I still need a small glass of Diet Coke every day in the afternoon. I need to cut the habit so I'm drinking right now Diet Coke without Caffeine.. It is like the last step before quitting for good. I like to drink sparkling water (San Pellegrino) when eating, I hope it will help me stop. Fresh sparkling water is good!
My bottle of 1 liter (33 oz I think in the US) lasts 4 or 5 days so I don't know if I'm at risk.
For making my movie quiz free of cheaters (at least most of them), I tried to fool Google Images reverse search by adding some noise like described here, on my movie snapshots. Unfortunately it didn't work.
The only trick which works the most is to revert horizontally the image, at random. When it works, Google is not about to find similar images.
I started drinking alcohol-free beer recently and it's really nice. Funny though, the best ones are not the same I used to drink and like before, with alcohol.
For example here, the 1664 is pretty popular but I don't like it that much. But the blonde alcohol-free version really tastes like a real beer. I even doubt sometimes that I'm drinking a beer without alcohol: I have to double check! Maybe my brain is playing with me.
Some beers add too much fruit Flavours or sugar like the Leffe ones. Not good.
I miss the AOL Chatrooms (running on the same protocol), it was a lot of fun. There was a popular game called "scrambler" running on some channels where people had to guess the quickest they could the word/sentence that was "scrambled".
IIRC, you could talk with people on AOL with AIM but some AOL public chatrooms were not available from AIM.
I remember the private chatrooms on AIM where you could download mp3s or other things, so many memories. I started coding with AOL/AIM and VB6.
That's funny, I got anxiety not because I mainly could not solve algorithms problems (looking at you, graphs) but also because I could not beat my colleagues or friends who started to play too.
I used to play heavily on CodeSignal, a similar website. They used to post daily challenges back then. But there, it wasn't about reaching the best time complexity or whatever: the number of characters was more important, like on Code Golf.
You first try to solve the problem and then you try to reduce your code to the minimum. The level of anxiety was starting to be really hard to handle and I'm happy I stopped playing this. Also, writing creative small codes won't help you when developing real softwares that much since most of the times, small codes or one liners are terrible in terms of time complexity or memory.
I learned a few tricks and a lot of things about how some languages work through this practice and by looking at people solutions but I'm pretty sure it would have been better to read some algorithms courses instead.
I use to flip horizontally some of my movie snapshots I feature on my movie quiz game [1]. I do that randomly, not on all images (like the ones who have text on it). It fools Google Images Reverse Search a lot.
Not a great solution but at least it slows down the cheaters and since it's a game where answering fast is important, it works nicely.
I tried adding noise to fool Google AI but that didn't work at all.
man is missing some concrete examples about how the tool could be used. tldr seems a good thing to fix that. cheat.sh is also a great alternative to tldr, I use it a lot.
I regularly google man {x} : man grep, man curl...
and a couple of times a year I absentmindedly google : man find.
there's no linux in the first 30 pages of results
For those who use Jekyll as a static site generator, I highly recommend the plugin "jekyll_picture_tag" [1]. It takes care of generating multiple images in different formats and sizes, including AVIF.
You can also specify a list of images formats in decreasing order of preference, like:
My bottle of 1 liter (33 oz I think in the US) lasts 4 or 5 days so I don't know if I'm at risk.