You say that, but generating uniform variates was itself a whole trick. Famously RAND put a lot of effort into creating a ton of them and publishing them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Million_Random_Digits_with_1...
I'm always bewildered when someone links to the not-solar version of lowtechmagazine. Solar version here: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/02/body-insulation-th...
totally agree that for ~5-10% of searches DDG is not as good as google. When DDG fails, I just re-run the search with "!g" and it goes straight to google and I'm good.
You say that, but generating uniform variates was itself a whole trick. Famously RAND put a lot of effort into creating a ton of them and publishing them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Million_Random_Digits_with_1...
I'm always bewildered when someone links to the not-solar version of lowtechmagazine. Solar version here: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/02/body-insulation-th...
totally agree that for ~5-10% of searches DDG is not as good as google. When DDG fails, I just re-run the search with "!g" and it goes straight to google and I'm good.