flimsypremise

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by flimsypremise 2y ago
Been interviewing for over a decade. Tests like this do not really tell you whether someone is a good programmer, they tell you whether a person has spent a lot of time practicing problems like this. The only way to tell if someone is good
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by flimsypremise 2y ago
I've been doing something similar. I started with a 3D printer approach, then two cheap aliexpress C-beam linear actuators and finally managed to acquire a 2-axis microscope stage for cheap. The key I have found is that any issues with
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by flimsypremise 2y ago
As someone who has built multiple custom macro film scanner setups, owns basically very consumer film scanner of note (including the Coolscan 9000 and the Minolta Scan Multi Pro), and is intimately familiar with the workings of various film
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by flimsypremise 2y ago
If you really want to, you can have a react app that is just static templates with no interactivity with a simple Node server that just called renderToString and all of a sudden react is just a backend templating framework. If you want to g
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by flimsypremise 2y ago
Very funny that you think a build with an entire CMS involved is somehow "simpler". You apparently have a lot of patience for Django's static asset management pipeline, but I do not.
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by flimsypremise 2y ago
Modern CSS has _some_ of the features of SCSS/SASS. It does not have all of them. But most importantly, many of dependencies one might want to use also make use of SCSS/SASS downstream. If you're happy to build everything fro
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by flimsypremise 2y ago
What does "most sites" even mean? I do this professionally, and I assume that most of the people replying here do as well. The article we're discussing is written by a professional for an audience of professionals. The number
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by flimsypremise 2y ago
What's rendering the pages on the server? Because if its not javascript, and you still have a frontend build, you have a repository with two separate builds, and builds are expensive to maintain. If your containerizing, you need two di
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by flimsypremise 2y ago
In web application terms, the "build" is everything that needs to happen to get your application running into production. That means a runtime and dependencies. Speaking of dependencies, does your perfect frontend simply not have
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by flimsypremise 2y ago
Building a web application with a UI in a professional context without a frontend build is borderline malpractice. Even a "thin" layer of JS on top requires some degree of dependency management, and I personally have no desire to
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by flimsypremise 2y ago
I don't think the author of this article actually understands the pressures that increasingly drive all frontend development into javascript frameworks, but those pressures are actually very straightforward: • A large portion of the co
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by flimsypremise 2y ago
I have several 2-axis microscope stages from the 80s/90s that are driven by brushed motors with position feedback, and they are all capable of higher accuracy than any stepper motor I have. The capability was there, it was just pricey.
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by flimsypremise 2y ago
If the microservice has dependencies on other services it is not a microservice.
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by flimsypremise 2y ago
what company have you ever worked for that was happy with the current rate of progress in software development?
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by flimsypremise 2y ago
I'm shooting to do 35mm and medium format. 4x5 is a stretch goal. Even illumination is definitely a challenge, though I use the same technique you do, which is generally refered to as flat field calibration, where we capture the field
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by flimsypremise 2y ago
I'm currently doing something similar to build a photographic film scanner. I will say that I've found that moving the optics is generally much more error and vibration prone than moving the target. I'm actually using a 2 axi
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by flimsypremise 2y ago
In NYC I can tell you that the metropolitan area lost about 500,000 people since 2020, added ~20-30k housing units per year in that same time. The vacancy rate somehow dropped dramatically despite this and rents also rose dramatically. I&#x
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by flimsypremise 2y ago
yeah because now that we've all been asking about it, that answer is in its training data. the trick with LLMs is always "is the answer in the training data".
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by flimsypremise 2y ago
Because I don't want to pay monthly for a bunch of content I probably won't read. I want to pay a small amount of money, with as little friction as possible, for the specific content I want to read now.
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by flimsypremise 2y ago
Yes, there's actually a very good test for a properly inverted color negative. You need a negative of a greyscale step scale from light to dark. If the color channels are properly linear relative to one another in the scanned image, yo
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by flimsypremise 2y ago
Yes, you do actually need to do this. You basically need to calibrate every sensor to ensure that the correct wavelength of light ends up in the right channel.
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by flimsypremise 2y ago
Technically, yes. I know a few people have done it. In a practical sense it is very difficult and you are unlikely to get it working without a lot of trial and error. The tricky part is that the IR image needs to be perfectly aligned with t
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by flimsypremise 2y ago
RGB scanning doesn't actually expand the color gamut, but removes erroneous color information. If you use white light you end up recording color information from the dyes in wavelengths outside of those that RA-4 paper is sensitive to,
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by flimsypremise 2y ago
So I wrote an article about this a few years back and also developed a custom RGB light for my own scanning: https://medium.com/@alexi.maschas/color-negative-film-color-... There's also some proper academic resear
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by flimsypremise 2y ago
This is how I mostly do interviews. Get the candidate talking about their previous roles and see how they talk about the problems they've solved and what that reveals about how they see the job.
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by flimsypremise 2y ago
I'm going to give you all a bit of very real advice from a very senior engineer. The premise of this discussion is based on a fundamental misapprehension of what the job of a software engineer is about. The amount of time you get to sp
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by flimsypremise 2y ago
It's not super surprising that LLMs perform well on standardized tests, given that they have a lot of standardized test related text in their training data. There are a lot of claims out there about the zero-shot ability of LLMs, and v
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by flimsypremise 3y ago
This was very funny to read because as someone who is actually familiar with these JS builds I immediately guessed that a dependency had changed. That's literally the first thing I'd check if an app is behaving differently in a re
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by flimsypremise 3y ago
Congratulations you have just invented yet another query language with the special fun addition that the result is non-deterministic.
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by flimsypremise 3y ago
5 years to get a wrap_comments feature stable? I sometime wonder if people read the things they write?

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