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If engine A uses the results of engine B, and engine B uses the results of engine A, there is a problem :-).

Indeed, Perplexity is so much more useful to me, because I usually have a question, that I can just enter and get an answer that usually is correct. And it also gives sources so I can check the answer and find more info. Try e.g. typing "what does defer do in Zig" into a search engine, one of the last questions I asked. Perplexity immediately gave a clear answer.

I only use a search engine to find a specific website if I know the website should exist but don't know its URL, e.g. the website of a festival.

I was more lucky, I bought a book about C64 assembler in a second hand book store with my pocket money (must have been in 1989 or 1990).

I started a little later with the Commodore 128. I must have spent thousands of hours programming in Basic and assembler. I remember wanting an assembler instead of putting bytes in memory, and saw one in a supermarket when my mom took me shopping, that's how popular computing was then.

It was fun, but primitive, when I learned Pascal at university I was impressed by the functions with a name to which you can pass arguments!

It doesn't even work for most instruments, nearly every instrument can sound differently depending on how you play it. A violin sounds different depending on how close the bow is to the bridge, a piano sounds different depending on which pedals are pressed and whether the lid is open, a trumpet sounds different depending on whether there is a cup in front of it and where. Experienced musicians know how to use these effects to create the right feeling.

And that's only based on how little I know about this.

For me glycine helps amazingly. It's an amino acid that the brain needs during sleep. I take about 5 grams in water about an hour before I go to sleep. I'm not sure how much the glycinate in magnesium glycinate has the same effect.

Oddly, it has the opposite effect as sleeping pills on me, it doesn't make me sleep more but I'm more rested when I wake up. It even happened a few times that I only slept 5 hours but still could focus well at work and bike intensively for an hour in the evening, without glycine that was impossible.

At 20 euro/kg I think I'll take it for the rest of my life, and it probably will add a few years to my life.