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isn't that what ZDR is for? (assuming you trust that)

Strongly seconded. Great radio, independent, opinionated, kind, reasonable, 100% listener supported. My main go-to for music in the last couple of years (since I discovered it)

heh, beat you by three days, ID 65973, 2009-03-23 :)

How were you able to diagnose it yourself? Just through the error codes, or is there another interface available for non-technicians?

> Cambodia's specifically 30-50% of the economy can be directly attributed to scamming plus casinos

Are you saying that 30-50% of Cambodia's economy can be directly attributed to scamming and casinos? I find that shocking and hard to believe. Do you have a source for that statement?

By quoting the word "Decent" you mean it is actually excellent, or is it actually poor?

That's not a useless project! It's a silly piece of code, but it gave joy to people, so I would say much more useful than most stories in this thread.

Back in the nineties my dad had the notion that if you make the computer select numbers at random many times, and you run statistics on the results you gain some "legitimacy" to these selections. So he asked me to write a "lotto number selector program", but it needed to run for a few hours and select many numbers and then output the ones that were selected the most or some such. Maybe it was more sophisticated, but I can't really remember the details. I guess I could just add a delay instead of actually selecting the numbers, but I wouldn't lie to my dad :)

It was super silly, but like you said, why not, I was a teen/tween and I didn't mind playing around with silly software.

He actually used it and actually filled out the lotto numbers based on it. No, we never won the millions :)

Also - I just visited a casino in Spokane, WA for the first time ever. Isn't that what all the machines there are doing? A random number emitter thingy with random delays, animation, music and flashing lights?

Hey, thanks for making this! And thanks for posting here.

I was wondering if you are willing to share some of the innerworkings of this. You mention in the FAQ that it works for almost any site, so I am guessing you are not developing a per-site scraping script, rather something more generic? Maybe AI? How do you protect from AI mangling results unexpectedly (I don't know if this is a risk, I have no AI experience)

Care to share more?

There is no such thing as "English pronunciation". English does not have a regulatory body like Spanish or German have.

There are many English dialects, and sounds (and meanings) vary, A LOT. It's up to you whether you want to try and assimilate the local dialect of where you live right now, or you want to simply understand and be understood.

There are many non-native speakers who are extremely easy to understand, even though it is clear that English is their second (or third) language. I believe the hardest part is to learn how to make sounds that do not exist in your native language (both consonants and vowels). But the good news is that there are ways to learn that. The human mouth is capable of pronouncing all human sounds, it is only a matter of practice.

The English spelling is guided by meaning, not by sound. So trying to make the sounds out of the letters will always be a frustrating endeavor, as there will never be a single rule you can follow.