I've read that EV certificates are no longer as effective as they were in SmartScreen. Microsoft apparently downgraded the amount of trust they put in EV certificates.

Now, I'm told, a reputation has to be earned even with EV certificates. And the EV warnings aren't as benign as they were in the past.

We make and sell a small product with hundreds or a thousand-ish installations per year. So, our earning a reputation won't happen quickly. We've used an EV certificate for five or ten years.

So, my question is: is EV worth it for a small developer? EV is not that much more expensive (maybe $80/year at Sectigo with a 3-year purchase).

That's not a lot of money. But I hate to give away a few hundred extra dollars if I'm not going to get much value from it. (Microsoft's Azure certificates at $100/year would be cheaper, but I'm not sure I want to learn to navigate the Azure world.)

Our customers are mostly buying our product for personal use, although there are some educational institutions. However, I'd doubt that any of them would flat-out refuse to install an app with just an OV certificate.

The certificate vendors are either not mentioning the changes I described above or downplay it. That's not surprising since EV certificates make them more money than OV.

Anyone here have any insights or experience with this?

Hi everyone,

I'm a high school junior working on a chatbot project as part of a school assignment. I'm building it using Python 3.10 in Visual Studio Code, within my own virtual environment that supports TensorFlow.

The chatbot recognizes the tags from the user's input correctly but often fails to match the response to the exact pattern. Instead, it chooses a random response from the list in the JSON file.

What I’m Trying to Do:

• Store chatbot data (tags, patterns, responses) in a JSON file.
• Match user input to a tag and return a relevant response from the corresponding list.
• Use the random module to shuffle greetings and farewells only.

The Problem:

• The bot recognizes the correct tag, but its responses don’t always align with the user’s input.
• For example: When I ask "Who discovered gravity?", the bot responds with "Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa."
• I suspect the issue might be with how I’ve implemented the random module.

Code Snippet:

Here’s the function I use to select responses:

pythonCopy codedef get_response(intents_list):
    """Generate a response based on predicted intents."""
    if not intents_list:
        return "I'm sorry, I didn't understand that. Could you rephrase?"

    tag = intents_list[0]['intent']
    list_of_intents = intents_json['intents']
    for intent in list_of_intents:
        if intent['tag'] == tag:
            return intent['responses']

Sample JSON:

jsonCopy code{
  "tag": "general_knowledge",
  "patterns": [
    "who invented the lightbulb",
    "what is the capital of France",
    "who painted the Mona Lisa",
    "when was the Declaration of Independence signed",
    "what is the square root of 144",
    "who discovered gravity",
    "what is the largest planet in our solar system"
  ],
  "responses": [
    "The lightbulb was invented by Thomas Edison.",
    "The capital of France is Paris.",
    "The Mona Lisa was painted by Leonardo da Vinci.",
    "The Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, 1776.",
    "The square root of 144 is 12.",
    "Gravity was discovered by Sir Isaac Newton.",
    "The largest planet in our solar system is Jupiter."
  ]
}

What I’ve Tried:

• Verified the JSON file structure and content.
• Checked the logic in the get_response function.
• Added debug statements to confirm that the correct tag is being passed.

The Big Question:

How can I make the chatbot consistently match user input to the exact response instead of selecting random responses from the tag's list?

I’m grateful for any help or insights to get me unstuck. I’ve poured a lot of time into this project, and the deadline is approaching! Thank you! 😊

Hi y’all, bioinformatics PhD student here. I use Python / R for my research (and know MATLAB from when I was an engineer), but I’m thinking about post-grad plans and wanna get into scientific computing and HPCs. So, I want to learn Fortran, but I’m lost on resources.

What did you use to learn Fortran? Are there any specific books, websites, YouTube channels or courses that you recommend?

Thank you!

I want to make a simple offline app to keep track of tasks, mainly because I'd like to try my hand at making app and because I've got a funny idea. I don't know how to make it tho.

I already have html, css and partial js from a nearly working project I'd like to make into the app. There aren't many functions, just login and sign-up (all the data going to be stored locally and is more for the vibe), a list of tasks sorted in different categories and an upload of a picture. I want to store all this infos in a database, locally on the pc (just for me), but I don't know how to do that with the tasks, as they can be made and deleted. Can I do that with the DB? Which would be wise to use?

