Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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