That illustrates perfectly my question regarding people like this: What do these people think is going to happen if they're hired? I wouldn't be surprised to learn that there are actually layers of these Potemkin company websites used for various purposes. I'm sure the follow-through would have left the site in a worse state and suspect they may actually have a backchannel income via SEO backlinks or malware as the price they would initially quote seemed low even for a country like Pakistan. ![]() Their tactic seemingly consisted of running the website through a free tool like Lighthouse, picking one or two low hanging fruits and then presenting them as world-ending problems they can fix for cheap. So it was a copy of a copy of a template. That company's website however in turn used a slightly different design and after digging a bit I found that it was a vanilla copy of a themeforest template down to the stockphotes and everything. Their website was a nearly 1-to-1 clone of the content of another website whose company name they accidentally left in the footer. I noticed something similar when I looked into a "website optimization agency" offering their services to one of my customers. If you look up the company on LinkedIn, it appears to be made up of hundreds of immigrant DevOps engineers: I'm still not really sure what was going on with that as we politely rejected him and never heard from him again. ![]() Turns out, if you Google the quoted sentence above, you get TONS of websites for other fake companies that all contain that sentence: Did these "Data Service Group" people steal Intellectsoft's website? Intellectsoft isn't the name of this company. Their website contains this sentence: "Over the past decade, our customers succeeded by leveraging Intellectsoft's process of building, motivating." ![]() His resume said he'd worked for a company called "Data Service Group" ( ) for the last 5 years or so. He was googling my questions and then reading the documentation aloud to me. I google'd some specific, peculiar phrases I remembered him saying after the interview and found that the phrases came straight out of places like the Kubernetes documentation, word for word. and then spit out a perfectly worded answer. He would stall for a good 15-20 seconds after each question I asked. Earlier this year, I interviewed this guy who gave me really strange vibes.
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![]() Demoĭemo programs have a limited functionality for free, but charge for an advanced set of features or for the removal of advertisements from the program's interfaces. In some cases, ads may be show to the users. Basically, a product is offered Free to Play (Freemium) and the user can decide if he wants to pay the money (Premium) for additional features, services, virtual or physical goods that expand the functionality of the game. This license is commonly used for video games and it allows users to download and play the game for free. There are many different open source licenses but they all must comply with the Open Source Definition - in brief: the software can be freely used, modified and shared. Programs released under this license can be used at no cost for both personal and commercial purposes. Open Source software is software with source code that anyone can inspect, modify or enhance. ![]() Freeware products can be used free of charge for both personal and professional (commercial use). Studio ships with hundreds of commands but always presents them in context based on the type of file you are editing.Īlso Available: Download Aptana Studio for Macįreeware programs can be downloaded used free of charge and without any time limitations. Set up your development environment exactly the way you want it by extending the core capabilities through scripting of custom commands. Quickly access a command line terminal for execution of operating system commands and language utilities such as gem, rake, etc. Collaborate with team members thru merge, pull, and push actions to remote repositories such as those hosted on Github. The integrated Ruby & Rails and JavaScript debuggers help you squash those bugs.Įasily put your projects under git source code control. Set breakpoints, inspect variables, control execution. Ability to automatically publish your Ruby & Rails applications to hosting services such as Heroku and Engine Yard. Multiple protocols including FTP, SFTP, FTPS, and Capistrano. ![]() Support for one-shot as well as keep-synchronized setups. Includes information about the level of support for each element in the major web browsers. Supports the latest HTML5 specifications. With Aptana Studio you can also develop applications and programs for Apple iPhone.Īids in authoring of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and Ruby. If you are looking for alternatives, we recommend you to download Visual Studio Code or Atom.