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by gwd 2y ago
As I said in a parallel thread, if you're going for "most number of facts you can recite per hour of time spent studying", I can well believe flashcards with a 70% failure rate are "optimum". But if you're try
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by gwd 2y ago
So let's separate out "effective" from "efficient". I'm perfectly happy to accept that the "every single card is hard" is the most efficient system for memorizing facts : i.e., that if you measure
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by gwd 2y ago
Nit: Hiccup (or hiccough) https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hiccup
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by gwd 2y ago
Weird that #Xen is listed #2, since: 1. After Freenode imploded, Xen officially moved to oftc.net 2. A couple of years ago, we then officially moved to Matrix But then it looks like there are only 20 users in all the channels on the front p
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by gwd 2y ago
A couple of problems I found with Anki for languages: 1. The words aren't in context, which leads to "flashcard blindness", where you see a word in context, know that you recognize it, but can't remember what it means. 2
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by gwd 2y ago
A couple of problems I found with Anki for languages: 1. The words aren't in context, which leads to "flashcard blindness", where you see a word in context, know that you recognize it, but can't remember what it means. 2
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by gwd 2y ago
3. Discover you can't join a lot of channels because you're not registered; or worse, that your messages sent to the channel are silently discarded And you still have the problem that if you're in the wrong time zone and happ
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by gwd 2y ago
Also see https://oftc.net/ , where a bunch of older-school development projects hang out. (That's where the Xen Project moved to after freenode imploded, before eventually switching to Matrix.)
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by gwd 2y ago
> Last but not least, an IRC server/channel in lieu of discord? I'm stuck in my ways! IRC is nice for people who use it, but it has a huuuuge barrier to entry for new users. The very first thing you have to do is choose a cl
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by gwd 2y ago
SQLite's idiosyncrasies make more sense when you realize: 1. It started as a way for the author to access databases from TCL, in which everything is a string. Sounds kind of mad now, but that was the kind of thing you did back in the
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by gwd 2y ago
> That it wasn't even now fills me with horror and I shudder to think about it. The crew's final moments must have been sheer terror. Having been in a situation where I thought I was about to die (head-on collision on an icy co
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by gwd 2y ago
It's a market-based solution to a market-based problem. A classic problem which make markets inefficient is "externalities" -- the cost is artificially lowered because some of that cost is "externalized" away from t
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by gwd 2y ago
Weird! Particularly as searching for "homeopathic" on that page doesn't turn anything up. I guess it's one of those things where it might help and can't hurt: anyone who knows enough to know that "homeopathic
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by gwd 2y ago
Is that "homeopathic" or "herbal / dietary supplement"?
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by gwd 2y ago
> Are you aware of what's happening in Ukraine today, or the history of South Korea [1] or Taiwan [2]? Nonetheless: 1. South Korea, and Taiwan right now are democracies (though flawed to varying degrees), and enjoy a higher standa
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by gwd 2y ago
25 is fine for me to work in; it's about 27 that I start to need to take stronger measures to cool off. That said, I'm guessing 22 (or 18 or whatever) is the lowest temperature you can have on the pipes ; that wouldn't trans
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by gwd 2y ago
> This then leads people to say “heat pumps don’t work” or “heat pumps are expensive to run” When I was doing some extensive renovations of a house about 7 years ago now (in the UK), we called a company whose main business was to install
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by gwd 2y ago
Indeed, where would the Ukraine, Taiwan, or even South Korea be today if it weren't for the defense industry? Unfortunately the only way to achieve peace is to prepare for war. What I think what poisons the whole thing is a cultural a
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by gwd 2y ago
Nit: There appears to be both a "React Native" and a "React-Native" bubble in the JS framework graph.
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by gwd 2y ago
> You run bk revtool on that file, find the assert and look around to see what has changed before that assert. Hover over a line, it will show you the commit comments to the file and then the changeset. You find the likely line, double c
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by gwd 2y ago
> And then someone else starts giving away shovels for free. Ah, I see -- it's more like a "level 2 gold rush". So a level 1 gold rush is: There's some gold in the ground, nobody knows where it is, so loads of people
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by gwd 2y ago
The "that should block submission" is always one of the trickiest parts. There's a saying: "Everyone that drives slower than you is an idiot, and everyone that drives faster than you is a maniac." But it is true
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by gwd 2y ago
> For a team who have spent years working on the same repo, code reviews may not hold much value. I have definitely found bugs [ETA during code review] in code written by very senior developers in code they've been familiar with for
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by gwd 2y ago
Ooh, that's a good idea actually. But it doesn't explain this: > If I click enough, I’d eventually see HTTP 503 Service Unavailable. That normally only happens when the reverse proxy has a timeout, which would normally only ha
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by gwd 2y ago
Wordpress handles 404s really slowly? I'm kind of surprised it works at all then, as at least in my logs there's a very steady stream of bots probing it for vulnerabilities by trying random URLs.
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by gwd 2y ago
> Smith suggested that an investigation report from the time should not be disclosed to [Noel Thomas] when it was reviewed in 2014. If it was to be disclosed, the inquiry heard, it should be heavily redacted – and Smith himself had writt
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by gwd 2y ago
It gets regular balance updates. They've slowed quite a bit, but there was one in the last few months, and I believe the one before that was like 2 years or so. There's also the matchmaking, which is a service they provide. The
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by gwd 2y ago
> great, good for you and those people. but clearly most people don't. If throwawaysleep had said, "Some people seem to like exercise, but I've tried all kinds of things and never found anything that wasn't a misery&q
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by gwd 2y ago
> Baseline self-reported frequency of VPA was categorized into low VPA (<1 session/week), and high VPA (≥1 session/week). So yeah, this is a mere correlational study, and a self-reported one at that. So technically, it coul
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by gwd 2y ago
> Exercise sucks. Lots of people, including myself, love exercising. If nothing else, endorphins are a great natural "high". And I can tell that the rest of my system just works better when I'm working out regularly: I h

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