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SalaevAl

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Creator of PlayLing: https://playling.netlify.app Flutter and Kotlin developer interested in language learning and audio tech.
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SalaevAl··on Delphi 13 Community Edition Is Now Available
Can't believe Delphi is still actively maintained — and with features like this. Lost track of it years ago. Back in 2003 I wrote a university coursework in it; Pascal was my second language after BASIC. Might be time to take another look, especially with the multi-platform support.
SalaevAl··on People who grew up with high economic connectedness earn more
Same intuition here — until my own path disagreed. Roles via acquaintances were mostly meh; the best ones found me without networking.
SalaevAl··on Kinney Drugs pulls back AI phone assistant after hundreds of customer complaints
Pharmacy phone lines are a terrible first use case for voice AI. Older callers, drug names, insurance mess, zero patience. Automating "store hours" is fine. Automating refill exceptions is how you get this outcome.
SalaevAl··on How I use LLMs to learn complex topics
LLMs can help you understand a language, but they can't replace learning the vocabulary. Words and phrases still need to be learned the old-fashioned way: repetition
SalaevAl··on Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II)
This brings back memories. In my city, there were no computers for sale in regular stores in the early 90s. My first computer was a second-hand ZX Spectrum. I still remember how excited I was when I finally got one.