Horse people?

You know the old saying, “you get what you paid for.”

Did the Privacy Guides drama ever get resolved re: PrivacyTools. I recall one was split off from the other over draaaamaaa.

But do you remember Geocities?

It’s just a bit more complicated than that:

When people search, we believe they’re really looking for answers, as opposed to just links. For many categories of searches (restaurants, lyrics, weather, etc.), there is usually a specialized search engine (e.g., Tripadvisor), content site (e.g., Musixmatch), or dedicated source (e.g., Dark Sky) that does a better job of actually answering searches than a general search engine can with just links. Our long-term goal is to get you Instant Answers from these best sources.

Most of our search result pages feature one or more Instant Answers. To deliver Instant Answers on specific topics, DuckDuckGo leverages many sources, including specialized sources like Sportradar and crowd-sourced sites like Wikipedia. We also maintain our own crawler (DuckDuckBot) and many indexes to support our results. Of course, we have more traditional links and images in our search results too, which we largely source from Bing. Our focus is synthesizing all these sources to create a superior search experience.

Partners and Privacy: As per our strict privacy policy, we never share any personal information with any of our partners that could lead to the creation of search histories. When we send a request to a partner for information used in search results, the transfer of information is proxied through our servers so it stays anonymous. That means our partners see those requests as though they came from us instead of our users, and no unique identifiers are passed in that process (e.g., your IP address). That way, we can work with partners to produce relevant search result pages, while keeping you anonymous to them (and us!).

So they use some in-house tools and they source other results “largely” from Bing.

In other words:

I’ve heard far more people using it for helping with simple coding exercises and helping them approach coding problems than I have heard of people using it for research.

I wouldn’t be doing much of any research through AI for exactly that reason myself. It hallucinates too much.

So, like I said, it depends on what you’re using each one for. People seem to be having success with Bing and programming, but less so with Bing and anything actually human-life related.

I don’t need a 27-page novel to know the temperature and time to cook something.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/recipe-filter/

I would say that there isn’t currently a “best alternative” but rather there is a small group of alternatives that each seem to have “use cases” as it were (shocker, kind of how it used to be in the 90s/00s before Google dominance). But even from person to person, people disagree on what the best use case for each is.

There’s some focused more on “privacy” like DuckDuckGo and searX.

I’ve heard Bing has pretty good results for anything AI related for all Microsoft’s investment in OpenAI.

I’ve heard good things about Qwant for music searches.

Someone else here in this thread just brought up Mojeek, which is supposed to be also privacy focused but includes searching by “emotion.”

Presearch is decentralized, but I haven’t looked “under the hood” of how its decentralization works.

Startpage is Google search results but behind a proxy so Google isn’t getting your info when you search.

I mean, it seems like there’s a lot of decent alternatives. I wouldn’t be surprised if what’s left of the shell of Yahoo! started investing in trying to outperform Google at this point.

It’s also really, really easy to lose your job as a pizza delivery person.

Don’t worry, it’s never enough cash, so he will assuredly be back to fucking shit up in some business capacity soon enough.

Plastics are notorious for catching smells and keeping smells.

I just replaced a plastic kitchen trash can with a metal one because of this.

I laughed to myself as I took the old one to put in the trash. I had never removed a sticker advertising “Traps Odors Inside!” That sticker wasn’t fucking kidding as this thing had sucked up every bad smell that had gone in the trash over two years. It “trapped” those odors all right, and every time I lifted the lid, they would come out to greet me.

As much as it sucks, the best solution would to be replace the lunchbox with a similarly sized metal one or fabric one (that can be washed).

But do they have a certificate to prove they are not Donkey Brained?

I mildly disagree.

First, I think its the first game of this type to have any successful control scheme for a controller at all, so I think it deserves accolades for making it happen at all.

Second, while I still mostly play in traditional mouse and keyboard, I am an old man now, having played the original BG as a teen when it came out. Having the controller as an option is huge for me when I am in pain.

Anecdotally, my partner never played these games growing up and she fucking hates trying to play with mouse and keyboard. She says it feels clunky and slow and confusing.

Is it the best? No. Is it an excellent effort? Yes, because it actually works.

The fact that a game with a ruleset as complex as DnD manages to have a couch co-op option and gamepad controls built-in is an achievement, imho.

I can think of plenty of words, but none of them are nice.

I’m not sure what you would call them, but you wouldn’t call them “critical thinkers.”

Because a critical thinker would have their own thoughts about links they wanted to share. They would be willing to discuss why they thought a link was important, and the issues they thought it touched on.

People like this seem to live with very little skepticism. I read a lot of news sources where I feel I can trust them on certain issues and not on others. I can trust the New York Times on a lot of things, but I also know that they tend to cater to a more wealthy audience and that their foreign policy ideology clashes with my own. That doesn’t mean they only peddle warmongering class-war bullshit, although they do produce a lot of that. They do also produce a lot of solid, thoughtful reporting, but it still requires skepticism on my part in reading those articles and not just taking them as “gospel.”

A meme is too short and simple to really get into complex ideas, and as such, memes are good for sharing simple, accessible ideas, but very bad for sharing more complex themes. Once again, lack of skepticism and favoring simple ideas as opposed to understanding the complexity of the world requires more complex understanding of it.

Oh, so he never matured at all then, huh?

Must be why the prayer goes “give us this day our daily beer.”

“First lie they tell you is that I’m just a guy in a costume! I’m a genetic experiment gone wrong, babay!”

Down to partaaaayyyy!

Beer is just liquid bread.

When you’re half dead and need to be fed: Liquid Bread!