Posts by rproffitt

This just in: Investigations begin (USA) into Fortnite and League Of Legends connections to China.

My take is for big apps like these you will have dev teams all over the world to handle localization efforts.

Hi RJ,

While what's going on can be debated I find the whole debacle interesting as for decades I never worried about software being banned. Yes, you could get into trouble if you used some app to pirate content but the app and code itself was, until now considered free speech (or was it?)

I can't guess what the specific beef was with TikTok/WeChat but the "official" stance was about spying on users. It doesn't matter if it happened or not as the current POTUS doesn't care about that.

My take is it's all about the money. Reference: https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/03/tech/tiktok-acquisition-trump-treasury/index.html
"Trump says TikTok sale can go through but only if the US gets a cut" (condensed version.)

It's likely that friends of DJT want a cut of the action.

Source: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-addressing-threat-posed-tiktok/

This Sunday should the 45 day mark when the ban occurs.

Let the app wars begin.

I'm going with "Can't be done" for 2 reasons.

1. There are more streets than will fit into the number of rows in Excel sheets.
2. In Algeria where streets may have more than one name, or no name at all.

There is some similar shill questions out there with the usual spam replies so I take it you have an honest question here.
The answer is no for the reasons I gave as well as other reasons.

It happened this week. https://nandy0140.com/ios-14-accelerated-rollout-threatens-app-glitches-frustrates-apple-developers/ among other news.
Here's a Tweet: https://twitter.com/AppleTerminal/status/1306744086523715584 Seems Apple has already issued updates. Remember I'm not a historian here. The office has moved away from our iOS app because, too few users.

I'm sure you've been watching the Apple Fortnite contest too.

Me too. At times like these, it's a shame to be from here.

Small world. Lived in Richmond, BC Canada from 1993 to 2000. I've been back a few times and each time more and more crowded. Still beautiful.

Welcome!

PS. Here's an example of updates that happen fast and furious.
Apple developers given only 24 hours' notice to prepare their apps for the update. September 17, 2020
The last round had a week's notice.

My take is this is going to be very rough on the smaller, namely one person companies.

So the method used at https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/performing-google-search-using-python-code/ using Python can't be used to get more than 10 to 100 results?

It looks to me that it can then I have the results which I can filter by domain and then scrape those results directly (again, Python.)

To develop then the VPN could be used. Once it's done, then they publish and note the limits on the free searches.

My mind still comes back to "is it worth doing?" I've been using search engines since they came out (Was it Veronica and Jughead?)

-> Why not just do the search without the overhead and filter it later. I think I've done 100's of searches with Chrome and it never gave me a message "You search too much."

Are they working too hard at this?
Could simple work?

For private and limited use, then the limits are fine. Free beer is not the best but it's free.

I suspect that, just like most web-based open source Github projects, they are free to be forked and for every contributor / user to maintain their own instance of the project.

If that is true then a person running their own search would be fine for what may be 1000? searches per hour. The limits look ample for development and private use. If it's the basis for a product or web portal then you get into where it costs and you are faced again with how to feed the beasts.

@mekineer. This thought occurred to me.

If you limit the results to just certain domains, it sounds like the results could suffer from confirmation bias.

This is already an issue with Google and why you may want to compare your searches with duckduckgo and the old fashioned search at the college library.

Sorry Dani, I think I should have not mentioned outages but left it at changes by any player here.

As to the end game, it has to be considered as even if the code is open source, somewhere this code has to live as in some server. Get a lot of traffice and your free hosting tends to not be free.

I wonder if they are confusing free services with open source?

As to Google making changes without notice, I am not a historian but Google has pulled fast ones like ending YouTube support on Smart TVs which may or may not be back as well as other changes which my web dev friends tell me cautht them scrambling.

@mekineer.

Let's skip to your end game. How will you monetize this work? Do people pay for such results.

Also, you had to outsource the work so far if I read your top posts and links correctly. How will you deal with outages or changes by Google?
Maybe you should try other search engines? Maybe Duckduckgo?

@Dani. To me that reads as altering the results. A subset is altering. This brings me back to no and reminds me of another person that wanted to use the results but ran headlong into the $5 per 1,000 cost. I think that something creative with VPN might extend your 1,000 calls since you get that many per VPN but again you can exhaust that method and you have the cost both dollars and your time creating, maintaining the solution.\

Sometimes something isn't worth doing.

