[ieie3366]

Ironically due to slop I feel like we are regressing as a civilization

2020, want to know how to use Redix for Redis connections in Elixir? Google it and the results were most likely high quality, written by senior engineers who knew what they were doing

Today google that, and it will be endless amounts of slop

[bakugo]

> Redix for Redis connections in Elixir

I googled this exact sentence, and the third result was a link to the blog this post is about.

Grim.

[progbits]

I'm guessing there is a bit of a feedback loop now since people try this, search for the slopsite and click it, boosting it higher. For me it was top result (in incognito, not personalized).

Two things you can do:

- Navigate back and open another link. This signal is used to downrank for given query (google assumes the site did no provide satisfying answer)

- Explicitly provide result feedback. Unfortunately there isn't a category for "this is slop" but "inaccurate" works.

[elcapitan]

For some searches I've started to limit the date range to pre 2023. That drastically improves search results (DDG, but I imagine Google as well). As long as you're looking for more long term information/posts ofc.

[johnbarron]

>> Ironically due to slop I feel like we are regressing as a civilization

Well after 50 years we cant reproduce what Apollo did, and I would doubt current students of the same age would handle a 1912 Eight Grade Examination: https://www.bullittcountyhistory.com/bchistory/schoolexam191...

[post-it]

Survivor bias.

- Apollo had a significantly higher accepted risk. Apollo 1 or 13 would be untenable today.

- The percent of 13-year olds that made it into and through eight grade was significantly smaller in 1912. Your average poor farming kid did not go to eighth grade.

[johnbarron]

>> Apollo had a significantly higher accepted risk.

Apollo would never risk the astronauts lives like NASA is doing:

"Artemis II is not safe to fly" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47582043

Apollo 2 to 6 were Uncrewed Tests

Apollo 10 was a dress rehearsal for the Moon landing, with the Lunar Module flying to within 9 miles of the lunar surface. including having the lunar module descent to within 15 kilometers of the lunar surface but the crew did not attempt a landing.

Artemis is testing a new heat shield for the first time, with humans on board, that has only been validated by computer models, and almost failed catastrophically in Artemis I.

The difference between then and now, is that now you have a commission of public servants and then you had Harvey Allen and Wernher von Braun.