I figure to be a more complete test you'd have to include Baidu the Chinese search engine, which is in no doubt censored. Or old school engines like ask.com, and Yahoo even though they serve Bing results to my understanding it would be nice to include them. Either way, good showcase, great example queries. Although I do think some should be catering the MSM narrative to see if the results give contrary results included.
Readit Newstehaugmenter commented on Which search engine is the least censored? michaelsuede.substack.com... · Posted by u/Nuzzerino
> it made me pine for the days when you could walk into a shop and a knowledgeable salesperson would ask you a few questions and pick the right stuff for you.
I still remember being in Best Buy and hearing the salespeople scamming less knowledgeable customers about how much computer they need or how important expensive cables are. I don't think there was ever a time when you could trust electronics store salespeople to sell you "the right stuff for you".
> a time when you could trust electronics store salespeople to sell you "the right stuff for you".
Remember RadioShack?
tehaugmenter commented on Farmers Deserve the Right to Repair Their Tractors farms.com/news/farmers-de... · Posted by u/anandaverma18
No-one wants to sell hardware any longer, it's not as profitable as providing it on a subscription (dare we say "rent") and forcing all support, maintenance and additions to go through your channels as part of the subscription package.
Unfortunately this trend is everywhere now. It happened to servers, media, has started to happen to cars... but it's happened already to agricultural hardware.
Super profitable if you are the provider (especially with all the data one can yield from operating the hardware), super annoying and frustrating if you are the consumer.
I mean you vote with your dollar. Stop supporting these bad practices. I don't, it's a hull to get everyone to stop and force themselves to work around. Maybe it's a losing battle, but stop giving them money and we'll be better off. I would not purchase a product with an underlying subscription. I even go as far as getting older cars so I don't have to worry about it.
tehaugmenter commented on Intel Sidechannel Vulnerability theregister.co.uk/2019/05... · Posted by u/dsr_
I would like to see Neil Degrasse Tyson do a season 2 of Cosmos with all these new discoveries. We're only going to keep discovering more.
I'm not really understanding the point of this. I can draw something, then it tries to match it to one of it's cookie cutter things that it knows about, and doesn't seem to use my drawing at all in the final map. So is this just a glorified "thing picker", rather than a big dropdown or something?
I tried Firefox and Chrome to see if it was a browser dependency. I tried work and home internet to see if it was a firewall issue.
In the Console if you bring it up you can see the issue. It's unable to connect to the socket it's trying to connect to. So a live bug.
tehaugmenter commented on International System of Units overhauled in historic vote npl.co.uk/news/internatio... · Posted by u/daegloe
Very cool explanation of the math as well as the concept behind the standard:
tehaugmenter commented on China's AI news anchors inkstonenews.com/tech/xin... · Posted by u/alanwong
Do you prefer watching an error-free (in that it doesn’t stumble) news segment delivered by a computer-visualized robot or an imperfect one by a human?
I mean personally, News Bloopers are the best kind of Bloopers. We laugh at our own faults. It's more human this way.
tehaugmenter commented on Ask HN: Is Visual Studio Code the Emacs of 21st century? · Posted by u/gsaga
All this spotlight on VS Code and no mention of Sublime Text? I view Sublime Text (even though there is a license fee) as more emacs like than VS Code. I side with others to say its no where near Emacs because Emacs is Emacs. My most cherished Sublime Text plugins began as an Emacs extension (xiki). So I would say Emacs is important to the ecosystem but there's no way Product X will be an Emacs of the 21st century.
Who are these businesses? Seriously, stop issuing cards without chips and send new card readers to theses businesses. End of story.
Is it because US businesses use deeply embedded card readers in custom POS machines that aren't modular?
Everywhere I go in South America and Europe, businesses have portable readers. The card companies just sent them new readers and they were accepting chips overnight. Same when NFC was introduced.
The US payment and banking systems are truly maddening.