Joe on Nostr: I hate that we have inverted the meaning of the word "search" in the context of ...
I hate that we have inverted the meaning of the word "search" in the context of software searching. "To search" used to mean that you had to hunt for something in a pile of irrelevant stuff, now "to search" means to be handed answers without searching for them.
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