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obidan | 3 years ago | on: Bing Search API Pricing Update

Kagi does not use their own indexes, aside from perhaps very small things.

They use both Bing and Google indexes. It is why the cost per search is relatively high.

This change will impact them and it's currently a discussion topic on their Discord as well.

Pretty sad. I just started using it a week ago and am still planning on not going back.

obidan | 4 years ago | on: Software is eating the car

I worked in the automotive industry and I can totally confirm. The worse thing is, there are now AUTOSAR experts and AUTOSAR tools and AUTOSAR Tool Experts and within that tool there’s a ARXML generator that’s generated with another tool …

There’s no way this can ever become safe, robust, software. The worse part is, there’s so many careers that depend on this obscure skillset that I am unsure a change can come from existing companies.

obidan | 5 years ago | on: Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?

I mean, no it isn’t.

At the same time, an operation which works like this is certainly extremely flawed. I doubt there’s one engineer working on GDrive that doesn’t think a folder size feature wouldn’t be useful and relatively simple to implement. So that’s more of an argument towards the operation going bad, instead of the engineers.

Maybe this slipped through the cracks but this thread already contains a bunch of examples of stuff like this happening.

They can be architecting Tensorflow really well and that certainly is impressive but when GMail takes 3 seconds to load the main page and downloads 10MB during that process you know something is going wrong.

obidan | 5 years ago | on: OpenDiablo2

Interestingly this is written in Golang. I wonder what the main considerations for choosing it were.