• Soggy@lemmy.world
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      17 hours ago

      When I was in grade school we had multiple lessons on using Boolean search terms to find useful information. Google-fu used to mean something.

      • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net
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        17 hours ago

        When I was in grade school we loaded up Logo and wrote scripts to make the turtle do abstract art.

        is old

        >_>

    • CandleTiger@programming.dev
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      1 day ago

      Try to find a big rig truck wash near your location on Google maps. I cannot. Only 57 million car washes and no way to filter them out.

      Edit: lo and behold: “big rig truck wash” is the magic phrase it turns out. “Truck wash”, “Semi truck wash”, “semi truck wash -car” don’t work but “big rig truck wash” does.

      Fuck you Google, you waste my time.

      • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net
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        I do use DDG as my default. I was using “googling” for the sake of making a witty remark. Even so, the results are usually comparable - the first couple dozen results are mostly AI/SEO slop.