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cleversomething

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    Comment #47927910

    Magic: the Gathering is the only profitable arm of Hasbro. I don't have the specific revenue numbers, but Arena is a huge part of the ecosystem. Sure, society at large wouldn't car…

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    Comment #47927871

    I think that level of ambiguity would be fairly easy to tighten up using the CLIPS system that was previously discussed. It isn't bug-proof and has needed manual tune-ups before bu…

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    Comment #47927843

    As others have said, there is an actual concrete system for translating card text into rules, and it's not an LLM (which would be a disaster). I assume the wording in this letter i…

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    Comment #47837060

    This is an aside, but thank you for doing this work! As a musician who plays real instruments and submits real songs to Submithub, it's nice to know that hard work is going into va…

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    Comment #47781414

    > what's special about SQLite Battle-tested, extremely performant, easier to use than a homegrown alternative? By all means, hack around and make your own pseudo-database file syst…

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    Comment #47781358

    That's exactly what I was going to say. This seems more like a neat "look Ma, no database!" hobby project than an actual production recommendation.

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    Comment #47767375

    Clearly you didn't ;)

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    Comment #47755101

    If you said "This car is stupid, I can't drive it" and it turned out you weren't putting the key in the ignition...

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    Comment #47754211

    In my experience it IS very smart for 90% of use cases. I'm curious to identify how someone could be using it in a way where that's not the case. I hated AI tools a year ago and no…

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    Comment #47724880

    what stack do you work in, and how are you prompting it?

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    Comment #47724093

    Bitcoin was never actually valuable for the average person except if they got lucky by timing the speculation bubbles right, or if they were buying illegal drugs online. Lots of AI…

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    Comment #47724060

    If I can choose the US specifically, then sometime in the 1950s. I think Baby Boomers in the US will go down as the single luckiest generation on earth in terms of socioeconomic op…