I don’t know about obsession with truth, but I think having a shared reality is the basis for relationships, trust, and many accomplishments.
I don’t think truth is something that people should obsess over, but it is very important to seek and hopefully gain understanding.
I remember reading 1984 and the breaking of people to admit that “2+2=5” was an interesting way that people accepting false things as true is very bad.
I think intent matters a lot as judging people for being mean is different from someone saying “the sky is blue today” and the listener is harmed because they hate blue or whatever.
That’s a completely made up example, but I think real, although dangerous, example is trans issues. There are bigots who say things like “women aren’t men” or whatever to hurt people and I don’t think that’s right. But then someone will say “men are generally stronger than women” to discuss some scientific principle and people feel harmed there because they don’t want any differences to exist.
Once you start deviating from truth, you enable a wide range of extremely horrifically bad things. Things you have not witnessed, but humanity has. Do not do this. "Here be dragons," for the true idiots who don't bother understanding this.
Sometimes nothing beats grep, but using a Windows environment I usually just go to Python to create a quick script to handle this stuff.
Lots of times it is really nice to have all your "debugging scripts" in a repo anyway. Once you have that it isn't hard to set up a basic Python environment and have your scripts there.
When your logs are big enough python doesn't really compare in terms of speed but maybe in terms of speed to write the thing you need to query them if you don't know how to use the aforementioned tools
I love hearing about services like this that managed to scale with not-so-cool tech.
Where are the stories about services that have scaled with the latest fad? Maybe they will be posted in a few years - or maybe those teams are too busy to blog ;)
I ordered a piece of furniture from Wayfair, and they had the same response - deny the package.
Well the package arrived while I was at work. After calling them 3 times to come pick it up, due to shipping delays they were never able to, and eventually told me to keep it for free.
I think the problem with cloud environments is you do not "need" sysadmins - it is not obvious you need them, so what you end up with is a bunch of systems glued together without much thought, and then crazy things like HTTP logs not being turned on for your various services, insane service costs b/c of not understanding pricing tiers, etc..
theres MacOS. Thats the real immediate threat of Windows 11.
And honestly with recent development of Apple's hardware, and gaming on Linux, Microsoft should be worried. Windows 11 feels like Microsoft make a step forward and 2 steps backward
In many countries there isn't, at least not at the same 300 euro price range many families manage to get by.
Since Windows XP that we are going to have everyone switch in droves to Linux, because Microsoft did X.
What gaming, running Windows games on Wine and Proton, because studios can't still be bothered to this day, even when they are already using POSIX like (PS/Switch/iOS) or Linux based OSes (Android/Stadia) ?
Regarding gaming: in fact a lot of the big studios don't really care about PC as a platform in general, not specifically about Windows. See Elden Ring for example, it has a PC 'port' that is about the bare minimum you can get by nowadays (locked at 60, no ultrawide support, performance issues on non-high-end systems etc.). And that for a AAA title.
One would think that a modern game engine takes care of all the issues, allowing a studio to port their game from console to PC with the click of button. But reality has shown that this is not the case.
While modern consoles and cloud service (like Google Stadia) may use POSIX like OSes under the hood, you'd still be using a proprietary API to interface with the platform. Porting a game from PlayStation or Nintendo Switch to Linux is not easier than porting it over from Windows.
I've worked on a Google Stadia port in the past and are currently working a Nintendo Switch port, along with a PC port. If I had to port to native Linux, without Wine/Proton and DXVK, I'd take the PC version as basis.
I was searching about something to do with fiberglass today. Every article was garbage that seemed like bot spam. Was nuts. Direct quotes stolen from forums etc..
I’ve been searching for a lot of info on a game recently (Eldenring). There’s actually a good wiki with well organized entries, but the results on bing/google are all stolen blog spam. I have to manually specify the wiki in the search to find anything reasonable.
The search on Elden rings wiki is extremely good. Often I don't know what an enemy is called but you type a rough description and it will find it.
I'm imagining the site deals with fairly significant load- the game is incredibly well selling and most players need to look things up. Would make a great article on infrastructure for a group that doesn't have a visible funding model.
It’s become noticeably horrible lately. Half my search results these days are bot sites, just entire sites of copied material or material generated by neural nets that is completely worthless.
I don’t know what’s going on at Google but the search engine quality has dropped off a cliff in the past 6 months.
They just haven't sufficiently escalated the arms race. The "link juice" signals that g search has traditionally dealt with, and it's relevence measurements, etc., have been thoroughly gamed.
What they need to improve search quality is the intelligence to identify things as spammy and low value and then drop the rank of all the SEO optimized crap that people hate.
I can only imagine that google sees this as politically impossible ("you destroyed my business, Google! I'm gonna sue!") or they have decided the return on investment simply isn't there. They do not need to give you better results to keep getting search queries that help them to show you ads.
Google's key problem is that it seems to prioritize "freshness" above all else.
Experts on a given topic have no need to continuously spam their sites full of minutely modified "best of x in April 2022" listicles. They were authoritative when they published their views ten years ago, and they're still authoritative today. Google doesn't care. Ten year old information isn't relevant or useful.
