One other difference between Germany and the Netherlands is that the Netherlands also has volunteers at the police. Those people often work 2 days in the week and get a small compensation for it. They are given the option to work fulltime and get paid fulltime when they do that for a few years. Next to that they must follow all the same trainingen en exercises as a normal police officers.
An Example for your Example. Yes i'm one of those people who tried to keep his old electricity meter the longest time possible. I have 36 solar panels installed on my roof and the old disk meter just rotated backwards when I was not using all that electricity during the day. The new meter, that i could only delay a year or 2, is electronic and does not give me anything when I push energy to the net all day. The government in my country can give you money for that energy but that would be the raw price without any tax and the energy you use later on the day still has tax on it so that does not really help, The tax is also 80 to 90% of the price.
So I hope that gives some perspective why people may prever to keep an old system around and not be forced by a big company to change it.
My bachelor study in IT / Sofware Engineering had a required communications class every semester. It was pretty useless it was all about conventions, What does a letter look like. How many words should be in a power point. Just the boring stuff. But one insight that I still remember and use nowadays is that if you find it hard to talk to people, then you should just use more conventions: Say hello more often to get yourself in a talking mood, having nothing to talk about anymore? just look around, observe something and say, hey i see ...
I do not have any book recommendations but I hope these tricks that work for my (tiny bit autistic) brain may help you.
Nice tutorial. One small tip for the website maker. in the header you have the home button as <a href="index.html">Legion CPU</a> instead of <a href="/index.html">Legion CPU</a> so it gives a 404 because its appending it to the url.
Based on the title the first thing that popped in my mind was https://www.aseprite.org/ there source code is freely available to anyone https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite/ and if you search some more you can find how to install it at https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite/blob/master/INSTALL.md But none of these links are easy to find and the installation is not that simple either. Is this way of doing things good/bad? I just do not really know how to feel about it. It's partly better then not having the option available, but, i just don't know to feel about it.
A lot of IDE's and editors already support autocomplete, intellisense or something similar. I think AI generated code is never going to work but implemented as a autocomplete it can be helpful. I am using https://www.tabnine.com/ for vs code now and that works nice but its very limited The thing that i'm mostly missing are configuration for the aggression and length of the provided options.
Are you sure of that? Microsoft has recently introduced so called AI into VisualStudio, and IMO, it's idiocy rather than intelligence.
If you don't know what I mean and you do conveniently have a VS license, try turn the AI shit one and you will soon see it yourselves.
I'm using an old version of codium. But thanks for the recommendation. I will check it out when I ever have to use VisualStudio again or when it gets added to vs code.
I'm not saying it will never work, never is a long time, but it's not the perfect domain for AI. It's kind of the opposite, actually.
First and most importantly, programming computers is a very precise endeavor. The logic needs to be exactly correct, not only statistically correct. 'Close enough' won't cut it, not even remotely, and not even for relatively unimportant software.
Second, the general problem is undecidable. This isn't a roadblock per se, because we are reasonably good at other undecidable problems (viz. garbage collection), but it means simple algorithmical approaches won't work.
Third, software is in a weird place because it requires working at different abstraction levels simultaneously. Often, top-level specifications are fuzzy and incomplete, but some parts require absolute precision and we need to "drop down" to a lower level of abstraction. Humans are able to make the process work (kinda) using lots of common sense, something machines are currently very bad at.
If you require the operator of the 'AI' to fill in the details, you just invented a very complicated compiler.
Finally, rarely if ever present-day software is made once and never changed: the output needs to be inspectable and maintainable, other software might need to call into it, etc.
If the pipeline is more complicated than the software itself, I might as well be writing the code myself.
I can see some minor, specific tasks being increasingly done with AI, and I can see tools making more and more use of AI technology, but AI generated code isn't even on the horizon.
It seems like many of those issues would be solved by having a human write a comprehensive test suite, and then the AI would write an implementation that can pass all of the tests.
Eventually you could also have another separate AI that learns to generate the test suite itself from instructions given to it by a human (or even another AI!).
Most program implementations would not be perfect, but as we know, software written by humans certainly isn’t perfect either.
1: required health insurance: €120/month but I get 100 euro from the government so €20/month 2: a server at DigitalOcean: €5/month and domain names at TransIP €3.65/month 3: prepaid phone bill (€10 to €15)/year
In general I just don't like subscriptions. I prefer to pay only for things I use.
If anyone is interested in making a Gameboy game from scratch. Tonc is basically the resource that everyone is using to do that. https://www.coranac.com/tonc/text/
GBDK went mostly unmaintained for around ~20 years, and so it stagnated a bit. It has recently been upgraded to a modern version of the SDCC compiler with better optimization, and has seen bug fixes and a bunch of other improvements.
For chrome you have a flag chrome://flags/#enable-force-dark It makes thinks dark but for my tastes the contrast is too high so I combine it with DarkReader to smooth it out more. This flag is not perfect, QR codes are for example not readable anymore by any scanner.
the hand drown styles and specifically the old anime tv shows such as Pokemon always fascinated me. In the last 2 years I have been learning OpenGL and other general Graphics and I hope to do a master in that area after the summer break. In that master i would like to study how a programmers could recreate that style. If anyone has any suggestions or has links to games / resources where they try to recreate that old water color / gouache style than that would be very helpfull.
