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by knubie 6y ago
Anecdotal but the reason I wanted a smaller phone was to be able to use it comfortable with one hand (I use an OG iPhone SE now), and the screen size of the iPhone 12 mini is on par with the 6/7/8 plus, which are very much not usa
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I would actually like the opposite of this. Having newsletters and other such “no-reply” emails go directly to an RSS feed.
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by knubie 6y ago
The current tax code incentivizes insurance as compensation, which drastically distorts the market. The ACA made things even worse by introducing the individual mandate.
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by knubie 6y ago
If you are using spaced repetition, or thinking about using spaced repetition with these kind of hand-crafted notes, you might be interested in Mochi[0], which uses markdown note-cards and kind of mixes the Zettelkasten concept and spaced r
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by knubie 6y ago
I’ve been using tig for years and never did a push / pull / checkout with it. The git CLI works fine for that, so I understand the authors priority here.
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by knubie 6y ago
Been using tig for years and couldn’t imagine going back. I love how closely it maps to the standard git CLI.
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I think this is exactly how Hasura works.
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No. Hard / difficult is the opposite of easy. See the talk by Rich Hickey linked in a sibling comment.
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It’s actually pretty difficult to find a TV like that. Most stores don’t even have “dumb” TVs.
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by knubie 6y ago
Immersing is incredibly frustrating / challenging when your comprehension is < 90%. It's a real chore. For me, I've found that having audio for every card is invaluable. Preferably audio from the source where you first enc
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by knubie 6y ago
It seems like there's been a lot of buzz around space repetition on hacker news lately. I've used SRS for learning Japanese with great success, and it would be hard for me to imagine making any progress without it. The one thing I
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by knubie 6y ago
While not a "frontend" to Anki, I built Mochi[0] in part because I was also frustrated with Anki's UI/UX and it supports importing Anki decks to an extent. It uses a similar scheduling algorithm to Anki, but it's ba
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by knubie 6y ago
I think the idea is that IndexedDB acts as a more lower level store that you can build higher level abstractions over, for example PouchDB.
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by knubie 6y ago
1. The .mochi file is just a zip archive with a plain text description of the deck/cards (in extensible data notation[0]) and any media files used in the deck(s) exported. You can find documentation on the format of edn file on the FAQ
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Mostly found the interface really clunky and confusing / difficult to use, which made me dread using the app regularly. Some things were also surprisingly difficult to accomplish / impossible to do. I also wanted to be able to wri
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by knubie 6y ago
Sharing isn't built into the app yet, but you can export decks and share them.
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I was pretty frustrated with existing spaced repetition software, so I went ahead and made my own[1]. It's markdown enabled (including latex), with a cross platform offline-first desktop app and mobile apps. The pro subscription offers
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by knubie 6y ago
I’ve tried to follow this approach with my own app[0]. An account is optional, and a subscription plan is available to sync your data across devices. There have definitely been some challenges with this approach, from available tech stacks
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by knubie 6y ago
Hanlon's razor applies here. Many people here and elsewhere on the net are quick to point out corruption or voter suppression, but I think a more realistic explanation is plain old incompetence from the people running these places.
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by knubie 6y ago
There was a big update recently that added better split pane support. https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/changelog.html#id9
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by knubie 6y ago
This bothers me to no end. It makes the vast majority of content on Netflix nearly useless in terms of trying to pick up new words.
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by knubie 6y ago
This is a great idea. Recently my aunt visited me in NYC and Macy's offered to store her luggage for her. That sounded pretty old school to me, but it made a lot of sense, it gets people in the store at little cost to them.
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by knubie 6y ago
OOP is an abstraction over functions, but it can be explained much more simply without closures. Classes introduce a convenient syntax / abstraction over polymorphism, and can be written with plain functions without the need for closur
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by knubie 6y ago
I hear you. One of these days I’d like to make a nice drag and drop editor experience for Clojure.
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by knubie 6y ago
To clarify: it is planned to use hitchhiker tree synchronization in v0.6.0. The latest release as of now is v0.3.1.
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> For small, and really small companies they already have the talent to deal with the database directly because that's how they handle most of their problems because they don't have a "console" interface. I feel like
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> Interestingly, it seems the US is almost unique in our mass deindustrialization. Japan, Germany and South Korea have avoided this. Those countries also have much higher trade barriers. The US is almost unique in how few trade trade res
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That's interesting, the CDC lists 42.4% for the US. https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html
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This is how Mochi[0] works. It exports a .EDN file that describes the cards, decks and review history. There are a few libraries out there that work with the format[2] but no one has adopted the format in their own apps AFAIK. Anki also has
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by knubie 6y ago
I've seen this concept called by many names including CQS[0] and Functional Core, Imperative Shell[1]. I'm just leaving this comment here for those that are interested in reading more. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/

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