The app should be able to run in Windows and Linux and incorporate audio when something is clicked ect. , but with what should I make it? I've seen Electron and Tauri, but I can't really decide, what would work better? Like I said I just need it for me, but it should still be usable. And I've got 6 pages, so components would be needed. The only framework I've used til now is Angular but I would like to try something else.

Thanks for all feedback, I am a bit out of my depth here lol

As the title of the post states, what would be the best language to start developing LLMs?

I've spent about an hour trying to solve dependency issues between libraries, but I still haven't found a solution. I'm working on a quantum computing project and ran into the following problem:

• The pennylane-qiskit library requires sympy<1.13
• Meanwhile: "torch 2.5.1 requires sympy==1.13.1; python_version >= "3.9", but you have sympy 1.12 which is incompatible."

Does anyone know how to handle both versions of sympy at the same time? It's really frustrating! Any help would be appreciated!

I want to start by explaining my situation: I’m the sole person managing and executing several projects at my company. By "sole person," I mean I’m the only software engineer, the only one performing QA, and the one meeting with clients to discuss and organize next steps. I handle everything end-to-end in terms of software.

Recently, I was promoted. While this is an exciting step, it has come with significant additional responsibilities. Now, on top of my existing duties, I am leading a team of junior developers on a critical project. These juniors have very limited experience with the type of work we do here; one of them has just 7-8 months of experience. This makes the task of leading them quite challenging, as I am the only senior on the team.

I am responsible for determining the architecture, distributing tasks, reviewing their work, and essentially guiding them through every step. They’re still learning, and that’s perfectly fine—they’re juniors, after all. However, it has slowed progress on this project.

To complicate matters, I’m unable to contribute directly to coding for this project because my "solo" responsibilities on other projects already take up all my time. Recently, I was reprimanded by the company’s top boss for the perceived slow pace of the work. I tried to explain the challenges, particularly the team's inexperience, but I’m not sure my explanation landed well. Now I’m unsure how to proceed.

I am trying to set up LTX AI with this tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3YeAYoapyk&t=256s, I have downloaded everything but when I try to run gradio_app.py in cmd I get the error. I installed gradio with "pip install gradio" and checked that it's there with "pip list" but still get this error. If anyone knows the solution please help! (Also I don't know pretty much anything about programming, so could you go a little easier on the explanation)

We fixed this before, however it came back again. Have you encountered this situation before? If so what are the possible solutions?

Thanks for the help.

We did make an appeal to google, sent them a review request but if this happens every time it'll just lead to more hassle. So, I want to know to those who have experienced this, how did you deal with this situation?

https://preview.redd.it/bvwa19d2yz9e1.jpg?width=1875&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a09ae8d4a9380561a5c4959668050dae8434254e

Not sure if this the best place to ask this. I'm wanting to build a lego sorting machine similar to Daniel West's universal lego sorting machine. The physical machine side I could probably work out given enough time, it's the rest of it that I need to learn. I'm a complete beginner with coding/programming, ai, machine learning, etc knowledge. Knowing my end goal, where should I start, are there any courses or youtube video series that would walk me through and teach all the things needed to build this lego sorting machine.

I'd like to build a lego sorting machine as I have a bricklink store and would love it if I didn't have to manually sort all the lego.

Hey guys, I do not have any experience with APIs at all, this is my first time trying to access one. I am trying to get access to the information from the API discussed in the webpage https://www.utrsports.net/pages/engage-api#h.8w9nd4b9msji . It is an API that has information from the Universal Tennis Rating website, which is a website used to track tennis player stats.

The problem I am having is that I cannot find out how to get the client id and client secret to progress in the instructions laid out on the webpage above. Do you guys know how to find that? I already emailed UTR support, so they might give an answer to this. Also, is there some resource yall know of that explains the type of process the webpage is laying out. Again, I am a beginner to APIs, so any help on the subject is greatly appreciated!

