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In another comment, I mentioned that I was “the guy who knew about computers but was more approachable than the IT guy.” Even the rudest people tended to soften their tone when tal…

I have worked with people in their mid 30s who had an utter disgust for computers. I was “the guy who knew about computers but was more approachable than the IT guy” at a large off…

I am really interested in the concept of elder/senior citizen technology. The basic design concept for them is answering "what am I looking at?" I created this tool ( https://anftr…

I am sorry for the late reply. Everyone says "you need backup" but that is the thing, I need just scripts. But I will look into your recommendation for sure. Thank you!

My VPS was purged due to a platform hack. I did not keep a backup, and I am trying to figure out what to do. There is no plug and play solution for backup. From what I understand, …

This is surprising to me. I actively used Heroku during the early to mid 2010s. I do not remember ever seeing the Salesforce logo there much later.

I think the "Heroku story" was less about technical limitations, but everything except technical limitations. More than a decade ago, I started learning and building on Heroku and …

How does the govdirectory project work? Does it use web scrapers to collect the contact details? I checked the bot repository, and it was empty. https://github.com/govdirectory/bot…

https://support.google.com/notebooklm/answer/15731776 - Afrikaans - Albanian - Arabic - Armenian - Azerbaijani - Basque - Bengali - Bulgarian - Burmese (Myanmar) - Catalan - Cebuan…

Thorium powerplants, nuclear fusion powerplants, solid-state batteries, quantum computing, and TSMC producing chips in the US are news that should be considered speculative until t…

The projects I worked on always had a mechanism to dump data into a proper database. For example, I built a daily scraper to collect some of the inventory. I didn’t keep all the da…

In a separate comment, I mentioned how Mozilla should have been more like Proton with their cloud storage, VPN, password manager, and cloud office suite. In fact, they should have …

I've built quite a few dashboards while working on proof-of-concept feature/product engineering. Even though people often think I'm joking, almost always the backend database was a…

The only useful (or even paid) browser-integrated AI service I can imagine using would be a browsing history-aware AI chatbot. Essentially, it would just spit out a link from my hi…

Mozilla should have been doing what Proton is doing. But considering how far Proton has gone I wouldn't be surprised if Proton spun up their own browser at this point.

I was an excel enthusiast and studied accounting mainly for Excel. Although I have moved to programming unlike most I still do think Excel is awesome. I sincerely commend the enthu…

I could not find the docs. Does it offer a static storage URI for people to download stuff via a link? Can I update the contents of the storage URI without generating a new URI eve…

I think my phrasing of "solo founder" was not very good. I should have used another word. Zuck is not a solo founder at all but what happened to the rest of the guys. Some says Goo…

I don't think Larry and Sergey is on the same level as Bill Gates. Solo founders who have raised to and led a big tech company is a different breed. I would pick Jeff Bezos, Zuck a…

I am interested in the business logic of paying to hosts. Say someone had netted sub 10 dollars for hosting their GPU on the platform. How do you make that payment? Business have t…

My rule for online presence is simple, try to convince yourself to not being impulsive. If you convince yourself you don't have to always write or participate or give a hot take, y…

Thank you very much for sharing your story. From what I know these days, sneaker bots as an industry have pretty much gone downhill. Not because of anti-bot measures, but because t…