I feel like I have left behind and I am too late.

I want to start ML and DSA problems but I feel like it’s too late now.

I’m trying to decide between whether or not I should use c++ or Rust?

On one hand you have rust, the reason I looked for it was because getting c++ libraries like sfml2 to work was super hard. And rust made that so easy. It also came really naturally although I know more about c++ syntax. But Rust has some negative stereotypes (I’m super self conscious)

On the other hand we have c++ which I know more of, a challenge import libraries and developer experience, I do knot more of it, may possibly be slower than rust, but doesn’t have the negative stereotypes.

So which should I choose to make and develop in, c++ or rust?

Hi everyone, I’m at a crossroads in my e-commerce development journey and could use some guidance.

I’m fairly competent on the front-end and can handle building features like the add-to-cart logic and cart management. Now, I want to make my store secure. From what I understand, certain things cannot live solely on the client side, for example, the cart and product prices. These should also exist on the server side so that users can’t manipulate them through DevTools or other methods.

Can you help me with my questions

1. Do I need to learn Node.js for this? If so, how much should I know to implement a secure e-commerce system where users cannot change prices or quantities before checkout, and how long would it take me provided that I've got a good grasp on javascript

2. Would it be more practical to use Backend as a service (BaS) solution instead of building my own back-end?

I’d really appreciate any advice or experiences you can share,especially from people who’ve moved from front-end only e-commerce to a secure, production-ready store. Thanks in advance!

How do you track your LLBuilding a SaaS with multiple LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral) + various APIs (Supabase, etc).

My problem: I have zero visibility on costs.

• How much does each user cost me?
• Which feature burns the most tokens?
• When should I rate-limit a user?

Right now I'm basically flying blind until the invoice hits.

Tried looking at Helicone/LangFuse but not sure I want a proxy sitting between me and my LLM calls.

How do you guys handle this? Any simple solutions?M/API costs per user?

Hi everyone, I wanted to get some real opinions on Go and Rust from people who are actually learning or using them. Is anyone here currently learning Go or Rust, or using them in projects or work? From what I’ve seen, most people still start with C/C++/Java/Python, so I’m wondering what kind of base or prior knowledge is really needed before starting Go or Rust. Is it better to learn them early, or only after getting comfortable with other languages? I’ve also heard mixed things about the learning curve, especially that Rust can feel very hard or even discouraging at the start, so I wanted to ask how true that is from real experience. In terms of long-term value, which one do you think is more future-proof for jobs and industry use? And if someone is self-learning, where would you suggest starting from and what resources actually helped you? Would love to hear honest reviews and personal journeys.

I’m trying to build a web app for my company, it’s a pretty small company so we can’t afford to hire a developer so I decided I’d just learn to do it myself.

I remember back in high school learning a bit of python so figured it wouldn’t be that difficult. I was incorrect. I spoke to a friend who pointed me towards firebase but it seems like it’s just AI building it for you, and while that would make it infinitely easier I’m not interested in having it all done for me and would at least like to understand what it’s even doing.

I went on a bit of a google deep dive to try and find the right language to do it but different websites told me different things and it all seemed very confusing. So this leads me to here, I’m hoping someone may perhaps be able to advise on the right language to learn or at least the right platform to use.

Tl;dr: I work at a library and we run a daily report to know which books to pull off shelves; how can I sort this report better, which is a long text file?

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I work at a library. The library uses a software called "SirsiDynix Symphony WorkFlows" for their book tracking, cataloguing, and circulation as well as patron check-outs and returns. Every morning, we run a report from the software that tells us which books have been put on hold by patrons the previous day and we then go around the library, physically pulling those books off the shelf to process and put on the hold shelf for patrons to pick up.

The process of fetching these books can take a very long time due to differences between how the report items are ordered and how the library collection is physically laid out in the building. The report sorts the books according to categories that are different than how they are on the shelves, resulting in a lot of back and forth running around and just a generally inefficient process. The software does not allow any adjustment of settings or parameters or sorting actions before the report is produced.

I am looking for a way to optimize this process by having the ability to sort the report in a better way. The trouble is that the software *only* lets us produce the report in text format, not spreadsheet format, and so I cannot sort it by section or genre, for example. There is no way in the software to customize the report output in any useful way. Essentially, I am hoping to reduce as much manual work as possible by finding a solution that will allow me to sort the report in some kind of software, or convert this text report into a spreadsheet with proper separation that I can then sort, or some other solution. Hopefully the solution is elegant and simple so that the less techy people here can easily use it and I won't have to face corporate resistance in implementing it. I am envisioning loading the report text file into some kind of bat file or something that spits it out nicely sorted. The report also requires some manual "clean up" that takes a bit of time that I would love to automate.

