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Re:Tyranny of the Marginal User: why software gets worse, no... by bboygravity on Friday September 15, 2023 @01:06AM (#37518685)
The best dates I ever had came from a language exchange site that doesn't exist anymore.

Seems to resonate with the "filter for brainy people" filter OKC seems to once have had.

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Re:Tyranny of the Marginal User: why software gets worse, no... by jimbokun on Friday September 15, 2023 @11:33AM (#37524618)
Crazy idea: dating site that forces all users to communicate through a second language. How to ascertain it's legitimately a second language, and not their native language, would be the tricky part.
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Re:Tyranny of the Marginal User: why software gets worse, no... by smrq on Friday September 15, 2023 @02:09PM (#37526995)
Well, as long as we're talking crazy, might as well make the language Toki Pona or similar. (Now that would be a really self-selecting dating pool.)
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Re:Tyranny of the Marginal User: why software gets worse, no... by bookofjoe on Friday September 15, 2023 @02:53PM (#37527608)
Especially now that there's this: https://kottke.org/23/09/ai-assisted-language-translation-of...
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