Windows Vista would like a word.

In terms of utility for the average person, statistics >>>>> calculus.

I work in an engineering field, and can count on one hand the number of times I’ve had to do an integral in the last year. But I run into glorified statistics problems virtually every day both in personal and professional situations.

Having to constantly remind people of error bars, statistical significance, and the difference between correlation and causation, it would have been nice if those things were hammered home more thoroughly in school.

So… Does this mean… We’re gonna… Nuke the fires?

The only AI feature of theirs that I’ve used is their Translate tool and I’ve been pretty satisfied with the results in comparison to others.

In theory you could lease your server capacity to the big AI players, but then they would have to trust you -a noted crypto grifter - with their data.

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/privacy/privacy-pass.html

When you enable Privacy Pass, instead of logging in with your Kagi account for each search, you use special cryptographic tokens. These tokens prove you have the right to use Kagi’s services without revealing who you are. This means your searches can’t be linked back to your account or to each other, providing an additional layer of privacy.

Obviously you lose some of the customization, but otherwise still a great service.

I enjoy it. They have a 100-search free trial so you can test it out for yourself. Between them down ranking sites full of trackers and allowing you to put your own preferential ratings on sites, I find myself getting the results I’m after so much quicker.

Then I have great news for you! Kagi accept bitcoin, does not validate email addresses (so you can register as fhhdsbgwg@hrjesbgwgw.com if that appeals to you), and they implemented privacy pass tokens that fully anonymize your searches. They also allows searching through tor!

You are paying for search, just differently.

https://proton.me/blog/what-is-your-data-worth

https://wallethub.com/blog/bad-google-results-for-0-apr/157511

Ahh, the 'ol 1-day-old account here to troll in the comments.

New Option:

domain1.com - for main email

domain2.com - for email forwarding with Addy.io

This is what I do (but simplelogin). I have a wildcard address (*.email@domain2.com) that let’s me setup individual accounts for each service (e.g., lemmy.email@domain2.com)

myname@domain1.com is only shared with real humans or critical services that I don’t want to risk dealing with the hassle if simplelogin goes belly up (I know I can move the DNS records and recreate the accounts, but at this point I have dozens of email addresses and am prone to forgetting things).

Also YSK:

Generally speaking you aren’t limited to just what’s at your nearest library. Other nearby libraries (or even those you pass by on travel) may have better/different offerings and will generally welcome folks with open arms.

What can you even do on an un-networked fridge screen? Play bejeweled while contemplating suicide?

“Quantum emulation” all the hype, 1/1000th the efficiency, 1000X the excuses to sell hardware

“Describing rapid-response networks [and] moms as professional agitators shows just how out of touch these agents are, and how incredible their views are,” Ellis said.

Shoutout for the proper use of the word incredible.

Getting the chunks off saves you from having to clean the filter as often (I recognize that’s probably different from “scrubbing”)

My dishes are by no stretch of the imagination clean when they go into the dishwasher, but they also look nothing like what’s in a Cascade™ commercial.

Bought a tire attachment for my air compressor the other day. You’d think I must live in a house with millions of tires to fill based on my product suggestions.

“Like, you really fucking love tires right? Have you heard of these 6 other tire-filling compressor attachments??”

There’s no scenario where I would bring this to a manager. If you aren’t capable of (politely!) setting your own boundaries with your coworkers, you’re going to struggle no matter what team you land on.

I suspect, given this is a medical setting, the hiring manager has more important things to worry about than “are people talking near the new person again?”

If you came to me with that demand before hiring I would thank you for your time and wish you luck finding a position that meets your needs. I have my own shit to deal with, training new team members is already an additional load to take on, and having to manage personalities full-time is not in my bandwidth

Yes and no - there’s so much GoT fan content out there that they could theoretically pick up on the key names and places without the books

That said, I’d be willing to bet these shitty AI companies went the extra mile to pirate these books to train their LLMs, because copyright law is only for the poors.

I generally despise LLMs, but I’d be intrigued to see LLMs be the thing that reigns in copyright law a little bit because it’s gotten too out of hand.

Not as doom and gloom but I feel like “We’ll Meet Again” could fit the theme

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We'll_Meet_Again