3/30/2023 0 Comments Lightbot answers![]() Overall this is a great application and should be considered by parents with children who are familiar with some coding aspects as the application is challenging. ![]() Some of the levels are very challenging and younger users may find this frustrating if a level cannot be completed as there is limited help and only a level restart option. However, the app does accelerate at a fast level and parents will need to supervise the basic levels. This is a fantastic app and highly recommended. Once the Play option has been chosen the app provides in-app text instructions, it would be ideal if these could be narrated as it may encourage younger users to attempt the application. The app also has a useful feature that saves four user profiles and although the sound is quirky and inviting it can also be turned off here. Teachers worldwide are choosing Lightbot first when introducing their students to programming. The app is available in an incredible 21 different languages and we love the fact that you can swap from a boy robot to a girl robot. Lightbot lets players gain a practical understanding of basic concepts like instruction sequencing, procedures and loops, just by guiding a robot to light up tiles and solve levels. ![]() There are a number of parental features on the home page that are very useful. The app does a great job of teaching children the basic concepts of coding. Each level is awarded with stars depending on the number of steps used to complete the level. Completing one level will unlock the next that will introduce new steps and commands such as directions, jumps, procedures, conditionals and overloading. Your child must guide a robot around a 3D grid to the lightbulb by dragging commands into the correct place. Brief instructions are included at the beginning of each level to help your child. The app is easy to use and navigate and once shown to your child they should be able to progress with the app unsupervised however, the app does progress very fast and you need to be up for the challenge. The app has no in-app purchases with no adverts. A friendly Robot will introduce your child step by step to the basic concepts of programming in a colourful graphic environment. Parents need to know that the Lightbot Programming Puzzles App is suitable for children aged 9 and upwards and is a programming puzzle game that uses game mechanics that are firmly rooted in programming concepts.
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3/29/2023 0 Comments The kindergarten teacher“Part of what interests me is working with actors and helping somebody else as they move through a complicated trip.The term ‘ Kindergarten’ is derived from German which means ‘ garden for the children’. She relishes remaining behind the camera on this one. Gyllenhaal is adapting Elena Ferrante’s novel The Last Daughter as her first directing project, and will produce alongside Pie Films, with whom she partnered on The Kindergarten Teacher. I love her and I’m so grateful for this new experience of playing this woman over so many years.” “I’m so glad we have one more season, I’m not ready to say goodbye to her. She loves doing TV and has derived immense pleasure playing Candy in HBO’s The Deuce, the sex industry drama that has been renewed for a third season. There was a conscious effort made on their part and I appreciated it.” So on The Deuce, for example, out of eight directors for the second season one was a man and the other seven were women. ![]() I believe the door has been closed for women and that it’s worth doing some work to open it. “That was very much a realistic expression of a feminine experience and it was a great collaboration, but very different. “In particular I think about Hugo Blick, who wrote and directed The Honourable Woman with me,” she explains. Gyllenhaal says she does not particularly look for female-skewed projects, just material to which she responds. “It’s not about a crazy lady who kidnaps children, and yet she’s driven crazy for this short period of time and it’s partially by the culture she lives in, and the culture she lives in is the same one that we live in.” Opening doors “I’ve come to believe the movie is about the consequences of what happens when you starve a vibrant woman’s mind,” she continues. I have so much compassion for Lisa who is waking up to that and yet is so confused about how to change it. “A lot of women are waking up right now to the feeling that they have not been satisfied, that they’ve been living in a way they told themselves is okay but is actually not okay. It is late September and Gyllenhaal has just finished watching the combustible confirmation hearing of Brett Kavanaugh to the US Supreme Court. “I know there’s some controversy around Netflix and making films with them,” says Gyllenhaal, “but they have been the major supporter of unusual, honest, human