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Re:UPI: Anatomy of a Payment Transaction on Sunday July 12, 2026 @05:42AM (#48879748)
India has a robust Debit card system instead of Credit cards.
Re:Have a Fucking Website on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @04:09AM (#47422968)
Fun rant to read, but this is an entitled view. Not everyone has to have a website, or has to care about democratising the internet. If you don't want to do business with them just because you shun platforms, that's up to you. They may be doing just fine without your patronage.
Re:Allow me to get to know you, mistakes and all on Sunday March 15, 2026 @10:14AM (#47387580)
AI writing sucks. The punchy words, the hyperbole, the monotony and pervasiveness are all exhausting. But I can’t deny there’s one upside. People who grew up speaking and living in other languages, people whose english is poor, finally have a level playground. It’s a great equaliser of our english writing privilege.

The thing that worries me most is that it's going to redefine the way we write. We absorb language. To compensate for all this AiSpeak I consume, I need to read more literature.

What’s human writing going to look like in a few years if this trend doesn’t stop? I believe that the LLMs will catch up soon and introduce more variance and fewer words designed for impact in their language, delivering us from this AiVerse into one where AI writing is almost indistinguishable from human writing. But until then, we must read more.

As a person with really poor memory, the entirety of my learning depends on this app. I'm worried :/
Re:Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History–Or Not? on Thursday January 29, 2026 @03:26AM (#46807291)
This isn't true. People in India are worried about AI quite a bit.
I don't see why this is unexpected. 'Using your brain actively vs evaluating AI' is neurally equivalent to 'active recall vs reading notes'.
great work
Re:Many Hard LeetCode Problems Are Easy Constraint Problems on Saturday September 13, 2025 @04:53AM (#45230502)
It would have been worthwhile if this article had briefly touched upon how the constraint solvers are implemented, rather than avoiding this altogether
Your response is spot on. Gave me the words to frame my thoughts around.
I have this problem when I'm sleeping alone or when my mind is unsettled. Neither is that common, as I don't hit the bed till I'm very tired. When it happens, I usually listen to my audiobooks (fiction) to fall asleep. If that is too stimulating, I turn to this google podcast called "Boring books for bedtime". It's quite effective.