Readit Newsalexstore06 commented on Ask HN: Where can an HS student find work in tech? · Posted by u/alexstore06
Keep an eye on https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline and it can be worth getting in contact with organizations ahead. There's still an application step but anybody who contributed or even came with their own project is way ahead of other candidates. In my experience many applications are written in mass and shortly before deadline and many don't even understand the project descriptions (last year we even had ChatGPT generated applications, low quality)
GSOC pays based on country and United States is near top of the list https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/help/student-...
I've definitely been looking at GSOC for next year. It looks like a great opportunity. I'll start looking around at organizations now - thanks for the advice!
alexstore06 commented on Unix Time reaches 1.7 billion epochconverter.com/countd... · Posted by u/AlwaysNewb23
Such an excellent coincidence that it happens to be on my birthday! In fact to celebrate, I did set up the only livestream in existence on YouTube (afaik) to capture this: https://www.youtube.com/live/DN1SZ6X7Vfo
I can one-up you there - not only was it my birthday, it was my 17th as well :-)
alexstore06 commented on Show HN: GPT-4V audit for your landing page uxaudit.vercel.app... · Posted by u/liorgrossman
Getting a 500 error - API limit?
alexstore06 commented on Las Vegas Sphere reports $98.4M loss; CFO quits lasvegassun.com/news/2023... · Posted by u/hubraumhugo
The loss seems surprisingly low, considering the cost of building the thing.
I don't expect this to end up like Brand-Briesen Airfield, or other massive buildings built and quickly sold at bankruptcy, anytime soon.
I would assume that operating loss wouldn't include the initial cost of building. Could be wrong though.
Very entertaining.
Many features can be disabled, and most allow you to do things the old way (e.g., closing the trunk manually), but some features either block you from doing things any other way or making it extremely difficult to do the old way, for example minivans with power doors make make it very difficult to open a door manually and refuse to open when the vehicle is not in park.
Old cars have their own drawbacks, but at least they're not bossy.
alexstore06 commented on Bitcoin miners running up Texans' electricity bills houstonchronicle.com/busi... · Posted by u/miguelazo
I haven't been following crypto for a while, but I thought that there weren't really any cryptocurrencies that were profitable to mine anymore. Has something changed, or did I miss something?
alexstore06 commented on When allocators are hoarding your precious memory (2021) algolia.com/blog/engineer... · Posted by u/marcodiego
Off topic, so apologies in advance. Why do environments so often get capitalised like that? Prod isn’t an acronym, it’s an abbreviation of Production. Similarly Dev is an abbreviation of Development.
I know in the grand scheme of things it’s meaningless, this is just one of those things that’s like someone scratching their fingers down a blackboard when I see it day to day.
My first guess for that particular case is that PROD and DEV are often either parts of hostnames for those particular machines or are referring to hostnames, which are often written in all caps.
If autocorrect is being trouble, you can always reset your autocorrect dictionary - it seems to get into bad habits sometimes.