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by aasasd 5y ago
Perhaps it's not too late to make another site.
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by aasasd 5y ago
Vim sidesteps the whole ‘point the cursor and then type’ drudgery by inventing a whole separate approach to walking through text and tugging at various pieces of it. As a consequence or coincidence, basic keys of that approach are very easy
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by aasasd 5y ago
Afaik there's a whole team working on the site. They gave talks about it, and videos of those are on YT.
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by aasasd 5y ago
Note: the site works quite differently on phones, without changing the address.
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by aasasd 5y ago
Let's remember the time when leaked docs shown that Nintendo stalked the hacker of 3DS, literally spying on his daily activities: https://twitter.com/forestillusion/status/134122299161979289...
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by aasasd 5y ago
Surprise: for me, Anki seems to have lost some data when changing to the 2.1 scheduler—though thankfully I just laughed it off and restored the backup I made immediately before the migration. Will need to repeat the process and figure out w
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by aasasd 5y ago
Not needing Anki itself is pretty much a requirement for me, because that's the way which makes sense in my worldview. Tools work independently and feed into each other—not get slapped onto each other, which kinda smells like a whiff o
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by aasasd 5y ago
Anki data basically needs wrapper libraries with a humane API, even when working with low-level structures (i.e. without the app itself running). Just to avoid traumatizing external developers. If everyone is using such libraries, the struc
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by aasasd 5y ago
You'd think that Win used Unicode fonts by that time, and surely some mono-width replacement characters can be found in Unicode.
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by aasasd 5y ago
Quick: which programs use ‘|’ and which use ‘\|’?
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by aasasd 5y ago
I had to go recheck and assure myself that Union Jack is still rotationally symmetrical.
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by aasasd 5y ago
If anyone whose life line says ‘makes an editor’ is reading the above: I beg you to use Lua instead of Python. It's a lot faster, and that matters in productivity apps. Speed can be the difference between ‘I wrote a script’ and ‘I co
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by aasasd 5y ago
Ah, yes, Romania and Chad aka total lottery in Anki in this regard. As for Indonesia, I learned to distinguish the shade. Still would prefer not to have to do that, of course.
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by aasasd 5y ago
In the same vein: I discovered the pleasure of the major modifier being under the thumb on MacOS, triply astounding on the MS Natural 4000 keyboard with its huge alt keys (they map to ‘command’ on Mac due to the position). And then I lear
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by aasasd 5y ago
> American bees are confined to the websters dictionary rather than the oxford Noah Webster literally codified, and partially invented, American spelling—whereas Oxford's dictionary is a symbol of traditional British spelling. It&
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by aasasd 5y ago
Indeed, let's make sure only articles allowed are those with a cheesy work anecdote at the start for those who fall asleep too easily, then the entire life story of the subject person beginning with their dad, and ten screenfuls down y
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by aasasd 5y ago
Alas, mnemonics always seemed no-go to me, at least in the usually-advocated ‘use them everywhere’ approach—because I never had any memorable ones pop up in my mind. And if I made up some random ones, I would likely just forget their associ
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by aasasd 5y ago
I've been using Anki to learn various kinds of geographic stuff, flags among them—and let me tell you, country flags around Europe sure could use some variation. I mean, I get it that flags were designed to be recognized from afar, wit
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by aasasd 5y ago
One of the best illustrations of how JS equality works: https://www.codewiz.org/wiki/pictures/jokes/computers/js-tri...
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by aasasd 5y ago
I have to wonder: if one compiled the Lua VM into WASM, would it by any chance run code at speed comparable to JS? Seeing as plain Lua is crazy fast for a dynamic language. That's assuming that WASM itself works with minimal delays.
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by aasasd 5y ago
I use this ‘Countries of the World’ one: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/2263258759 There's also a version with vector maps, and multiple other decks with varying fields in the cards and amounts of info. In m
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by aasasd 5y ago
You might get an even better speedup by using `grep -F` or ripgrep.
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by aasasd 5y ago
Neither hashes nor file sizes are how copyright works—I don't make a work free by adding a space to it. So it would be a bit weird if Google implemented it that way. Rolling hashes—maybe. It's a pity that we don't get to see
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by aasasd 5y ago
Both the ‘useless use of cat’ and this nitpick miss that a unix-style command line is very much like a bunch of functions feeding results into each other, with each doing its own thing. This allows one to chain different functions in the sa
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by aasasd 5y ago
Just get a geography deck for Anki instead.
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by aasasd 5y ago
Yeah, that's it.
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by aasasd 5y ago
FCKEditor was a bit cleaner, IMO. But only marginally. Also, there was ‘WYMeditor’, which displayed the semantic structure of text instead of a WYSIWYG rendition—so I kept meaning to try it out some time, but never got around to it in earne
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by aasasd 5y ago
Huh, this is not that story where the author, and possibly other people, spent over 1.5 years attempting to redo their text renderer/editor, and had to abandon the project in the end.
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by aasasd 5y ago
> Funnily enough, neither are electronic mailing lists. However, email has one property that basically all chat platforms lack: each mail is presented as a standalone unit of correspondence with its own metadata, from the start. Just l
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by aasasd 5y ago
Ah, yes, the Perlton.

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