It's the same situation as with vibe coding. Everyone and their grandma can have an LLM spit out a web application without any programming experience, but if you're a programmer, you'll likely quickly see some issues with maintainability and further development of the code base.

You should probably try the Ian Knot then: https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ianknot.htm (good video demo here: https://youtu.be/6cBtqhq5P28

Took me about 5 minutes to learn properly some 15 years ago, and according to this chart: https://xkcd.com/1205/ that's definitely worth it.

Can't most of the many KeePass variants do that?

More options is more better. :)

> [...] users forked Songbird and created a Windows, Mac, and Linux compatible derivative under the name Nightingale.

[Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songbird_(software)]

So are you saying that we've got e.g. neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics, language acquisition and typology down? Or do you simply mean "interesting to you" when you say "difficult"? Because in my experience, pretty much every subject in linguistics (and most other sciences) is easy if you don't understand it and surprisingly difficult once you start to get a grasp of it.

> Bouba kiki has no bearing on the way words are composed.

It literally shows a preference best described by sound-symbolism so it most certainly has a bearing on how words are composed. Just because the relation between sound and meaning _can_ be arbitrary, showing that in some cases it's not entirely so is extremely valuable for evolutionary linguistics.

I'm not sure what you mean by "not necessary parts of language", but I would love to hear what you think the necessary parts of language are. Not to mention, what is "the difficult part of language" then?

Do you have a source on that? Because I would expect anyone studying sound symbolism to find the bouba-kiki effect extremely important which is probably why it's such a widely cited study, also inside linguistics.

Obviously I don't have any data backing me up here, but I'm going to guess that that isn't the main reason why so many people choose Chrome over Firefox.

Plato argued that The Clouds (which is sharp satire of Socrates and his school) was in part what got Socrates convicted and killed. This is obviously debatable but Aristophanes certainly didn't self-censor or mince words.

I work with a cluster that holds 500+ TB logs (where most are stored for a year and some for 5 years because of regulations) in searchable snapshots backed by a locally hosted S3 solution. I can do filtering across most of the data in less than 10 seconds.

Some especially gnarly searches may take around 60-90 seconds on the first run as the searchable snapshots are mounted and cached, but subsequent searches in the cached dataset are obviously as fast as any other search in hot data.

Obviously Elasticsearch isn't without its quirks and drawbacks, but I have yet to come across anything that performs better and is more flexible for logs — especially in terms of architectural freedom and bang-for-the-buck.