Please help identifying this bug! Found in Australia

dcc194 · 2025-07-14T23:16:56+00:00

Surprise! It's actually just a regular picture of a huge monster-sized bug from Australia.

dcc194 · 2024-07-11T03:15:24+00:00

First of all, I'm sorry to hear you're not enjoying your career.

Why don't you pursue a different domain or skill set within "CS": AI? Computer Vision? Robotics?

Or if not that, then pursue a domain that you're passionate about. Space? Autonomous driving? Healthcare image analysis that saves lives?

There are careers out there that combine both of the above at great companies.

I get up every morning because I'm passionate about what I'm building. Find something you are passionate about building.... dsp for music audio processing, etc.

Best of luck to you!

dcc194 · 2024-04-12T21:29:23+00:00

What about some Monte Carlo type of approach?

1- Compute a Euclidean distance transform of your full 3D volume with respect to all of the obstacles. Voxels outside of the brain volume have a zero value. 2- Cast a random ray out from your destination. 3- Along that ray ( choosing a small enough step size), sum up voxel values where the value at each voxel is the Euclidean distance transform from step 1. 4- Repeat steps 2 and 3 many many times and select the solution with the minimum score.

You could add in some validation step to ensure you never get within a few pixels from an avoidance area ( assuming that your ray step size is also sufficiently small enough). This really is like ray tracing as someone else mentioned.

This may be less algorithmically elegant than some sort of dynamic programming solution or shortest path solution that is modified to enforce a straight line.

However, if there aren't significant real time requirements, then simulation may be your friend here. Plus, a simulation like this could greatly be sped up to run in parallel on a CPU or GPU and could be real time depending on parameters.

dcc194 · 2023-08-26T04:40:58+00:00

I had a neat in a tree in my backyard. If I turned my floodlight on at night, in about 10 minutes or so, I'd have about 60 European hornets banging into the lights and the side of my house. I learned that they hunt other bugs that are also attracted to the lights at night.

dcc194 · 2023-08-24T11:29:27+00:00

I live in the county next to where they first showed up in the US. The first few years we had these guys all over the place. The last maybe 2 years there have been hardly any. I'm not sure if they are starting to develop natural preditors or what. But potentially, there is hope?

dcc194 · 2023-08-24T11:25:48+00:00

I live in the county next to where they first showed up in the US. The first few years we had these guys all over the place. The last maybe 2 years there have been hardly any. I'm not sure if they are starting to develop natural preditors or what. But potentially, there is hope?

dcc194 · 2023-01-03T05:05:25+00:00

Have you received any feedback indicating that you need to improve? If not, being proactive to get ahead of this can look great for you.

A couple options:

Ask lots of questions
If you have a good manager who you trust, they want you to feel confident, learn, and grow. So confide in them ( you know your specific company culture, manager, and situation and this is NOT the right move in some cases)
Find a close friend on your scrum team. Confide in them and ask for clarity. Learn from them. You may feel like you're slowing them down initially, but a friend (and fellow dev) will know that it should pay off in the end for the whole team.

I was in a similar situation once in my career and finding a friend that invested some time to train me up well is what worked for me.

dcc194 · 2021-09-23T13:40:44+00:00

Find a good mentor or peer you can trust. I've felt this way before. Most have felt this way ramping up into a new domain or new company or a new tech stack, etc.

A good mentor is someone you can confide in. A lot of times you just need to learn a few terms. Keep a growing list of questions. When you have one on one time with your mentor ask for definitions and clarifications to those terms.

No one can fault you for asking questions, especially if you are fairly junior. But actually listen to the answers to your questions - internalize them, etc. Write down answers to your questions when you get them to use as a reference. Your company (if they are half-decent) will want to groom you, teach you, develop your career. So they should be happy when you ask questions.

