One of these OCDs is not like the others.

Mad lad

Actually the best tires of all: stay the fuck home where it’s nice and warm and work online in your socks and bathrobe.

Telltale sign that a French onion soup recipe is really Belgian: if it’s written in Belch.

If you get an office job find out what the work policy is on snow days. Plenty of employers will let you work from home without question even if it’s a job where you would normally go in. For me any place that doesn’t would get a hard no. It means they DGAF about you.

Confederacy of Dunces, read by Artie Johnson. I’ve read and listened to it at least a dozen times. Johnson really puts a lot into his reading of it.

Depends on difficulty. I make most things. but a labor-intensive dish like lasagna I’m happy to buy frozen.

I thought they were all plain metal. I wonder if it was a custom paint job.

Thanks for putting so much time and thought into the discussion. All the problems you talk about exist for every search engine in actual use today. For example, publishing a site on a brand new domain has the exact problem you’re describing with spinning up a new Forte instance. There can be a 24-hr lag before DNS can reliably find the site. Perfect search is an aspirational goal. The realistic goal is to satisfy most needs. No matter how many words you throw at it, I don’t think federated search is an outlandish idea at all.

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What if search itself were a federated function? Although I’m a software dev I really don’t know much about the mechanics of large-scale search engines such as Google, but I know their server farms somehow share the load of performing searches and maintaining whatever database they maintain to optimize searching. Seems like the fediverse could do search in a similar way. I’m just saying your critique of the idea, although well thought out, seems like a critique of a particular strategy. It’s not obvious to me that the very idea of federated search is outlandish.