> But the problem is that while kids like it a lot, it doesn't translate to engineering careers.
I think there has always been that though. When having a guitar was cool and people thought they'd be famous doing it. Of course 0.00001% actually managed it, but some craft out a career in music or related areas such as being studio engineers etc. (I did)
And for some it shows that it is possible, that people like them can be enabled and make their own stuff.
It might be that they're are organisations needed to bridge this new gap and get people into more formal engineering, but they'll also hopefully realise that people like them might work one day at top tier engineering companies.
For me, if I ever say IEC mains lead I get a blank expression. C13 even more so.
"Kettle lead" (Which is notched to indicate it can take a higher temperature and most of cables aren't that, they will be the c13 type), and their face lights up and a cable will be handed to me.
Just one of those things that's wrong, but it's not worth being pedantic over it, imo.
With respect, I disagree. Musk is obsessed with the "the best part is no part ". Which only works if you don't actually need it. Combined with an obsession with cost cutting, and you get tunnel vision insisting on a course of action which does not know with 100% certainty about the world it is trying to navigate. And this has led directly to people dying.
Being obsessed only works when you turn out to be right, and tesla's system does not work as well as lidar.
No, they don't. Look at what has happened when a tesla has mistaken a motorcycle with two small rear lights that is nearby for a car that is further away but with the same lighting configuration. Did not end well for the motorcyclists.
I think I should have made it more clear in my post, the code is claude's and was done from scratch (the first app was a mandelbrot viewer which it added features to, this is a platfrom game).
It's a single file at the moment (I did give a suggested project structure with files for each area of responsibility) and it kind-of-works.
I think I could create the missing method in the class but wanted to see if it was possible by getting the tools to do it - it's as much of an experiment in the process and the end result.
Thanks for replying, I shall investigate what you've suggested and see what happens.
Can someone offer me some help? I've just been messing about "vibe coding" little python apps with local llm, continue and vscode. And I got so far with it.
Then I found the free tier of claude so I fed in the "works so far" version with the changes that the local llm made, and it fixed and updated all the issues (with clear explanation) in one go. Success!
So my next level attempt was to get all the spec and prompts for a new project (a simple manic miner style 2d game using pygame). 8 used chat gpt to craft all this and it looked sensible to me with appropriate constraints for different parts of the projrct.
Which claude created. But it keeps referring to a method which it says is not present in the code and that I'm running the wrong version. (I'm definitely not). I've tried indicating it by reference to the line number and the surrounding code but it's just gas lighting me.
Any ideas how to progress from this? I'm not expecting perfection, but it seems it's just taken me to a higher level before it runs into essentially the same issue as the local llm.
All advice appreciated, I'm just dabbling with this four a bit of fun when I can (I'm pretty unwell so do things as and when I feel up to it)
Is it? Certainly hasn't been the experience of my two autistic daughters who had years of difficulty and which led to real problems for a decade or so each during later later schooling and early work years. Both are now doing much better but it's been a long uphill battle for them. The same of my two sons but society is much more tolerant (but bit fully) off their symptoms as they tend to be viewed as 'male' tendencies, just severely amplified.
From what I've read, the cost of an llm would be greater than the current operators who are effectively enslaved. If it were cheaper then possibly - certainly easier to manage than people who would try to escape their dire situation here.
Coming from android I have to agree, it's terrible. The only help I can offer is that if you press and hold the space bar you can drag to go through to where you need to be, but it's still painful. I can only bear ios because I am using SwiftKey - the default keyboard genuinely stopped me from switching to an iPhone, I found it that bad. And some apps force you to use the default ios one which is even worse!
>How is it not the responsibility of senior management at a major retailer to ensure an exploit at a vendor can't take the whole house of cards down?
I think you may be misunderstanding their organisation layout - his job is entirely to do with the quality of the products that they offer (and he's very good at it). He's nothing to with sales or online or any of that, but part of the 'normal' retail chain that people would never think goes anywhere this stuff. But their systems were all taken out because of this.
That's really good as all the pinouts give all the extras on which can be overwhelming. Being able to just see the PWM capable outputs for instance is much nicer. And they look fantastic.
Thanks for your pimoroni [1] work as well, I've used quite a few products and they're always easy to work with because of good software and examples.
A friend of mine is senior management at one of these companies. His life has been a real nightmare trying to get things back on track - there are so many interconnected systems that they needed to get back up 'clean' and running just to get their normal business running, let alone the online side. And he's not even directly responsible for any of this, but it's all so embedded in a modern retail business that if something like this happens it's your problem to deal with to a degree. The stress caused by this sort of thing is immense.
You're not left with a flat battery at the end of the night. Many vehicles are combined in intelligent systems which work together to ensure that the vehicles have the energy they need (which is easy to set in all the systems I've seen) but provide enough grid support to make this work.
Remember that even my little town car (Renault Zoe) has a 52kWh battery.... which would run my house for five days. So the energy stored in these systems can be considerable.
The people doing these things have thought a lot about it. Take a look at this video - it's a bit 'puff piece' but shows what one way of doing it looks like:
But for many, they wouldn't even know this was possible. Yes, when you look into it it will be all the usual software, but 95% of people don't even know there is a world beyond windows and macOS, so that might be something that gets them to look for a couple of minutes and consider they might be able to use this.
Certainly in the UK it was linked to this attempted attack [1] but seemed very specific like banning laser toner cartridges as they were an attack attempt.
Just trying this out on iPhone on Firefox, and found something. If the phone is rotation locked in portrait mode (which mine normally is) I don't see buttons to install, try etc.
But if rotation lock is off, it's fine. Maybe there's something in the way the resolution is read that is different if the lock is on? Nothing appears in the menu bar at the top so there was no way to do anything.
Amazing efforts here though, now I can actually use it! Truly impressive.
> I also do not like that Apple has removed the Ethernet and microphone jacks. Both jacks are still useful to have on modern computers
Ethernet is available over the ports via fairly cheap adapters if you need it. There's so much bandwidth on a thunderbolt port that it can do that and a display or two at the same time.
I think there has always been that though. When having a guitar was cool and people thought they'd be famous doing it. Of course 0.00001% actually managed it, but some craft out a career in music or related areas such as being studio engineers etc. (I did)
And for some it shows that it is possible, that people like them can be enabled and make their own stuff.
It might be that they're are organisations needed to bridge this new gap and get people into more formal engineering, but they'll also hopefully realise that people like them might work one day at top tier engineering companies.