Thanks again for all your help, I greatly appreciate it!

Trying to learn my first language to land my first job and people regularly recommend python.

I understand that python is flexible and easy to understand, but most job postings for python seem centered around data science and data analysis, which demand a portfolio displaying analytical skills and that you are capable of bending data to your will. This seems like a very difficult part of landing a python focused job.

Most of these jobs also require learning SQL and additional software on top of python and don’t seem very “entry level” to me.

Am I crazy for thinking this? It just seems like python really isn’t all that great to land your first job. Learn fundamentals, sure.

Hello, I've recently been getting into gRPC and *.proto files. I've been working on a .proto file that describes fetching and submitting surveys. A couple things I'm thinking of:

A Survey is made up of multiple Questions

message Survey {
    int32 id = 1; // Unique ID for the survey
    string title = 2; // Title of the survey
    repeated Question questions = 3; // List of questions
}

A Question can be one of many question types

message Question {
    int32 id = 1; // Unique ID for the question
    string text = 2; // The question text
    bool optional = 3; // Whether this question can be skipped or not

    // There are many types of questions
    oneof question_type {
        MultipleChoiceQuestion multiple_choice = 4;
        FreeformQuestion freeform = 5;
        IntQuestion pos_int = 6;
        TimestampQuestion timestamp = 7;
    }
}

An Answer to a Question should be one of an answer type that matches that Question specs

message Answer {
    int32 question_id = 1; // The id of the Question this answer corresponds to

    oneof answer_type {
        AnswerSkipped skipped = 1; // If the question was skipped
        int32 selected_option = 2; // 0-indexed selection for MultipleChoiceQuestion
        string freeform_response = 3; // For FreeformQuestion
        int32 int_response = 4; // For IntQuestion
        google.protobuf.TimeStamp timestamp_response = 5; // For TimeStampQuestion
    }
}

A SurveyService should allow for fetching and submitting surveys. Keeping track of each individual survey instance that gets sent to a client might also be useful.

service SurveyService {
    rpc GetSurvey(GetSurveyRequest) returns (GetSurveyResponse) {}

    rpc SubmitSurvey(SubmitSurveyRequest) returns (SubmitSurveyResponse) {}
}

message GetSurveyRequest {
    int32 survey_id = 1; // ID of the survey to retrieve
}

message GetSurveyResponse {
    int32 survey_instance_id = 1; // The ID for this particular survey session
    Survey survey = 2; // The requested survey
}

message SubmitSurveyRequest {
    int32 survey_instance_id = 1; // The client should get this from GetSurveyResponse
    repeated Answer answers = 2; // The answers should line up with the question order
}

message SubmitSurveyResponse {
    bool success = 1; // TODO: explain different error cases through enums?
}

I have a couple of questions:

• What was your experience implementing oneof with JSON/REST? I believe OpenAPI offers something similar to this, but what if you don't use OpenAPI?
• This design fetches and submits whole surveys. Has anyone tried something different to keep track of partially filled-out surveys?
• I define a skipped answer_type, which is just an enum with a single choice, SKIPPED. Is there a better way to do this?
• It's technically possible to send invalid values like an invalid survey_instance_id, or an invalid list of answers that don't line up with the survey questions. How do you handle this type of validation?

I am a very junior programmer.

I have developed a full-stack e-commerce web + (admin dashboard and POS) with payment gateways and mailing system.

I have been working it for more than four months and it’s on the edge to finish.

The website was to surprise my crush who is helping with her sister’s retail shop. So, her sister is the business owner.

But that damn crush already rejected me 3 times and I was hoping this web present would show her how much I care about her.

Even now, she is living in a separate country with me and neglecting me more than before.

I know my website is very good for a startup retail and I can make good money if I modify my source code and a sell to some other people.

But I am being indecisive whether I should sell it to make money or give her and (probably got her attention or neglected as before).

Please I know this is not a coding or tech problem but I need other developers opinions.

Even if I decide to sell, I don’t know how to sell a website which is not developed according to client’s specific requirements (although it will work for every SME retail businesses) as I don’t have any full-time or freelance working experiences before as a web developer. Only few people in my country who are familiar to tech use websites.