work financially… I feel excited that the money is in the hands of people right now in some places who are looking to support really interesting work and in my experience that includes work for women. Netflix picked up the film after its Sundance Film Festival debut in January this year. “I’m sure you won’t be surprised to hear this was not an easy movie to finance and yet there’s a part of me that’s like, ‘Why should we have to make this movie for nothing? Why should everybody have to defer their salary? Why should we have 23 days ? And why should I be changing in the bathroom on the Staten Island Ferry?’” The film shot on a shoestring in Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and upstate New York in the summer of 2017. It was directed and written by a woman… There was something about this interaction and it comes from Sara.” Our DP was a man and I always joke that he was a lover of women. The movie in a lot of ways was made by women. ![]() ![]() ![]() “We had a really singular kind of collaboration. “I loved working with Sara,” says Gyllenhaal of Colangelo. Gyllenhaal plays a Staten Island teacher and frustrated poet who obsesses over a five-year-old student prodigy, nurturing the youngster’s talent until she eventually oversteps a boundary. The Kindergarten Teacher is a remake of Nadav Lapid’s 2014 Israeli drama Haganenet and a co-production between Pie Films and Celine Rattray and Trudie Styler’s Maven Pictures. “I should see it.” And goes on to explain: “ was speaking to my experience as a woman in the world in a way not that many scripts do.” “I thought, ‘I just want to make this.’ I still haven’t seen it.” “I loved the script so much that I never watched first movie, which is very unlike me,” Gyllenhaal says. Maggie Gyllenhaal was so excited by writer/director Sara Colangelo’s The Kindergarten Teacher script she said yes to the project without doing her usual due diligence on a potential director. 3/29/2023 0 Comments React context vs redux![]() So, when most people refer to 'Redux', they actually mean 'using a Redux store and the React-Redux library together'. Usually is used with libraries like React or Angular for building user interfaces. The React-Redux library is the official UI binding layer that lets React components interact with a Redux store by reading values from Redux state and dispatching actions. So in a simple React application, we have a few. Ive learned of the technique to split the context into state consumers and those that change the state(yet to polish it) and now i wonder if Redux is actually capable to handle such situations and save the effort of using so many sorts of hooks. Redux is an open-source JavaScript library for managing application state. Hello everyone I thought it would be interesting to have a look at a few different approaches to state management in react. Context API is the concept of React which break our application into components, for reusability purposes. The main issue im currently battling is the way i use context occasionally leads to unnecessary components rerender and commonly solutions involve even more useSomeTool hooks, like useMemo, useCallback…mo… and things get overcomplicated. I had to manage more complex state for some components…i got familiar with useReducer, and somehow along the way, it seems i established the proper formula to manage the state as a whole, but still i encounter more, problematic situations, where context or react reducer fall short and to discover Redux as another solution is nice, ill definitely have it try for my next project. I had to give different components access to common state…i discovered useContext. ![]() I started building it step by step and as i added more functionalities, i had to find different techniques to handle them. I did not expect my project to go so vast. Fundamentals are still same for context API before and after useReducer. So Context API is good for small scale but not good for large scale. In fact, react-redux has implemented the provider pattern where Provider component receives the state as props, and post that, each child component has implicit. Redux It allows us to selectively rerender components that subscribed to changed values. Initially i actually confused useReducer for Redux, as they have very similar syntax(i made association from Redux lessons from FCC curriculum). Context API It will rerender all of its consumer components which is unnecessary. I actually dont have problem with Redux syntax, im sure with some practice i can adopt and use it well. Redux vs Context API: Comparisons Implementation Context API is easy to is use as it has a short learning curve. 