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reminds me of boss mode in leisure suit larry 1

you're reading to much into it. i make no assumptions.

i'm not even talking about the article. are you a bot?

For me, it’s a way to break down and analyze articles more critically, not to pick a side.

I've been using this prompt on articles that generate debate. Like microservices, or jwt's. It brings up some interesting points for this article...

Look at this article and point out any wording that seems meant to push a certain viewpoint. Note anything important the author leaves out, downplays, or overstates, including numbers that seem cherry-picked or lack context. Clearly separate basic facts from opinions or emotional language. Explain how people with different viewpoints might read the article differently. Also call out any common persuasion tactics like loaded wording, selective quotes, or appeals to authority.

Oh this is great news. After a $1000 bill running a model on vertex.ai continuously for a little test i forgot to shut down, this will be my go to now. I've been using Cloud Run for years running production microservices, and little hobby projects and i've found it simple and cost effective.

I'm in the same boat. I think i was geocities.com/Soho/???? right when it came out. I had Red Sox trivia questions, and it was multiple choice. The wrong answers linked to wrong.html, and the correct answer linked to 1.html, then 2.html etc. Fun times being a kid on the information super highway.

i remember you had a script that created animated images before that even was a thing. It exploited some kind of quirk in Netscape, must have been 1994-1996?

It is for me

The first $5 i ever made online was on Compuserve. I was walking home from school (i think 1994) and i found a used Boston Bruins ticket stub on the ground. I put it on the classifieds section and sold it. The buyer sent me a $5 bill in the mail.

i understand that, but this is a SCAM that for some wild reason has 100k viewers and 8 million subscribers

Just relying on blocking specific words isn't the best fix. You've gotta attack this problem from different angles. Big names like Doordash or Uber blast messages all the time, so you need a way to tell them apart from new senders who suddenly flood you. The bad guys will switch senders fast, so now you gotta find a way to fingerprint messages. They'll even tweak the text slightly, so you need fuzzy fingerprinting techniques. And then there's the headache of defining what's spam. Some folks see political donation requests or marketing pitches as spam, while others don't. Sorting these messages becomes a puzzle. Then you have to ask yourself if spam and scam are two distinct types of messages. Spotting scam messages means digging into their content, like checking URLs to sniff out if they're fishy. And phishing? That stuff looks real and can play out across a whole message chain.

http://www.ThePalace.com in either 1994/95. That website looks like it's straight out of the 90s.

Maybe the Mt. Chiliad Mystery will be finally solved

https://gta-myths.fandom.com/wiki/Mount_Chiliad_Mystery

Fun fact, that's Bob Barkers 100th birthday

Colonel Borman, may you rest in peace. For those reading this, check his wikipedia page. He has a very inspiring legacy.

it's amazing. You've never seen anything like it before, and the sound is like nothing you've ever heard before.

The only winning move is not to play

WarGames (1983) for the youngsters

It's alive and well in my car when it comes to news. AM 1030 WBZ

Whenever I see a headline with the word "misinformation" or in this case "disinformation", i replace those words with "free speech" and it really worries me about the future of this country. Putting the power to decide what information is right and wrong into the hands of a few is extremely dangerous.

I wanted a segway the moment i first saw one, but the price was WAY beyond what i could afford. Thousands of dollars. It wasn't until a couple years ago i was able to buy a ninebot (hoverboard) and attach a 3rd party handle to make my dream come true for a few hundred dollars. I love tooling around my big yard on it, and the kids love it too.

Image maps, when Netscape would show you the pixel coordinates in the status bar. We're talking 1995?

you're thinking Wade Boggs

A trick i've been using for years to help write better error messages is to simply fill in the blank...

"Well basically what happened is _____________"

Here i am on a Saturday afternoon learning how to programatically interact with GitHub using go-git, banging my head on my desk because the code should work, but im getting cryptic errors. I'm searching stackoverflow, nobody seems to have encountered the errors i'm getting (that typically means i'm doing something wrong)...... oh GitHub is down. To GitHubs credit, they've been very reliable for me over the years, it didn't even cross my mind that they could be down.

I think what we're seeing is what we've always seen. That is, we start at the lowest levels and continuously work towards a higher and higher level. Constantly making the development process more efficient. No-code solves a problem, but it's not a panacea.

The movement i'm most interested in as a backend developer is the no-software movement.

The idea that the entire process of developing and deploying services can take place in the browser. Why install an IDE when i can just code in a browser. Why install git when i can press a button in the browser and have it handled in the cloud. Why run the code locally when i can run it in the cloud and stream the output to the browser. Why install a bunch of software and configure everything to work on my machine, when it can all be handled in the cloud and interfaced via the browser.

But creators have always been able to hide the like/dislike counts on their videos

No book to recommend, but i've been watching the Closer To Truth channel on YouTube which interviews scientists, astronomers, and cosmologists. Quite fascinating to hear so many views on what is the universe

I think it was true 10 years ago when the iPhone App Store was getting started, but not today

In 2008 before the App Store when Cydia and Installer where the only way to install apps on your iPhone, my app was getting 10,000 installs per day with 0 marketing. I refer to that period as the gold rush days.