As a very junior dev - I also worry about being obligated to maintain and debug if I sell

Seniors, I need your advice weather to sell or give surprise to that damn crush like if u we’re in my shoes.

Documentation is undeniably important, particularly for larger projects, yet writing it is something I often delay/end up not doing. I can think of a few reasons why this is the case for me, but I'd be curious to hear other perspectives on this.

What are some reasons/excuses you've used/heard for not writing documentation? And are any of them valid reasons, in your opinion?

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1BGdi8AIeiaIcx8rqouQwmdxZdqd5s-Us?usp=sharing

I wanna: For each row of the gerthemedeck1.xlsx, if the first column is "der", make the second column's text blue. And if the first column is "die", make the second column's text red. And if the first column is "das", make the second column's text green.

import pandas as pd
from fpdf import FPDF

class PDF(FPDF):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()
        self.add_page()
        # Add a Unicode-compatible font
        self.add_font('Courier New', '', r'C:\Windows\Fonts\cour.ttf', uni=True)  # Update with the correct path
        self.set_font("Courier New", size=14)  # Set font size to 14

    def add_row(self, first_four, fifth_col, colors):
        """Add a row to the PDF with alignment and color."""
        # Adjust widths based on the value of the first column
        if first_four[0].lower().strip() in colors:  # Check if the first column is "der", "die", or "das"
            widths = [15, 120, 80, 40]  # Reduced width for the first column
        else:
            widths = [80, 120, 80, 40]  # Default widths

        for i, cell in enumerate(first_four):
            # Handle color adjustment for second column based on the first column
            if i == 1 and first_four[0].lower().strip() in colors:  # Apply color to the second column based on the first column
                self.set_text_color(*colors[first_four[0].lower().strip()])
            else:
                self.set_text_color(0, 0, 0)  # Default to black

            # Write the cell with adjusted width (no wrapping in first four columns)
            self.cell(widths[i], 10, txt=cell, border=1)

        self.ln()  # Move to the next line

        # Reset color to black for the fifth column
        self.set_text_color(0, 0, 0)
        if fifth_col:
            # Use multi_cell for the fifth column to wrap the text if it's too long
            self.multi_cell(0, 10, txt=fifth_col, border=1, align='L')
        self.ln(5)  # Add spacing between rows

# Path to the Excel file
file_path = 'gerthemedeck1.xlsx'

# Read the Excel file
df = pd.read_excel(file_path)

# Create an instance of the PDF class
pdf = PDF()

# Define colors for "der", "die", and "das"
colors = {
    "der": (0, 0, 255),  # Blue
    "die": (255, 0, 0),  # Red
    "das": (0, 255, 0),  # Green
}

# Process rows
for _, row in df.iterrows():
    # Extract the first four non-empty columns
    first_four = [str(cell) for cell in row[:4] if pd.notna(cell)]
    fifth_col = str(row[4]) if pd.notna(row[4]) else ""

    # Add the aligned row to the PDF
    pdf.add_row(first_four, fifth_col, colors)

# Save the PDF
output_pdf_path = 'output_corrected.pdf'
pdf.output(output_pdf_path)

print(f"PDF exported to {output_pdf_path}")

Hi everyone

I'm building an analytics product that measures things like pageviews, sessions, and unique visitors. I’ve run into an issue when trying to track sessions on different devices.

On desktop, when you close a tab, we use the unload or beforeunload event to end the session, and it works fine. However, on mobile, these event listeners don’t get triggered when you close a tab, so the session doesn’t end.

Has anyone encountered this issue before? Is there a way to properly track sessions across devices, or is there a better solution for handling this on mobile?

Thanks in advance!

Greetings, Has anyone personally had any luck with dice.com jobs or know of anyone who has? Looks legit. Thank you.

What types of workloads aside from microservices such as background jobs do you handle on a message broker like RabbitMQ? I am making system design for my university senior thesis and want to draw some inspiration from real world examples.

I was thinking of building a CRM for a B2B e-shop selling custom tshirt printing and other clothing inspired by project from freelancing that got scrapped. However I have no idea, how to incorporate background jobs into my application, as i want to have some practical experience with message brokers.