3/29/2023 0 Comments Quadro rtx 4000![]() The Quadro RTX 4000 is a successful attempt to integrate tensor and RT cores as deep as possible into the chip, so that these functions remain available despite downscaling. The 4 MB L2 cache and 64 ROPs are also applied. The TU104-850 retains the same 256-bit memory bus and is also equipped with 8GB and 14Gb/s GDDR6 modules, which can shovel up to 416GB/s due to the lower 1625 MHz memory cycle. These blocks remain unchanged between turing GPUs, so the Quadro RTX 4000 is equipped with 2304 CUDA cores, 288 tensor cores, 36 RT cores and 144 texture units, making it 1:1 equivalent to the GeForce RTX 2070, although it is based on the larger chip. However, the rest of the specs are automatically generated, because of course the TPCs each contain two SMs, so this results in 36 SMs for the entire processor, which is designated as TU104-850. This is something that is somewhat surprising. The card therefore does n ot use a fully developed TU106 GPU, which also consists of three GPCs with six TPCs each and which would have been obvious, but a significantly slimmed down, much larger TU104 with the same basic data as the TU106. The Quadro RTX 4000 relies on the same TU104 as the GeForce RTX 2080, but was steded together by hardware strap on the technical data of the TU106 of a GeForce RTX 2070 and additionally has a significantly lower, maximum power limit of only 125 watts. on the basis of the TU106 and TU116 even smaller cards as Quadro with and without RTX. The Quadro RTX 4000 is currently the smallest of the Quadro RTX cards and it remains to be seen if and when e.g. The technical substructure of the Quadro RTX 4000 On the slot aperture you will find three DisplayPort 1.4 as well as a VirtualLink.Īt the top of the card there are the sockets for VirOptional Stereo and Quadro Sync II. Unless you also use the board for a larger card, because the chip allows this. The 8-pin power supply connection at the back is oversized, because for the maximum 125 watts, for which this card is designed by firmware, a 6-pin connection would have been easy. The radiator cover is a mix of matt black cast aluminum and a metallic cover plate. With a thickness of 1.4 cm, it is also a real single-slot card. The card, which weighs only 480 grams, measures 24.4 cm in length from the outer edge of the slot panel to the end of the radiator cover and is only 10.5 cm high between the top edge of the PCIe slot and the top of the cooler. That this was not quite so yet, at least this test proves and I will observe it when the driver comes soon for the Q2. I included the latter in the test because it is an interesting map and the press release from AMD's PR agency stated that the new all-in-one driver would continue to support The Radeon VII in professional applications in the future. Today's test includes the Nvidia Quadro RTX 4000 and similarly rated cards such as the Quadro P4000 and P5000, as well as the AMD Radeon Pro WX 8200, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition (FE) and the Radeon VII. Especially since you can get this smallest RTX-Quadro for less than 900 euros and it is still cheaper than a Radeon Pro WX 8200, which is also significantly… No, I don't tell you anything anymore, because only reading yourself makes you smarter. I don't want to spoil the end result at the beginning, but if you first benchmark the predecessor Quadro P4000 as a direct comparison, only to then have to reach unplanned but curiously on the shelf and also to flatten a Quadro P5000 with it gallantly, then pinch two times in the forearm. 3/29/2023 0 Comments Castle defense 2 endless 1![]() It's no exaggeration to say that Castle Defense 2 is the most robust and feature-filled game in the tower defense genre. If you're going to play a tower defense game, this is the one. Start the game, and you're presented with a comprehensive user guide and walk-through. Within minutes you'll be beating back waves of goblin hordes and building your empire. But that's not all, all your favorite game modes from the original are back and better than ever: World BOSS, Endless Mode, and Expedition Mode.įuture updates will include a PVP arena for players to face off against one another. Eso sí, también podremos enviar a nuestro héroe a la batalla e incluso ayudar directamente lanzando. * Many heroes, each has four skills & equipments Castle Defense 2 es un tower defense en el que nuestro objetivo será defender nuestra base de los ataques enemigos, utilizando para ello una serie de torres defensivas. Play this tower defense game now and you will definitely like it. This is tower defense offline strategy game for players who love challenging defense and td games. ![]() ![]() * 26 powerful talents, make you invincible Epic Rush - Tower Defense TD is not just a Tower Defense fun game This is a whole strategy universe that unites great heroes. Resist waves of enemies by combining strategic placement of defense towers as well as utilizing the skills of powerful heroes. Noble knights, wise wizards, dragon riders and more are all at your command. New Battle Pet system and RPG style heroes