“When the lights come out at sundown along the shores of Scotland, I am proud to think they burn more brightly for the genius of my father.”
—from MEMOIRS OF HIMSELF, Robert Louis Stevenson’s uncompleted (indeed, barely begun) autobiography
Thomas Stevenson (1818–1887), lighthouse engineer & father of Robert Louis Stevenson, was born #OTD, 22 July
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My freelance quote for your software project.
50 - if you tell me what you want, I confirm the requirements, and I build it for you
100 - if I have to pry a description of what you want out of you like pulling a tooth
250 - if I have to build it on a "company laptop" you supply
350 - if I have to regularly video call with you for no particular reason
400 - if I have to use JIRA
450 - if I have to use Github
500 - if I have to use Zoom
750 - if I have to use Teams
1,250 - if you ever want to "watch me work" by sharing my desktop
1,500 - if the project is fixing something your employees built for you
1,800 - if it's fixing something a previous contractor built
2,500 - if it's fixing / completing a project a previous, cheaper freelancer failed to complete
19,500 - if it's fixing something created with "AI"
DuckDuckGo Browser now lets you hide AI-generated Images in Search Results.
The company says it’s launching the feature in response to feedback from users who said AI images can get in the way of finding what they’re looking for.
Yaydio, a 3d printed DIY MP3 Music Player for Kids.
Maintaining a library of CDs is not entirely convenient either, so [JakesMD] has created the Yaydio. It’s a music player for kids [powered by a Arduino Nano with modules for MP3 playback and NFC reading], that plays music when a card is inserted in its slot.
In #ThoughtLeadering mode for the next three minutes:
It has been said for years that an #Engineer (of any discipline) should be a T or a TT Engineer (very few bright ones can add one or two more Ts over the course of decades). Current LLMs generate the illusion of α #haircomb (TTTTTTT) Engineer, where in fact they generate a #flatliner.
Thank you for attending my TEDx talk
Upgrading an old Espresso Machine.
Recently, [Samuel Leeuwenburg] got his paws on a 90’s espresso machine. The second-hand machine still looked pretty good, but its performance was pretty abysmal. After popping the machine open the boiler turned out to be pretty much full of scale. Rather than just cleaning it, the boiler was upgraded to a brass version for better heat retention and other perks.
I'm a software engineer. I do not have a high opinion of the snake-oil "AI" that my industry is using to pursue self-immolation.
However, I will have more f*cks to give about "vibe coding" *after* we solve the problem of vibe voting, which appears to be at the root of the world's USA Problem.
Have you subscribed to Ryan's YouTube channel yet? If he gets 16k subscribers by August he has agreed to visit a fair... If he gets 20k he will even ride some of the rides which will certainly bring some hilarity!
... And if you haven't watched his videos yet you are in for a treat.
[C64 Game Maker]
Over the last decades I have seen many retro game engine updates, from the C64 with SEUCK, to a constant array of updates for the Amiga with either Backbone, Redpill or the Scorpion Engine. Now, we become a new game engine for the Commodore 64 called [C64 Game Maker] by [AGPX]. “A tool that allows you to generate C++ source code for simple video games.”
Перший прототип,перша плата.Та тиждень проб та помилок.
GPUHammer: New RowHammer Attack Variant Degrades AI Models on NVIDIA GPUs.
NVIDIA is urging customers to enable System-level Error Correction Codes [ECC] as a defense against a variant of a RowHammer attack demonstrated against its graphics processing units [GPUs].