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In that video he asserts through the closed door that Omegle hasn't done anything "for the children" and then in the article they have one measly line about how Omegle actually has been productive on that front. The text now on the Omegle site seems to support that they did what they could as well. Of course they're not going to get a good conversation with him when that's how they're going to frame it compared to reality. Whether Omegle was doing enough or should exist to begin with are different arguments but the premise of "Omegle is doing nothing" appears very wrong and I imagine offensive to creator/employees.

Definitely, and I'm ok with not getting results, Kagi is doing the right thing.

Like siblings, I switched and never looked back. I used !g with DDG often, more as the years went on tbh, but with Kagi the only time I use !g is when the search results end in one page, which is rare and almost always the Google results are noisy trash. Maybe 5% of searches I check Google and 10% of those actually return something useful that Kagi didn't. On balance with how much better the other 95% of queries are, first time I'm excited to search for things.

My biggest complaint with Kagi is sometimes when I search for something the top result is a pinned domain that maybe hit the right keywords but mentally to me it was unrelated to the search I was performing. That's a pretty good problem to have at the end of the day.

I had the privilege and good fortune to introduce a diverse group of highschoolers to Scratch as an intro to programming around 2013/2014, it was a lot of fun! A few of them seemed pretty hooked and were doing some wild things pretty quickly, I imagine at least a couple pursued it further. Reminded me a bit of like ~2005 Flash community.

Interesting so maybe not my trivial "summarize an article" example but clearly the upper bound on what's possible is higher and more interesting.

I'm not familiar with the summarization or NLP space really but I remember ~2011-2015 I signed up for a couple of daily email services that summarized a number of news articles and the summaries were fantastic. I don't even remember what they were called, they eventually sold out with ads and worse formatting/summaries to make money I guess. I often use them as an example of 1) why LLMs are a bit old news for the summary use case and 2) how various LLM use cases will probably also be ruined because for a lot of people tools like that seem novel and useful but all I can see is onboarding to more advertising.

So to someone who is actually knowledgeable in this space, are LLMs really that much better than whatever we had 10 years ago? Is this tech the key to some features we truly didn't have before?

Glancing at some comments here mentioning the overnight charging feature working for them, am I in the minority by charging randomly whenever it needs it? My charger isn't even in the bedroom. Curious how my random on/off habits compare to overnighters in long term battery health.

I try to take it off around 80% so I was interested in this feature and confused when the update didn't include it. I don't like that it's in my "pros" column for upgrading when it could be available to everyone, would rather not reward them for that.

My US state has been legal for some years now and it's a similar story. Part of me wants the market to collapse a bit as it's kind of annoying how many businesses exist, in my city this one corner had 3 shops in a touristy part of town and no one ever in them. I would hate to see it collapse into like 2-3 mega brands owned by some global conglomerate that also owns mega beer/tobacco though.

As someone who smoked/vaped daily for several years, it wouldn't bother me and if anything I would get excited like "where is that?" But after several months of voluntarily not using I actually did get to a point where I dislike the smell of it. Cigarettes, perfume, cologne, even strong laundry detergent still smell worse to me, but yeah weed is not a great smell.

It really hit me when I went to Manhattan for the first time since covid and the ratio of pee to cannabis stench had flipped rather strong to cannabis.

> but I’ve never seen the point in those

The one points card I have actually is a Marriott card which obviously only works with Marriott, but Marriott is everywhere and doesn't restrict scheduling options so it was an easy choice at the time. I used to travel weekly for work and the hotel was on me for reimbursement whereas the airline was on company card, and Marriott was the preferred booking option by my company so it made a lot of sense to get the card. The math at the time for that was like 5-7% when spending the points at Marriott plus a free night for what was an $85/year card. Useful for personal travel.

It's been like 10 years since I looked into the options but at the time I was getting my first cards I was doing the math on various points cards to compare to cash back and what I found was, unless you were really gaming the system, the best you could hope for is roughly 1-2% returns. And the system, whether you're gaming it or not, also requires you to then play in the system so any given card might work out to like 5% if you spend those points on air travel... with a whole host of restrictions including but not limited to a specific airline. I don't have the time in my life to game the system so I can fly marginally cheaper with a specific airline and therefore restricted set of airports and scheduling options.

Programming != software engineering

> Software engineers who think they are better without AI may quickly be replaced with "lesser" software engineers who get things done much quicker.

Using AI to program is just ctrl-c ctrl-v software engineering, very clearly not the point of programming competitions. High level tools as you mention don't make you a better programmer, they make you a better software engineer.

I think the discussion you're raising is a good one it's just not relevant to a programming competition.

Pretty subjective at the end of the day. Personally I find them roughly equivalent quality in mapping/traffic but Google has turned into a pile of sponsored content. Apple frequently has the exact locations of businesses within a building wrong or confusing but I'll take some walking around a building over a recommendation for Subway when I search for "camera store". Anyway I submit corrections to Apple Maps and they accept those corrections within a couple of days 90% of the time and when I need that thing in the future it is correct.

I don't think this addresses the comment you're replying to. Sure evaporative is more effective, I don't see an argument against that, but I think the point of GP is that fully enclosed (like a dry cooling tower) is possible and we can be critical of these companies for not doing the arguably more responsible/moral thing.

Coworkers answering wrong gets me to stop asking them for help, yes, especially if it's confident or they can't qualify uncertainty or I know their ratio of Q&A site visits vs 1st party docs visits is abysmal. There are even people I won't ask for help because they trust people that I don't trust.

