dannygarcia

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Comment · 1 month ago

Or worse, misaligned with the Terms of Service.

Comment · 2 months ago

After wearing an Apple Watch for almost a decade, the F-91W became my new "never take off" watch. For daily use, the only thing I miss from a smartwatch is a weather+temp forecast complication. Interestingly, it doesn't seem like this F-B100W-1A provides that (yet).

Comment · 1 year ago

It does. It'll also let you do cost basis adjustments just like TurboTax.

Comment · 1 year ago

It's very easy. I've done this by accident. One of my side projects helps users price the affordability of a particular kind of product. When I ask various LLMs "can I afford X" or "how much do I need to earn to buy X", my project comes up as a source/reference. I currently manually crawl retailers for the MSRP so these numbers are usually months out of date!

Comment · 1 year ago

Unfortunately not out of the box but the demo runs really well on M4 chips. It can be enabled as such (I'm on Sequoia): 1. Safari > Settings > Advanced > Show features for web developers 2. Develop > Feature Flags > Search for WebGPU

Safari Tech Preview may have it enabled by default.

Comment · 4 years ago

My biggest concern with an online service is privacy (either bad actors or the web app getting hacked). I used an online mortgage service that was fully paperless with the exception of a single document. Just ran it through a few imagemagick commands to add rotation, noise, contrast, etc. My home printer wasn't working so it was either that or buy a whole new one.

Comment · 4 years ago

This is an awesome tool! I created my own promo in Blender for a personal site project* some time ago and it was a real pain getting the screen content to render accurately and contrast well off of the device. Do you have any concerns with consistency across different devices/GPUs since you're doing everything client-side? Nice to see the attention to detail you put into this.

* https://twitter.com/dannygarcia/status/1220401033064484864

Comment · 5 years ago

The Nature of Code book is a great resource. Dan also deep dives on specific topics on his YouTube channel.

- https://natureofcode.com/book/

- https://www.youtube.com/c/TheCodingTrain

Comment · 5 years ago

After spending a month of nights and weekends building this I'm not sure whether to scrap it or continue working on it - possibly monetizing advanced features:

https://allocator.app/

Comment · 6 years ago

I would say Roughgarden's four CS Algorithms courses on Coursera are somewhat more advanced than CS50: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/algorithms

It covers foundational topics like asymptotic notation. However there is some reading required if you a C in high school calculus like me.

Comment · 6 years ago

One trick is to apply as a specialist for a given role. During the interviews ask questions that give you a sense for how easy it is to generalize internally.

You can automate your resume-specialization by building a template in HTML, store role details in a DB (a JSON file would do), and generate unique PDFs with `weasyprint`. Something like `11ty` or `jekyll` makes this fairly doable.

Show HN: I built Allocator from an old spreadsheet to teach myself React allocator.app

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Comment · 6 years ago

Here are a few notation resources I've found helpful when teaching myself computer science:

- Mathematics for Computer Science: https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.042/spring17/mcs.pdf

- Calculus Made Easy: http://calculusmadeeasy.org

Not directly related to your question but useful for interviews and programming puzzles nonetheless:

- Algorithms and Data Structures, The Basic Toolbox: https://people.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~mehlhorn/ftp/Mehlhorn-Sanders...

- Basic Proof Techniques: https://www.cse.wustl.edu/~cytron/547Pages/f14/IntroToProofs...

Comment · 6 years ago

> Folktales were not originally for children.

I learned this the hard way. I purchased a beautifully made "Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales" to read to my then toddler. There are some particularly disturbing stories but I was surprised by how many were flat out nonsensical or silly (like The Story of a Boy Who Went Forth to Learn Fear [0]). It's fascinating to read these in their (translated) original form. Not your typical bedtime story.

[0] https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm004.html

Comment · 6 years ago

Curious if you're being facetious or genuinely flummoxed but it looks like a poetry periodical published in the format of industrial freight.