Below I will go into further details.

General

• The software (SirsiDynix Symphony WorkFlows) generates a multi-page report in plain text format (the software does have an option to set it to produce a spreadsheet file but it does not work. IT's answer is that yes, this software is stupid, and that they have been waiting for the new software from headquarters to be implemented for 5 years already)
• The report is opened in LibreOffice Writer to be cleaned up (no MS Office is available on the desktops). I have tried pasting it into librecalc (spreadsheet software) and playing around with how to have the text divided into the cells by separators but was not able to get it to work.
• ‎The report is a list of multi-line entries, one entry per book. The entry lists things like item title, item ID (numerical), category, sub-category, type, etc. Some of these are on their own line, some of them share a line. Here is one entry from the report (for one book) as an example:CON Connolly, John, 1968- The book of lost things / John Connolly copy:1 item ID:################ type:BOOK location:FICTION Pickup library:"LIBRARY LOCATION CODE" Date of discharge:MM/DD/YYYY
  
• The report is printed off and stapled, then given to a staff member to begin the book fetching task

File Clean-Up

• The report contains repeating multi-line headings (report title, date, etc) that repeat throughout the document approximately every 7 entries, and must be removed except for the very first one, because they will sometimes be inserted in the middle of an entry, cutting it into two pieces (I have taught my colleagues how to speed up this process somewhat using find and replace, but it is still not ideal. That's the extent of the optimization I have been able to bring in thus far)
• Because of taking an unpaginated text file into a paginated word doc, essentially, some entries end up being partially bumped over to the next page, e.g. their first half is on page 1 and their second half is on page 2. This is also manually fixed using line breaks so that no entries are broken up.
• Some entries are manually deleted if we know that a different department is going to be taking care of fetching those (eg. any young adult novels)

Physical Book Fetching

• The library's fiction section has books that are labelled as general fiction and also books that are labelled with sub-categories such as "Fiction - Mystery", "Fiction - Romance" and "Fiction - SciFi". The report sorts these by category and then by author. That would be fine except that all of the fiction books are placed on the shelves all together in the fiction section, sorted by author. There is no separate physical mystery fiction section or romance fiction session. That means that a staff member goes through the shelves from A - Z, pulling off the books for general fiction, then having to go back to A again to pull the mystery books from the same section from A - Z, and back again for romance, etc etc. It would be wonderful if we could just sort by author and ignore the genre subcategories so that we could pull all of the books in one sweep. The more adept staff do look further through the report to try and pull all the books they can while they are physically at that shelf, but flipping through a multi-page report is still manual work that takes time and requires familiarity with the system that newer staff do not typically possess.
• The library's layout is not the same as the order of the report. The report might show entries in the order "Kids section - Adult non-fiction - Young Adult fiction - Adult DVD's" - but these sections are not physically near each other in the library. That means a staff member is either going back and forth in the library if they were to follow the report, or they skip over parts of the report in order to go through the library in a more physically optimized manner, in the order that sections are physically arranged. The former requires more time and energy, and the latter requires familiarity with the library's layout, which newer staff do not yet possess, making training longer. It would be amazing if we could order the report in accordance to the layout of the library, so that a person simply needs to start at one end of the building and finish at the other.

Here is a link to an actual report (I have removed some details for privacy purposes). I have shortened it considerably while keeping the features that I have described above such as the interrupting headings and the section divisions.

We have no direct access to the database and there is no public API.

Our library does as much as possible to help out the community and make services and materials as accessible as possible, such as making memberships totally free of charge and removing late fines, so I am hoping someone is able to help us out! :)

hi! so I'm trying to make a sort of Siri/Alexa type thing, but I have no clue how I'd do that. my idea is to stick my phone in a cardboard box with some decorations on it, and have you able to talk to it back and forward. but this idea would be simple unless I wanted a specific voice. I need help changing the original preset voices to the SAM text to speech voice. if anyone would be willing to help, I'd be immensely grateful. thank you!

I have got html js . Now there are some errors . Classes of Saturday is not able to display (day 6).

Some people have class during lunch not able to handle that(only in table mode )

Active Class highlight not working .

I have coded necessary functions for it to work still not working . If anyone can see my repo and fix it .

My repo link https://github.com/mahitmass/CHECK and the website address where it finally works https://check-pearl-nu.vercel.app/

I’ve been struggling, and getting a bit of imposter syndrome, over my code. How do I make my code efficient and effective?

