• BakerBagel@midwest.social
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    10 days ago

    People have been making web crawlers for the past 30 years. Why do you need to torch an acre of forest to do the same?

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      10 days ago

      I’m sure people have been making crawlers for 30 years… But I haven’t been, so I’ve been able to access “knowledge” and shape it for my use case. I think equating ~5 queries to torching an acre of forest is a bit hyperbolic which doesn’t help anyone.