Perhaps it's a bit silly, but it amused me that this line: "<a byte that contains an header>" made me ask whether the author was French. A very quick search for his name comes up with predominantly French (language, at least) results, so I'm comfortable enough leaving it at that.
I'm not autoreleasepool, but IME, I find myself using !g about 5% of the time (counting only general searches, not things where I would be using another bang expression). About half of those times, it ends up giving me a better answer.
It's usually that the results are different, not better necessarily. I've done the reverse too; where I start with !g and then used DDG because I was unhappy with the results
It's a deep, and scary, rabbit hole. If you're at all curious, it seems Sargon of Akkad and Thunderf00t on YouTube are not just slinging shit. I've watched some, and sources have always been included.
Don't get me wrong, they clearly kick things up a notch in the drama department, but they do the ground work in sourcing articles for you.
My fiancée enjoys watching TLDR (teal deer) on youtube because he's the only youtuber speaking on these topics who literally only ever speaks facts. Theres not a thing he says that he doesn't back up for you.
I've found NoScript a bigger part of my browsing habits lately. I wait for the moment when a site just goes haywire, maxing CPU cores, at which point I just nix its script privileges. This isn't nearly as disruptive as distrusting all websites.
Not in the least. I spent a good portion of the past 15 years trying desperately to rekindle the flame that brought me into the business, but I just couldn't seem to do it. As of November last year, I quit, and I'm now back in school at the ripe old age of half_dead.
At present, I have no idea what the future has in store for me, but whatever it is I hope it grants me some level of satisfaction at least.
