ignite

I don't know if this is still a common thing, but this definitely used to happen.

> Something went wrong over the years

Yeah, they bred the for being shippable, over flavor.

https://www.myrecipes.com/how-to/cooking-questions/why-are-r...

Same thing with tomatoes: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/why-do-uk-tomatoes-taste-bad

Buttons are much better than touchscreens, if you have a fixed interface that fits in the space available.

Touchscreens win when you need multiple interfaces in the same amount of space.

Google has gotten notably worse in the last few months. I keep getting the feeling it is serving results for a query similar to what I entered, but more popular. It drowns out any results that actually might answer my questions.

I certainly didn't kill Microsoft, but it's tens of billions of dollars they didn't get. It's significant, even at Microsoft's scale.

No, that's way more complicated.

They used to make spinners which had something like a dozen red LEDs in a vertical configuration. Very simple.

Resolution was like this https://www.amazon.com/128pixel-indoor-electronic-display-me..., but it only displayed one vertical slice at a time.

Aren't you supposed to calibrate these by taking them outside and assuming that is 400ppm? If that's the case, you can't really use them to measure outside CO2.

I'm just learning about these, so I may not be understanding correctly.

Every home has a CO sensor, at least where I live. It's required. What gives you the feeling that people are ignoring it? People are very aware of it.

CO is something everyone is aware of - growing awareness that less lethal things are also important is what's driving CO2 checking.

I'm sure people will be using ChatGPT to fill out descriptions of new companies soon, if they aren't already.

Ah, I read the rest of the article: "They are using a new ASIN for each new expiration date on a given product."

Really? Amazon (now) sells thousand of things that have an expiration date. I hope they track this.

Not new, but quantum locking. Literally making things float. I'm still convinced it's magic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4r_Dz_lJS4

There are a number of things like this. I can't find them now, but they used to make spinning displays. They had a single column of LEDs, but when you spun them, it would leave an afterimage behind, so the message "floated" in the air.

Now, you can get fancier items, like https://www.etsy.com/listing/491059634/strange-light-up-led-...

The person asking the question is frequently not the person with the knowledge to determine this.

The X-Y response shows up frequently on support forums where people are asking questions that show they haven't yet grasped the system they are working on.

> Synoptical reading is reading a variety of books and articles on the same topic, finding and evaluating the contradictions, and forming an opinion.

The one thing I can see that's missing from a modern version of this is "books aren't the only source of information anymore."

For example, I'm studying linear algebra. I've gone through 3blue1brown on the topic, working through Khan Academy on linear algebra, and am working on the book "Linear Algebra: Theory, Intuition, Code" by Mike X Cohen. I may add a Coursera course when I finish one or more of these, if I feel it is necessary.

Getting information from multiple sources is a key to getting a good understanding of it.

In person courses can be great, too. But reading is a solo activity, so more comparable to videos, and self-paced classes.

>>they force alignment of dependencies and their versions

>A sane thing to do. Better yet to do it in a global fashion, along with integration tests.

But brutally difficult at scale. If you have hundreds of dependencies, a normal case, what do you do when one part of the monolith needs to update a dependency, but that requires you update it for all consumers of the dependency's API, and another consumer is not compatible with the new version?

On a large project, dependency updates happen daily. Trying to do every dependency update is a non-starter. No one has that bandwidth. The larger your module is, the more dependencies you have to update, and the more different ways they are used, so you are more likely to get update conflicts.

This doesn't say you need microservices, but the larger your module is, the further into dependency hell you will likely end up.

As someone who did exactly this, and taken others through this, let me assure you the answer is "practice, practice, practice".

Several people below recommend toastmasters. Do it. https://www.toastmasters.org/find-a-club

They have been around for a hundred years, because they are good at it. There's nothing wrong with other approaches, but toastmasters is good at making nervous people comfortable. Toastmasters' meetings have short, improv speeches every meeting, so you can practice the thing you need work on. And you can get feedback, delivered kindly!

Improv is fine, too. I just find it a little scarier to get started in. And it doesn't have as much emphasis on "organize your thoughts". Of course, it's a lot of fun!!

Anything that gives you practice on what you aren't good at is good. Give lightning talks at small users groups. Hell, get a weekend job at Starbucks. Have a friend ask you questions like this, and answer them on your feet. Get up in the morning, and explain something to your mirror. Find the nearest small group of people, and summarize the responses given here!

Practice, practice, practice

No free trial? Not interesting enough to pay for, if I have no idea how useful it is.

If you are doing something new, you need to let people see what it will do, before they will give you money.

I thought that companies you are doing business with are allowed to call you. He has an account, they can call.

Also not a lawyer.

It seems to now do multiword correction - that is, it will change two words instead of just the current word. This leads to major meaning shifts when it autocorrects, leading to confused recipients.

Just read through the comments on any popular hacker news post. So many divergent opinions, many conflicting. People are sure they are right.

I am running on work laptop not using GPU. (I'm running in docker). I just get

    warnings.warn("FP16 is not supported on CPU; using FP32 instead")

And it works.

What's your point? Do you think 12 pages a day is a high number?

I'm sure I've exceeded that over a similar period. Likely anyone who enjoys reading regularly has.

My static site generate is enough python to invoke mustache on every file in a directory. Maybe 70 lines

That's it.

Works fine.

Not everything is improved by creeping featuritis.

Doesn't do spelling correction.

Not as good as google at figuring out which terms are important.

    lucene explain api

weights API heavily, and doesn't return reasonable answers. For google, it's the first hit.