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> I’ll get to the C-H and it’ll show the Chess app, but enter that next -E and it’s totally gone It "works" exactly the same on Windows. How is that even possi
by xaksnTMu2 18d ago
> I’ll get to the C-H and it’ll show the Chess app, but enter that next -E and it’s totally gone
It "works" exactly the same on Windows. How is that even possible?
- siva7 18d agoEither same guy got promoted over and over again or someone thought we must copy this genius search bar as is
- smelendez 18d agoSo many platforms with search have a variation of this problem now. The other issue with Mac search is that it never tells you when it’s done, so you can’t tell if it searched and failed to find something or is still searching.
- bee_rider 18d agoI find this theory pretty compelling: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49703471 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49703471 Maybe they are overthinking it.
- mike_hearn 18d agoIt's probably asynchronous reranking doing something weird. My guess is that the underlying ranking algorithms in these desktop search bars are very ropey, and they can't debug or diagnose because privacy reasons means the developers don't get to see what results were generated for different query/index combos. Also search is probably just not staffed most of the time.