I mean, it seems that they're less incompetent? They manage to win with less money. That sort of suggests that their execution is better. It doesn't matter that they play dirtier, they win, and it's all about winning, not being "right".
Depends also whose money you count. I just listened to an (slightly outdated) German national radio material about AI and election influence. It was chilling, of course. Here's the link for you German speakers, I know you exist: https://www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/ki-verstehen/harris-vs-t...
I think a whole lot of the money that was spent on the conservative side just didn't go through the campaign and was spent through many other channels, especially on alternative media figures.
I second this - been using Netvibes since Google Reader went away. Clean interface and reasonably customizable. At the time, it was the closest to feature parity that I could find and I haven't felt the need to look for a replacement since.
Sending stock quotes, scores, weather, etc. reminds me of a service that Google used to offer via text message. I used that a ton before I got my first smartphone: text W[ZIP code] to 46645 (GOOGL) and it would text back the weather. Same for stock:[symbol] and many other things I've since forgotten. Of course Google killed it, but it was neat while it lasted!
In my days of messing around with PHP, I wrote a Twitter bot called "SongBuddy" for the purpose of looking up a song via SMS based on some lyrics.
You would send it a DM via SMS (which Twitter supported at the time) containing a few lyrics, and it would do a Google search of "<your input> lyrics", parse the search results, and in theory return the artist and title to you via SMS.
Yet the currency conversion site I use which is run by one prof, probably on a Pentium III computer stashed under a stairwell at their university, has been up and running for decades and will probably last a lifetime.
I made a backend with Twilio and an AWS instance to give me a SMS<->ChatGPT interface.
That allows me to ask ChatGPT questions from anywhere on Earth via a handheld satellite communicator (inReach Mini 2). It's kind of nice to be able to ask ChatGPT things from the middle of death valley.
I used that all the time from my flip phone. It took forever to type out a google search and results could take a minute or two to arrive but it was better than nothing.
Primarily I used it to google the address of a place I wanted to go so I could enter that in my TomTom. Times have changed.
I'm curious when that was. I came up with this idea around 1995 while working for a telecoms research company (a subsidiary of Ericsson). Flight status updates was my canonical example.
Nobody imagined that P2P messaging (requiring multiple presses of a numeric keypad to type one character) would become as popular as it did, so an information service was the best use I could imagine, especially given the growing availability of data through the nascent Web. (Teletext was also still a thing, and we had a separate project for scraping that...)
But guess what those of us with access to SMS (and the general public) ended up using it for?
HTC Touch Pro 2 and I could type better on that than any phone since. Even managed to get it running Android (it was a Windows Mobile phone which is... old)
I second that thought. Years ago on a Nortel PBX, we had a line in the factory where I work that had a fault. It would intermittently dial my extension (411) and I figured that it was from pulse dialing. Eventually the fault in the line was fixed and, along with that, the 'phantom' calls I received from that extension. Interesting coincidence that in both cases the number dialed was 411. I guess I'm lucky our phone didn't dial 911!
Does anyone know where there are pictures of the interiors of these homes? I'm very curious about the concrete bath fixtures, but can't seem to find anything online that definitively shows the inside of an Edison concrete home. It's also interesting to see this in light of all the news recently about 3D printed concrete and how there are many of the same challenges now that Edison must have had to deal with then. Plumbing, electrical, insulation, and so forth all have to be incorporated into the design or tacked on afterward.
Breaking it for everything would be one thing, but in this case, the update only impacted the application when it was named Chrome.exe. Changing the name or doing the same thing with Firefox still worked the way it had with Chrome. This would point to a deliberate action on Microsoft's part to stifle one particular competitor.
Was it VGA or EGA? I had a cannon 8086 with a color monitor but it used a 9pin DE9 plug AND had NTSC out via an RCA jack. Think it was EGA, I still have the card somewhere.
dang, my bad. I did a pretty quick (and large) refactor this morning and must have broke it.
EDIT: it fetches historical games when the session is established. The bug is that after you complete the game, the call to renderStats is still using the old games list; it needs to refresh the list so it includes the game you just completed. I'll fix this over the weekend. Cheers!