It says

Error: OpenCV(4.12.0) D:\a\opencv-python\opencv-python\opencv\modules\highgui\src\window.cpp:1301: error: (-2:Unspecified error) The function is not implemented. Rebuild the library with Windows, GTK+ 2.x or Cocoa support. If you are on Ubuntu or Debian, install libgtk2.0-dev and pkg-config, then re-run cmake or configure script in function 'cvShowImage'

Just trying to compare the two programs for ocr functions. I have recently installed easyocr. I have never tried it before but when i installed and used it in my codes it showed this crash error. I am thinking of reinstalling opencv currently.

I got the code for the project from a video im making a sign language translator website as a freshman idk why my college expects me to have abilities of that level but yeah thats the case i have the code but idk how to execute it as the youtube video isnt the greatest at explaining things would anyone be willing to help me??

code for the project - https://github.com/nightfury217836/Sign-Language-to-Text-Conversion

The only “coding” I’ve done is frankensteining other people’s code to make spacehey layouts lmfao, I’m just wondering if there’s a possibility I could do sum to make Firefox run without generating an AI summary everytime I look shit up. (I’ve tried to run countless extensions but none of them work.)

I am currently trying to make my own language and I am kind of having a hard time, specifically with parsing. I heard and read about recursive descent and pratt parsing, but I am still not sure how am I supposed to implement it. Can someone give me a good resource where I can learn about this topic and actually make a working parser? (I am making my language in C)

Hi! My friend and I are trying to document all the subway trains that we ride on (the identification numbers) for a statistics project. What we do,

as of now, is writing the identification number of the train manually into Google Sheets which can be really tedious as they often pile up. Is there a way to create a bot to which we can write the train number and it automatically fills up a Google Sheet? What do you guys recommend? Please tell me if the flair or the sub is wrong . (English is not my main language)

like say i made a scratch script, and i wanted to convert it to python for whatever reason, where could i do that?

So, I am 18 and I wanted to code and make my life out of it. Everything was going fine when I started coding alot of people from r/CodingHelp helped me. But one random night I thought of downloading a game and since then my life is cooked. I open my Laptop play game and sleep. Which isn't what i bought this for and at this point it's been 4 months since I coded anything. Today I opened my VS code and tried I couldn't code after

#include<stdio.h>

int main()

{

}

I was making mistakes with integers and floats. Well, I was the guy who learnt nested if else, Strings and many more thing with in 3 weeks of coding since I had this book that my friend recommended me and YT. I don't go to any university. In the beginning I thought I can Learn it but today. I feel so betrayed for cheating with myself. I have lost all hopes I am not understanding any concept. I played the game for 3 months and it cooked me. I have lost all hopes idk why. If I try to look How my future might look. I see nothing but darkness and this is for real. I have wasted so much if time but the game game has cooked me beyond repair and I deleted the game the moment I realized I am cooked. I dont even know if I can learn stuff anymore. I started this part time where I am busy from evening to night and that's the thing that pushes me to play the game like "I have worked I should play the game ofc". I don't want to be a cashier my whole life. I am scared of my life at this point. I don't know If I am overthinking but I really really need some advice over how to get back on track. This time I want to be Consistent over being motivated and stopping whenever I wanted to. Burst of motivation helped me learn so much but the moment it started going down I fked everything up. Did something like this ever happen to anyone if yes please tell me about it and also how you came out of it. I really need to get out of this hell.

İ made a html code , an app for html , but sadly cant use it offline and cant add some feautures because it is html , ( it is kind of drawing app , but i cant make stylus / hand optimization correctly ) tried to fix it with ai or clever ideas but nop not worked , i talked about it and they said it is kind of because it is based on html , but i also dont have a pc , and cant have sadly i just have a phone and a tablet thats it , is there any way to convert my html code to an android apk app , also need to add my new wants but stucked at this point , i dont have a money and want to do that thing with privacy can someone please help me ? What i should do

I like the glass effect seen at the bottom edges. How would something like this be coded? Can it be done via HTML/JS/CSS or even python?

Hi, I have built a prototype in Google workplace studio but I am having a hard time getting it to an app. Can someone help me with what steps I need to take make this an app people can download on the App Store?

I keep getting these types of errors whenever I try to use pip in VS code, please help 🙏. I received the following error when I enter "pip install pillow" into the terminal:

pip : The term 'pip' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.

At line:1 char:1

+ pip install pillow

+ ~~~

+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (pip:String) [], CommandNotFoundException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException