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[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago

Having worked on a product that actually did this, it's not as easy as it seems. There are many ways of drawing text on the screen.

GDI is the most common, which is part of the windows API. But some applications do their own rendering (including browsers).

Another difficulty, even if you could tap into every draw call, you would also need a way to determine what is visible on the screen and what is covered by something else.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I also wanted to mention that DDG doesn't really say what editorial changes they make to the results. I would like to see more transparency.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Only recently started using searngx. I would love to see more search engines implement their own indexing and ranking, instead of relying on other engines.

But I am aware that making a good search engine is hard. Even with all their flaws, google and Bing still have the best results, which is why most other engines rely on their results.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Which is just bing with a few extra editorial changes that aren't really transparent.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It's been 4 fucking years since Trump has left office. A regular person would never get his trial delayed for that long. If a trial can be delayed for 4 fucking years just because the accused is a powerful individual, it means that the rule of law doesn't apply the same to everyone. If powerful people are exempt from the rule of law, democracy is dead.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

A much bigger impact would have tearing down all the stupid parking spaces and changing zoning regulations to build higher density housing. The urban sprawl is unsustainable long term.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Meanwhile in Europe, trucks have a flat front so drivers have great visibility.

[–] [email protected] 136 points 11 months ago (8 children)

Losing the internet archive would be such a huge loss... I really hope they have a backup plan in case things go bad legally.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

And it's made of thin stainless steel sheets with sharp corners and edges

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Will valve allow accounts to exist indefinitely? Will they create an expiration policy, like accounts being closed after 100 years

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Having a curated whitelist would definitely be a good idea, but if it only shows information from a limited list of websites, that would make it a terrible search engine incapable of searching most of the web.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (7 children)

It's quite simple. Garbage in, garbage out. Data they use for training needs to be curated. How to curate the entire internet, I have no clue.

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