dragontamer

dragontamer, 1 day ago

No one is talking about automated theorem provers (see 4 coloring theorem) or symbolic solvers (see Mathematica). These tools already revolutionized math decades ago.

The only thing that came out in the past year or two are LLMs. Which is clearly overhyped bullshit.

dragontamer, 3 days ago

I’m just gonna plug “Kagi” here.

Kagi is a paid search engine. Yeah, sucks that we have to pay for good or decent search results, but… as the economic models of the internet change, we need to change with them. I’ve personally lost faith in freemium ad-supported websites in general.

dragontamer, 3 days ago

Newspapers were always partially advertisement driven.

But I think everyone would agree with me that Newspapers were better when a substantial base of their $$$ came from their subscriber base.

Nothing is absolute in the world of money. There’s always additional sources of money elsewhere. From this perspective, I think we can argue that purely advertisement-driven media is what is most dangerous. Search is an important part of modern digital media, so thinking of the economic realities of funding, and how those economic incentives shape the website and future business is important.

Maybe it fails, but Kagi is trying something new. And that’s good enough as an experiment for me. I dunno, maybe I’ll revisit the idea in 5 years or so, that’s really not much money in the great scheme of things.

At very least, Kagi now has a “Fediverse search”, and now that “search-lemmy” seems to have died, I need something like Kagi to more easily search Lemmy.world and other Fediverse locations. (Google ain’t so good at this yet).

dragontamer, 7 days ago

We have lemon laws, but Tesla fanbois are too stupid / loyal to use them.

dragontamer, 7 days ago

@AA5B said it but replied to me instead of to you.

A “lemon” law says that if someone sells you a “lemon” (a vehicle that’s prone to failure or needs a lot of repairwork), they have to either repair it or take it back. But it still requires the customer to initiate legal action (or at least, threaten legal action). Once the lawyers get involved, the dealerships or whatever back down… because lemon laws are usually clear and easy to prosecute over.

But it still requires that initial effort. If these people just… sit back and take the abuse from Tesla, nothing will happen.

dragontamer, 9 days ago

Charged Lemonade tasted like crap anyway. Good riddance.

Panera’s regular Lemonade and regular sweetened Green Tea tastes great. So I’m still overall happy with their drink options. But whoever the chef was who created this “Charged Lemonade” stuff needs to be fired.

dragontamer, 9 days ago

Water plus a bit of fragrance so you can smell something while drinking water.

They’re pretty refreshing in my experience. I actually recommend Liquid Death.