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by eitland 3y ago
And this is the second major reason why I use Kagi: If I notice something is wrong I can report it and expect to have a developer look into it within reasonable time. They are grateful for reports from users and if there is an actual proble
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by eitland 3y ago
> Microsoft fired their entire QA team. > They also fired their entire technical documentation team. Explains why I, when I tried to use the new Clipchamp app, I first had to look for the docs because what should have been obvious was
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by eitland 3y ago
the tab key is my friend here.
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That was not about the license of the code I think. The code for IceWeasel is still MPL, only they have changed the artworks and names that are trademarked or otherwise protected by Mozilla.
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by eitland 3y ago
If this is true as you describe it and has been true for more than a few days then I am reasonably sure the organization you work for has at least one but probably 2 or more problems that are bigger than both Goodharts law and exit 0 on lin
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by eitland 3y ago
As two persons have already asked: > When the FreeBSD kernel boots in Firecracker (1 CPU, 128 MB RAM), it now spends 7% of its time running a bubblesort on its SYSINITs. > O(N^2) can bite hard when you're sorting over a thousand
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by eitland 3y ago
For languages that have strong IDE refactoring support and userbases that use it a (future) solution would be for the ide to autocommit along the way with metadata to explain what happen "removed unused function based on suggestion&quo
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by eitland 3y ago
This is actually a great starting point IMO.
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by eitland 3y ago
The quality of telephone services took of and the prices plummeted here in Norway when the phone monopoly was broken around 1998. I was there and remember going from expensive landlines with complicated pricing structures all the way to cel
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by eitland 3y ago
Please try search.marginalia.nu or even Kagi. I was about to give up but these to have given me hope that search isn't unsolvable.
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by eitland 3y ago
In addition to what lolinder writes Kagi already gives me what we have askes for from Google for a decade or two: a way for us to punish creative SEO artists by individually downranking or outright block them. If they start popping up in Ka
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Saints, Thunders and Lightenings, Part 1(xxtomcooperxx.substack.com)
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by eitland 3y ago
I say some of it is still just plain bad - and I say it as someone who is considering a MacBook this year: For example: the keys that Macs have instead of page up, page down, home and end still feels like four different "surprise me&qu
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by eitland 3y ago
Mix of some GCP natural language understanding and some coding from some of ny colleagues (I have some really smart colleagues). I can't remember exactly, but I know it was a couple of years or more ago so pre ChatGPT / Bard and a
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by eitland 3y ago
Since about every too level comment is negative towards chat bots: We had a chatbot at work that actually was great. For me it felt a lot better than searching Confluence and it could also answer questions from dynamic data like how many va
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by eitland 3y ago
From what I understand from the article it sounds like Vipps in Norway.
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by eitland 3y ago
It worked with Google too. I saw it a number of times: I couldn't understand why a certain document was included but when I searched I'd find the words listed in an invisible string at the bottom of the page. Pagerank affected th
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by eitland 3y ago
That is not what most of us complain about I think. I and I think many other are sad that S.O. removes many serious work related questions (have lost count of how many times I saw the perfect question with the perfect answer, with a note th
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by eitland 3y ago
Can confirm. And if you find a result that got included despite not being an exact match you can report it and see it get fixed in a few days.
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by eitland 3y ago
For those who want this it exists on https://search.marginalia.nu
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by eitland 3y ago
> Google did not cripple their products to work only on Chrome. Without defending Microsoft, they deserve a visit from relevant authorities, at least Calendar, the search results page and YouTube have had "funny" issues with ot
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by eitland 3y ago
> if apple designed git's cli it'd be bilion times better from ux perspective while only 10% less powerful I guess Why then does every dev I am aware of who use Apple start by installing Homebrew? Also, you are talking about th
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by eitland 3y ago
To top it, it could be argued that Chrome is a worse piece of spyware than Bonzi Buddy ever was. You don't put a single character into the address bar of Chrome without notifying Google. Yes, even if you are typing a domain instead of
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by eitland 3y ago
Orion is fantastic. I still use Firefox since it is cross browser but if I change to MacBook as my dev machine I might go all in on Orion as well.
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by eitland 3y ago
Seriously? Before any search was entered? I'll take your word for it. Also it would just be another example that Google tried to enter social media as well using this tactic.
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by eitland 3y ago
If you had to pass through Wall Mart drive through multiple times a day, would it be ok if they hassled you if you used anything but Walmart cars? Is it OK when Microsoft force install Teams across every installed machine? You have to reali
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by eitland 3y ago
Here's the thkng you are missing: Google, like Microsoft before them, pushes their own products in ways that no others are allowed to: - Microsoft pre-bundled IE and Windows Media Player when no one else could bundle anything. - Google
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by eitland 3y ago
I tried a number of times. I am one of those who can sense and get annoyed by a few tens of milliseconds lag and for me Linux is a massive UX improvement despite its font issues and alignment issues (actually I can't see them even when
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by eitland 3y ago
> I would also suggest that given how much better Chrome was at the time than any other browser that much of its adoption was organic. I tried it a number of times. The tab close thing was the only thing that was significantly better on
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by eitland 3y ago
> Less RAM, obviously, while this is not very important it's just nice to have. Unlike PC RAM which I can expand every time I get a new PC, my mental RAM is limited. Making sure to put everything I don't need right now into ext

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