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Now they're all about open floor plans for collaboration (read: for squeezing more people in the same space).

You could do it if you had to for some reason. But it would be the hackiest thing ever and not work very well.

Duck duck go has kept getting better and google has kept getting worse.

I find the results are pretty even now and often lean in DDG's favour (but not always, obviously).

Because of this, I've set my default everywhere to DDG and give Google a whirl sometimes if that doesn't work out for a specific search.

Meh, humanity is getting what it deserves. We literally did this to ourselves.

I think it's funny that there's a reverse correlation for how well his companies do based on involved with the company he is.

I agree. I think people are just missing the point. It's really far from being able to replace a worker.

It's current capabilities at best can help that worker be slightly faster at certain things. It's akin to a type of search engine.

It can generate simple stuff accurately quite often. You just have to keep in mind that it could be dead wrong and you have to test/verify what it says.

Sonetimes I feel like a few lines of code should be doable in one line using a specific technique, so I ask it to do that and see what it does. I don't just take what it says and use it, I see how it tried to solve it and then check it. For example by looking up if the method it used exists and reading the doc for that method.

Exact same as what I would do if I saw someone on stack overflow or reddit recommending something.

I like it for certain techy things. I just used it to create a linux one-liner command for counting the unique occurances of a regex pattern. I often forget specific flags for Linux commands like how uniq can perform counting.

And something like that is easy to test each piece of what it said and go from there.

As long as you treat it like a peer who prefaced the statement with "I might be wrong / if I recall correctly" it ends up being a pretty good aid.

Name?

My favourite one I've done so far: I put a motion sensor near where my cat goes every morning when she wants to look outside. This then opens the blinds enough for her to see.

This works better than a simple timer because the blinds are loud enough to wake us up sometimes and she doesn't want to necessarily look outside every day.

It's a nice way to fire the the most competent half.