Has anyone ever noticed major differences between different JVM distributions? I've used multiple distributions including TEMURIN and Corretto and never noticed behavioral differences. I've never run Java at massive scale or performance critical code though.
Looks like the AI didn't generate a .gitignore file and ignore the .ds_store file that shouldn't be checked into source control. I think my job's ok for at least another few days.
When initially looking at this my thought was that this is a way to ditch personal responsibility. How hard can it be to call your family member once every day or two to make sure there ok? Thinking about it more I could see this being useful for people with conflicting schedules such as night shift workers. I also think it may be helpful in cases where someone is in early stages of dementia and needs multiple check-ins a day. (I have no personal experience with dementia so may be totally off.) It may be good to update the description and marketing copy to have this be an addition to normal check-ins from actual care givers or family members.
Meta AI and Be MY Eyes already can do something similar with cameras. It's useful to me as a blind person but definitely not to the point where I'd trust it to help me do online banking, apply for jobs etc. I frequently get incorrect information such as invalid expiration dates on food, inability to read temperatures on displays in sunlight, telling me products are on the shelf in the pantry that aren't, etc. My wife loves the blindness specific AI image recognition though since it's really good at determining the flavor of Propel water and I no longer have to ask her if it's grape or not.
Have you looked at the rules and standards? Last time I delft with Section 508 and WCAG 2.1 there were less then 100 rules. I think you have a point about to many standards, but I'm pretty sure most of the standards have an incredible amount of overlap. As someone who's blind I don't want to interact with my online banking website through AI because they were to lazy to insure it's accessible and would rather click a checkbox. I already deal with enough hallucinations about functions in third party libraries that don't exist, inaccurate product specifications, etc. I don't want to miss a bill payment because AI thought it knew what I wanted and sent money to the wrong place, or misread my account. I could see a place for AI conducting basic automated testing for accessibility and providing information to a human to verify but I'm not sure if such a product exists.
I can't get to worked up about the way the surveys were conducted since this was advertising. If R.J. Reynolds were trying to publish peer reviewed papers based on there survey results and excluded the fact that the doctors were given free cigarettes that would be more of an issue. I'm sure much worse stuff was done in an effort to hide the health effects of smoking but it's not something I have familiarity with.
This is how I formatted my resume using Pandoc to generate a word document from a Markdown file. Having everything in Markdown also made it easy to quickly create customized resumes by reordering specific sections or lists in a section as well as tracking changes in Git.
As someone who had to haul one of these around in elementary school, good riddance! They were annoyingly heavy and difficult to move as a child. I believe part of the reason for their size is that they support full-size Braille paper for creating books. Now that books are created using Braille printers, there's not as much of a need for something so large. I used an older version of the Mountbatten Brailler (https://mountbattenbrailler.com/) and liked it because it was lighter and easier to carry. I wish there were a smaller version of this, without all the computer features. It would be even better if it had open-source software and freely available schematics.
I was using the Mainframe as an intern. Working in a Mainframe company it still took me three months to be able to write JCL from scratch with out needing help. It was a constant struggle until one day a switch flipped and I just understood the basics. I've never had another programming experience where I've gone from struggling to comfortable so quickly.
There are now multiple options for GUI editors. When I was using the Mainframe in 2016 through 2020 I was using multiple eclipse based IDE's that provided the ability to edit datasets on the Mainframe, submit and view jobs, etc. They couldn't do everything you could do in the ISPF interface but they made the Mainframe much easier to use.
"Legacy cruft" can be code that's been providing business value for 50 or more years. The mainframe may be expensive, and IBM may love to nickel-and-dime you for every available feature, but it might still make business sense to keep using it. What's the point in rewriting all your code to move it off the mainframe if that will cost twenty times as much as maintaining the existing code while vastly increasing risk? While you may achieve cost savings by moving off the mainframe, they might take so long to accrue that it doesn't make business sense.
Why is it a bad thing? Most programmers used to have to write assembly language until high level languages became usable. Would it be such a bad thing if Javascript became a low level implementation detail? (I used to write z/OS Assembly and now use Java and Go. My last web development experience was in 2010)
If your correct then most businesses will go out of business. If all you need is a CEO and the cloud who are you going to sell your products to if no one can buy anything because they've all been fired?
As someone who works with Confluent Kafka I'm not happy with there pricing structure. While the cost savings look good I'd need a much larger Confluent bill to consider moving off Confluent. The cost savings appears to be about the cost of a developer. With complex systems using many micro services to communicate with Kafka the switching cost is not worth it at a small scale given the business values developers could provide instead of doing the switch. When your talking about much larger data volumes or multiple clusters across multiple regions then the math starts to look better.
