If you're going to drink decaf, be sure to drink decaf prepared via the Swiss water method. It has the least additives, healthiest option and tastes pretty good.
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It’s worth noting one important caveat: GPT-4 cannot do super complicated coding.
Don’t get me wrong; I use frequently when coding but it can’t handle the complex stuff; it’s insanely good at boilerplate and low-hanging fruit though.
Glad to see this was about working at FB / Meta rather than being a user. Just for personal interest.
Newish dev doing my first attempt at a FAANG interview. Wondering if I should be trying for FaceBook as long as Im bothering to study. Had a very positive-feeling convo with a recruiter there ~6mo ago before "Meta". Sounds like it might be a negative thing to have on your resume now though?
Any thoughts?
Yes absolutely go work at Meta. The person in the post had worked there for ten years; they’re likely a millionaire.
It’s very challenging, but you should definitely get in and try it yourself. Move to the Bay if you haven’t done so yet, it will keep your motivation up.
Just quickly from a technical perspective: web3 is like a useful wrapper around json-rpc which etherereum nodes use as a comms protocol.
You can just use whatever off the shell cli thing that supports json-rpc and talk directly to the mainnet.
Web3 is more of a concept that involves wrapping those complicated and cumbersome raw json-rpc calls(deploy a contract, compile a contract etc) into simple libraries. There’s literally a bazillion web3 libraries in many different programming languages. It simplifies talking to the ethereum mainnet.
I think they tackled it a little too high level in their post; missing the fact it’s really just a costly distributed state store you interact with via json-rpc with a shitty wrapper everyone basically calls web3.
I quit drinking once for three years. Usually, your friends will ask you in the beginning to just have one drink or to just drink moderately. After about a year of no drinking, most of your closest friends and family will stop asking you entirely; even better is they'll answer other people that maybe don't know you as well aka "he doesn't drink".
After that, for fun, I basically would go to all the same places, bars, parties etc with the same friends and I'd just drink water; they'd be drinking booze. That's what I did for three years.
After about three years, I traveled abroad and I wanted to take in the full experience so I started drinking again.
Absolutely nothing wrong with wanting to stop drinking for a bit; it's a fun experiment.
The most fascinating part was that they raised $45mm in seven days from people from all over the world using really nothing but solidity contracts on the ethereum blockchain(no complicated PayPal integration, or Stripe etc., no web hooks or callbacks or AWS lambdas etc)
debt commented on Spy camera detection using smartphone time-of-flight sensors dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/34... · Posted by u/Nirali_Feige
Right, a few things would be very useful:
- Increasing the resolution of ToF cameras (right now images are around 320 x 240) --> reflections from hidden cameras can then be more detailed, whereas now it's only 1 or 2 pixels each.
- Increasing the bit-depth of ToF images - right now every pixel is only 3 bits (8 colors). It's very hard to differentiate bright hidden camera reflections from everything else, so we had to do a lot of work for that.
- API improvements in conjunction with augmented reality libraries, e.g., a) allowing Android devs to enable the flashlight when AR apps are running b) more raw access to the ToF sensor if possible
320 x 240, is this the resolution of the depth data provided by the LiDAR sensor?
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