fuse RPG strategy with Tower Defense fun. 3/29/2023 0 Comments Lost in the storm chubb rock![]() A hat will prevent you from losing body heat. Chubb Rock Lost In The Storm Play track Love this track More actions Listeners 745 Scrobbles 2,419 Join others and track this song Scrobble, find and rediscover music with a Last.fm account Sign Up to Last. You've got a lot to live for you're college bound." And so he screams and cries, we start huggin On the corner in ft. If you do go outdoors, wear shoes or boots with traction and plenty of layers. ![]() Give me the gun little g just cool it down. Chubb Rock's fourth effort, released in 1992, features thoughtful racial meditations such as 'The Hatred,' and sappy ballads like 'I Don't Want to Be Lonely,' and spare, stripped-down rhythms including 'Black Trek IV - The Voyage Home. ![]() I walk down the street yo pick any one I see a little ruffneck kid with a gun I said "little homeboy what's up with the glock 19?" He said a damn crack fiend just went and took his mama's life And now the kid's over there smoking the pipe I said "guilt will let him know what he did And you don't need to go to jail you're just a kid. 3/29/2023 0 Comments Alternative to inkscape for mac![]() What It Is: While Apache’s flagship vector illustrator looks a little outdated these days, that’s purely a cosmetic concern. Have a look at the images on which used GIMP to create all the slot games images. Entirely free, open source, and loved by thousands (which have formed a very active online community since its release.). GIMP, an acronym for (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is more of an alternative to Photoshop rather than Illustrator since it its vector functions are limited, but what it can do in terms of image manipulation is second to none. What It Is: The one you’ve probably heard of. It’s even worth it just to play with the infinite zoom function (yes, infinite.) GIMP What It Is: Full rasterizing controls, layer management, multiple file format support, infinite zooming and every vector drawing tool you could ever hope for… Affinity Designer could quite possible become a true Illustrator killer. At the moment it’s only available to Mac users and the full version comes with a small price tag of $49.99 with free upgrades for two years, but the trial version is still remarkably functional and worth a shot if you’re looking for a free editor. Featuring both a clean and intuitive user interface, but packed with advanced features (such as alpha blending, object cloning and very accurate bitmap tracing), Inkscape comes as a highly recommended free alternative to Adobe Illustrator. What It Is: As with SVG-Edit, Inkscape is also geared towards those who want to work primarily in the SVG file format. Being a web browser platform also sounds limiting, but again, the speed at which it operates as a result is often superior to desktop counterparts. If you’re scared of getting into SVG editing, you’re missing out, and this will break you in gently. ![]() What It Is: An editing suite that deals solely in SVG (scalable vector graphics), which may sound like a restriction but is actually quite useful given the versatility of the format. As such, today we’ll be exploring: 6 Free Alternatives to Adobe Illustrator SVG-Edit Obviously, that’s not an issue for those at NYFA’s illustration school who have got full access to the CS suite as part of their tuition program, but these are prohibitive price tags for everyone else. The problem is, it takes a lot of money to buy it. Purchasing any of the CS titles outright can cost anywhere between $300 to $2,000 depending on which version you plump for, and Adobe’s attempts to convince people to pay on its new subscription model can cost anything between $50 to $200 every single month. Despite its quirks and teething problems that come with nearly every version update, it’s also arguably the best suite that money can buy. There’s no question about it: the Adobe suite of graphic design and illustration software isn’t going anywhere anytime soon as the industry champion. 3/29/2023 0 Comments Ravio figureWhile traditional flavors like spinach or cheese are easily matched with a sauce, it’s hard to know what goes best with beet or ramp and wild mushroom ravioli.Īt Nicola’s, we’re proud of our wide range of ravioli flavors made with local vegetables and meats. Ravioli feel like a big mystery when it comes to figuring out the correct sauce pairing. Use the following guide to figure out the perfect sauce for any shape of pasta. The right sauce serves as a condiment for the pasta, enhancing each shape.