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by knubie 3y ago
> Also, I have not found a flashcard program that lets you make cards as fast as Supermemo. With Supermemo, you paste in a chunk of text (ctrl-n), highlight a word you want to make cloze deletion from, and press alt-x. In Mochi it's
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by knubie 3y ago
> It’s 2024, people aren’t going to go out of their way to setup “bouncers” to keep up with conversation that happens when they’re not online or leave their computer running 24/7. You can just set up something like The Lounge [0]. [
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by knubie 3y ago
I love seeing all of these new local-first libraries and tools popping up! I just wish they were around when I started my app several years ago :-( I use pouchdb / couchdb right now and I think my biggest issue at the moment is the amo
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by knubie 3y ago
That's interesting, I always thought the Navy was #2.
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by knubie 3y ago
I spent a couple hours playing with Rosebud this morning and I have a bit of feedback. - I thought this would be a useful tool for prototyping, but as a programmer I would probably never use this to release a finished product. Maybe it woul
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by knubie 3y ago
What kind of app would you trust to have access to your emails?
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by knubie 3y ago
> A better version of this tool might be a browser plugin that lets you click words as you read content online and add to a vocab list. This There is a browser extension that does this called yomichan.
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by knubie 3y ago
Are there income requirements to maintain your visa? E.g. how much money the business needs to make, or how much income you need to pay yourself.
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by knubie 3y ago
I used the second one, thanks!
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by knubie 3y ago
> Art is never finished, only abandoned.
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by knubie 3y ago
This sounds a lot like the original pitch for Urbit.
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by knubie 3y ago
Sick Animation is still around and even dumber and better than ever.
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by knubie 3y ago
> People who paid to speak to an AI girlfriend modeled after real life 23-year-old influencer Caryn Marjorie are distraught because the service they paid for, Forever Companions, no longer works. It appears that the service stopped worki
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by knubie 3y ago
And scamming grannies out of thousands of dollars is?
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by knubie 3y ago
The name of this site drives me crazy. How is it supposed to be pronounced? Ass-cinema? Asky-nema?
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by knubie 3y ago
A third (fourth?) option worth mentioning here is difftastic[0], which uses "structural" diffing (as opposed to line diffing) for more granular diff highlighting. [0] https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic
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by knubie 3y ago
A "reasonable" homicide rate might be something similar to the rate in other developed countries, so about 1/10 of what it is in Seattle.
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by knubie 3y ago
Subsidizing something will get you more of that thing.
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by knubie 3y ago
> What does the average American think about this? That all depends on the government's execution. If they can deliver a system that is more convenient to use, cheaper (no, government services are not "free") and provides
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by knubie 3y ago
One consequence of this approach is that your mutators will need to be versioned, and you can pretty much never delete or change them once they're live. (Please correct me if I'm wrong).
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by knubie 3y ago
The article mentions retention rate down 30% but makes no mention of conversion rate. Was it up by the same amount? Was it up by more? Did the MRR change? There's not enough information here to make any kind of conclusion. They also se
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by knubie 3y ago
I'd be really interested in a much smaller / cheaper version, like an all-electric maverick.
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by knubie 3y ago
I think the implication is that it's difficult to read because it's read non-linearly. You first need to start in the middle at `greeting`, then work your way out to `capitalize` on the left, then to `+ "!"` on the right
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by knubie 3y ago
This is true, in theory. However when we attempted to deploy it this way in our org, the average non-technical user was simply unable to grok the concepts of relational databases and we ended up with a complete mess that needed to be manual
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by knubie 3y ago
I built Mochi [0] from the ground up to be local first. The architecture is built around pouchdb for the local database which syncs to and from a remote couchdb database. It's been a challenge to implement and in hindsight I wonder if
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by knubie 3y ago
Print debugging can be much faster than using a debugger if you can figure out the problem and fix it on the first try. For more complex issues it makes sense to switch to a debugger.
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by knubie 3y ago
$60 billion is a lot of money. How much do Americans actually spend on tax prep per year?
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by knubie 3y ago
As per the article Chicago needed cash, and quickly, to fill a budget shortfall, so they sold a lease up front to fill the hole.
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by knubie 3y ago
> For a simple web hello world you need a huge build and compile pipeline. These frameworks were not created to solve “Simple hello world” apps.
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by knubie 3y ago
I am one of the few people, it seems, that actually prefers on-site to remote work. I’ve never felt more isolated and commoditized than I have when working fully remotely.

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