I wonder if they want to alter the results. https://it.slashdot.org/story/19/06/07/222254/malware-spotted-injecting-bing-results-into-google-searches notes this and I recall Superfish that could intercept and alter results even over https.

I'm going with no since the way things work the reply from the server would go to the IP it came from.

Now if you wanted to use a VPN you might be able to craft a system that used the searcher's geo-location but again no to your initial question.

let me do the work of translating it from python.

Will do. Maybe a better question would have been to omit Python but to flat out ask how to roll your own atan2() using sin, tan, etc

Nod to priors here and https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_the_difference_between_arctan_and_arctan2_in_matlab_simulink

Ooof!

OK, try Duckduckgo.com then. I would be guessing you meant DDG === DuckDuckGo.com

Back on topic. Without some document on the language I'm stuck too. Over the years I've coded in a dozen plus HLLs (high level languages) and because of my work in embedded design and coding for same, assembler and C for over a dozen microcontrollers which has lead me to look at source code for missing functions as inspiration for the assembler and C at times.

All that background is not going to help here if there is no canonical standard (read https://www.webopedia.com/TERM/C/canonical.html ) or documentation I can take a gander at. If you write I have to install some dead system to read it's help file, for me it's the end of the line.

Going to need more from you Tcll. http://www.hexedit.com didn't work so I can't see what this language is.

As to oof, with all the source out there for atan2() is a variety of languages you are not lacking for examples. And without a language for me to take a look at I can't guess how I might code this up.

92.39.148.61 (one of your IP addresses) says otherwise.)

Spam much?

You need to be more specific. As I read https://support.skype.com/en/skype/all/troubleshooting/ there are many reasons Skype does not work. I can't tell which failure you are experiencing.

Thanks for your updates. Sorry that I missed out on the DW changes but back on topic.

Can you tell us what language you are using? Maybe there is source code for atan2 in what you are coding in.

I would be guessing what this eval tag is. Maybe you are on some Python from years ago or something else. As it stands I can't see what's stopping you from using Python's math functions.

As to the mark solved, one wrong click and that happens.

Why can't you use atan2? It appears to be in Python today.

I'm reading https://www.w3schools.com/python/ref_math_atan2.asp

The answer looks to be maybe. Why? Because some old version may not work.

Time to check the KeeForm homepage and maybe ask the author listed at https://keepass.info/plugins.html#formfiller

Well Michael, I'm going to write again "Yes" to your top question.

Also, I hope you can avoid jail or worse.

I hear you. This other discussion parrots all the things I've done over time.

To quote Roseanne Roseannadanna, "It's always something. If it's not one thing it's another."

The one about "Revoke USB debugging authorisations" is one I recall since I do, once in a while use the USB debugging with Android Studio.

@Dani. That sounds even worse in some ways.

To Michael. My advice is to not go near this as a fake "money transfer" site or use the word "bank" as both can attract legal scutiny.

Also, collecting email and any partials on credit card or other identifiable data pushes this closer and closer to what a phishing site would be.

Me? Just someone that has had lawyers as clients in the past and very sensitive towards how easily this can get us into trouble. Thankfully all my clients were fantastic people.

And you did clarify it was monopoly money. Michael wrote "fake money" which I wanted to be sure we all knew what that was.

Even Monopoly money could run into trademark issues.

Anyhow, the one thing we all should agree on is we don't want to tempt fate here.

(Tongue in cheek mode) Should I note our current POTUS and family?

Thanks Dani,

I hope Michael understands that his top question on its own leading with fake money is just to opening to all the things that can get them into trouble.

To the question in the top post I maintain that it's still "Yes."

Thanks for more information (Dani and Michael.)

Your question was "is there i chance i can get in trouble?"

To that it's still yes. You lead with the "fake money" line in your first sentence. I'm going with my first answer even with added inputs.

Why not change your "fake money" to clams (nod to the comic strip B.C.) Or any of the other coins that games and comics use. Also, avoid mention of those money apps since they could notice you and make you change it.

Let's read a legal definition of fake money at https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Fake+money

I don't know what country you are in but here in the USA the authorities tend to come down hard on fake money.

Hey, look over there!

Yes.

