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While I agree with you in general, keep in mind that there are plenty of languages where seeing the characters doesn't give you any info about how to type them. No copy-paste means you'd need to rely on OCR.

I really love this. A book was recommended to me that I'm not going to have time to read, but this UI is an amazing way to figure out the main ideas and dive deeper into the interesting ones.

No idea if the things it's telling me are true or not, but that doesn't matter quite as much in this case.

It answers this in the 3rd sentence of the page.

"As with all our APIs, data sent in and out of the fine-tuning API is owned by the customer and is not used by OpenAI, or any other organization, to train other models."

This is a false dichotomy. There is value in the normal social interactions of a workplace even if they don't become lifetime friends. Seeing people during the day, small talk, having relationships come and go - these are healthy and enjoyable things even if they never get deeper.

It is almost certain that if someone is smart enough to build a search engine while living off of ramen, they also know more about what Google is capable of.

I'm not sure this is a given. Tons of brilliant developers (myself included) build complex products without having ever considered the market, or just assuming that users will come out of the woodwork if it's technically awesome enough.

Seems to me that if a founder doesn't have immediate answers to some of these "existential questions", that's a red flag right there.

It would work fine as long as everyone consuming the shopping list has a reasonable idea what normal things your shopping lists. Things like "kili sike loje" (red round fruit) are ambiguous but are no doubt close enough to jog your memory enough to work.

The toughest part that comes to mind would be particular spices. You would probably need to start borrowing words to distinguish between things like thyme and rosemary ("namako Tin", "namako Loseli")

Off topic, but looking through the comments, so many people seem to believe that any multi-family housing is noisy. That has literally never been my experience despite living exclusively in multi-family housing for the past 15 years. Sometimes I can hear my neighbor's kid when they're directly outside my front door. That's it.

Have the folks who think that apartments are noisy just never lived in apartment? Or is my experience the skewed one?

Since moving to Boston I have only lived in multi-family wooden houses, and this just isn't true, at least with modern-ish insulation. I can occasionally hear my upstairs neighbor's dog when she gets excited, and precisely nothing else.

"App Suggestions" doesn't mean ads for Apps that you don't have, it means suggestions to quick-launch apps you already have installed.

Android already does this at the top of the applications list, just not directly on the home screen.

It's definitely a trade-off. I am betting that for some users, the discoverability and simplicity of typing natural language wins out over syntax that needs to be learned - but it's not for everyone.

It does support fuzzy matching, so you could always type "rmt" in place of "remind me to" and so forth.

In addition to supporting search, it supports natural-language commands.

You can use it like Spotlight (type to search), but then you have options beyond just opening - you can move files, or complete reminders, or create events. Or you can use it closer to Siri (but with a keyboard), and type in a natural-language command.