IphtashuFitz @ IphtashuFitz @lemmy.world

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Back in the 90’s Ask Jeeves was a “question answering service” and not a search engine. They had teams of human editors that would curate answers for popular questions. During the dot com boom of the late 90’s they realized they needed to automate that system so they started buying other small startups that were doing more with search technologies. They acquired one search company in New Jersey called Teoma and another in Massachusetts called Direct Hit.

The executives at Jeeves at the time were not very smart though. They were very hands on with these technologies they didn’t fully understand and made some stupid decisions. For example, Direct Hit had a simple advertising platform they had developed where anybody could sign up and bid for ad placement on search results pages. It was largely automated and generated a lot of revenue. The Jeeves CEO said “we’re not in the business of advertising so get rid of it”, so it was sold off. It was sold to that scrappy little startup you mentioned and transformed into AdWords. Jeeves squandered other tech advantages in similar ways.

In a similar vein, they had a huge internal project for many months to create an adult (porn) search engine that they were going to co-brand alongside the Jeeves character they used to use. They planned to call it “Ask Mimi” and had registered domains, created a French maid character to go along with the Jeeves butler character, etc. After a huge push the company decided they didn’t want to tarnish their image with porn and dropped it all pretty much overnight. There used to be an article about all this archived on CNet’s news.com site but I can’t find it anymore thanks to their terrible search engine….

Source: I worked for one of those startups that Jeeves acquired.

Texas AG will likely get to them eventually…

Put them both in soundproof booths and only turn on their microphones when it’s their turn to actually respond to a question.

Even a purely mechanical door can be extremely difficult to open when partially submerged. The pressure of the water will hold the door shut until the water equalizes on both sides of the door.

But yeah, once totally submerged and flooded an electric door likely won’t open while a mechanical one will.

That whole deal about people “catching” the virus or whatever in the jail was absurd. For a few episodes it was airborne then suddenly it wasn’t any more.

Putin probably has billions of dollars squirreled away in banks all over the world. He’s been extorting oligarchs for huge kickbacks for decades now. If they don’t pay up they find themselves shipped to Siberia or thrown out a window.

Back in the 1970’s (?) the US Navy sent submarines into Soviet Union coastal areas to tap undersea cables. Locating them even at a depth isn’t terribly difficult…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ivy_Bells

As far as BitTorrent itself goes, your optimal speed is also going to depend a bit on your client and the number of peers in the swarm.

Suppose you’re seeding a file to 3 peers. It’s not very efficient if your client uploads part 1 of your file to each peer, then uploads part 2 to each peer, etc. A more optimized upload would upload part 1 to peer A, part 2 to peer B, part 3 to peer C, etc. Then the peers can share each of those parts with each other. This way you are effectively only uploading the file one time before other nodes start seeding as well.

The thing is, this sort of seeding only works well in specific situations, including when there’s only one seeder, etc. And not all clients support this. Take a look at qbittorrent’s super seeding option for an example of one client that does.

Will they end up “Space 1999”‘ing the moon and blowing it out of orbit with a massive explosion?

God I’m showing my age here…

I think this is what I used: https://pimylifeup.com/cloudflare-tunnel-on-home-assistant/

Seal Team 6 vs. Meal Team 6.

Ever suffer a critical failure in an ICE car at highway speeds? I have, and it’s not fun. A mechanic didn’t replace the drain plug properly in my transmission, and it came loose at 50+ MPH. The transmission fluid drained out and the car suddenly started shaking violently and I couldn’t shift. I was lucky there was very little traffic and was able to pull over safely, but it was a heart stopping experience.

I would definitely not want to have the powertrain failing, etc. in a similar situation. Especially in a car that’s a few days old. The cybertruck has steer-by-wire in part because the rear wheels turn. Imagine if that was a system that failed at highway speeds.

Probably because they would accept Trump Tower and other NY assets as collateral. But any bank that actually did and tried to sieze them after he defaults would likely face years of lawsuits. Caveat emptor and all that.

I use home assistant and found some instructions on how to set up a free-tier cloudflare reverse proxy to access it from outside my home. Works like a charm.

Scientists should stop trying to predict Gods will.

They’re in wide use in a number of states. The 4 biggest leaders of VPP’s are California, Texas, New York, and Massachusetts:

https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2023/03/29/california-tops-the-virtual-power-plant-market/

How soon until Texas starts bussing migrants to ranches in Arizona instead of cities like Chicago and. Boston?

You do realize that in some states those privately owned battery systems are offered up to help with peak demand events, right? Owners sign up to be part of a virtual power plant, allowing the utility to send power from the batteries to the grid when needed. The utilities pay the owners for that power, and limit how often they can do it. And owners can opt out at any time.