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TypingOutBugs commented on Launch HN: Issen (YC F24) – Personal AI language tutor    · Posted by u/mariano54
owebmaster · 6 months ago
> Putting the pieces together is easy and letting someone talk to an AI is not a particularly difficult problem

Exactly! Not difficult, right? Making and selling a product out of it is called marketing. It is not rocket science, but many engineers can't grasp it.

GPT Wrappers are the new CRUD. There is no innovation in Trello, Jira and any other SaaS, they are just marketed products that thousands of people here in HN could code better, but they don't, because they are wasting their time pointing that other people's products are not a difficult problem to solve.

TypingOutBugs · 6 months ago
Be honest though, what’s the difference between this and a good system prompt in Claude to be a language tutor?

I worked for an Edtech startup before that had a novel approach to mastery (as opposed to Anki) and it’s not something you can put in a prompt.

TypingOutBugs commented on Launch HN: Issen (YC F24) – Personal AI language tutor    · Posted by u/mariano54
thinkingtoilet · 6 months ago
>We didn’t want to focus too much on gamification.

Thank you so much for this. Duolingo is literally unbearable because it's so gamified. I'll try it out later. I've seen a few of these apps, can I seamlessly go between my native language and the language I'm trying to learn? If I am trying to learn Hindi, can I ask a question in English in the middle of a conversation?

TypingOutBugs · 6 months ago
Babbel is better than Duolingo!
TypingOutBugs commented on Fun with uv and PEP 723   cottongeeks.com/articles/... · Posted by u/deepakjois
zidoo · 6 months ago
My only question is: who asked for faster pip?
TypingOutBugs · 6 months ago
uv has a lot more perks! It makes distributing python tooling easier too
TypingOutBugs commented on EU Eyes Ditching Microsoft Azure for France's OVHcloud   euractiv.com/section/tech... · Posted by u/doener
rnxrx · 6 months ago
I had the same experience with Digital Ocean. Thankfully there were several other providers happy to take my money immediately.
TypingOutBugs · 6 months ago
DO will sign off in minutes (or did for me)
TypingOutBugs commented on How malicious AI swarms can threaten democracy   osf.io/preprints/osf/qm9y... · Posted by u/anigbrowl
o_____________o · 6 months ago
> "Cheaper/easier" is what creates consequences, not "new".

Nuclear bomb?

TypingOutBugs · 6 months ago
Imagine if they were cheaper and easier to manufacture
TypingOutBugs commented on Show HN: Claude Code Usage Monitor – real-time tracker to dodge usage cut-offs   github.com/Maciek-roboblo... · Posted by u/Maciej-roboblog
bilekas · 6 months ago
This is pretty cool.. I like the idea, could I make a semi-snarky feature request and could we add the estimated power consumed to produce results for each session ?
TypingOutBugs · 6 months ago
Soon we will have low carbon developers
TypingOutBugs commented on Go is a good fit for agents   docs.hatchet.run/blog/go-... · Posted by u/abelanger
Hasnep · 6 months ago
I think they meant you can use curl to install uv and then you don't need to (manually) install anything else
TypingOutBugs · 6 months ago
Yeah that’s what I meant, apologies if unclear
TypingOutBugs commented on Go is a good fit for agents   docs.hatchet.run/blog/go-... · Posted by u/abelanger
philwelch · 6 months ago
Go still has a much better concurrency story. It’s also much less of a headache to deploy since all you need to deploy is a static binary and not a whole bespoke Python runtime with every pip dependency.
TypingOutBugs · 6 months ago
Go is definitely better, but with uv you can install all dependencies including python with only curl
TypingOutBugs commented on AI in my plasma physics research didn’t go the way I expected   understandingai.org/p/i-g... · Posted by u/qianli_cs
toolslive · 7 months ago
Didn't a politician invent the internet ?
TypingOutBugs · 7 months ago
Who?
TypingOutBugs commented on O(n) vs. O(n^2) Startups   rohan.ga/blog/startup_typ... · Posted by u/ocean_moist
curiousgibbon · 7 months ago
This is one of the myriad situations where Omega should have been be used, not O. What are they teaching in schools these days?
TypingOutBugs · 7 months ago
The author is an early CS bachelors student so… they might still learn this in school

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