Īptana Studio supports common web-application coding languages such as JavaScript, AJAX, PHP, and Ruby on Rails as well as HTML and CSS. ⚠ Note: This product is not developed anymore and might not function properly. The program has numerous features made to help programming: code assist gives hints and tips for tags and syntax, the debugger tool aims to detect and list possible bugs in code and the program also has an integrated preview browser (for Firefox and Internet Explorer for example). Aptana Studio is an open-source IDE based on the Eclipse IDE for Programming and creating web applications. ![]() What are other alternatives if you cannot crochet? Oil sprays or oil serums are best for making your braids look and smell fresh. Don’t forget to oil your scalp to keep it nourished and fresh.Ĭrochet braids are synthetic hair, therefore they cannot absorb product, so, I wouldn’t use expensive oils on them, but I do recommend oil for your scalp. Trim with scissors any web knots or matting in the hair. Unravel extensions one at a time, apply hair serum to each section and finger-detangle if curly or brush if its straight hair (straighten or blow dry after). To wash, section the hair in four by twisting, get your shampoo, don’t roughen the extension, just wash your scalp and run water and shampoo through the extension to remove excess dirt, sweat and any smell, then towel dry. ![]() Where one type can be washed and turns out okay, others might not be lucky, so I always advice caution in this area. Best way to wash them?Īll hair extensions are not created equal. While the curly variant also requires maintenance like trimming, moussing and detangling every other day. These types of install give you the up-and-go vibe, there’s not much needed to make them look great, unlike the straight install that would require daily brushing and optional blow-drying or straightening. Extensions like Faux Locs, Passion Twists, Senegalese Twists and Box Braids can be left longer – for up to 12 weeks because of the low manipulation required. Most installs like curly and straight can be kept in from six – eight weeks. ![]() We demonstrate that REM-Dyna exhibits similar advantages over replay-based methods in learning in continuous state problems, and that the performance gap grows when moving to stochastic domains, of increasing size. The fourth step tells us to make a moral. Keep that in mind as you progress on this worksheet and do the work on this deeply important step. We introduce a semi-parametric model learning approach, called Reweighted Experience Models (REMs), that makes it simple to sample next states or predecessors. Step 4: 'Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.' The one firm and guiding principle of the 12 steps in general and, more importantly, in the fourth step is unflinching honesty. We show that a model, as opposed to a replay buffer, is particularly useful for specifying which states to sample from during planning, such as predecessor states that propagate information in reverse from a state more quickly. ![]() Replay-based methods can be seen as stochastic planning methods that repeatedly sample from a buffer of recent agent-environment interactions and perform updates to improve data efficiency. We first highlight the flexibility afforded by a model over Experience Replay (ER). The aim of this paper is to revisit sample-based planning, in stochastic and continuous domains with learned models. This elegant planning strategy has been mostly explored in the tabular setting. Dyna is a planning paradigm that naturally interleaves learning and planning, by simulating one-step experience to update the action-value function. ![]() Download a PDF of the paper titled Organizing Experience: A Deeper Look at Replay Mechanisms for Sample-based Planning in Continuous State Domains, by Yangchen Pan and 4 other authors Download PDF Abstract:Model-based strategies for control are critical to obtain sample efficient learning. Smooth fonts can now be rendered direct to the TFT with very little flicker for quickly changing values. ![]() Tested with v2.0.3 RC1 of the ESP32 board package. Support for the ESP32-S2, ESP32-S3 and ESP32-C3 has been added (DMA only on ESP32 S3 at the moment). DMA with 16-bit transfers is also supported. ![]() The use of the RP2040 PIO makes it easy to change the write cycle timing for different displays. This has been tested and the screen update performance is very good (4ms to clear 320 x 480 screen with HC8357C). Support has been added in v2.4.70 for the RP2040 with 16-bit parallel displays. These examples require a new support library here: New GUI examples have been added for sliders, buttons, graphs and meters. Here is a demo screen where a single 12kbyte font file binary was used to render fully anti-aliased glyphs of gradually