Looks like it's been done as well as PVP at https://github.com/henshmi/Classic-Pool-Game

I see they gave a list of credits that includes possible learning sources for you:
"Credits:

• Building JavaScript Games by Arjan Egges (Apress, 2014):
  https://github.com/apress/building-javascript-games
• LAB.js :
  https://github.com/getify/LABjs
• Music :
  Bossa Antigua Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
  Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ "

The more I read about this issue the more I see it's rarely the same issue and one you should put into the Unity forums.

Example: https://forum.unity.com/threads/ld-3-duplicate-symbols-for-architecture-arm64.860209/

There are other good discussions that get marked solved when old versions of Unity or some addons were updated.

That clears up a lot.

I'd look to using a game development system now.

https://github.com/yoyoberenguer/Homing-missile lets you read how it was done in a 2D game. You get to repurpose if you wish.

Your supplied code looks rudimentary. That is, you may have a few years before you can compete with other game programmers. Don't get stuck here by eschewing Game Dev Kits.

Your topic needs clarification. As I have worked in C# albeit not for homing missiles I did work in the defense industry decades ago on a few missile systems then later industrial products.

Putting aside asking if this was a missile or a game any app you write involving missile tracking and such could have a lot of other items that have to be shared such as:

1. Is this IRL a "missile"?
2. Is this a game?

For the first you would be working with dozens of engineers to create and manufacture the product.

For a game you rarely go commando as in you don't use any library or game development system. Today it's rare to see such made without supporting libraries and APIs.

Further to the game, today's games are quite visual so the work to make a homing missile In Real Life (IRL) versus a game would take entirely different skill sets.

For IRL missile, well, that development has not been one I've read as Open Source or discussed in the open.
For the game, missile graphics and mechanics are usually worked out by more than one person. I'm talking about AAA games here. If this is something of an Indy work, then you do what you can and have the missile fly in a straight line from launch to impact. Nothing fancy.

Dead link for me: "The page you requested does not exist. For your convenience, a search was performed using the query set puzzlefor."

Also, this sounds like you are searching for others to write this for you. If so, fix your link and provide what you are paying.
If this is you wanting to write such, show your code so far and share what stopped you.
If this is homework, then show even less code and focus on what stopped you.

My view about javascript is that you know to learn the basics and use the web when you can't remember things.

For example the following given as a quiz rarely finds a coder answer all correctly.

Given that most have to deal with a full stack today, you learn to get your basics out of the way then keep your books or webs handy.

Since the author is not working on it, look at other PDF creation tools such as TCPDF, MPDF and others.

I did notice you wrote "It uses the API" which means the company that created this device would have not only the API but usually has support for programmers and if there is no programmer on your staff, consultants and programmers for hire.

Why would I need this? For decades I've been able to boot another OS and look around most installed OSes.

Do you consider what I can do to be an exploit?
Or is it just a Personal Computer doing exactly what a PC should do?

PCs have yet to be secure computing platforms (99.99% of the PCs out there.)

Just ideas.

Person 1:

1. For scripted or automating image and text work, we used ImageMagick. In case you need to know if ImageMagick can put text on images, read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImageMagick
2. For this step of uploading files and Whatsapp I'd turn to PYTHON. Python can do this. Remember my reply is to share the tools I would use to accomplish the automation goals. It is not an offer to write the applications.
3. Python can post to Facebook so again my choice of tools would be Python.

Person 2:

1. This one can be unclear. There are many command line tools out there to edit, produce videos and with Python we can tie it all together. Python again has many skills at upload and downloading.
2. Again, Python would be my choice.

We have a dog now. My mother moved across the country and couldn't take both dogs so we took in "Happy."

No one knows it's pedigree except to say Chihuahua mix. Happy is people friendly and has settled in. It's great for us as Happy enjoys walks in the morning and evening of 30 to 60 minutes.

After the walk, it's breakfast or dinner for him and he's set for quite a few hours.

The picture is flattering for him as he weighed in at 21 pounds at the time. The vet told us he should be 12 to 13 pounds. With the diet and walks he's in much better shape now. At first he would only go two blocks. Now he can go for hours.

What is the code supposed to do?

Remember that I'm asking because reverse engineering the code given could have me arrive at the wrong answer. Also, since 2-D is not allowed, I'd use a 3-D or greater array and hand it in as that was the spec given.

Seems someone asked that and it appears to be true.

Frankly this post looks more like spam than a genuine question.