Looking at random Facebook marketplace postings I’d say you should go with a mk3s from Prusa. In NYC I’m seeing them for $350-$500 used and they’re fantastic printers. Very much on the tool end of the tool:hobby spectrum.

Prusa mini or bambu are definitely common. Mk3(s/s+) will also be common, maybe even more so.

Steer away from Creality if you want consistent and easy printing: it’s a tinker machine.

There’s a solid reason for goto in C.

Bringing goto into Java was (and is) idiotic.

If you’re trying to squeeze every ounce of performance out of your code then you’ll need those optimizations.

But any higher level language than C the entire point is to write easily maintainable and useful code that any idiot can go, read and update. A goto is antithetical to readability.

True it wasn’t mindless - just idiotic

I’m loving my zigbee2mqtt setup. Took a couple tries to get the mosquitto broker working right but worth it in the long run.

Right but instead of a toy language there’s Kotlin which is already multiplatform.

I just struggle to see why another language needed to be invented to do this.

I’m mostly just biased because I do native mobile development but flutter has always seemed like a false economy to me. You’re trying to build cross platform but it’ll take more than 2x as long as building each platform to get the same quality of experience. So either you have a shittier experience or you take even longer than true native dev.

But I’m obviously very biased here.

They’re probably not using python for AI

You shouldn’t have ever been recommending dart or flutter.

Python ain’t going anywhere tho

Adams is a cop elected on fearmongering and lies. That’s all you need to know.

I will go months between prints on my prusa and then print back to back for several days.

I haven’t leveled my bed since 2021 but still get perfect first layers.

The master spool never really caught on, but that’s a refillable spool.

Used might be a bad idea if they’re new to printing. Few things are as frustrating as a printer on the fritz

My part of the hiring cycle they’ve already gotten past the pipeline / bots. I’m there to do architecture and design questions 😉

But I do read every resume.

It’s fair to point out that not all development is Internet connected, but ~58% of developers work in web dev.

5% in desktop apps

3% in mobile

2.4% in embedded

And then of the remaining I’d be shocked if few of their domains excluded Internet facing devices.

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#section-developer-roles-developer-type

But you’re right to point out development isn’t a monolith. Professionally though: anyone working in a field where cybersecurity is a concern should be thinking about and knowledgeable of cybersec.

Yeah it was a weird ask to be fair.

Thankfully android lets you calculate those views separately from the draw calls so all that math was contained to measurement calls rather than calculated on draw.

I’m confused where cybersec sits in your sandwich analogy. If every time you sold a sandwich someone could use it to steal all the money in your business you’d probably need to know how to prevent reverse sandwich cashouts.

I’m not talking about advanced, domain specific cybersec. I don’t expect every developer to have the sum total knowledge of crowd strike… But in a business environment I don’t see how a developer can not consider cybersec in the code they write. Maybe in an org that is so compartmentalized down that you only own a single feature?

I mean I’m not sure how to use matrices to draw the path of 5 out of 6 sides of a hexagon given a specific center point but there are some surprisingly basic shapes that don’t exist in Android view libraries.

I’ll also note that this was years ago before android had all this nice composable view architecture.

Idk I’m not sure I’d trust any dev who doesn’t consider cyber security in their coding. So much development is centered around security whether that’s auth or input sanitization or SQL query parameterization…

If you’re working on an internal only application with no Internet connectivity then maybe you can ignore cybersec. But only maybe.

There’s a wide variety of types of programming. It’s nice that the core concepts can carry across between the disparate branches.

If I’m doing a particular custom view I’ll end up using sin cos tan for some basic trig but that’s about as complex as any mobile CRUD app gets.

I’m sure there are some math heavy mobile apps but they’re the exception that proves the rule.