adamnemecek's comments

On: Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS

[adamnemecek]

Gradually develop an OS that is not just an Android fork, but a full blown OS people can contribute to. And of course write it in Rust, like the problems with Java are so apparent in Android.

On: Croatia declared free of landmines after 31 years

[adamnemecek]

This feels like a perfect use case for AI.

[matkoniecz → adamnemecek]

how AI would help?

[adamnemecek → matkoniecz]

Robots or drones with ground penetrating radar?

On: A better streams API is possible for JavaScript

[adamnemecek]

It might be a good idea to look into the research on streams as coalgebras, there is quite a bit, for example here https://cs.ru.nl/~jrot/CTC20/.

Coalgebras might seem too academic but so were monads at some point and now they are everywhere.

On: Code has always been the easy part

[adamnemecek]

Did consider that your view might be skewed because you work in a CRUD app?

On: Native Instruments enters into insolvency proceedings

[adamnemecek]

That is very sad to hear.

On: Google Books removed all search functions for any books with previews

[adamnemecek]

But you have to know what book you are looking for.

On: Google Books removed all search functions for any books with previews

[adamnemecek]

The previews are still there though, they just don't rank.

[crazygringo → adamnemecek]

Right, that's what I'm saying. For whatever reason it seems publishers decided they don't want their preview-only books as part of the full-text search across all books. If they decide that, Google has to comply.

This isn't like web search where web pages are publicly available and so Google can return search results across whatever it wants. For books, it relies on publisher cooperation to both supply book contents for indexing under license and give permissions for preview. If publishers say to turn off search, Google turns off search.

On: Google Books removed all search functions for any books with previews

[adamnemecek]

But why would people train on excerpts from Google Books when whole books can be downloaded on libgen and such?

[londons_explore → adamnemecek]

Google books is much bigger than libgen.

[asdefghyk → adamnemecek]

copyright reasons?

[direwolf20 → asdefghyk]

Both are a copyright violation

On: Google Books removed all search functions for any books with previews

[adamnemecek]

No the search results went from pretty good to absolute garbage https://bsky.app/profile/adamnemecek.bsky.social/post/3mdbup...

On: Google Books removed all search functions for any books with previews

[adamnemecek]

The books are still there, it seems like the rankings have changed though.