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And I’ve just made the Woodhouse from Archer connection!
It is absolutely wild and baffling to me that people don’t make connections like that, and so I wonder what kind of equally obvious (to other people) connections I haven’t made.
I think I was in my 30s when I realized rational numbers are numbers that can be expressed as a ratio. Mind blown.
I always used to think ask jeeves was a malware because of the IE bar that was installed automatically with some app (java i think). A fair amount of my teenage years was spent on uninstalling IE search bars (and other crap) from the computers of friends of my parents and ask jeeves was a massive pain to remove (had to remove dlls and registry entries manually as the uninstaller wasn't doing anything). Because of tha…
Then it become Google, then something else that popped up.
The amount of time I've spent in my life fixing stuff on Microsoft "All binaries have full disk access by default" Windows is weird. It also mostly faded when people moved to locked-down smartphones.
I wonder if young people today could even comprehend what a dangerous shitshow Windows was pre 7.
Anyone know who to contact for a possible open-sourcing of the old Teoma code? The world needs more search engines, and I vaguely remember it being reasonably good before it was bought and buried.
Sad what it had become: https://web.archive.org/web/20260316143530/https://www.ask.c...
Was it ever good?
Missed opportunity to name an LLM "Jeeves" and finally live up to the vision.
You’re absolutely right: toss up an AI chat with some ads in a sidebar using an open source model and call it a day.
I always used to think ask jeeves was a malware because of the IE bar that was installed automatically with some app (java i think). A fair amount of my teenage years was spent on uninstalling IE search bars (and other crap) from the computers of friends of my parents and ask jeeves was a massive pain to remove (had to remove dlls and registry entries manually as the uninstaller wasn't doing anything). Because of tha…
I always used to think ask jeeves was a malware because of the IE bar that was installed automatically with some app (java i think). A fair amount of my teenage years was spent on uninstalling IE search bars (and other crap) from the computers of friends of my parents and ask jeeves was a massive pain to remove (had to remove dlls and registry entries manually as the uninstaller wasn't doing anything). Because of tha…
Dutch here... Most of my family kept having the Yahoo search bar in there for some reason. Then it become Google, then something else that popped up. The amount of time I've spent in my life fixing stuff on Microsoft "All binaries have full disk access by default" Windows is weird. It also mostly faded when people moved to locked-down smartphones. I wonder if young people today could even comprehend what a dangerous…