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by cehrlich 6y ago
The Kanji Kentei tests production. I probably couldn't even produce 500 kanji without a computer/phone), and I don't think I will ever make it much further than that, because why bother? When would I ever need to handwrite ka
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by cehrlich 6y ago
I struggled with this for a long time, and I have now found a solution that works sometimes (ie as long as I don't sabotage myself): I bought an alarm clock. Basic $10 Casio thing, but anything else is also fine as long as it's &q
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by cehrlich 6y ago
I'm a non native speaker who has reached native-level fluency in English, and I have never looked at a conjugation table in my life. The only experience I have is thousands of hours of reading/listening, and maybe a couple hundred
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by cehrlich 6y ago
It's prose, but have you read Thomas Pynchon's "Bleeding Edge"?
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by cehrlich 6y ago
This is absolutely correct, and figuring it out is what allowed me to start enjoying literature in my 20s, after hating books in school and even university due to exactly this style of teaching.
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by cehrlich 6y ago
I don't know if this is still true, but a few years ago Uber was losing money on every trip [1]. They also, five years ago, had 6000 employees, of which 2000 were engineers [2]. Apologies for the outdated links, there's probably m
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by cehrlich 6y ago
Yes, IMO the easiest way to 'learn' the kanji is Heisig's book "Remembering the Kanji", along with an Anki deck to review daily. I 'learned' 2000 kanji this way in 3 months, with a daily time investment of
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by cehrlich 6y ago
Yes, this is absolutely a normal amount. I'm an amateur/hobbyist marathon runner, and I usually take about 300mg pre-race in the form of coffee, and top up another 100mg in the form of a gel about once per hour. This is roughly in
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by cehrlich 6y ago
Kanji (at least the first 3-4000), counters, word-level pitch accent, etc are all totally learnable and I wouldn't consider them "advanced" topics. That's not to say it doesn't take a couple thousand hours to get th
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by cehrlich 6y ago
I agree with the premise of the article. I started going to International school (all classes in English) at age 9. Got two University degrees in England. Have several academic papers published. There are still moments where I'm made a
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by cehrlich 6y ago
I don't think Walsh has made an official statement of any sort about this. But the main controversy in the FSF right now is the reinstatement of Richard Stallman. Here's an article about the events that led to Stallman's resi
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by cehrlich 6y ago
RMS's role in the FSF was president, and now Member of the Board of Directors. Sure this requires some technical skills, but the main factor is leadership and the ability to bring people together. If anyone believes that RMS is fit for
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by cehrlich 6y ago
I mostly agree with you, although I'd make one pedantic argument: The 12" MacBook made a great set of compromises (other than keyboard reliability) for the goal it intended to achieve. I had one for several years and loved it. The
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by cehrlich 6y ago
I might be wrong about when my next shot is (haven't been contacted by the government yet), but I definitely got AZ.
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by cehrlich 6y ago
I received my first dose of AstraZeneca yesterday (I'm in Austria, and qualify as teaching staff). I had severe flu-like symptoms last night and today, to the point of having to cancel my classes. It's the worst my body has felt i
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by cehrlich 6y ago
I've never done this, so my concern might be a total non-issue. But how do you prevent the external SSD accidentally becoming unplugged when you're doing this with a laptop? And what would actually happen if that did occur?
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by cehrlich 6y ago
My experience is in London, but very similar. Even if you can afford it, the "real" nightclubs are total waste of time and money. Unfortunately a lot of places that were actual music venues (Fabric was the one that got the most pr
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by cehrlich 6y ago
The 12" MacBook was a fantastic computer. I used one from 2016 until a few weeks ago. However many of the (perfectly reasonable) compromises that Apple made to build this tiny 12" ultraportable also ended up being applied to the r
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by cehrlich 6y ago
The laptops only support 1 external monitor unless you do some hacky stuff, they only have two ports, and still have mediocre webcams, and you’re forced to use Big Sur which still needs a bit of work. Also while the vast majority of softwar
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by cehrlich 6y ago
This is a fun project. Even without seeing the original script next to it, it's fun to try to reverse engineer what each text box is meant to mean. Surprisingly enough considering how supposedly sophisticated the machine translation is
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by cehrlich 6y ago
I remember working with some Windows 7 setups and having to deal with stuff like WASAPI Drivers and ASIO4All, having to daisy chain MIDI through the out on synths (which introduced jitter) because there is only one system MIDI in and out, e
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by cehrlich 6y ago
I don't know about the present state, but certainly 10 years ago you would have had to be out of your mind to use anything but a Mac in an Audio setup that is used for important live performances - the Audio and MIDI stacks on Windows
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by cehrlich 6y ago
I bought the same model recently. Got it for a real bargain because the battery was getting old and one of the two speakers had broken. Those two things took a combined €110 and 2 hours of work to repair. I initially bought this just to hol
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by cehrlich 6y ago
There currently isn't any kind of useful virtualization available for Apple Silicon, and my hunch is that there won't be until ARM becomes more relevant in the Windows/Linux space. The way Apple Silicon runs x86 apps through
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by cehrlich 6y ago
This seems like a reasonable estimate. I’ve done fairly long sections on the Autobahn at 230-250km/h, and this was in a slower car (Audi A6), without a siren, and without a kidney to deliver. Even when going “just” 200-220 I often get
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by cehrlich 6y ago
I’ve owned Windows desktops in the past. I prefer MacOS, but Windows is fine. The reason I use laptops is because I only want to own one computer, and that one computer needs to be portable, not because I’m stuck in an ecosystem.
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by cehrlich 6y ago
I don't think people "fall" for laptops. They're well aware of the cons, but the single pro of not being strapped to a desk outweighs all of the disadvantages for many people. I'm using a MacBook Pro from 2014, afte
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by cehrlich 6y ago
Maybe user error is a bit harsh because it's difficult to find everything you need to know about using Anki properly in one place... but yeah, most people's dislike of Anki comes from not knowing how to use it.
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by cehrlich 6y ago
I've been using Anki to learn Japanese for about a year now, quite successfully. The largest factor determining your daily reviews is your daily new cards - it depends on retention somewhat, but in general daily reviews after a few mon
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by cehrlich 6y ago
That's really bad design/accessibility on YouTube's part, especially as the median PC is likely significantly slower than yours (I'd guess it's a dual core of some sort and intel integrated graphics). Outside of som

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