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Re: Any experts on RFID here??

Matthew Dennis6-Jun-23 5:13

Matthew Dennis

6-Jun-23 5:13

"I've forgotten more than you youngsters know.
The trouble is I've forgotten."

by someone famous, but I can't remember who.

"Mistakes are prevented by Experience. Experience is gained by making mistakes."

Re: Any experts on RFID here??

OriginalGriff6-Jun-23 5:37

OriginalGriff

6-Jun-23 5:37

I don't think it was me, but I'm not sure anymore...

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Re: Any experts on RFID here??

Nelek6-Jun-23 11:10

Nelek

6-Jun-23 11:10

I actually answered so to a newbie I started to train back then. He got me with a question I could not answer on the moment and he started "lecturing" me. A while later (had to check something first), I answered him (dismounting some of the arguments he had previously said) and when he was about to say something I added "And for the record, I have already forgotten more than what you have learned so far". His face was priceless Big Grin | :-D

On a side note... I don't actually envy photographic memory, but I could use a bit more of retentive in my brain Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

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Re: Any experts on RFID here??

Member 119411317-Jun-23 7:25

Member 11941131

7-Jun-23 7:25

years ago I started actively not remembering details but remembering where to FIND the detail.

Re: Any experts on RFID here??

Nelek7-Jun-23 19:57

Nelek

7-Jun-23 19:57

That has been my way of doing things for most part of my life. In College, I always asked the teachers for allowance for doing a piece of paper with the most difficult formulas (that they would check before I start my exam), when he asked why, I answered because I have problems remembering them, my way of learning concentrates in the how not always in the what, I know how the processes work, I do recognise the correct formula when I see it, I know how to use it, I know what happens if you change the one or the other parameter, but I will probably write it wrong if I have to do it by heart, and that will make me lose a lot of points, just because I wrote a "+" where a "-" goes and in the real world 99% of the people won't remember it anyways after a couple of weeks after the exam, but I will be able to re-use it within 5 minutes looking a book years after the exam.

I not only got allowance in many cases, some teachers started to do such a formulae attachment for the exams themselves.

M.D.V.

Re: Any experts on RFID here??

Rich Shealer7-Jun-23 2:00

Rich Shealer

7-Jun-23 2:00

I've touched HF RFID a few times. I do pressure sensitive labeling and had a customer a few years ago that needed a label printer that did HF. Most brands do UHF for for EPC applications. Walmart is pushing for item level tagging so general RFID interest has picked up again.

Another one of our customers uses HF for uniforms for laundry sorting. Those are more permanent tags.

Re: Any experts on RFID here??

Gary Wheeler7-Jun-23 1:46

Gary Wheeler

7-Jun-23 1:46

My dog (Bacchus, an aging greyhound) is implanted with one. He works cheap (mainly treats), and would be more than willing to help.

Software Zen: delete this;

Re: Any experts on RFID here??

glennPattonWork37-Jun-23 6:03

glennPattonWork3

7-Jun-23 6:03

Don't think he could do much worse!

CCC 06-05-2023

pkfox5-Jun-23 21:57

pkfox

5-Jun-23 21:57

Cars car phone point (11)

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Re: CCC 06-05-2023

Peter_in_27805-Jun-23 22:03

Peter_in_2780

5-Jun-23 22:03

AUTOMOBILES

AUTO               car
    MOBILE         phone
          S        (compass) point

Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012

Re: CCC 06-05-2023 - winner

pkfox5-Jun-23 22:05

pkfox

5-Jun-23 22:05

Too easy ?

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP

Re: CCC 06-05-2023 - winner

Peter_in_27806-Jun-23 1:13

Peter_in_2780

6-Jun-23 1:13

One of those "microseconds or hours" clues.

Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012

Re: CCC 06-05-2023 - winner

FreedMalloc6-Jun-23 6:02

FreedMalloc

6-Jun-23 6:02

I wise clue setter once said:

Quote:
They don't have to be difficult but they do have to be solvable

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5-Jun-23 20:20

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a bit easy

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Algolia is hot wet garbage

honey the codewitch5-Jun-23 15:43

honey the codewitch

5-Jun-23 15:43

I thought "hey, I'll integrate a documentation search into my website documentation"

https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx/wiki/index.md[^]

So I created an account with Algolia and spent more than an hour on it only to determine that their deprecated web crawler that they won't let me use would work fine (if they let me at its results) but the one in production won't follow links.

