"Learning Perl6 is like being stuck in a small dark room with a bat that's flapping around wildly, and talking to the bat and slowly coming to understand what it is like to be a bat."
"I find it interesting how often the top Google results for basic questions are wrong.
For example, I googled "tire grip physics" (in an incognito window) to get an explanation of why wider tires give you better grip and the top 6 explanations are wrong or at least misleading."
They're also generally funny and original! I'd take these ahead of a curated list of "20 funniest tweets about programming languages" [0] or, say, Reddit r/ProgrammerHumor all time top posts, so that's something that's difficult to achieve programmatically.
[0] OK, I didn't look for a source of these, because Google has the same inadequacies with recommending funny content. If anyone would like to recommend one, I'll read it to give a fair comparison.
I wonder if it sorts by popularity ahead of relevance (maybe after meeting some minimum threshold for relevance). In another post I've commented about the surprising high quality of the results.
@realdonaldtrump has huge reach on Twitter, as well as a distinctive style, so maybe there is no one who posts in a similar style (TBH I'd expect most to be parody accounts) who has achieved sufficient popularity to compete.
In elasticsearch there is a more-like-tis query [0], that returns similar documents for a fulltext, next to a couple of optimizations that they might use.
Lol I did the exact same thing. I'm also impressed with the results, although I'm also getting a lot of other dril tweets back. Don't know if I should attribute that to OP, a flaw in the app, or to dril's consistency. I'll choose to believe it's the last one.
There was a Show HN called “Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers who are streaming alone” [0]
As the number of users grows on every social platform, it becomes harder for new users to get noticed. I wish every service had a feature to filter for only new contributors.
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and the results are quite good: https://same.energy/?q=Learning+Perl6+is+like+being+stuck+in....
I wouldn't say they 100% have the same energy in every case, but I enjoyed reading them.
"I find it interesting how often the top Google results for basic questions are wrong.
For example, I googled "tire grip physics" (in an incognito window) to get an explanation of why wider tires give you better grip and the top 6 explanations are wrong or at least misleading."
The results are pretty weak. They're car stuff and/or "vaguely analytical" feeling. https://same.energy/?q=I+find+it+interesting+how+often+the+t...
[0] OK, I didn't look for a source of these, because Google has the same inadequacies with recommending funny content. If anyone would like to recommend one, I'll read it to give a fair comparison.
https://same.energy/?q=The+Democrats+never+even+mentioned+th....
This could be used to de-anonymize people on twitter.
Edit: So I did a test for an old twitter account I don't have access to anymore. I was able to find it using my comments with few tries.
@realdonaldtrump has huge reach on Twitter, as well as a distinctive style, so maybe there is no one who posts in a similar style (TBH I'd expect most to be parody accounts) who has achieved sufficient popularity to compete.
A couple pages down there are non-@realdonaldtrump tweets scattered here and there, always in pairs as far as I can see (https://twitter.com/majorbear70/status/1286690669826842626 & https://twitter.com/DavidWaddell5/status/1127214256636813313 https://same.energy/?q=I+heard+Bill+Clinton+might+be+joining..., and https://twitter.com/RealWayneRoot/status/1161435864506884096 & https://twitter.com/Mcphie00/status/1163080988085358592, Control-F to search), except scattered individual tweets from @RealDonaldTrFan
https://same.energy/?q=The+Coca+Cola+company+is+not+happy+wi....
> BlueSpaceCanaryTwitter "malloc" comes from the Latin "mal", meaning "bad" or "evil", and the abbreviation "LOC", meaning "lines of code.”
[0] https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/curr...
> richard simmons is plural. it's actually 2 guys, they are twins, each one is named richard simmon
@YABOYEZRAFITZ:
> can i send text messages using my typewriter? it doesn't give me any instructions in the owners manual
https://same.energy/?q=twitter.com%2Fbillwurtz
As the number of users grows on every social platform, it becomes harder for new users to get noticed. I wish every service had a feature to filter for only new contributors.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23114103
Isn't there millions of tweets posted everyday? This must be a minuscule fraction of all tweets....
Anyway, great project, had a lot of funny tweets