related https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44811879

Qwant and Ecosia debut Staan, a European search index that aims to take on Big Tech

"pre-macintosh" is a bit sad as a category.

car analogy: I want my gazoline car to have hybrid engine. For free.

vendor: not possible

you: unfulfilled demand

me: the way I see it, you get a product for free if you fulfill certain conditions. If not, you buy these conditions.

no, correct analogy would be

vendor: "we present 100% electric car"

we: "that's cool, I always wanted to decrease petrol use. But... can you provide an option for some petrol use? It's called hybrid, iirc?"

vendor: "no, our requirements only support 100% electric car. Hybrid cars use petrol and we can't allow that"

we: "suuure, I get that. But the price of electricity here still hasn't come down, everyone already has personal petrol reserves, and your cars are only provided with batteries from congonese child labor mines. Can we pleeease have the half-way option so that I can use less petrol for e.g. small distance travel, but still using petrol for country-sized movement?"

vendor: "no, we only support 100% electric car. Everything smaller is outside our requirements"

Real economics would've provided competition to fullfill demand - but currently Graphene is the only well-known vendor, so complaints will keep coming

What a bad analogy, acting as if the extra security could only be an all-in.

There are hardware requirements.

there are smaller security options

if you can elaborate a bit on a) flexibility b) fast

like the fellow commenter said, python might qualify as flexible, fast to code, and 'fast enough'

read https://slate.com/technology/2014/01/robot-odyssey-the-harde... to get an idea of the game

also featured in the "COMPUTER RECREATIONS" columm in Sci Am, july 1985

teased on twitter, https://x.com/JustinLin610/status/1947281769134170147

and later they will release the thinking model

on selected benchmarks, it beats kimi

if I don't have to replace basic electronic every year, then I have that budget to 'enlarge' my interest. I might get into audiophile, or mechanical keyboard.

that's another way to sell more than one speaker every 10 years.