increasing size on a 320x480 TFT screen: I have added TFT_eSPI specific examples to the OpenFontRender library and tested on RP2040 and ESP32 processors, the ESP8266 does not have sufficient RAM due to the glyph render complexity. Left, middle and right justified text can also be printed to the screen. The library provides access to compact font files, with fully scaleable anti-aliased glyphs. Here the smooth arcs have been used to create anti-aliased meter gauges on a 320x240 TFT:Īn excellent new compatible library is available which can render TrueType fonts on a TFT screen (or into a sprite). Here are two demo images, on the left smooth (anti-aliased) arcs with rounded ends, the image to the right is the same resolution (grabbed from the same 240x240 TFT) with the smoothing diasbled (no anti-aliasing): The arc drawing algorithm uses an optimised fixed point sqrt() function to improve performance on processors that do not have a hardware Floating Point Unit (e.g. Arcs can be drawn with or without anti-aliasing (which will then render faster). New sketches are provided in the "Smooth Graphics" examples folder. New functions have been added to draw smooth (antialiased) arcs, circles, and rounded rectangle outlines. The "RPi" interface style boards are now supported with the ESP32 S3. New board setup files have been added for the Seeed XIAO with round display, LilyGo T-Embed S3, LilyGo_T_QT_Pro_S3, ESP32 S3 Box and ESP32_S3_Box_Lite. The automatic opening of the font folder can also be disabled within the Processing sketch. ![]() The Create_font Processing sketch has been updated to automatically create a complete C header file. Use the "Issues" tab only for problems with the library. Nucleo Board, MCU, Cortex-M0, LQFP Package, 64Pins, Flexible Board Power Supplyĭev.A "Discussions" facility has been added for Q&A etc. Nucleo Board, MCU, Cortex-M3, LQFP Package, 64Pins, Flexible Board Power Supplyĭev.kit: ARM ST Comp: STM32F070RBT6 Add-on connectors:2ĭev.kit: ARM ST Comp: STM32F303RET6 Add-on connectors:2 STMICROELECTRONICS NUCLEO-F072RB Development Board, 32Bit MCU, Cortex-M0, LQFP64 Package Image Part manufacture Category Case\package Description Price PDFĭev.kit: ARM ST Comp: STM32F303K8T6 Add-on connectors:2ĭev.kit: ARM ST Comp: STM32F091RCT6 Add-on connectors:2 Supported by wide choice of IDEs including IAR™, Keil®, GCC-based IDEs USB re-enumeration capability - virtual com port, mass storage, debug port. USB communication (LD1), user LED (LD2), power LED (LD3). USB VBUS or external source (3.3V, 5V, 7 to 12V) and power management access point. The board comes with the STM32 comprehensive software HAL library together with various packaged software examples, as well as direct access to mbed online resources. The board does not require any separate probe as it integrates the ST-LINK/V2-1 debugger and programmer. The Arduino™ connectivity support and ST Morpho headers make it easy to expand the functionality of the STM32 Nucleo open development platform with a wide choice of specialized shields. ![]() The board provides a flexible way for users to try out new ideas and build prototypes with any STM32 microcontroller line, choosing from the various combinations of performance, power consumption and features. The NUCLEO-F446RE is a STM32 Nucleo-64 Development Board with STM32F410RB microcontroller. Dev.kit: ARM ST Comp: STM32F446RET6 Add-on connectors:2 ![]() Now Google Contacts starts importing contacts from the CSV file. In the Field Mapping Selection dialog, manually map the columns with the fields if needed. Control-click (or right-click) Google and choose Import. In ContactsMate, on the left, click the Refresh button next to the Updated contacts detected message.ħ. In the Select the apps dialog, select Contacts and click Done.Ħ. Sign in to your Google account and allow macOS to access.ĥ. In the dialog that appears, click Google. In the Internet Accounts window that appears, click Add Account. When you open it for the first time, click OK to allow access. With ContactsMate, you can easily and effectively import, export, convert, transfer, access, organize and clean up your contacts.īelow is how to do the import without possibly having to splitting or editing CSV files.