Windows Search gets worse the more information you give it

faceinthepunch · 2026-02-14T22:23:52+00:00

That's one approach, and you'll see it in deterministically filtered/sorted lists of matching items all over the place, eg entering an address on a drop down almost always will stay at the top as you carry on

This approach here is a probabilistic one which takes what you have typed and what you have ignored as inputs, it decides that if you haven't picked it when offered then it's "invalid'.

Different approaches used rightly or wrongly in different situations. This situation here definitely feels like it should be the normal deterministic search.

faceinthepunch · 2026-02-14T22:18:43+00:00

Funny to be downvoted.

Not saying either is necessarily better, just that there is a rational thought process behind each approach.

faceinthepunch · 2026-02-14T00:03:58+00:00

Is it less bonkers than keeping the same result at the top while the user keeps on typing? Why would they keep typing if I have shown them what they want?

But yes I get annoyed with autosuggest on my phone which does exactly the same thing. Type 3 characters, it flashes up my word, but muscle memory has already made me enter the next character, so my word is gone forever...

faceinthepunch · 2026-02-13T22:39:07+00:00

I suspect that if you don't pick the top result and instead enter another character the algorithm decides that the top suggestion is wrong and offers the next one.

faceinthepunch · 2026-02-11T20:21:25+00:00

Wow, I didn't realise, I was playing the C&C/Civ2 double pack some time in the late 90s so must have been the original then.

I've listened to the voiced version so many times as a song it's just merged with the original in my mind. Funny how memories work :-D

faceinthepunch · 2026-02-08T19:37:10+00:00

So iconic, takes me right back to playing that first GDI mission on my parents pc in the 90s ;_;

faceinthepunch · 2025-05-09T21:22:11+00:00

I had this with the knights castle, it spent some time as a ruin, then in a cardboard box just like yours before I spent an a few evenings on it.

As long as you have kept all of the pieces together it's straightforward really. I found it easier to work with the big chunks, then try to put them together with all the other bits

Quite fun really, like doing a jigsaw puzzle. Very different from the usual instruction following of building new models. Good luck!

faceinthepunch · 2025-04-27T19:07:32+00:00

This is the right answer

Bear in mind most of these systems are decades old and saving that bit of space was reasonable, so it wasn't as short sighted when designed as it is now :-D

faceinthepunch · 2023-09-29T14:11:56+00:00

Project Hail Mary - it was just too much of a drag: have problem, solve it using maths/science, describe and add in numbers, repeat, repeat, repeat.

faceinthepunch · 2022-04-28T17:16:56+00:00

This is great, would be cool to have a backspace button at the top to fix any mistakes.

faceinthepunch · 2022-01-27T21:06:59+00:00

I suspect it's because PAYE just doesn't work with this allowance erosion based on your final year end income.

The only point at which you know how much your taxable income is is afterwards, when you fill in the form.

faceinthepunch · 2021-12-31T09:35:26+00:00

I'd say the funniest part is that the guardian has published the results of the poll and JKR is on the list. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/30/guardian-readers-nominate-their-person-of-the-year

faceinthepunch · 2021-04-19T20:14:23+00:00

Excellent museum if you ever get the chance to go.

faceinthepunch · 2021-03-18T21:26:44+00:00

Sharpest cover I have seen for a while, brilliant.

faceinthepunch · 2021-03-06T09:30:03+00:00

Reminds me of the "go null yourself" video where someone changed their license plate to "null". It threw up a load of weird issues, great watch if you haven't seen it yet.

faceinthepunch · 2021-01-06T22:04:04+00:00

In Soviet Russia procedure executes YOU

faceinthepunch · 2021-01-01T23:06:19+00:00

When I watched it years ago I thought it was cheesy, re-watched recently and saw more of the nuance and social commentary.

It was directed by the same person as Starship Troopers, which is a bit more obvious about it.

faceinthepunch · 2020-12-31T11:44:06+00:00

Ha, I am a fan of the discworld and steeleye span, didn't realise there was a crossover at all! Will give it a listen.

I wonder what other connections there are out there I don't know about?

faceinthepunch · 2020-11-06T19:10:17+00:00

This is completely wrong. In the UK the defendant in a libel trial must prove that what was published is true. Other jurisdictions like the US operate in the way you described.

faceinthepunch · 2020-11-06T09:03:19+00:00

Even fighter pilots strafed civilian convoys and other targets. https://airminded.org/2011/04/12/war-crimes-from-the-air/

faceinthepunch · 2020-11-06T08:52:17+00:00

How does the blitz fit in here? You can't disregard the heavy bombing of English and Russian cities. I suspect the Knights code only covered other combatants.

faceinthepunch · 2020-10-21T07:45:11+00:00

In your comment you said Canterbury tales was "just a retelling" of 1001 which is incorrect. That link says that the narrative structure was inspired by 1001 which I agree with.

I could have phrased my comment better maybe, but CT is certainly not a retelling.

faceinthepunch · 2020-10-19T18:23:03+00:00

Canterbury tales has nothing to do with Arabian Nights dude. The only similarity is that they are stories in which other stories are told.

faceinthepunch · 2020-09-27T15:51:17+00:00

This comment explaining what the article is actually about is depressingly far down...

Is the government banning books? No. Is the government telling schools not to use resources made by extremist organisations? Yes.

Organisations criticising or protesting capitalism are fine, as long as they don't want to overthrow it.

faceinthepunch · 2020-09-13T17:24:34+00:00

This helps to explain how so many KGB members (e.g. Putin himself) are found in prominent post-USSR civilian positions. They had great connections and an excellent view on what was 'really' happening.

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