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by emacdona 1y ago
I'm not sure... but... maybe in this one single instance, I'm rooting for the bots. I mean, it's burning ad dollars and causing advertisers to rethink their strategy. Who knows, maybe that will eventually lead to the realizat
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by emacdona 1y ago
To me, K2 is a mountain and SOTA is “summits on the air”. I saw that headline and thought “holy crap” :-)
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by emacdona 1y ago
Heh, I came here to say this when I saw the top level thread that started this comment. As far as GP is concerned: > I remember they were always confused and surprised to get a random call from a stranger That's probably the only th
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by emacdona 1y ago
Never played with OCaml, but I spent the past few days learning about F# (my understanding is that it inherits a lot from OCaml). Tooling seemed great: I used JetBrains Rider; VSCode and Visual Studio are also options. Support seemed great:
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by emacdona 1y ago
To be fair to Kagi: This was in the top three results, and I can't tell if it's "real", or just a page created to capture those exact search terms! https://akkaalternatives.com/ If the goal of that site
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by emacdona 1y ago
Lately, I've been more and more disappointed with Kagi. It seems to be falling victim to the same SEO spam. For example, today I was wondering what Scala devs use as alternative to Akka. I searched for "scala akka alternative&quot
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by emacdona 1y ago
> customizing ranking for certain websites [...] the ability to block websites from search results entirely. These were the killer features for me and why I'm happy to continue paying for Kagi. That being said, I've (anecdotall
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by emacdona 2y ago
Loved the article. Texted it to my family group chat. My wife told me she had to close it immediately because the ads were so bad. I checked it in a browser without an ad blocker. TWO overlay (one after the other) that covered the entire co
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Spring Declarative Caching(consartist.com)
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by emacdona 2y ago
> They are not standard for cycling, and it would be a huge deviation from conventions of competitive cycling for the olympics to demand them. The Olympics (or, perhaps more generally, national team cycling events) _do_ make a huge devia
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by emacdona 2y ago
I think this gets at a deeper point I'm trying to make. If you truly can consistently beat the market, you are already making a killing with your _own_ money. If you want to use _my_ money to place your bets (presumably b/c you wa
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by emacdona 2y ago
I don't think the risk is "absurd". Or, at least it's no different than the risk they ask any investor to take by charging them 1% of their portfolio for it to be "actively managed". Plus, they are being compen
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by emacdona 2y ago
To any fund manager out there that truly believes you can beat the market, here is how you can sell me your fund: We agree on an index and a time frame. You guarantee me the same return as the index within that time frame. If you beat the i
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by emacdona 2y ago
Why doesn't this git repo contain any actual source code? Nor do the "src" archives on the download page (both contain a single, empty file). Yes, I realize I can unzip the xpi and see JS source. But... just curious.
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by emacdona 3y ago
Eh… I will always find it easy to root against Sony. They embedded rootkits in media they produced for PAYING customers [1] 1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_roo...
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by emacdona 3y ago
https://www.lulu.com/ I used lulu.com to print a copy of OnLisp [1] What I got was one of the best bound paperback books I've ever held. <rant> I wish all publishers would just sell eBooks (and publish settings l
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by emacdona 3y ago
IANAL, but: 'If only one party offers consideration, the agreement is a "bare promise" and is unenforceable.' [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consideration_in_English_law
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by emacdona 3y ago
BTW, I'm a happy Kagi early adopter currently subscribed at $10/mo. I do have concerns about even my limit, though. After I switched all my browsers (on all my devices) to use Kagi as the default search engine, I regularly exceed
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by emacdona 3y ago
> How would you change the wording to make this clearer in a way that does not strike you as dishonest? "Includes enough searches for X% of current Kagi users"
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by emacdona 3y ago
Thanks for pointing that out -- I guess I should have realized that (maybe I did at one point). At the very least, then, I wish the UCI would make it EASY to figure out what services I needed to subscribe to in my country to watch which rac
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by emacdona 3y ago
BTW, that sums up my ask for sports leagues/governing bodies: Let me pay ONE company ONE price and get ALL the content. Pick the price! I don't care. If I like the sport enough, I'll pay it. If I don't, then I'll fi
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by emacdona 3y ago
I was actually considering becoming a WRC fan... especially after I was watching some YouTube highlights and saw that Cyril Abiteboul is a team principal! Where do I subscribe? And... you promise that it's similar to F1 -- where I pay
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by emacdona 3y ago
Infuriating. I was pissed because I couldn't easily watch "all games in a given league". You only want to watch your team, and you STILL have to pay for four services to get "most" of the games.
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by emacdona 3y ago
That's fair. My main objection is labeling _everyone_ as "pirates". Technically, yes, they are pirating the steam. But some of those people are also PAYING to watch plenty of games in whatever sport they are "pirating&qu
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by emacdona 3y ago
Ah, sorry then :-( F1 is great in the US. I can't speak to NFL -- I don't watch it. However, I suspect it may be a better deal in Europe (where they are trying to get new fans) than in the US (where it's one of, if not "
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by emacdona 3y ago
Sigh... f*ck sports leagues/governing bodies. The reason some honest people pirate streams for sporting events is because they make it so annoying to pay for them. Some examples... I live in the US. I briefly took an interest in the EP
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by emacdona 3y ago
Hmmm... maybe this thread will have an answer to the question that has been on my mind for a while. Sometime in the next 5-7 years, I think I'm going to be in the market for a new car. Are there any manufacturers out there whose niche
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by emacdona 4y ago
Yeah, I should have mentioned that Kagi isn't free. I was _thrilled_ to pay for it, though base on just two things: 1. I was all but certain it couldn't provide worse search results than Google (that bar is pretty low now). 2. I k
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by emacdona 4y ago
> If you like a site to go back to it repeatedly don't you think it would be fair to "pay the fee" of seeing the ads, thus supporting that site... I struggle with this. Of course I want the producers of content that I like
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by emacdona 4y ago
Heh, you got me. A password manager is the ONE plugin I have installed in my profile that I use to access my banks. Simply put, I trust the password manager. Recently, however, I have considered uninstalling that plugin and using only the d

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