Conversely, there are people who I will go to for topics that they are not the SME in, maybe their teammate even is, but I trust their ability to do quality research and intelligently interpret that research for case specific nuances. Like I'll go to the networking guy to talk about some DB thing because the DB guys are morons and live and die by junk SEO sites but the networking guy can think analytically and find the source of truth documentation and provide excerpts from it.

Quite the ratio here. Definitely agree with the masses that 1) almost no one does number entry 2) many touch typers are plenty fast enough on the number row 3) it does take up space really, especially in laptop or directly next to a mouse. I touch type 24 digit numbers at work from the num row, it's fine really.

Apple Maps is actually competitive with Google Maps and has walled garden integrations so it's not really comparable to me as Google Search versus Bing/DDG/whatever. Not to say the other search options are so terrible people would definitely switch, more that's definitely not the case with maps.

I was embarrassingly excited to edit my Kagi Personalized Results with a block for Fandom and a pin for minecraft.wiki. This was yesterday and for me searching "minecraft wiki" and some obvious wiki things was not yielding the new wiki on any of Google/DDG/Kagi.

Got me thinking it could be interesting for Kagi to release personalized packages, like say you get into a new hobby (Minecraft) and you can quickly peruse/apply sensible personalization.

His surprise and comment that it was unexpected and done on the first try without much force says a lot more than exact science numbers to me.

Ah! Miss on local, apologies

Not disagreeing with your main point but some anecdata on local searches: for me, Google likes to show me the other, larger city by the same name several hundred miles away. If I use Google Maps it likes to teleport as well. Sometimes even serving results for unrelated businesses, like one time I was searching for a photo developer and it recommended a B rate fast food chain.

Kagi has done a much better job of respecting where I live, though it has had a few minor misses that Google produced (maybe after wading through some crap).

That API is junk and I think requires auth now or something. I was messing with it some months ago and was surprised after a month the system changed.

> when you incorporate a suggestion by them into a story, or a drawing, or literally whatever

> theres room for net new, and room for shared history. not zero sum here.

Points taken. I'll be trying to keep an open mind.

> Every AI Engineer parent we know of is already hacking together bedtime story generator apps for their kids

I was looking for a gift for my toddler niece recently as a 30+ man who has never really looked for kids things before. Going over the shelves at a local shop, I found a book I had forgotten about for probably 25 years now. I teared up a bit thinking about my childhood bedroom and the nightly story time with my mom reading this among other books. When I visited my sister, she asked me to do story time with her daughter and I was clueless but happy to. I asked her to pick out a story to read and she dug into her shelves pulling out more stories I had not thought about in ages and even recognized a couple of them were the worn books from my own shelves, books that our mom had read to my sister first and likely took home from the library she worked at when they had become too worn. The book she settled on was one I was unfamiliar with (Miss Rumphius) but as I read it I realized it was describing a somewhat fictionalized version of a story known to some Mainers about how we ended up with such a population of lupines. It was surreal seeing all the illustrations of coastal Maine towns (I live in one, my sister is far from here) and then realizing the story the book was telling. I look forward to the day she's old enough that I can bring her to lupines growing out in a town like that and make that connection with her.

It pains me to read quotes like the above. To think there will be kids who won't have shared human experiences of bedtime stories because their parents put them on some infinitely generating AI nonsense. Maybe I'm yelling at clouds, maybe I'm a luddite, maybe kids love and benefit from new stories every time. I dunno. I'm no child psychologist but I have noticed kids often like to consume the same thing repeatedly as well, we watched the same episode of Mickey Mouse like 4 times and then spent the rest of the day acting out a specific component of the episode. I'm trying to keep an open mind but a lot of this sounds like destruction of culture in pursuit of "new" but why?

My comment is in response to your “yes this replacement is desired.” button in a world where parts can be harvested from a phone and used in a different one. My understanding of what you mean is if phone A were stolen and parts removed from it and installed in phone B then phone B would get the “yes this replacement is desired.” button instead of whatever is in place now. My feeling is this button would be no different from just not having a button at all. The user of phone B will almost never care what that prompt says and will just click through, they're certainly not going to consider the parts were stolen from phone A.

Such an ignore button would allow theft to continue and would allow users to make poor security decisions. I agree that something needs to happen to enable easier or maybe more privacy focused 3rd party repairs but I also appreciate my device being less of a target.

Power to you next year! FTC was an incredible experience I look back on over a decade later as being not just a great place for technical/team experience but also a wonderful human experience. It's hard to find an environment of people so unapologetically themselves and with such strong sportsmanship. Cherish it!

I don't think C2 or a $200 electric grinder are going to be great for espresso. I have a 1ZPresso JX-Pro I got for like $150 and at the time at least sounded like a much better option vs C2 and cheap electric. I'm happier with it than the C2 and cheap electric I've used.

Yeah coworkers were laughing at me for reading the privacy policies. I would put in the orders with their phone/email instead, had a laugh at that.

Sorry my headspace for disagreeing is in QR codes shouldn't be the menu. Yes to the point of removing redirects does not solve malicious replacements with look-alike domains. I think in the case of a direct link with 3rd party JS though I mean there are tools that can prevent that while still providing access to the menu. If my content blocker blocks the QR code providing service then I can't get a menu. If my content blocker blocks 3rd party non-functional JS then whatever, I don't notice.