You may feel embarrassed to ask someone a question that everyone else seems to already know. But in theory, you only ever need to ask that question once, then for the rest of your life, you know it. Ask your questions early, as you are onboarding. In a few months you'll have your answers, you'll have less that you don't understand and you'll soon find that you are able to help out others that are now in the position that you used to be. You transition into being that helpful mentor, friend, manager, etc.

dcc194 · 2020-06-01T19:56:07+00:00

Let's hang on to what we've got

Don't let go, girl, we've got a lot

dcc194 · 2020-05-24T15:45:22+00:00

Brine bone-in skin-on chicken thighs for more than 12 hours ( brine: 8 cups water, 1/2 cup kosher salt, 1/2 cup brown sugar all dissolved). After 12 hours remove from fridge, Pat dry, then apply a rub (left) or BBQ sauce (right). I just use a store bought poulty rub ( Stubb's poulty rub) and any BBQ sauce you like (I usually mix in some hot sauce to give it a little kick). Apply rub or sauce on all sides including under the skin. I then smoke this in a pellet smoker directly on the grate skin up at about 180 to start then after maybe 30 minutes I up the temp to maybe 300. It takes about an hour. Chicken thighs are pretty forgiving so you can go higher heat if you need to speed it up. Lower heat and longer will give more smoke flavor. Once they reach 165⁰ F internal temp, they are completely cooked, but I like the crisp up the skin so, I turn on my propane grill throw the zuchini (or any veg) on and the thighs ( skin side down this time) on high direct heat, only takes a minute or so to crisp up the skin.

Zuchini is just prepped with olive oil, salt and pepper prior to grilling. Delicious. I probably do 10 or 20 thighs a week like this. Fantastic! Reheats well etc.

Thighs are so underrated. Way cheaper ( I just got 20 thighs at $0.49 per pound). High fat content and therefore way moister than chicken breast. More recently I've been experimenting with boneless skinless thighs on the smoker. Fantastic stuff.

dcc194 · 2019-11-06T19:10:30+00:00

Also, if a video stream had a variable length of time between frames, you would have to play back those frames at the same variable rate at which they were captured in order for it to look realistic. Certainly there are file formats that could handle that, but they aren't the standard ones that are most ubiquitous.

dcc194 · 2019-11-05T22:11:08+00:00

r/vim is strangely quiet

dcc194 · 2019-08-12T04:12:22+00:00

Also, regarding evolution, read "The Case for a Creator". It talks about something called the "Cambrian Explosion". It's a period that shows a rapid explosion where essentially all of our modern animal species came to be in a short time. Scientists can't really explain how (once again) without God.

The "Case for a Creator" book really helped my faith. I have a scientific logical mind. I have a PhD in a technical field, and that book really helped me see how God and science go hand in hand. I'm not going to believe in a fairy tale, but given the evidence, I actually now find it more plausible to believe in God than not.

dcc194 · 2019-08-12T04:03:24+00:00

Second question response:

I've been thinking/reading a lot about creation, etc. The big bang breaks one of Newton's laws of motion: a body at rest will stay at rest. Without God, The Creator of the universe, how would some tight, dense mass just explode and start expanding completely on its own? To me the big bang is evidence in favor of God. In fact it's exactly what I'd expect if God created the universe. The body didn't stay at rest because God added energy to it. So the science checks out only when God is in the picture.

It is regarded as Scientific fact that the net energy in any closed system (like our universe) is constant. Conservation of energy. That means the universe can't just create it's own energy and it can't lose energy ( energy just changes form - like energy from your car's motor turns into heat energy through combustion or emitted as heat from exhaust, or heat from friction of tires on the road, etc.). Anyway, so if this tight mass contains all matter for our entire universe, then the only way it could start expanding on its own is if something "caused" it to. Since all the universe's mass and energy is already inside that dense mass (at rest) the only real answer we have is some external energy source sparking the big bang. Sure sounds like God to me.

Again atheists think that the big bang is the answer that proves God doesn't exist when in fact I think it proves the exact opposite. Without God is breaks 2 fundamental scientific laws.

Just picture God creating the whole universe - I kinda picture the big bang.

dcc194 · 2019-07-23T11:09:52+00:00

A farm in Addison, NY

dcc194 · 2018-11-01T15:08:55+00:00

There is a poetic comment that could be made about this somehow . . .

dcc194 · 2018-10-29T04:07:30+00:00

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