DuckDuckGo Reviews

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   over 4 years ago
   Google chrome, firefox, edge, ie, opera, are now tracking you.

   ddg is my favorite search engine and it has great restutes. It has a built in video player too! The only problem is that i have to use google in a blue moon to get the results it need. Duckside! Brave! Lunix!

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DuckDuckGo mentions (1787)

• Virginia passes law to enforce maximum vehicle speeds for repeat speeders

  That is not a definitive result. Repairing older cars to meet minimum standards is possible. They also could introduce things gradually and grandfather older vehicles into the previous lack of standards, which is what NY did. You can read about the 85th percentile principle here: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=85th+percentile+speed https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=85th+percentile+speed I actually cannot check the... - Source: Hacker News / 3 days ago

• Virginia passes law to enforce maximum vehicle speeds for repeat speeders

  It does make sense. See the 85th percentile speed: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=85th+percentile+speed Setting the limit at the 85th percentile and having most drivers drive at it creates uniformity of speed, which is known to increase safety. - Source: Hacker News / 3 days ago

• Mesmerizing Interlocking Geometric Patterns Produced with Japanese Woodworking

  Reminds me of Islamic Mashrabiya screens. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Mashrabiya&ia=images&iax=images Historically, the screens were quite simple, with more complex patterns rendered in ceramic tilings (symmetry groups, colorings, knots and intertwinings). Now there are good modern screens with more innovative patterns, made with computer-controlled laser cutters. In a quick search for Kumiko examples, I very... - Source: Hacker News / 3 days ago

• NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy

  Https://archive.org/details/resignationinpro00weis From an Amazon review comment: "This book offers an insightful analysis into the history and norms involved in the tradition of resignation in the U.S. And the U.K. Why do the British tend to resign loudly in protest and Americans resign “to spend more time with family” while praising their president? How do these norms benefit and harm their respective systems?... - Source: Hacker News / 6 days ago

• OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an "AI-first" experience

  Make default search be a version of ChatGPT and put ads on it? Could work (I wouldn't use it though). The way a lot of people use their browser they might be fine with it if it puts navigation-type links up top (I have literally seen a technical colleague with a PhD do a Google search for "x" and click a link rather than type the ".com"). The inference costs would surely make it hard to profit from though.... - Source: Hacker News / 7 days ago

Medium mentions (2545)

• Retailers will soon have only about 7 weeks of full inventories left

  3. The shipping industry seizes up and goods stop flowing My main source for that theory is https://medium.com/@ryan79z28/im-a-twenty-year-truck-driver-i-will-tell-you-why-america-s-shipping-crisis-will-not-end-bbe0ebac6a91. - Source: Hacker News / about 9 hours ago

• I've largely replaced Google with ChatGPT for looking things up

  Https://medium.com/@zehanimehdi49/hacking-llms-101-attention-is-all-i-need-407fa25c1796. - Source: Hacker News / about 19 hours ago

• I Use Zip Bombs to Protect My Server

  Devide by zero happens to everyone eventually. https://medium.com/@bishr_tabbaa/when-smart-ships-divide-by-zer0-uss-yorktown-4e53837f75b2 "On 21 September 1997, the USS Yorktown halted for almost three hours during training maneuvers off the coast of Cape Charles, Virginia due to a divide-by-zero error in a database application that propagated throughout the ship’s control systems.". - Source: Hacker News / 2 days ago

• A single line of code cost $8000

  Far far more damage has come from a single line: >> On 21 September 1997, the USS Yorktown halted for almost three hours during training maneuvers off the coast of Cape Charles, Virginia due to a divide-by-zero error in a database application that propagated throughout the ship’s control systems. https://medium.com/@bishr_tabbaa/when-smart-ships-divide-by-zer0-uss-yorktown-4e53837f75b2. - Source: Hacker News / 1 day ago

• Firefox tab groups are here

  It's worth remembering that Firefox HAD tab groups before, just under a different name and then killed it because "nobody used it": https://medium.com/@twidi/how-i-survived-the-removal-of-panorama-in-firefox-2b898b027877 The implementation here is a bit different, I'm sure, but the core idea is the same: Group your tabs however you like and switch between the groups at will. I use Vivaldi these days (thanks to... - Source: Hacker News / 1 day ago