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by eloisius 5y ago
Thanks a lot for the advice! I misused “radical” before but actually meant components, not the one arbitrary radical. Remembering characters as a block of components definitely helps. I think that would fall under the idea of “chunking” tha
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by eloisius 5y ago
> I can't imagine learning Chinese characters without any form of mnemonics. Username checks out :). Have you learned Chinese? I'm not convinced that my method is the best by a long shot, but I don't use mnemonics. I'
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by eloisius 5y ago
Resonates with me too. I'm studying Chinese full-time and the classroom format is extremely drill-heavy. Here's a sentence, now say it this other way, using this new grammar device that we just learned. Here's another, and an
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by eloisius 5y ago
1. I assume you're paraphrasing the details because JavaScript doesn't have a `sleep`, do you mean there were setTimeout loops or something? 2. Other than a job security sandbag, I wouldn't be surprised if this was an an even
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by eloisius 5y ago
Looks like in this case it's only part of a Wikipedia page[0] but the Chinese edition is only a stub page. But your suggestion is absolutely spot-on. One of the things I love about Wikipedia is that it's human-curated for human ev
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by eloisius 5y ago
Funny, I was just talking about dairy in Asia in the thread about alcohol flush. At least in Taiwan, cheese is super popular. Wine and cheese charcuterie, cheese on dan bing, cheese tea even (albeit creme cheese). It's probably a gener
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by eloisius 5y ago
I've wondered about this to. Milk seems more widely consumed here in Taiwan than in the US. Milk tea, milk/fruit smoothies, cream-filled pastries everywhere, cheese is a very popular fusion with local specialties like danbing. If
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by eloisius 5y ago
He probably needs to grind on LeetCode for a few months before trying to crack FAANG
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by eloisius 5y ago
Or prevent them from forcing other people to do it their way.
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by eloisius 5y ago
This innovation does not seem like a natural successor to compilers, debuggers and languages. If today's programming environments still require too much boilerplate and fiddling with tools, it seems like better programming languages, e
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by eloisius 5y ago
I live in a foreign country and study the language here. I frequently use machine translation to validate my my own translations, read menus with the Google Translate augmented reality camera, and chat with friends when I'm too busy to
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by eloisius 5y ago
Also annoyed. Turning a freaking blog platform into a walled garden is an absolute farce. What value exactly does Medium add over WordPress? It's trendy and newer? Has a more "minimal" design? The gimmicky inline comments? I&
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by eloisius 5y ago
Agree. I believe in a short while, maybe after some more congressional inquiry, or maybe another political fiasco, questioning the mental health effects of social media is going to be a mainstream idea. Tooter, Fakebook, et al will be on th
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by eloisius 5y ago
It's the "reduce, reuse, recycle" of this generation.
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by eloisius 5y ago
A little unnatural for English, but this would work fine for Chinese script. Each character and punctuation mark is a monospace box. In fact, students practice handwriting by drawing characters in boxes. You can buy little elementary school
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by eloisius 5y ago
I've stuck with DDG for about the past year and a half and I have to agree. I want it to be good, but when debugging some obscure problem (like trying to learn SwiftUI lately) Google is able to dig up more result. Of course the "t
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by eloisius 5y ago
Even accounting for tonally differentiated words, Mandarin Chinese is rife with exact homophones. Shì can be “is,” “try,” “thing,” “kind/style” and many more. It amazes me how we are able to pattern match so well provided a little cont
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by eloisius 5y ago
And people talk about $500 hammers…
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by eloisius 5y ago
Do both, but definitely do the spam report via Gmail or your email provider because that dings the platform they use as well. Without a threat to their mailability, they'd have no incentive to keep their customers (the person spamming
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by eloisius 5y ago
It's easy: I set a rule in Mail that flags every email containing "Unsubscribe" or related terms with a red flag, and I review and mark them as junk when they show up. Every newsletter is spam because I would never ever sign
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by eloisius 5y ago
Unlikely. Marketing keeps up with its industry. As soon as Gmail introduced the smart inbox thing, their goal was immediately to make sure their messages don’t go to the promotional tab.
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by eloisius 5y ago
Okay, fair. I'd ask for an iPhone that was not dependent upon China's labor and supply chains first, then to give me granular control of notifications.
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by eloisius 5y ago
"Helpful" tips when you get a new iPhone for one example. I also think I vaguely remember being very surprised that Photos advertised to me about being able to buy printed photo albums or something like that once? But I may be mis
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by eloisius 5y ago
Looks like they address that: > Never designate a marketing notification as Time Sensitive. For guidance, see Helping People Manage Notifications. Although I'm not clear on whether this are just HIG guidelines for notifications or i
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by eloisius 5y ago
Agreed. It seems short-sighted of Apple to let notifications become an advertising channel. It works against their customers. A start could be requiring developers to categorize their notifications as transactional or advertising, but I&#x2
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by eloisius 5y ago
If I could ask Apple for one thing it would be to require approval of every push notification that an app developer wants to deliver. That an app gets either cart blanche to send me notifications or nothing at all drives me crazy. I don&#x2
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by eloisius 5y ago
I've also run into this frustration and come to the conclusion that for me, no learning style actually works except for putting what I've learned to use, and doing it quickly. Granted, that means I'll probably never become a
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by eloisius 5y ago
So nostalgic. This brings me back to a time when computing was fun, but also fraught with danger. I can't even recall the number of times 13-year-old me totally screwed up trying to install Mandrake 7 or some such misadventure, and had
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by eloisius 5y ago
I think the systemic cause was clearly pointed out: the one child policy.
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by eloisius 5y ago
Because temporary vs permanent is not the correct categorizations of estar and ser. It's more like state vs characteristic. State and characteristic is still a fuzzy boundary, but hey it's a human language.

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