KiranWells
@KiranWells@pawb.social
I'm a Christian and software engineer; I create random graphics projects and websites. Feel free to ask me for help with programming, or about my faith!
- Comment on Google unveils AlphaCode 2, powered by Gemini 11 months ago:
Check out Ollama and its extensions for VSCode; might save you some money paying for other services if your computer can run models locally.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I haven’t taken it myself, but “The Last Algorithms Course You’ll Need” is free and is written by The Primeagen. He works at Netflix and runs a programming-focused YouTube channel, and as far as I can tell is very knowledgeable and level-headed.
- Comment on Lets talk about physics of the speed of spaceship 1 year ago:
Exactly; the idea is familiarity, not efficiency. To be fair, this argument doesn’t make sense for all situations, so it is possible I misunderstood what the original post was talking about specifically.
- Comment on Lets talk about physics of the speed of spaceship 1 year ago:
I think the behavior could actually make sense with real physics, as the vehicle might be designed to mimic what the driver expects rather than real physics. For example, my car often shuts off the engine when I am not accelerating because it is a hybrid. So, if I don’t press the gas pedal, it wouldn’t really make sense for it to move. However, it is designed to artificially engage the engine when none of the pedals are pressed to more closely mimic the behavior of non-hybrid cars.
If most pilots are used to the behavior if a vehicle in atmosphere, a space ship might be designed to mimic that behavior (through weak reverse thrusters or something else) to make it easier for pilots to get used to.
- Comment on How an Encrypted Hard-drive Works 1 year ago:
Just listing some things that I needed to do for working remotely on a personal device: have an antivirus installed, make sure Windows firewall is enabled, enable automatic updates, screensaver or lockscreen configured for 15 minutes of inactivity, and use a strong password (and a good password manager).
- Comment on How an Encrypted Hard-drive Works 1 year ago:
However, you can configure GRUB to use an encrypted boot partition, and even have detached encryption headers. It does take a bit more work, and you should make sure you know what you are doing. (e.g. losing a detached header basically means your data is all lost)