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by narwally 6y ago
> talkabl.com This is fantastic. The LingQ UX is truly horrible and it has way too many unnecessary features, but as far as I knew it was the only thing available with what it offers. I end up paying a monthly subscription, even though I
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by narwally 6y ago
Anki is fantastic for its flexibility, but for language learning I've found I reach a point of diminishing returns after a certain point. From personal experience, I've been pretty much sold on Stephen Krashen's theory of sec
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by narwally 6y ago
When my sister lost the "sensor bar" on her Wii I showed her how to use a pair of candles to replace it. The sensor bar is just a a set of IR lights that the camera on the wii-mote detects.
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by narwally 6y ago
This same non-profit, the APOPO, also trains these rats to detect tuberculosis. Apparently the laboratory testing in Tanzania produces a lot of false negatives, and the rats can screen the same number of samples it takes a lab tech an entir
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by narwally 6y ago
Any recommendations on learning to use make more effectively outside of just reading the docs? I feel like this is a glaring gap in my knowledge as I really only know the basics.
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by narwally 6y ago
I may just have to buy rashcreek.com It's disturbing, yet sophisticated.
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by narwally 6y ago
> Damn crazy. Why did that happen? Moderate burnout situation that went on for way too long? Or intense burnout in a few months? Basically a combination of both. I was at a medium sized startup fresh out of college, and I was the only on
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by narwally 6y ago
Dammit, now feel like a complete idiot for my mess of a bash script that creates symlinks all over the place. I guess I know what I'm doing tomorrow morning.
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by narwally 6y ago
Agreed. If you can't negotiate where you at, then start the negotiations somewhere else.
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by narwally 6y ago
It's amazing what a bit of exercise and a head clear of problems to solve can do for you. In my experience, it's unfortunately the case(for me at least) that the harder and longer you push before you burnout scales linearly with t
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by narwally 6y ago
Tarsnap was his startup in question. It looks like it's still going strong. Even has a testimonial from the CEO of Stripe on the website.
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by narwally 6y ago
The best part is, he ended up being justified in his self confidence. He was talking about his company Tarsnap, which still seems to be going strong 13 years later, and now has Stripe as a customer.
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by narwally 6y ago
I definitely agree that having a good understanding of git's internals is a must for using it to its full potential. I'm not sure you have to go as far as implementing it yourself, but it is a sure fire way to get there. For me it
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by narwally 6y ago
I actually learned Dutch as an adult, I'm around a B1/B2 level. I did actually notice my dyslexia at least felt like less of an issue in Dutch. Since I learned mostly through reading, I learned new words in their written form, and
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by narwally 6y ago
I'm actually working through SICP for the second time right now[1]. This looks like a great place to go after I finish that. I've been meaning to roll my sleeves up and finally dig into the Common Lisp ecosystem, so far it's
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by narwally 6y ago
I had this argument with the CTO of a startup I worked for a while back. We had previous experience with a contractor that did great work, but charged the going rate for great work. We had a new job that required the same skill set, and the
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by narwally 6y ago
Thanks, I knew it was some permutation of those words.
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by narwally 6y ago
It's just a simplification, many people experience dyslexia differently, but for some people with dyslexia that may be a good way to describe to someone what they experience. It's not actually a medical diagnosis, though can achie
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by narwally 6y ago
I'm sure there are, but I haven't needed to use any modules so far, so I have no perspective on what kind of challenges they present. But with Jekyll you could get into dependency issues just trying to go through the tutorial and
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by narwally 6y ago
I find it interesting, and somewhat amusing, that we're seeing Data-Oriented-Design becoming popular in C++ and Rust while Data-Oriented-Programming/Data-Driven-Design[1] is being promoted in languages like Clojure and Elm. Both h
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by narwally 6y ago
I haven't done much beyond dip my toes in Golang so far, but I did start moving my blog over from Jekyll to Hugo last week; Man do I love just being able to install a single binary and then get to work. Python, Javascript, and Ruby hav
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by narwally 6y ago
In what way do you find it too chatty? That hasn't been my experience, but I do use a pretty small subset of it. Are you using it on its own, or with helm/ivy?
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by narwally 6y ago
I donate little bits here and there when I can, but I'm unfortunately not in financial position to give what I think the maintainers deserve. Instead I try to submit documentation patches to projects whenever I find myself digging thro
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by narwally 6y ago
Oh wow, I used to use that theme. Thanks for making it. Yeah, most of the elisp I write is mostly just glue code, not something that makes sense to package and distribute.
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by narwally 6y ago
No spam either. Their UI is also really transparent. You can even edit all of your DNS records as a single plain text file.
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by narwally 6y ago
I've been really happy with Gandi on this front. I just checked, and I haven't received an email from them since I had to confirm my email address two months ago.
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by narwally 6y ago
I've been using Emacs for a decade and still have never had to write a single package of my own. Every time I have a good idea, someone else has already implemented it.
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by narwally 6y ago
I do the same thing. intersections are the most dangerous place you can be on two wheels, so having speed when you go through them means you're in them for a shorter period of time and you have more maneuverability and control of your
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by narwally 6y ago
Yep, I actually feel much safer when I'm flying down singletrack on my mountain bike than I do when I'm commuting to work. On the mountain bike I know exactly what and where the dangers are, and I have a lot of control over how mu
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by narwally 6y ago
"She's still your mom." yeah, and these are still the scars from the cigarettes she put out on my thigh. Sometimes bridges are burnt, and sometimes they were never built in the first place. "The blood of the covenant is

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