now in newer versions of Android.
The general theme in these comments is that these designs look too modern or up-class. The reason it looks like this is because its a product for adults, children generally don't appreciate this kind of design so I would imagine this works pretty well.
Only to go back to the reviews later and see the "Most Helpful" review reports that their item was counterfeit as well.
Anyone care to elaborate how this is possible? Surely Amazon is not doing this intentionally, are they just getting ripped off by their suppliers?
The site looks quite dated now and doesn't have any geo location support. It would be awesome if somebody could give this a refresh in the same vein as your project.
The people I talk generally genuinely are really happy with the regime though. People respect the hell out of Xi, and faith in the central government combined with the Maoist nationalism that still prevails as the dominant form of identity for most mainland Chinese you see the average citizen that really has no criticisms of the government.
I've had conversations with Chinese people before about the American bipartisan system and free speech vs the Chinese counterparts and usually they come to this conclusion: "Americas system works for America, Chinas system works for China. If people could say whatever they want here there would be much more trouble, if there were multiple competing political parties they would be at each others throats in a way that makes Americas current polarization look like a beautiful political climate".
Let what works for China continue to work for China, and what works for us continue to work for us. People, cultures, and ideas are different depending on where and how you were raised. The ideas that made the west great don't necessarily work for everyone.
The current regime has broken records year over year and almost the entire population is happy with them. Chinese people are better off every single day. Who are we as westerners to say that our system of governance is better than theirs? How can you be so sure that their system will inevitably be bad for the people?
Just because an absolute right to say (almost) whatever you want is essential to the political philosophy of the west does not mean that it can/would mesh well in Chinese society.
I know you guys are going to want to crucify me for saying a lot of this but I work with a lot of people in mainland China and no one has any problems with the government, they stick to their own business and are doing pretty damn well. Obviously this could change one day but thats not our job as non-chinese citizens to decide.