collyw

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by collyw 1y ago
For some reason simplicity is out of fashion these days.
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by collyw 1y ago
The far left seem to be a far greater danger at present. They are the ones pushing for all the authoritarianism.
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by collyw 1y ago
Sundial on a building near my place still keeping the time as well. No idea how old it is.
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by collyw 1y ago
I kind of assumed that the three lines were to represent a menu with three choices, but it's not at all obvious
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by collyw 1y ago
The American mind is unable to comprehend a clutch and a stick.
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by collyw 1y ago
That was one thing where Visual basic actually came closest. Design your GUI with visual tools and fill in the blanks when you clicked the button.
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by collyw 1y ago
Can you expand on that?
38.
by collyw 1y ago
Ryanair flights.
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by collyw 1y ago
This is for conjugations, which follow a pattern, or rather a mix of patterns, not for vocabulary.
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by collyw 1y ago
I think it took me a good year or two of seeing hamburger menus to realize that it was a menu icon. Totally shit in terms of intuitiveness. And of course no text to suggest that it's a menu.
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by collyw 1y ago
I have hated the removal of text from icons for ages, and it seems like a problem that is going to become more relevant when you realize that zoomers have no idea what the floppy disk icon to save something is. On a plus not I noticed that
42.
by collyw 1y ago
I have had to maintain rewritten libraries by seniors. Crappy, buggy and undocumented with no tests.
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by collyw 1y ago
I'll agree with this, though in a lot of cases reinventing the wheel is a bad idea. A previous coworker insisted om writing everything instead of using libraries so I had to maintains a crap undocumented buggy version of what was avai
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by collyw 1y ago
As he says a tool's ownership shouldn't affect it's status of a tool.
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by collyw 1y ago
The benefit of Anki for me has been the decks that I have downloaded more than the app (I have downloaded 3 or 4 for learning Spainsh and some are a lot better thought out than others). If you are going to gain any traction I would suggest
46.
by collyw 1y ago
Anki works well in my opinion, but the initial setup isn't at all intuitive.
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by collyw 1y ago
I have downloaded 3 card decks for learning Spanish. The main deck I use for verb conjugations expects me to use it for maybe half an hour per day or the list just build up (I have no idea if this is standard behaviour, but I don't see
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by collyw 1y ago
Ask chatgpt how to do it
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by collyw 1y ago
It's been a huge help for me learning Spanish verb conjugations, which in turn has helped my Spanish in general. A lot of it down to the effort this guy has put into making the deck. https://www.asiteaboutnothing.net/w
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by collyw 1y ago
The majority of the population has low computer literacy
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by collyw 1y ago
I grabbed a set of flashcard for Spanish verb conjugations. The guy had put in a lot of work to get them in the most frequent order, over 3000 lines of python. It been a massive help to me and I am not sure that writing the code to generat
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by collyw 2y ago
Seems a bit unlikely. Seems more like a deliberate "leak".
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by collyw 2y ago
Imagine not using an ad blocker in this day and age.
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by collyw 2y ago
USAID seems to demonstrate that to an extent, though it was far from universal
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by collyw 2y ago
Isn't that the same as any place (like here for example), that uses an up-voting system?
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by collyw 2y ago
I was thinking the same. Though wild fermenting works well for small batches, I have no idea of it scales. I was guessing this is a comercial operation if regulators are involved.
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by collyw 2y ago
Most users don't care about that stuff, but I think a small but significant percentage do. I have never been an Apple fan but I am aware that they are significantly better than Windows and Andorid for security and privacy.
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by collyw 2y ago
I assume he is referring to Tim Cook, who isn't a founder, but he is gay if I remember correctly.
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by collyw 2y ago
250,000 gang rapes are another reason for hostility towards immigrants. As well as the cost.
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by collyw 2y ago
Android are technically linux based. I bought the Ubuntu phone. The phone was nice, but there were bareley any apps, and the maps app only worked online, which was useless outside of my home country. A dissapointment overall.

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