Ģ. ContactsMate supports various contacts sources (such as Mac, Google Contacts, iCloud, Exchange and ) and various contacts formats (such as vCard, CSV and Excel). This method uses Cisdem ContactsMate, the best contact management app for Mac. If your Mac is running newer macOS versions like macOS Ventura, this method definitely works. This method doesn’t work with macOS 10.13 High Sierra or earlier. How to efficiently import contacts from CSV format Google Contacts If you don’t want to do the editing or the editing doesn’t help, use Method 2. Upload the template with your contacts to Google Contacts. (Make sure that you don’t change anything in the template.) Copy and paste each column from your CSV file into the appropriate column in the template. Open the template created by you in Excel. Note: If the import still doesn’t work, try this ultimate solution. To do so, create a new contact in Google Contacts and fill out as many fields as you can, and then export the contact as Google CSV. If the official template doesn’t work, you can create a template yourself. Now try uploading the edited file to Google Contacts. Edit the headings in your file accordingly if needed. Compare the headings in the template and in your CSV file. Download the template and open it in Excel. You can first try the official template provided by Google Contacts. This step is about what column headings to use. If there are column headings and they are in the right place, you also need to make sure that you are using the headings that Google Contacts recognizes (well).ģ. If the CSV file only contains contact information and lacks column headings, you need to add headings and make sure that the headings are in the first row. Check if there are column headings and if the headings are in the first row. The editing is about adding column headings if they are missing or editing the column headings.Ģ. If Google Contacts can import all the contacts but the information is not imported the way you want, you can edit the CSV file.īelow is how to edit the CSV file. ![]() If you don’t like the idea of splitting the file, you can use Method 2. (It imported 5,800 contacts in my test though.) If your CSV file has more than 3,000 contacts, you can split them into multiple CSV files and then import them one by one. Google Contacts recommends not importing more than 3,000 contacts at a time.If Google Contacts says that the format is wrong, try opening the CSV file in Excel and exporting it to CSV again.For example, the certain piece of information (like phone number) appears in the wrong field (like the Notes field). The contacts are not imported the way you expect.In the test, I used a CSV files with 8,000 contacts, and Google Contacts only imported 5,800 contacts. Google Contacts doesn’t import all the contacts in the CSV file.Google Contacts says that the file is in the wrong format even if you are sure it’s a CSV file.And you can edit the CSV file to fix the problems. There can be a few reasons why problems happen. How to edit CSV files to import to Google ContactsĪlthough Google Contacts supports importing contacts from CSV files, such imports don’t always succeed. On a phone, in step 2, you need to tap the three-line icon in the top left corner to see Import. Just follow the same steps on your phone to import it to Google Contacts. If the CSV file is on your phone, don’t bother to transfer it to your computer. Note: Although this article is for computer users, these steps also apply to a phone. Select the CSV that contains the contacts you want to import. In the dialog that appears, click Select file. Steps to import contacts from CSV to Google ContactsĤ. How to edit the CSV file if the import fails. ![]() All the relevant information is available above. The main event between Austin McBroom and Bryce Hall is also getting a lot of popularity. Please read about the boxing event here.Ī Boxing event is set to feature popular YouTube and TikTok personalities pitted against each other in the ring, and it’s all the internet can talk about now.
![]() ![]() ![]() You can clearly see the size of the image files before and after they'll be converted. In its simplest form, it lets you drag and drop images into the queue, and quickly choose the output format. I like it because it can be used in two ways, depending on your level of comfort messing around with advanced options. If converting more than one image simultaneously, all of them have to be converted to the same format.Īdapter is an intuitive image converter program that supports popular file formats and plenty of nice features. Supports a minimal number of image file formats. Nearly 400,000 subscribers received the newsletter complete with a handwritten tip every day.Requires that you download the software to your computer. He gave advice on dark web scans on Miami's NBC 6, discussed Windows XP's demise on WGN-TV's Midday News in Chicago, and shared his CES experiences on WJR-AM's Guy Gordon Show in Detroit.Ĭhris also ran MakeUseOf's email newsletter for two years. In addition to his extensive writing experience, Chris has been interviewed as a technology expert on TV news and radio shows. The company's project was later reportedly shut down by the U.S. A wave of negative publicity ensued, with coverage on BuzzFeed News, CNBC, the BBC, and TechCrunch. At CES 2018, he broke the news about Kodak's "KashMiner" Bitcoin mining scheme with a viral tweet. Starting in 2015, Chris attended the Computer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas for five years running. His work has even appeared on the front page of Reddit.