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by mda 7y ago
Did you bother to check what exactly were the components? I actually looked at the list, not related to "adware", basically stuff that Microsoft probably replace with their own stuff. (spell checking, form fill, translate etc etc.
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by mda 7y ago
As if remaining part of code of conduct doc promotes evil. Please ...
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by mda 7y ago
Building even a mediocre search engine involves a gigantic index in >40 languages that is constantly refreshed, plus image and video indexes, porn, spam, malware filters, complex ranking, freshness, originality algorithms, constant quali
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by mda 7y ago
_most_ of their search results. They don't give a breakdown.
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by mda 7y ago
I generally appreciate non curvy designs in many forms. But I agree with you on this, my immediate thought was, "God, this thing is absolutely hideous" Such a missed opportunity.
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by mda 7y ago
Probably everyone would be silent as well if someone said "Steve Jobs sucks". This anecdote is meaningless TBH.
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by mda 7y ago
Does he represent the truth?
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by mda 7y ago
HN is also an echo chamber though.
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by mda 7y ago
Heh you go on an on about an imaginary weak anonimisation technique then say all is moot and again go on and on about pure speculation, It is you who is moving goal posts.
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by mda 7y ago
Who said that proper anonymisation doesn't remove exact birthdates and fine granular location? Proper anonymisation techniques are much harder to attack.
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by mda 7y ago
Does it really kill adblockers though?
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by mda 7y ago
- Still faster and snappier. - Better track record of security, better security architecture overall. (Firefox is getting better, but not there yet) - Very smooth account sync across devices and platforms. - Credit card payments with Google
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by mda 7y ago
Why do you think AMP is bad? Opinions of HN bubble hardly represent anything universal. Actually HN is the only place I see people thinks AMP is the most evil thing in Internet.
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by mda 7y ago
Many time discussed before on HN with some input by Google SREs. It is totally deleted (with some delay because of backups) https://policies.google.com/technologies/retention?hl=en
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by mda 7y ago
How is it different than depending on e.g. Python?
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by mda 7y ago
Logic. Creating and maintaining a half decent search engine requires a billion dollar worth of infrastructure and talent. They have neither.
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by mda 7y ago
My guess is DDG mostly depends on bing technology, at least for anything that is non trivial. There is a lot of smoke and mirrors on what actually DDG is, i would be happy to learn about details of their deals, technology, etc.
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by mda 7y ago
But what percentage of it comes from which partner? They never say this.
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by mda 7y ago
No, after cancellation of maven, it made no sense to pursue it.
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by mda 7y ago
"Nobody is forcing" is never a good answer. If gp is a react developer, his feedback and feeling about the framework matters.
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by mda 7y ago
What if it is linear but angle is so steep that you require all the sands in the world to achieve parity with a classical computer, does it still count?
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by mda 7y ago
No. Default is Hunspell based offline spell checkers, since the beginning of Chrome.
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by mda 7y ago
You call an organization "Pigs" for this? Also I don't understand what happened? Did they steal your technology?
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by mda 7y ago
I call bullshit. But yeah.
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by mda 7y ago
That is the reason you "loathe" Google? it seems it was act of an individual at best, and that is if the claim has merit. Loathe is a heavy word, weird.
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by mda 7y ago
This was a totally unnecessary comment.
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by mda 7y ago
AMD Mantel predates and inspires all. Vulcan is based on Mantel which was donated to Khronos.
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by mda 7y ago
So you can lie as much as you want as long as your agenda is justified? That is why I am saying stick to facts and do not resort to slogans.
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by mda 7y ago
Careful. Chanterelles has 2 lookalikes, one is poisonous (Jack o lantern)
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by mda 7y ago
You mean Omphalotus olearius and Hygrophoropsis aurantica? First one could be very nasty, maybe not deadly but very painful. Easily possible to confuse with Cantharellus cibarius, See https://www.wemjournal.org/article/

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