Also while they're repairable and they have that going for them, Google also promises 7 years of updates, so they're not even unique on that selling point.
Jrockwar
joined 1 year ago
It's hip to like Kagi because it's not Google.
I think I stopped paying for Kagi at the third or fourth controversy I heard about, I can't remember which one. I wasn't exactly happy about the implication that paying for Kagi means giving money to the bigot founder of Brave.
Like the fediverse? Like SearxNG? Like Wikipedia?
I know you've said "almost", but there's a free search engine in there where you're not the product...
Lol what's that back design...
👏DYNAMIC👏POWERFUL👏
Probably not. But that's what happens when you buy Things as a Service.
The least unreliable LLM I've found by far is perplexity, in the Pro mode. (By the way, if you want to try it out, you get a few free uses a day).
The reason is because the Pro mode doesn't retrieve and spit out information from its internal memory bank, but instead, it uses that information to launch multiple search queries, then summarises the pages it finds, and then gives you that information.
Other LLMs try to answer "from memory" and then add some links at the bottom for fact checking but usually Perplexity's answers come straight from the web so they're usually quite good.
However, I still check (depending on how critical the task is) that the tidbit of information has one or two links next to it, that the links talk about the right thing, and I verify the data myself if it's actually critical that it gets it right. I use it as a beefier search engine, and it works great because it limits the possible hallucinations to the summarisation of pages. But it doesn't eliminate the possibility completely so you still need to do some checking.
I'm hoping this doesn't make me a bad person but now that there are no lives at risk I'm kinda hoping it does? I'm so fed up with corporate cost-cutting (even when it affects people's safety!) and companies surviving just based on inertia. I feel if the legal system isn't powerful enough to set a precedent against this sort of corporate practices, maybe the Starliner is. Maybe that's its purpose, and maybe that's how it makes space travel better.
I don't know why they keep insisting on live service with an upfront cost. The only way these games are successful is by having a fuckton of teenagers with no money to fill the lobbies and make it feel lively and worthwhile. The minute you add an initial cost, there's just not enough of a player base to support a game with microtransactions.
I'm not a business genius, but they don't have to learn from me. There is the very clear precedent of Kill the justice league that they're choosing to ignore!
It might be a different game, but I thought there would be flights too! Especially when they fight against the robot uprising of the year 2000.
It's funny. BMW took an opposite approach to everyone else when it comes to EVs. I (mistakenly) thought they would fail.
Ford, VW, Mercedes, etc. were developing specific platforms for electric vehicles, given that they are different enough architecturally that using the manufacturing processes meant for internal combustion engines wouldn't be cost efficient. However, after the experiment that the i3 was, BMW decided it was more sensible to just reuse platforms from internal combustion engine vehicles for their new EVs.
I thought this would be inefficient, besides not taking proper advantage of the packaging wins that an EV architecture allows.
A few years in, and thanks to their strategy they've developed a big range of EVs at a comparatively lower cost. Nobody cares that the i4 doesn't have a frunk, or that their platform wasn't purposely designed for EVs. Even if the manufacturing cost is higher, having a smaller upfront cost has allowed them to move faster.
Kudos to them for their success, even if it comes from playing it safe.
So to make development faster and make sure they didn't waste time, they spent their time reinventing slack/teams/SharePoint/etc.
It sounds like if Nintendo were a person, they'd have ADHD. This also explains how for every generation, their flagship console looks like a completely new thing. They're just getting understimulated and bored.
This assumes everything works fine. It's probably an edge case, but on my Nexus 6P an update somehow messed with my encryption keys, and the screen lock pattern that I'd used for over a year stopped getting recognised. I can't remember the solution but I vaguely remember having to factory reset. Whatever the solution was, it wasn't too different to what a thief would do... I was bypassing the screen lock after all.