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mercacona
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Comment #48881494
I drag-drop PDFs and ePubs, read PDFs and ePubs, and sync mobile with laptop, etc.
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Comment #48609214
Not true. It’s just an undocumented myth. The Spanish Civil War is the reference to the invention by Alexandre de Fisterra, and it’s decades later than the first table football. ht…
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Comment #48464160
Why always sunny days?
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Comment #48344198
I had read the story. So cool! Maybe once we will see a new specification allowing the code solution.
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Comment #48343925
The font is great. What I miss is a step forward in technology: variable glyphs. The feeling of reading a handwritten text is lost when the letters have always the same shape. If i…
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Comment #48268282
NUMBERED PARAGRAPHS, YESSSS! Seriously, once page numbers have become optional, electronic editions of books (monographs, essays, and academic texts) need to number the paragraphs …
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Comment #47870217
Haha! Please, don’t! We don’t need clipart or senseless AI generated schemas on PowerPoints :-)
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Comment #47861609
Every improvement in image generation seems to reduce the value of the images themselves. When anything can be faked or created in seconds, what is an image really worth? With text…
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Comment #46957273
Not just futuristic, they’re designed with intention. That’s what I miss most of all about the current buildings.
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Comment #46896596
> half of his cabinet. That’s bold and inaccurate. What you shouldn’t trust is El Corte Inglés, who would code another shitty platform for the Spanish institutions.
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Comment #46442835
Do you mean Discord is a kind of community for young hackers? I’m curious about Discord because I’ve been asked about a chat app for teenagers who don’t have mobile phones.
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Comment #46037817
I’ve been following this approach since last school year. I focus on in-class work and home-time is for reading and memorization. My classmates still think classrooms are for lectu…
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Comment #46037700
Yep, it's easy to shortcut AI plagiarism, but you need time. In most of the universities around the world (online universities especially), the number of students is way too big, w…
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Comment #44337938
You also might let them get some rest and sleep to fix memories ;-)
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Comment #44337915
Here you speak about your data as if it were rocks you found trekking, but the data we’re talking here isn’t even paper or pictures: it’s digital data you can’t access or backup by…
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Comment #44335241
40 years ago, we weren’t living in a dystopian society –we may be closer now. Back then, most people kept less than 50 photos at home but spent more time with their families, shari…
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Comment #44335139
IMHO the constant complaints about losing chats or needing conversation backups aren’t technical problems—they’re social ones. We need to reclaim the freedom to speak with others e…
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Comment #43781795
I wish I could upvote you twice.
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Comment #43242347
Now it can remind you iOS 18’s iMessage. I just upgrade and got that 2000s feeling with the new emoji and text effects…
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Comment #43154036
Cutting admin people might mean more paperwork for professors and researches, which can lead to less grants and funding because you can’t do science while doing paperwork. Not that…
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Comment #42345663
My parents' generation used to add sugar to everything because they considered sugar a source of energy. I remember eating strawberries directly from the plant, and they were sweet…
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Comment #41918824
I'm giving the new Sonnet a chance, although for my use as a writing companion so far, Opus has been king among all the models I've tried. However, I've been using Opus as a writin…
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Comment #41572364
My only complain is on the low value of the search results the average person gets, which is easy to judge: passive advertising, SEOsites, etc. I don’t care what they search, read …
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Comment #41560403
But they don’t get attention-public-funding enough to be profitable because of the garbage. The garbage is burying them in search results but also literally.
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Comment #41382556
Not CEO, President… the interim CEO is a well known donor.