How do you make a paying service with a web crawler that doesn't follow links? Seems like an important feature for a crawler, no? Like, only the whole reason for its existence in the first place.

It gets my goat from a professional standpoint when people release things like this and then charge money for them.

I asked them to delete my account. Instead they want me to troubleshoot this with them. I told them to pay me.

We'll see how that goes.

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But I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids
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Re: Algolia is hot wet garbage

jmaida5-Jun-23 16:37

jmaida

5-Jun-23 16:37

honey the codewitch wrote:
I asked them to delete my account. Instead they want me to troubleshoot this with them. I told them to pay me.
We'll see how that goes.

"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger

Re: Algolia is hot wet garbage

Richard Andrew x646-Jun-23 2:50

Richard Andrew x64

6-Jun-23 2:50

honey the codewitch wrote:
I asked them to delete my account. Instead they want me to troubleshoot this with them. I told them to pay me.

I can't overemphasize how good and correct that response is. Java | [Coffee]

The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.

Re: Algolia is hot wet garbage

dandy726-Jun-23 10:34

dandy72

6-Jun-23 10:34

Exactly. Their logs should contain all the troubleshooting data they need.

Re: Algolia is hot wet garbage

jschell6-Jun-23 5:02

jschell

6-Jun-23 5:02

honey the codewitch wrote:
Seems like an important feature for a crawler, no?

True but also probably the hardest feature to implement. For example what if the link requires a user login. Or if it requires a selection from the original page. And of course one must eliminate recursive cycles also.

Re: Algolia is hot wet garbage

Matthew Dennis6-Jun-23 5:15

Matthew Dennis

6-Jun-23 5:15

I usually handle the recursion with a HashTable of crawled URLS.

"Mistakes are prevented by Experience. Experience is gained by making mistakes."

Re: Algolia is hot wet garbage

jschell7-Jun-23 5:06

jschell

7-Jun-23 5:06

Yes I know how to handle it. And other problems associated with following links.

Re: Algolia is hot wet garbage

honey the codewitch6-Jun-23 6:13

honey the codewitch

6-Jun-23 6:13

Sure, but get it right if that's what your product does.

And handling recursion is pretty easy on a modern system with a hash table.

In the case of my site, it's nothing fancy. There's a bit of potential recursion is all due to back linking.

There's smoke in my iris
But I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids
So I'm ready now (What you ready for?)
I'm ready for life in this city
And my wings have grown almost enough to lift me

Re: Algolia is hot wet garbage

jschell7-Jun-23 5:05

jschell

7-Jun-23 5:05

honey the codewitch wrote:
Sure, but get it right if that's what your product does.

I worked on such a product. And getting it right was difficult.

But it did do links.

honey the codewitch wrote:
And handling recursion is pretty easy on a modern system with a hash table

Not the point. The point is that following links requires quite a bit of work.

honey the codewitch wrote:
In the case of my site, it's nothing fancy.

Yes but you said "get it right" so that means they must handle all of the problems not just yours.

Re: Algolia is hot wet garbage

Matthew Dennis6-Jun-23 6:03

Matthew Dennis

6-Jun-23 6:03

What are you using to render your files?
On CodeProject, I use Lucene.Net to index and search our content.
I've used Lucene.Net 2, 3, and 4 for various projects and I'm not sure which I like best due to the differences in APIs.
There are versions ported to several languages from the original Java.

Using Stemming Analyzer, you can index by word roots so that 'run', 'runs', 'running', 'ran' all index to the same thing.

I created a custom tokenizer to handle technical documents geared towards programming to weed out some fluff.

It is blinding fast, and looking at the code can be addictive as the algorithms used are quite interesting.

If you are using a 'standard' CMS such as WordPress, Orchard, or most others, they usually have a Search Plugin which is usually based on Lucene.

"Mistakes are prevented by Experience. Experience is gained by making mistakes."

Re: Algolia is hot wet garbage

Matthew Dennis6-Jun-23 6:06

Matthew Dennis

6-Jun-23 6:06

You can see the Search working at
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or
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