Has anyone done some sort of GUI that interacts with a microcontroller (Arduino or RPI Pico) to turn on an off say a relay, locally on the Computer that the microcontroller is connected to. I’m a very low level programmer.

I want to solidify my knowledge in these two, and there's no better way than practise of course, but as I'm a total beginner I don't think I could build anything from my mind just yet, so can you suggest me perhaps some ressources on YouTube or anywhere about projects with Node and Next 👀

This would say true if it's 12:00, 12:05, 12:10, 12:15, etc...

I could turn it into date time, parse the minutes and modulus 5 against that using string parsing but wondering if there is some trick using epoch (13 digits) and simple math.

Hello, I need suggestion regarding a Java course on Udemy to get good expertise. Also good hands on experience to clear java certification. Thank you.

I'm trying to run a text to image, text to video, image to video and video to video AI locally via comfyui

Everything is already done but when I queue a generation it pops this error:

Error no file named pytorch_model.bin, model.safetensors, tf_model.h5, model.ckpt.index or flax_model.msgpack found in directory C:\ComfyUI_windows_portable\ComfyUI\models\clip\clip-vit-large-patch14.

Where do I get those files I'm missing? Any help is greatly appreciated

Looking for guidance/advice,

currently (copy/pasting) option data into excel tabs and adding additional columns for calcs, display data with charts.

issue: excel is getting sluggish by rendering many tabs, process: (find/match) data points from each tab and then display each data point into its own cell on a separate tab, bar charts to display data. each time i change the expiration date it retrieves new data from each tab (min 8 tabs up to 60 tabs). process time too long.

I need a better faster setup, was looking into...

Programming language: JavaScript or Python (or both?): which is best

Chart display: Apache ECharts?

Database: MongoDB?

API language?

Display real-time T&S data with charts

Is this the right approach or how should i tackle this project?

Please share all advice. Thank U

(posting in a few rooms, not sure which room this should be displayed in)

Hello there, my brother is a still on his first year in college. He startled learning C++ on his own, and I wanna help him find everything he needs to learn in order to enhance and evolve in this field, and become prominent among the other as he graduates. I advised him to start learning OOP, bit he wants to learn full stack development and I don’t know what topics of sources to start with-except for OOP and maybe algorithms. Any good recommendations?

Also, when should he stop learning C++? How should he know if it’s enough.

Thanks a lot

Hi, I have basics in python. No experience in coding. I want to learn how to actually get experience in python coding. I have 3 years experience in low code automation. Is there any recommendations to get hands on experience. I want to get into data analysis

As the title says I’m trying to write a python script or algorithm that can help me plot the optimal way (so least number of routes to run) every road in a region. I know there are websites such as city strides that keep track of every road that you’ve run but I’m trying to write something that helps me generate which route to do.

There would obviously be constraints, including the runs must be between 0 and 30 km (0 and 20 miles).

I’ve looked into libraries that would allow me to import map data and explored approaches such as putting nodes at each intersection. However I am struggling to come up with a way to generate the optimal routes from that point.

Thanks for any help and let me know if I missed out any key details !

I am building an RSS based podcast player app and running into some issues from episodes that have dynamic ads.

Sometimes the same episode might have different lengths of time, even from the same resolved URL (after redirects) because the ads are different lengths. So if a user pauses the episode and closes the app, the time/position that was saved for that episode might be wrong when they come back.

I have never noticed this issue on the major podcast apps that I use, so curious how it is generally handled.

I play MMO's, and they often make you do all sorts of simple and repetative stuff that feels like home work, and i thought it would be interesting to learn programming andauto mating that stuff, preferably through code directly that reads the game from the inside rather than the pixels on screen (not sure if i explained that correctly), so for example starting out with having the character use a an ability on an enemy or be able to traverse the map whilst avoiding agro from withought my involvment and later transitioning into doing a complex set of tasks like grinding mobs and doing daily quests? i dont know how difficult learning this would be but id be taking it step by step anyway, just a nice goal/motivator that keeps me going.