Īt Nicola’s we put immense care into all of our handcrafted pastas and we want you to enjoy them to their full potential. However, in Italy, each shape of pasta gets matched with a specific set of sauces for an elevated dining experience. Classic Italian-American restaurants will often provide a list of sauces and an option of shapes, leaving the ultimate pairing decision up to the diner. Here in the US, decisions about pasta shape mostly come down to personal preference. You might be thinking, “Correct sauce? Don’t all sauces work with pasta?,” which is understandable. And, the way to make the most of fresh pasta is to serve it with the correct sauce. ![]() From the nutty flavor of the semolina to the perfect al dente chew, great pasta is something to be celebrated. Book Rebecca to speak at your organization.Picking the Best Sauces for Pasta is an Art that Anyone Can LearnĪuthentic, Italian fresh pasta is a real treat. She has presented on live television and given corporate talks. Rebecca has been a featured speaker at events including the World VegFestival in San Francisco, Vegetarian Summerfest, the New York City Vegetarian Food Festival, and Paris Vegan Day. Rebecca Gilbert is the founder of Yummy Plants and the author of It’s Easy to Start Eating Vegan. She’s a former competitive figure skater whose switch to a vegan diet healed her chronic joint pain. Thanks, Woodstock Foods for making these onion and garlic-free squash vegan ravioli for all of us!
![]() The Mac OS X firewall protects you from connections that come from outside of your computer. 15 days free trial - fully functional.TCPBlock is a lightweight and fast application firewall for Mac OS X 10.5 or later developed by. Incoming and outgoing network communication in an intuitive user ![]() Like Little Snitch, FortKnox gives you complete overview of all Where you tell it to remember your decisions and have it treatĪnd finally, there is Little Snitch for WIndows, a commercial product for 24.96$ : It minimizes popup alerts over time with itsĪutomatic list of safe programs, your on-demand scans with its safetyĬheck wizard, and your responses to popup alerts, especially in cases ![]() Multimedia software, download managers, etc.) to run as if under a Readers/viewers, instant messengers, email or news programs, Selectively set risky applications (web browsers, office software, It has a unique feature called "run safer" that allows you to Host Intrusion Prevention System ( HIPS). This is a somewhat geeky but complete product that is also a Online Armor Free that can be downloaded from MajorGeeks. Don't forget that firewalls and anti virus applications can cause problems and slow down your PC, so if you're playing video games or crunching numbers, turn them off.Īnother sophisticated firewall product is Likewise you can use netstat to see some of the same information in the CMD. This will show you all ports in use, TCP connections, active connections and how much traffic they are using. Open up Windows Task Manager (one of the most important programs in Windows), then click on the Resource Monitor button. In Windows there is a nice function similar to Little Snitch. Just tell Windows Firewall to not allow any connections – but still Little Snitch has a much easier to use interface and shows all incoming and outgoing connections even when they are allowed. You could always use netstat and Windows' built-in firewall. Zone Alarm Paid version has more information like Little Snitch. It just says "Connecting to 127.0.0.1" or "Program attempting to connect to the internet". Sorry, but Zone Alarm is nothing like Little Snitch – it fails to show full activity of a program's connection. Is there a program like Little Snitch for Windows? So you will only be warned in those cases that really need your attention. Little Snitch provides flexible configuration options, allowing you to grant specific permissions to your trusted applications or to prevent others from establishing particular Internet connections at all. Little Snitch runs inconspicuously in the background and it can also detect network related activity of viruses, trojans and other malware. This reliably prevents private data from being sent out without your knowledge. You can then choose to allow or deny this connection, or define a rule how to handle similar, future connection attempts. Little Snitch informs you whenever a program attempts to establish an outgoing Internet connection. Little Snitch allows you to intercept these unwanted connection attempts, and lets you decide how to proceed. Sometimes they do this for good reason, on your explicit request. But who protects your private data from being sent out? Little Snitch does!Īs soon as you’re connected to the Internet, applications can potentially send whatever information they want to wherever they want. I'm using Windows 7 and would like to have a feature like Little Snitch on the Mac that alerts you whenever a program on your computer makes an outgoing connection.ĭescription of Little Snitch from its website:Ī firewall protects your computer against unwanted guests from the Internet. |
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