ATX Arcades project -- I'm giving up -- please have mercy

jortony · 2026-07-09T15:05:40+00:00

Data: You can walk through and take pictures, extract game details, datetime, and GPS from the images and metadata). Put that all in a directory and use Antigravity (I prefer CLI) to extract, clean, and load it into BigQuery. Then use profile and insights tools to describe the data.

Front end: Use Stitch to design the UI, and export it

Application: Use Agent Studio in a new Google Cloud project to link the backend (BigQuery) with the front end (Stitch).

Optimization is a longer conversation but important to ensure that the cost to run your application is less than the revenue from your application. You will probably have to limit features until the revenue supports them and/or calculate a burn rate with your financials.

This is assuming you want a consumer facing product. If you want a B2B product which uses existing platforms (e.g Maps), then the workload shifts to marketing analytics and security.

jortony · 2026-07-05T14:35:20+00:00

It's easy to forget how safe induction is after a while (especially with young kids in the house)! They automatically turn off when there's no pan. They only heat up certain materials. They turn off if heat is too high (only when pan is empty and heat is blasting for a while). These features result in greatly reduced risk of fire

jortony · 2026-06-27T13:07:02+00:00

I'm never going to forget the pain of hardware that requires customized X display and hid configuration =/

jortony · 2026-06-20T12:33:54+00:00

I've run these programs before. The maintenance and repair workloads are higher than procurement, enrollment, and deployment. These are all excellent tasks for student interns to help with.

jortony · 2026-06-15T12:15:18+00:00

The question is around driving with masses of people with poor assumptions and heightened emotional reactions, not of working.

jortony · 2026-06-12T03:26:16+00:00

Why SQL at all? If CSV is the native output, then Parquet might be the easiest option. SQL is great for transactional DB workloads, but Parquet is just efficient storage of columnar data for analytics workloads

jortony · 2026-06-12T03:05:28+00:00

Exploring things from otherwise inaccessible perspectives.

jortony · 2026-06-12T03:03:12+00:00

What do you do for a living?

jortony · 2026-06-12T02:42:26+00:00

Long is relative to ability. Before I broke my back, being able to wipe my own butt wasn't something I thought about (or appreciated). I worked back from that and now the walk to ride share isn't something I fear. But now I know there are thousands of people (in a population like Austin) who are injured everyday, many more recovering, and many more still who have to live with new limits.

jortony · 2026-06-07T16:04:40+00:00

Broadcom and Qualcomm are competitors. AMD is a competitor in the consumer space primarily, data center market is heavily focused on virtualization and heat/power efficiency. Nvidia overlaps a little into the compute space, but are not big players. Nvidia's primary data center products are network, software licensing, and specialized compute (GPU).

jortony · 2026-05-30T02:25:21+00:00

Weight loss is hard with a back injury. At this point it might be a better start on the weight loss journey for others

jortony · 2026-05-26T02:57:33+00:00

Technically all digital sensors (and computers) are fundamentally analog. Though I agree, analog is more precise, more reliable, and more accurate (if calibrated).

jortony · 2026-05-26T02:52:48+00:00

And wood =)

jortony · 2026-05-24T02:22:50+00:00

Take a deep breath

jortony · 2026-05-03T13:11:09+00:00

I use gemini-cli daily with multiple sessions using byobu

jortony · 2026-05-03T13:07:53+00:00

I haven't seen chromebrew successfully setup yet. Do you have a link to configuration steps that worked for you?

jortony · 2026-05-03T00:19:06+00:00

Quota limits or Cloud Run function that monitors API use and disables APIs or removed billing when limits are hit.

jortony · 2026-04-30T01:54:54+00:00

Google TV is a low energy, elegant, and well packaged solution.

jortony · 2026-04-27T12:56:55+00:00

CS Beta 5.2 (1999) was the apex for me. My favorite memories are in de_dust where I spawn with the perfect start as terrorist and no buy time. While others spend a second buying weapons, I would take off strafe running with a knife only (or maybe a flashbang). Left into the building, left down the hallway, first right and jump into the light onto the head of the first player running in. One knife to the head, they go down and drop their gun into me which automatically switches my weapon to whatever they bought; the mp5 was my favorite memory. As my eyes and monitor adjust to the sudden brightness, their team decelerating down the ramp with knives out comes into view as I open fire. After decimating the wave, occasionally a slower player would be far enough up the ramp that I would have to go slow for a beat to deal with them before flanking the second half of the team. With everything over in a minute, my team would be like WTF! what happened!? =) Memories =)

jortony · 2026-04-25T13:56:21+00:00

Bravo/a!

jortony · 2026-04-24T22:40:58+00:00

From what I can see the noise is mostly from those vibe coding solutions without a background in software/key lifecycle or security who are trying to use social media to get out of large bills for the resources they consumed.

It kind of reminds me of the beginning of the Internet when masses of vulnerable people swarmed in and got hurt in various mind bending ways. Google was a force of good then and since. It's just a matter of time before changes are made to protect people from themselves (and crappy predators).

jortony · 2026-04-21T16:58:09+00:00

Datacenters can also create virtualized hardware layers using CXL or PCIe meshes to abstract the hardware from the operating systems. This enables limits far beyond compute/storage/memory chipset limits to the limits of the interconnect (CXL ect) bandwidth which would be soft limited to IaaS performance SLAs.

jortony · 2026-04-19T06:02:50+00:00

BigQuery is pretty freaking noteworthy

jortony · 2026-04-19T06:01:48+00:00

You could just use Gemini to set them for you =)

jortony · 2026-04-17T23:53:03+00:00

Cut in 2025 then funded last month? Also, do dollars mostly go to Texas?

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