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by davidzweig 4y ago
According to my biology teacher, the urge to breathe is from receptors that detect a higher concentration of carbon dioxide (in blood I suppose), not an absence of oxygen. She also said if you placed cyanide in your mouth, it would kill on
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by davidzweig 4y ago
We got a little terminal effect on our homepage (CSS with 3d transformation). It'll be too small on mobile. https://www.languagereactor.com/ I mean to get around to hooking it up to a real-time healthcheck of our backe
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by davidzweig 4y ago
Note: login needed to save progress, sorry!
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Show HN: PhrasePump: Learn Languages by Listening to Tatoeba Sentences(languagereactor.com)
11 points by davidzweig 4y ago|5 comments
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by davidzweig 4y ago
We do it like this: https://imgur.com/a/AdeRncw Just a simple function (ensureType) that checks primitive types (angle brackets for min length). You reconstruct the object using ensureType, writing it back into itself.
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by davidzweig 4y ago
Out of interest, did you try Nemo? https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo
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by davidzweig 4y ago
Fujitsu TX100 s3, TX120 s3, Dell ML110, HP microserver series are little towers, quietish (you can change out the fans to make them practically silent).
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by davidzweig 4y ago
If you are by chance in Eastern Europe, our project might fit: languagereactor.com .
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by davidzweig 4y ago
One of the main developers at Edinburgh is Bulgarian. :)
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by davidzweig 4y ago
Oh, thank you for your contributions! Mobile, we're planning a RN app (site is MobX/React), but we got our hands full at the moment (who wants a job?). TTS, I used to be of the opinion that TTS is something that should be kept far
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by davidzweig 4y ago
We use microsoft TTS, was trying to figure out if they can give time ranges for beeping out words.. didn't see it. Holy grail would be just generating audio files to listen to, no front end at all. :)
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by davidzweig 4y ago
We made something a couple of weeks ago, you might like it, needs login but is 100% free. Endless (depending on language) listening exercises, sentences are selected (from tatoeba) based on vocabulary (no selection based on grammar yet). It
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Major Upgrade to Language Reactor(forum.languagelearningwithnetflix.com)
2 points by davidzweig 4y ago|0 comments
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by davidzweig 4y ago
Ah, nop. If it goes down, we'll figure it out.. 24hrs outage wouldn't be the end of the world. Would have been nice to have a second (read replica) machine in East Asia, to reduce latency for users there, but didn't find a pr
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by davidzweig 4y ago
We have a single big bare-metal machine. We run Postgres with a ~1TB DB, moderate load, on a Hetzner AX101 (16C/128GB ram). It has 2* 3.84TB nvme drives (zfs mirror with hourly snapshots) used for postgres storage only, and a seperate
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by davidzweig 5y ago
Thanks for the link. We have arranged for about 20 studio appartments to be made available for Ukranians, and, it's possible we could organise more. I submitted details to the google form on bg4ua website. Please give me a call to see
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by davidzweig 5y ago
If it's any help, I am helping to organise for the parents of my Ukranian friend to move to Bulgaria. And possibly a few other friends. It's picturesque in the mountains and Russian is widely spoken. Renting an appartment here is
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by davidzweig 5y ago
It appears there are two bridges across the pripyat river in the vicinity, next crossing is nearly 100km south inside Kiev city.
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by davidzweig 5y ago
Location: Anywhere Remote: I prefer in-person work. Willing to relocate: Yes. I have UK and Australian passports, eligible for an E3 visa in the US. Generalist Engineer Software engineering: my strongest area. Self-taught with online course
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by davidzweig 5y ago
Is there a consensus on whether it's ok to port forward from the firewall to port 22 (SSH) on the BMC, with a strong admin password? I guess this should be safer than exposing the web interface.
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by davidzweig 5y ago
NGINX course on https://acloudguru.com/ is good.
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by davidzweig 5y ago
'Language learning advice is conflicting,' 'Stick with a language, Whatever your method is, don't give up.' 'If your method doesn't work for you, change it.' I agree with the author. I think a lot of
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by davidzweig 5y ago
There are different valid approaches, but there are certainly techniques that are ineffective; I think the popular "just do something" advice is harmful as it suggests all approaches are equally valid. I think it's possible t
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by davidzweig 5y ago
Chinese companies also make low-middle-end microcontrollers (gigadevice etc.), passive components, switches and connectors (clones of Japanese designs mostly) that are much lower cost and 'ok'. There's also PCB manufacturing
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by davidzweig 5y ago
Heh, minds think alike, shoot me a mail, I've got a big machine for this. :)
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by davidzweig 5y ago
Budget version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SabzZ5UOC-c
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by davidzweig 5y ago
If they wanted to, it wouldn't be much work for them to provide a stable API for such tools. Mostly it would involve making certain functions/properties that are internal to their modules/closures available on a global object
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by davidzweig 5y ago
Language Reactor | Europe or maybe elsewhere | languagereactor.com "Language Reactor is a powerful toolbox for learning languages. It helps you to discover, understand, and learn from native materials." We are a small group of dev
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by davidzweig 5y ago
The (JS) frontend SDK can be set to either online or offline mode. When in online mode, it seems to insist on downloading full copies of records, even when a version is somewhere in the local cache, slowing things down and incurring cost. S
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by davidzweig 5y ago
For IP, you can get a domain adress from namecheap then set up dynamic DNS ( https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx... ). Maintenance/security.. log in from time to time and run 'apt

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