Even printing can have some side effects on the code, by introducing some extra latency that might implicitly fix a race condition, if that’s the bug in question.
Not saying that it’s wrong, just funny to think about that race conditions are hard to debug with any kind of tool, either with debugger or printing.
I don't know why but I just can't keep myself from laughing at the name of McPlant.
(I do think plant based meat is a great thing though, it's just a hilarious name.)
Looks great and I love my basic ScanWatch. But I find it frustrating that there's so many unexplored opportunities on the software side that Withings seems to ignore.
I'd love an SDK for their watches, or just a very basic API to display some custom data on the watch from my phone. (One use-case would be to create a weather widget there.)
I've been living in Helsinki for 3 years and while I like the idea of supporting foreigners, I also find this a bit disappointing. I only know a handful of expacts who even attempted to learn Finnish, but I know a bunch of people who live here for 10-15 years and still not integrated because they only communicate in English.
The simplest alternative would be to replace Swedish with English as the secondary official language, but support people more who wants to learn Finnish, especially because the local language courses were always full when I checked.
The non-integration you’re talking about is common in multi-cultural cities. Vancouver, Canada is a very strong example of this, with distinctly Chinese, Philippino, and Indian areas with large proportions of the population who do not integrate. It’s almost the opposite of a melting pot, seems stable, and could be described as ghetto-ized.
I'd argue it's a bit harder to endanger a majority language without violent relocation and re-education camps that the Squamish people suffered; but point taken.
I am sure the Kunda, Comb Ceramic, Corded Ware, Kiukainen, and Pöljä who used to occupy most of Finland didn't speak modern Finnish, yet here we are.
I understand the desire to make political points about the status of native/first nations populations in Canada, but frankly, English and French are Canada's official languages.
Happy to hear you like it! This year I'm also planning some updates for the rest of my apps.
So far I don't have any technical issues with the input sources, just need to find some time to work on them. (These applications are developed as weekend projects, so it generally takes a while to add new features.)
There is a hole in joe public visualiser apps that will work with any input, without too much additional setup, and taking that visualisation and superimposing it anywhere, with little or no 'setup'. There are many that do incredible things with video (EFEKT) but it's not obvious how to add to, say, OBS. Joe Public are spending more and more time making little digital things, if they could play together, that would be something. Audiobus for video.
It's not only modern games, I remember a similar issue with the first Deus Ex game which is ironically also a cyberpunk game and it was released 20 years ago.
I guess they saved the whole state of the map and items which made the save files several megabytes large. My hard drive was only around 100 GB back then, so it was a real concern to accidentally fill it when I saved too often.
Fun fact: it only exists in Hungarian and it's even called as "hungarumlaut" in typography. (It's kind of pronounced as longer ö.) Usually it's missing from custom fonts unfortunately, which can make some Hungarian websites ugly.
I use them almost on a daily basis to control the lights in my apartment, it's surprisingly convenient and helps with multitasking when I'm in a hurry.
The same thing goes for weather and reminders. The best use case when you're in the middle of something, eg. cooking and just want to make a simple note or set a timer.
Does it actually work for you though? I've quickly abandoned Google assistant because it just misunderstands what I say about 2/3s of the time. A friend of mine who has all his lights controllable by voice complains about the same issue - a lot of the time, Google just doesn't understand the command so by the time you get it "right" you could have walked up to the switch 3 times.
I had Alexa controlling the lights for a while, but I found talking requires much more cognitive effort than picking up a remote, finding the right button by touch, and pushing it.
I can literally do the latter three quarters asleep, but not so much the former.
It would be far more useful to have the process almost completely automated. Lights go on when someone enters a room and go off when everyone leaves, with optional manual override.
This turns out to be a hard(ish) problem that needs better sensors and/or some form of personal ID.
Using Alexa you can set up routines, which are effectively macros triggered by a keyword, and tend to be recognised more consistently. I’ve got mine set so “bedtime” turns off the main lights and turns on dimmed side lights, and “goodnight” turns off all the lights in the house.
I switched from g-assist to Alexa because at least in my experience I found that while google was way better at random trivia, Alexa was way better at understanding the narrow set of commands she supports.
I think this is both a mic quality issue and a nlp issue. All the online comparisons compare random trivia but I almost never ask trivia because the failure rate on both is too high (that domain is way too open ended for assistants right now I think).
It does, just need to remember that they require a specific way of talking. I'm always by default talking more loudly and articulately with simple expressions, then it gets it for the first try.
(At least Google Assistant, Siri has way way more issues understanding me.)
