I used duckduckgo for a while. I switched to Kagi last year. Not everyone is willing to pay, up front, for search. But if you do, the experience is even better, because there are no ads to watch out for at all. Everything is search results.

Who cares? 21 km across is pretty big. At the scale that humans will ever realistically be able to build anything on the moon, we probably wouldn't even know the other country was there at all. No country is ever going to colonize the moon, or Mars. Or anywhere else. The most inhospitable place on Earth is better than everywhere else in the solar system, never mind the logistics.

I mean, the science is cool, but that's all it's ever going to be.

Except that non-ai search engines still work, whereas Google does not, unless you manually step in to tell it what to do. Still a reversion. And not an unavoidable one

There was no republican primary in my state, so I didn't get a choice.

The reason Google rose to dominance is that their algorithm accounted for trustworthiness. You didnâ(TM)t need to know the site that had your answer, Google knew it, and ranked it at the top of your results. This is basically asking you to manually do what Google historically did automatically, which is to vet websites that might contain answers to your queries. All so that they can inject LLMs into a process that does not need them. Yet one more reason Iâ(TM)m glad I ditched Google.

I'm friends with a couple who took their 6 year old daughter to go live in a country with malaria endemic for a year. Docs put the kid on ivermectin for the whole time. Zero side effects. I don't get what the big deal was with this during covid. Does it work for covid? No. Does it hurt anything? Also no. Why did anyone care?

Someone in my local hospital dying of covid wanted to take horse dewormer. Hospital wouldn't let them. It went to court, and the patient lost. Guess what? They still died.

I think covid caused mental illness, on every side of these arguments.

Northern VA is a liberal utopia and there are data centers everywhere.

Mint Mobile. Same phone, same cell towers, no contract, way cheaper. Probably cheaper even than your grandfathered plan.

Those who paid Ford after he left office did it so that Carter would know he would be taken care of by the same people when he left office. Like I said, they used to hide it.

All presidents end up quite wealthy after one or two terms. They all do this. Trump just does it at an entirely new level, and doesn't even try to hide it.

I could probably still walk someone through reinstalling the Windows 95 TCP/IP stack with my eyes closed.

The question comes down to, do they give the AI the tools to actually fix your problem?

I did multiple rounds of trying to get T-Mobile's Indian customer support to fix a problem, and by the end, I realized they didn't even have the ability to do what needed to be done. I had to file a report with the FCC, and then someone from T-Mobile US HQ called me and fixed the problem. I felt really sorry for the Indian call center as that must be really frustrating.

On the flip side, my kid's Roblox account got hacked, stolen, and sold. Their AI customer support bot got it recovered and fixed in minutes. It had the tools to fix the problem. I was really impressed.

I did dialup ISP technical support for a summer in college. Worst job I've ever had. AI can have it.

It's where you go to argue with someone exactly like this manager about why your bill is $300/month.

The one near me had an old lady go back in with a hammer and smash up the store. I completely understand why she did it.

It will probably come down to how good a lawyer the guy can afford.