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Save yourself the blogspam, go directly to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave-dissipating_concrete_bloc... and enjoy the whole collection !

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A bit rude, this doesn't come across as spam but a genuine human sharing something interesting they came across. Peak old internet (2000s) content. The wiki article is very short and doesn't actually have more or better pictures.

Some people here think if it's on Wikipedia it's authoritative. Yours truly has written many Wikipedia articles, some translated into ten or more languages. I've seen how ugly it is behind the scenes there.

I miss blogs. They are omitted from searches now but are among the best internet search content. Threadinburgh is one of the best online resources about Edinburgh by far.

> They are omitted from searches now but are among the best internet search content

I use google search with &udm=14 to remove all AI elements in the results presentation.

Searching for "dolosse", the HN item is the 3rd link, and TFA is the 4th. They are preceded by Wikipedia, and a dolosse-manufacturer's page.

Not sure why you think "blogs are omitted from searches now".

Maybe because I do searches for specific topics and no blogs appear in the results. This is even though I know certain blogs contain information on the topics I'm interested in, and instead I get "trusted media" which has information often only loosely connected to what I'm after.

Bizarre hate towards someone's little blog. And it's not even LLM spam, just someone running their own WP site. By your logic I should save myself the Wikipedia verbosity and just ingest LLM output for any query I have forever.

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