How do you control this machine? Is it touch screen based, app based, or physical controls? If physical controls is there enough feedback that you could use this totally blind? Sorry for the somewhat duplicate post but I think this got lost in my prior post where I was discussing both the espresso machine and grinder.
edit: I saw the manual after I posted this, looks like it's a simple knob to control pressure with a simple start and stop button.
I enjoy coffee and espresso, I don't enjoy the ritual of making it. I don't want to have to stand and focus on getting my pressure correct on the leaver in the morning when I'm half awake. I want to dump premeasured beans into a grinder, then dump them into a machine and press a single button. I realize this machine would require more work then just that but it's still less then a leaver machine.
I think an option to 3d print a ring of dots that could be stuck to the outer adjustment dial would work, you could add a stick on dot to the inner dial and line things up that way.
I frequently switch between three grind sizes, one for a single cup, one for a pot, and one for cold brew. With the Fellow Ode I can easily count clicks to insure I'm at the expected position. With out tactile markings on the dial and a tactile arrow to line up with markings there's no way to make the grind size reproducible as far as I know. I've never tried using stepless grinders for this reason so I may be wrong about how hard it is to dial in when blind.
Either I can't find it or the site needs more detail. I'm totally blind and have a couple of questions I can't find answers to.
1. Is the grinder stepless? Based on the description it appears it is. This is a deal breaker for me.
2. How do you control the Espresso machine? There are many coffee products I can't use do to there interface. I'd like to get a Fellow Aiden coffee maker but the interface is completely inaccessible. It's unclear to me if there app will ever allow you to fully control the machine. If this machine had a documented API I'd be interested. I've looked at the Decent espresso machine, but can't justify the cost since I drink mostly filter coffee.
I have one of those but don't use it that often. I tend to cook burgers which work better on the grill. While I could cook sausage with it it's easier to do it on the grill to get a char. I do like it for chicken and stake though.
The advantage of this one is that I know it works with an app on my phone. ALso it's my understanding that instant read ones can't stay in the food while it cooks? This one can handle temperatures over 500 degrees farenheight.
Under $100
Wireless cooking thermometer
https://store-us.meater.com/products/meater-plus
Since I'm blind this allows me to cook with out worrying I'll eat under cooked food.
Under $1000
Meta Ray-ban glasses.
https://www.ray-ban.com/usa/ray-ban-meta-smart-glasses
I find using them as headphones to be a better option then transparency mode when using my phone. The Meta AI is also pretty good at recognizing flavors of bottles and types of food in packaging.
Maybe people wouldn't do this if applications didn't go into a black hole to either never get responses or get responses months later. Out of all my job searches I've only ever gotten one interview by applying with a company instead of working with a recruiter. If you only interview candidates from recruiters why bother posting the job on sites like Linkedin?
A recruiter told me that if you click the link to apply to a company website Linkedin considers that an application since they don't have visibility into the application process once you leave the site. There are probably job application botts out there but I'm sure clicks with out completing an application explains some of the application numbers.
This would have interested me before wrappers for Maven and Gradle became common. Now that you can check in wrappers and easily upgrade the build tool version I don't see this being worth while for general use. I could see it being useful in situations where you needed full code auditability of everything involved in the build process but I've never run into that requirement in my work.
Location: Detroit, Michigan, USA
Remote: Yes,
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Java, Go, Springboot, Hibernate, Kafka, SQL, Docker, Terraform, accessibility testing
Resume: https://docs.google.com/document/d/122lDgy7KXTtjoHnZBzz3RFmf...
Email: jared.stofflet@gmail.com
I am a developer with ten years of Backend development experience primarily with Java and Go. I also have significant Devops experience with a focus on Kafka administration and monitoring. I'm looking for Backend roles but am language agnostic. Ideally, I'd like my next role to be working with Kafka or other streaming technologies but I'm open to other Backend opportunities as well.
As a totally blind Backend developer who is looking for a job I've never figured out when to tell someone I'm blind. I've settled on telling a recruiter right before the first interview so that people understand why I may not be looking at the Camera in zoom. I haven't found a better option. I do mention web accessibility testing experience further down on my resume but no one reads far enough to ever ask me about that. I think that's another issue of the uselessness of resumes.
I'm totally blind so don't use a mouse. Isn't this pretty obvious to detect? My understanding is that it'd be obvious if someone was moving a mouse around with an abnormally low level of clicks?