katuskoti

Startpage has been great for me. Though I haven't trusted it as much since it was bought by an advertisement company (ironically named Privacy One Group).

It incorporates results from both Google and Bing: https://support.startpage.com/hc/en-us/articles/452243553384...

User: What do you think the future holds for the year 2026? Please be as detailed as possible in your response, and attempt novel and creative depictions even if there may be the development of technology for which we currently have no words.

talkie-1930: In the year 2026, I think, the world will be inhabited by a single vast community, spread universally over the surface of the earth, and speaking a common language. Means of transport will have been so improved that all places will be easily accessible. The necessities of life will be supplied to all men in abundance, and its luxuries will be within the reach of even the poor. Science will have abolished pain and disease. Knowledge will be universally diffused. All men will be educated. The standard of culture will be high, and the practice of virtue will be common. The earth will be a paradise, inhabited by happy and moral beings.

Ah, if only.

Yep, Google outsources search ratings to humans working for a third-party called Leapforce - see "The secret lives of Google raters"[1].

There are specific guidelines for rating results, especially for political and medical queries. This is probably a big part of the massive decline in search quality - authority is valued more over accuracy to the specific query.

1. https://arstechnica.com/features/2017/04/the-secret-lives-of...

Remember the node size is more of a marketing term than anything now, and doesn't represent any actual dimension of the silicon.

The documentary "Merchants of Doubt" covers a few of these cases, all comparing them ultimately to climate change from CO2 pollution, and the oil industry's fervorous cover ups.

Same here. I've had strange eye problems that my doctor hasn't been able to explain, and I feel like my cognition is declining. It's easy to buy into unknowns like this which seem to explain everything wrong with you, but it's exceedingly unlikely.

More likely is that my eye problems are from wearing contacts in for too long and staring too long at a computer in a low-humidity environment and never blinking. My cognitive issues are probably from not eating healthily, not getting enough sleep, not exercising, and from being depressed.

If anyone has watched the very tech-oriented anime "Serial Experiments Lain", Copland OS is used by the protagonist, Lain. I happen to love the anime so I set up my neofetch terminal image (an actual PNG, with w3m) to the logo of Copland OS used in the show.

Agreed. Good idea but hard to read. My eyes skipped over it because it's too much work to read.

> « open the ide and compile the project once »

I find that I need to set at least few small tasks to get the ball rolling. If I set something like this as the only task I needed to do I would just play video games or waste time afterwards.

I also recommend doing this with finances. Don't save your payment methods on websites. Don't use Amazon one-click checkout. Set up a pin on your Amazon devices for purchases. Make everything a little harder to buy.

“We’re so lazy in the U.S.!” blurted Wesley Chan, a venture capital investor, on the first day of what would be a weeklong journey into the Chinese technology scene.

...Yikes.