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by cblop 3y ago
After playing Thimbleweed park, it became clear to me that Ron's a huge fan of David Lynch, whose films often explore Buddhist or Hindu themes of reality as a dream we create inside our heads. I think that this theme appears in most of
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by cblop 8y ago
Starting Strength is a great program, but I can't understand how beginners are doing power cleans without any kind of guidance from a trainer. Power cleans are really hard to learn - it took me months of going to Olympic weightlifting
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by cblop 9y ago
MiniKanren is an embeddable language for logic programming, with implementations in a wide variety of languages: http://minikanren.org/
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Show HN: A live-action fighting game made with Lua, Blender and the Gimp(mthompson.org)
4 points by cblop 10y ago|0 comments
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Create a live-action fighting game with your friends as characters(mthompson.org)
1 points by cblop 10y ago|0 comments
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by cblop 11y ago
Sadly not much discussion in any of those threads, though. Would be nice to get something going here.
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by cblop 11y ago
I think my failure was more due to me using Anki, then abandoning it rather than anything else. It's a really good system. I tried Heisig for a bit, but KanjiDamage worked a lot better for me. Perhaps if I'd have combined it with
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by cblop 11y ago
I used the KanjiDamage method, which is similar to Heisig but available online: http://www.kanjidamage.com/ . The advantage is that the mnemonics also help you remember the on-yomi for each character. It's not for every
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by cblop 11y ago
I was adding 5 new cards a day, which seems to be quite common amongst language learners. I figured the SRS algorithm would take care of giving me a manageable frequency.
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by cblop 11y ago
I think you're absolutely right there: constant immersion is needed to provide the context for learning. My mistake was that I wasn't reading enough Japanese to make use of the memorised characters from Anki, so they were quickly
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by cblop 11y ago
I used Anki for 30 minutes to an hour each day for about a year to memorise around 1500 Japanese characters and their readings, with the aid of a mnemonic technique. So long as you have an hour a day to dedicate to the flashcards without f
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IBM is still making ThinkPad keyboards(mthompson.org)
233 points by cblop 11y ago|154 comments
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by cblop 11y ago
This was actually the keyboard I was looking for. All I've been able to find here (UK) are the new-style chiclet ones. Looks like the ones you linked have been phased out. I can't even find them on ebay. Having said that, the IBM
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IBM is still making ThinkPad keyboards(mthompson.org)
7 points by cblop 11y ago|3 comments