Īrticles he's written have been used as a source for everything from books like Team Human by Douglas Rushkoff, media theory professor at the City University of New York's Queens College and CNN contributor, to university textbooks and even late-night TV shows like Comedy Central's with Chris Hardwick. His roundups of new features in Windows 10 updates have been called "the most detailed, useful Windows version previews of anyone on the web" and covered by prominent Windows journalists like Paul Thurrott and Mary Jo Foley on TWiT's Windows Weekly. Instructional tutorials he's written have been linked to by organizations like The New York Times, Wirecutter, Lifehacker, the BBC, CNET, Ars Technica, and John Gruber's Daring Fireball. The news he's broken has been covered by outlets like the BBC, The Verge, Slate, Gizmodo, Engadget, TechCrunch, Digital Trends, ZDNet, The Next Web, and Techmeme. Beyond the column, he wrote about everything from Windows to tech travel tips. He founded PCWorld's "World Beyond Windows" column, which covered the latest developments in open-source operating systems like Linux and Chrome OS. He also wrote the USA's most-saved article of 2021, according to Pocket.Ĭhris was a PCWorld columnist for two years. Beyond the web, his work has appeared in the print edition of The New York Times (September 9, 2019) and in PCWorld's print magazines, specifically in the August 2013 and July 2013 editions, where his story was on the cover. With over a decade of writing experience in the field of technology, Chris has written for a variety of publications including The New York Times, Reader's Digest, IDG's PCWorld, Digital Trends, and MakeUseOf. Chris has personally written over 2,000 articles that have been read more than one billion times-and that's just here at How-To Geek. Both include a more powerful Focus feature to better customize your notifications and environment for various situations-from sleeping to working to gaming to working out.Ĭhris Hoffman is the former Editor-in-Chief of How-To Geek. iPadOS 16 adds better support for external displays and a macOS-style Stage Manager for multitasking with multiple apps. IOS 16's most immediately noticeable new feature is a revamped lock screen that's more customizable and includes lock screen widgets. Apple releases new major versions of iOS and iPadOS roughly once every year around the time it announces the latest version of macOS. The latest version of iPadOS for iPads is iPadOS 16, and Apple released that on October 24, 2022. The latest version of iOS for iPhones is iOS 16, which Apple released on September 12, 2022. The Latest Versions Are iOS 16 and iPadOS 16 You can find the installed software version and upgrade to the latest iOS right from your Settings app if Apple still supports your iPhone or iPad. Apple's iPhone runs the iOS operating system, while iPad run iPadOS-based on iOS. ![]() “The last night in office, he invited me to come to the Lincoln sitting room where he and I used to plan foreign policy together,” Kissinger recalled in a 2012 interview with CBS News. Nixon’s resignation note was addressed to Kissinger, and the two prayed together on Nixon’s final night in the White House. The pair remained close as the Nixon administration navigated a near-constant stream of controversy at home and abroad.īy the end of Nixon’s presidency, Kissinger was the last original inner-circle adviser to the beleaguered president still standing after Watergate. Kissinger began consulting with the State Department and Pentagon on national security matters before serving as national security adviser and then secretary of state to Nixon.Īt Kissinger’s swearing-in ceremony as secretary of state in 1973, Nixon called it “very significant in these days when we must think of America as part of the whole world community that for the first time in history a naturalized citizen is the secretary of state of the United States.” Yet the lure of public service brought him into government work. He became a naturalized citizen in 1943 before serving in World War II and later earned his doctorate at Harvard University, where he would go on to teach. Henry Kissinger is shown at age 11 with his brother Walter, 10. “About half of the people I went to school with and about 13 members of my own family died in concentration camps,” Kissinger once recalled. “He worked in the Administrations of two Presidents and counseled many more. I am grateful for that service and advice, but I am most grateful for his friendship.”