Yes. For the past few years I've been feeling like something isn't quite right with my glasses. It feels like the focus never quite aligns, there is an oh so subtle yellow tint, and I generally feel somewhat restrained looking through a frame. Recently, assuming that it might just have to do with low quality lenses, I purchased a larger frame and the highest quality lenses my local optician offers. No improvement. I'm wondering if it might just be a mental thing that I get too caught up in.
That's what I did here: https://www.simplecontactform.org
The presentation isn't fleshed out because we mostly use it for our agency clients but it is the most minimal version I could come up with.
I always liked the idea for your service but the pricing didn't work (to be clear: it's not your fault, I'm not sure it is solvable).
I wanted to use it for my personal website which will receive maybe 10 emails through the year (if I'm lucky), but at $5/month I can just spin up my own VPS, which can do way more than sending me emails.
That makes total sense. I set this up for our agency clients to be able to integrate email sending on a static site without having to manage a server or dive into spam filtering. For them the decreased complexity and time saved alone is usually worth the price.
Curious to hear if you generally prefer to manage client's forms and billing through your own account or have them create their own and share credentials with you?
I think there are 2 situations:
- 1 client is not technical at all - so you manage on your acc
- client is ok with having their own acc, then it is much better option
I'd imagine that a lot of people who are interested in taking photographs might zone out once I start talking about content-based interpretation and the renewal of artistic language.
The goal was to have a platform that ingests the commonly enormous video files from old tapes, automatically cuts them, tags them based on content to make them easily searchable. My focus was on discoverability of scenes hidden in those long video files. The search bar would also randomly suggest tags to search for.
At some point I tried to work with a large video digitization provider and the video splitting ended up being too expensive to be viable for the proposed business model. Now it just auto generates thumbnails and lets you tag videos manually.
The project includes a business dahsboard that allows digitization businesses to send videos directly to customer accounts (deliveries need to be accepted).
Currently, I only use it for my own videos as well as for my MIL.
I've been using a Macbook Air M1 with 8gb of ram to run a bunch of Chrome tabs, multiple iOS simulators, docker, an external display, plus the obligatory slack and zoom apps simultaneously and never ran into any issues. I assume most linux distributions would handle this even better than MacOS but anyone correct me if I'm wrong.
How is that possible? Or by "never run into any issues" you mean the machine wasn't completely unusable while it continuously was swapping everything everything to disk?
As I sit here and type with one citrix session and two chrome tabs open, I'm using 16.91gb of heap.
I've seen quite a few YouTube videos of people seeing how much they can do on minimally configured Apple silicon Macs, and it is insane.
My guess is that what is going on is that the internal storage is so fast that if it has to swap when switching tasks it doesn't really cause much slowdown, so that as long as each individual task can fit in memory during its time slice you are fine.
(Well...fine in the sense that it is almost as fast as a system with much more memory. But if I'm right it is also increasing the write load on the SSD and so lowering its lifetime, which those who want to use their computers for a long time might want to take into account).
I'd guess the same would happen on other operating systems and architectures if the SSD was fast enough.
Internal storage will still be an order of magnitude slower than ram, right?
Apple silicone memory bandwidth is like 100-200Gb/sec versus maybe 10Gb/sec for the ssd on a good day. Anyone can run on like a gig of heap, but nothing will be "fast", including apple silicone.
At 10 GB/sec it would take ~800 ms if you were trying to resume a process that needs 8 GB and was entirely swapped out, assuming that all 8 GB have to be present for it to run. (Add another 800 ms if it has to entirely swap out 8 GB of the previous process to make room, unless the SSD can overlap reads and writes).
But most big processes don't need everything to be present in memory to resume. You just need to bring in the code and data that will be used in the short term.
10 GB in a second is 1 GB in 100 ms or 100 MB in 10 ms or 1 MB in 100 µs.
For many programs, especially GUI programs, you can maybe swap in enough for the main event loop and whatever is being actively worked on in a couple ms. Then as the user continues working you might have to spend another ms or so when they do something that needs code or data that wasn't already brought in.
Yes, my machine does swap quite generously. I have never noticed any slowdowns except when working with large video projects. However, I'm coming from an entry level 2015 MacBook Pro, so maybe I just don't know what's fast anymore. I am a little concerned about the SSD lifespan but that's something I'm still looking into.
yeah i have a macbook pro 13" that work got me. M1, 8gb of ram and for what i'm doing i've not even noticed a slowdown.
rails / react / arc browser with tons of tabs, spotify, slack, vscode, obsidian, etc all open 24/7 and it feels as snappy if not snappier than my personal laptop. plus it's plugged into a 4k monitor.
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