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potro

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    Comment #48869719

    I used it for practice Spanish. LLMs have no issues with generating decent sentences in it. Also as I practiced vocabulary building, I didn't need specific grammar constructs or ev…

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    Comment #48864663

    It doesn't but it also will not create a different sentence to you to practice a word. I tried this (use sentences instead of words), it sucks: you spend more time per card, but yo…

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    Comment #48783829

    Very sad. I never took his courses, for various reasons, but having something like this as an option available was quite inspiring in my never ending quest to become a better softw…

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    Comment #47789434

    > Ticketmaster has no real incentive to try to prevent resellers from buying up all the tickets on first sale Why should it have such incentive? And even more so, why it should be …

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    Comment #47624426

    Nice game. Thank you for sharing it. It brought some joy to my morning.

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    Comment #47469233

    I have very similar experience. I vibecoded a foreign language practice app for myself. It works decent from functional perspective and I don’t see too many bugs. But the biggest p…

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    Comment #47387983

    You absolutely can. This is one of recommended directions with agentic coding. But you can go farther and ask llm to write tests too. The review/approve them.

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    Comment #47385195

    A $100m here, a $100m there, pretty soon, you're talking real money.

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    Comment #47385030

    There is quite a bit of difference between not making a profit and consistently losing around $100m a year with apparently no path to at least revenue neutrality.

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    Comment #47285633

    ACP Agent Client Protocol https://agentclientprotocol.com/get-started/registry

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    Comment #46988268

    Generally it is a good advise, I found similar things very useful for me. I think emphasis on paper and one notebook is wrong here and likely will fail quite a bit of people who wi…

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    Comment #46831327

    This question maybe formulated too harsh, but it is valuable. There are quite a few similar applications (I think I tried 2 or 3 of them). Some are around for couple of years. What…

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    Comment #46177051

    Well, one can look at this as at least a step in the right direction, compared to the active collaboration with Germany during WW1 by the people who became Irish government by the …

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    Comment #45857637

    Summary is supposed to give you a taste of what the link destination talks about. If most of the page information can be fitted in one paragraph of summarization, the problem is wi…

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    Comment #45739581

    Short term - higher stock evaluation. Long term - depends on what value AI bubble will be able to deliver. But it's not like Amazon is sitting out of this game, they do invest into…

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    Comment #45739094

    All analysis there is based on percent of jobs posted. It says nothing how absolute number of jobs postings has been changing during the time. Not to mention that number of job pos…

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    Comment #45105173

    Same terrible experience for me while I was on FB. I was spending a lot of time there and I do shop a lot online. They couldn’t come with relevant ad targeting for me. For my wife …

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    Comment #42538770

    Combination of gpt-4o for lyrics, and Suno for songs made me and my wife pretty much stopped listening to regular music over last year. I will try your idea to create a bunch of Sp…

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    Comment #41975961

    I wonder if this is also a indication how much people actually value their WP (and by extension other major newspapers) subscription? And how much paying for subscription is kind o…

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    Comment #41975902

    This is likely bad even if the point was other then making money.

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    Comment #40049269

    In USSR similar adage was: “No matter how much you steal from the State, you can’t get even.” (Сколько у государства не воруй — все равно своего не вернёшь.)

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    Comment #39876302

    Were drones unthinkable at the time of Dune creation? Or suicide attacks?

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    Comment #36551767

    It’s quite amazing to find a post with close to zero substance (not my intention to offend its creator who submitted it) from some blog on some hosting platform with total of 2 ent…

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    Comment #36517544

    I imagine that their hosting costs must be quite big and not very elastic. Crawling takes compute and bandwidth, storage cost will be high, as you need to store data in low latency…