īorn on May 27, 1923, in Furth, Germany, Kissinger, who was Jewish, fled Nazi persecution and came to the United States in 1938. “I have long admired the man who fled the Nazis as a young boy from a Jewish family, then fought them in the United States Army. When he later became Secretary of State, his appointment as a former refugee said as much about his greatness as it did America’s greatness,” he said in a statement. Bush remembered Kissinger for “his wisdom, his charm, and his humor.” Kissinger is survived by his wife, Nancy, two children from his first marriage, Elizabeth and David, and five grandchildren.įormer President George W. “The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people, they think it’s their fault,” he once quipped. He topped Gallup’s “Most Admired Man” survey three years in a row in the 1970s and his personal life, public appearances and nights in New York’s famed Studio 54 club once drew regular headlines. Kissinger also commanded attention well beyond the realm of international diplomacy. ![]() And there has to be a decision on both sides that they’re going to try to reconcile these differences,” he told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria in 2008. And they have to understand our perception. “In order to negotiate, one has to understand the perception of the other side of the world. ![]() In a highly controversial decision, Kissinger shared the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize with his North Vietnamese counterpart Le Duc Tho for that year’s Paris peace accords citing the absence of actual peace in Vietnam, Tho declined to accept, and two members of the Nobel committee resigned in protest over the award. When Nixon took office in 1969 – after promising a “secret plan” to end the war – roughly 30,000 Americans had been killed in Vietnam.ĭespite efforts to shift more combat responsibilities to the South Vietnam government, American involvement persisted throughout Nixon’s administration – critics accused Nixon and Kissinger of needlessly expanding the war – and US engagement ultimately ended with the fall of Saigon in 1975 and more than 58,000 American lives lost. No issue complicated Kissinger’s legacy more than the Vietnam War. His “détente” approach to US-Soviet relations, which helped relax tensions and led to several arms control agreements, largely guided US posture until the Reagan era.īut many members of Congress objected to the secretiveness of the Nixon-Kissinger approach to foreign policy, and human rights activists assailed what they saw as Kissinger’s neglect of human rights in other countries. ![]() In the Middle East, Kissinger performed what came to be known as “shuttle diplomacy” to separate Israeli and Arab forces after the fallout of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. He received a Nobel Peace Prize for helping arrange the end of US military involvement in the Vietnam War and is credited with secret diplomacy that helped President Richard Nixon open communist China to the United States and the West, highlighted by Nixon’s visit to the country in 1972.īut he was also reviled by many over the bombing of Cambodia during the Vietnam War that led to the rise of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime and for his support of a coup against a democratic government in Chile. Kissinger was synonymous with US foreign policy in the 1970s. ![]() Its population is not under severe threat, although captive-breeding programs have had slight success, and it is vulnerable to pollution. The platypus was hunted for its fur, but it has been a legally protected species in all states where it occurs since 1912. It has appeared as a national mascot, features on the reverse of the Australian twenty-cent coin, and is an emblem of the state of New South Wales. It is culturally significant to several Aboriginal peoples, who also used to hunt it for food. ![]() The unique features of the platypus make it important in the study of evolutionary biology, and a recognisable and iconic symbol of Australia. In 1799, the first scientists to examine a preserved platypus body judged it a fake made of several animals sewn together. The unusual appearance of this egg-laying, duck-billed, beaver-tailed, otter-footed mammal at first baffled European naturalists. It is one of the few species of venomous mammals, as the male platypus has a spur on the hind foot that delivers an extremely painful venom. ![]() Like other monotremes, the platypus senses prey in cloudy water through electrolocation. Together with the four species of echidna, it is one of the five extant species of monotremes, mammals that lay eggs instead of giving birth to live young. The platypus is the sole living representative or monotypic taxon of its family Ornithorhynchidae and genus Ornithorhynchus, though a number of related species appear in the fossil record. The platypus ( Ornithorhynchus anatinus), sometimes referred to as the duck-billed platypus, is a semiaquatic, egg-laying mammal endemic to eastern Australia, including Tasmania. |
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