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Please everyone, can you make sure your posts are edited in a way to avoid any confusions.
My “opinion” is that this is not as impressive as most people think it is once you understand the (really) huge amounts of text the system ingests for the algorithms to extract the output. There is no magic.
Madness.
The results for searches firstly did not make sense, some files/emails found but most not.
I resolved the indexing of files by finally finding the right settings page after some time. The only feedback that I had done the right thing was seeing the “number of files indexed” incrementing.
For outlook, I was expecting some settings page within the app that would explain why emails were not being found. After some more time I found that the settings page was outside of outlook! I cannot remember where or how I fixed the issue but it was complete bullshit.
Every once in a while I have these experiences and and wonder how most people live with their computers and the amount of stress and time wasted on stuff that you would expect not to have to deal with in 2022.
Even though I have a soft spot for Microsoft, I abandoned their flagship product, the operating system, many years ago and was probably one of my wisest choices.
Just like I don’t use Google’s flagship product - I just hate it when companies ruin something near perfect by adding shit to please everyone or to milk it so much for profit that it becomes just a pile of trash.
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How come?
My only criticism is that it is being bogged down by the implementation language (java) and the academic details (gossip, blockchain, etc.) that is slowing it down to become an MVP.
Of course, I know you are doing this for fun and these details give you immense joy but some of us would love to start using it and start playing boardgames and even create some of our own!
Anyway, good work and thanks for writing up articles with your experiences.
First, why cannot we have a multi-platform single click, no chrome/ui with fullscreen capabilities, firefox launcher that has prepackaged web app that is self contained? You think Major Tech Dudes can’t implement this?
Second, it’s all probably to do with bureaucracy and politics. For all we know FAANG blocks such ad ventures otherwise its bully time.
Sure, the hardware and network are a miracle.
My 2 cents is that there is so much software to be written that most programmers are mediocre at what they do and/or their working environment makes it even more difficult to create efficient software systems.
Similar correlations to Government.
What? Can you expand on that? Makes no sense.