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Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real

How to install game-porting-toolkit (aka proton for macOS)

You also might wanna just use Whisky which does this automatically

This guide works on macOS 13.4+ using Command Line Tools for XCode 15 Beta!

What is this?

In the recent WWDC, Apple announced and released the "game porting toolkit", which upon further inspection this is just a modified version of CrossOver's fork of wine which is a "compatibility layer" that allows you to run Windows applications on macOS and Linux.

rp3.+ raspberry OS lite (or better PatchboxOS as a starting point)

https://blokas.io/patchbox-os/

testing notes

Disable bluetooth or send bt to another serial port

    sudo nano /boot/config.txt

    enable_uart=1    
   
 dtoverlay=midi-uart0

云

IaaS指提供系统（可以自己选）或者储存空间之类的硬件，软件要自己手动装；PaaS提供语言环境和框架（可以自己选）；SaaS只能使用开发好的软件（卖软件本身）；BaaS一般类似于非关系数据库，但各家不通用，有时还有一些其它东西。

其他人的集合

https://education.github.com/pack GitHub学生包，需用教育邮箱验证。各种福利，可从DigitalOcean上手
https://github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev 本文尽量不与此项目重复
https://free.zhelper.net/
https://github.com/AchoArnold/discount-for-student-dev

The Best of the Best Practices (BOBP) Guide for Python

A "Best of the Best Practices" (BOBP) guide to developing in Python.

In General

Values

"Build tools for others that you want to be built for you." - Kenneth Reitz
"Simplicity is alway better than functionality." - Pieter Hintjens

Spotify free lyrics

Earlier this month (May 2024), Spotify has disabled full lyrics for free accounts, and that's sad, because I want to enjoy free things :(

This script is for Spotify Web Player and is not thoroughly tested! Please report any bugs in the comment section ✨

Warning

NOT EVERY SONG IS LISTED! Don't expect "unpopular" or local songs to work.

本方案首先是自用，然后才是顺带分享给大家，所以我爱咋写咋写，请勿过多指责。没有强迫任何人使用。

如介意示例方案中的日志中的署名，请不要原封不动的使用本脚本。

更新日志

2021.11.24

仅支持互助的活动脚本中打印相关提示

	# First let's update all the packages to the latest ones with the following command
	sudo apt update -qq

	# Now we want to install some prerequisite packages which will let us use HTTPS over apt
	sudo apt install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl software-properties-common -qq

	# After that we will add the GPG key for the official Docker repository to the system
	curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg \| sudo apt-key add -

	# We will add the Docker repository to our APT sources

	FROM debian:11.7-slim AS build

	RUN apt-get update \
	&& apt-get install -y libsdl2-dev alsa-utils g++ make wget

	RUN mkdir /whisper && \
	wget -q https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/tarball/master -O - \| \
	tar -xz -C /whisper --strip-components 1

	WORKDIR /whisper

	sudo apt-get update
	sudo apt-get -y upgrade
	sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends -y xserver-xorg xinit x11-xserver-utils
	sudo apt-get install -y chromium-browser matchbox-window-manager xautomation unclutter xdotool

	sudo tee /boot/kiosk.sh <<EOF
	#!/bin/sh
	xset -dpms # disable DPMS (Energy Star) features.
	xset s off # disable screen saver
	xset s noblank # don't blank the video device