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by rjh29 4y ago
I'm not a beginner (12k cards, 10 years). What works for me personally: 1) test word -> meaning, not word -> word in other language 2) I don't test reverse most of the time, unless I really want to remember how to say someth
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by rjh29 4y ago
Rust is also a video game, which causes confusion to this day. Go is a very common word. As a result people end up using rustlang and golang in searches, defeating the point of having a catchy name in the first place.
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by rjh29 4y ago
I have definitely wasted lots of time creating and reviewing cards for words that I never see again (the long tail) or don't strictly need to know. But the feeling of coming across a word that you learned and -knowing- it is amazing. I
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by rjh29 4y ago
My deck has 10,000 hand-made cards and I know for sure they stick in my brain easier than cards from a premade deck that I have no connection with. I suspect it depends how you make the deck. I intentionally use sentences and images that I
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by rjh29 4y ago
Language is really the ideal use case, you cannot stop and look up words every few seconds when talking to someone. And doing it while reading or watching TV spoils the enjoyment somewhat. You need to frontload a ton of data into your mind
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by rjh29 4y ago
I'm a big fan of making lots of cards, like you say you can just hit Easy and send them into next year, or conversely if you keep forgetting them and they're using up lots of time, just suspend or delete them. When I couldn't
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by rjh29 4y ago
My friend has one that mounts to the back of a laptop and slides out to become a second monitor. Probably useful if you need portability but also dual monitors.
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by rjh29 4y ago
It is in the original repo: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/main/visibilit... The problem is, the branch 'main' and its contents will change over time, so GP linked to a 'per
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by rjh29 4y ago
Go Go Curry is Kanazawa-style (thick almost like gravy, served over the rice with cabbage, on a metal bowl). It's very popular and lots of places do that style. If you like it I also recommend Champion Curry and Joto Curry. I agree the
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by rjh29 4y ago
Two different types of curry. The article/image are about Indian restaurants in Japan, which tend to have a large naan and a few small metal bowls of curry. The one you're talking about is usually known as 'curry rice' (
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by rjh29 4y ago
There is basically no regex to validate names except for maybe "is not an empty string".
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by rjh29 4y ago
Walking 1 hour round trip to work was the sweet spot for me. Exercise, easy to go to the gym either side, listened to podcasts, had a mental transition to and from work, and walking is fine in basically any weather or season. Now I work fro
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by rjh29 4y ago
If I write more than about 50 bytes of awk I inevitably end up using perl instead because it's much more powerful. One example was I wanted to convert a column in format a|b|c to ['a', 'b', 'c']. Doing tha
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by rjh29 4y ago
It's simple really, it doesn't steal my attention away, I can just brush them off. Not everybody is the same.
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by rjh29 4y ago
Most of the time the app is pushing them on you for engagement (youtube: LOOK NEW VIDEO!). But for important chats with important people, I sometimes want a notification when they send me a message.
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by rjh29 4y ago
I don't think we disagree. The video says the translation will be "readable" but needs several days of an experienced editor passing over it. That's an amazing result, but again, it's not as good as a human yet. It&
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by rjh29 4y ago
I have tested it :) I've asked it to translate English fictional text into Japanese, it falls over often. It's unnatural and often makes no sense at all. It doesn't compare to a typical professional translation (which are oft
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by rjh29 4y ago
Idiomatic translation of text matching a human professional (e.g. free of errors for legal terms, interesting and natural for fiction) is unlikely to be achieved until we have AGI. So no.
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by rjh29 4y ago
Yeah it's easy for you because it's two people's full time job to maintain it? Many of us are having to learn it and use it in our spare time, or on top of our other work. We wouldn't necessarily know the best practices,
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by rjh29 4y ago
FWIW Lenovo has promised they won't remove them. https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-promises-TrackPoint-wil... They removed it from the ThinkPad X1 Fold and got enough negative feedback that it was reintroduced in th
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by rjh29 4y ago
Same here, both X1 Carbon and T14s have had keyboard problems after 3 years or so, yet they keep making them thinner and worse to use. Lenovo seem determined to destroy the ThinkPad's best feature.
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by rjh29 4y ago
I used that when building a database of Japanese names, but found that even wikidata is inconsistent in the format/structure of its data, as it's contributed by a variety of automated and human sources!
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by rjh29 4y ago
Yeah I've tried to parse it for Japanese and even there it's so inconsistent (human-written) that the effort required is crazy.
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by rjh29 4y ago
This may finally be a solution for scraping wikipedia and turning it into structured data. (Or do we even need structured data in the post-AI age?) Mediawiki is notorious for being hard to parse: * https://github.com/spencer
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by rjh29 4y ago
You can swap them in a bios on Thinkpad (which is Fn-Ctrl-Super-Alt anyway), then it works everywhere. Maybe the Framework can too? Your keys will still lie to you, but I feel like this is a pretty minor thing to worry about.
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by rjh29 4y ago
I agree! I try not to make test code too complicated, and prefer repetitive code over abstractions (else you have to test the tests!) so Copilot is useful there.
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by rjh29 4y ago
> Curl claims that it supports so many protocols but I do not see many examples where they are in action, for instance, how to use ssh protocol to perform transfer between two machines? Where can I find such examples? You could try it yo
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by rjh29 4y ago
The whole point is that carbs are addictive and most people demonstrably cannot eat a reasonable amount of carbs and just stop, similar to any other addiction.
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by rjh29 4y ago
I like words where one kanji is changed to make the meaning opposite (without changing the pronounciation) 名演 (great acting performance) -> 迷演 (baffling performance) 国道 (highway) -> 酷道 (road in terrible condition) There are also some
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by rjh29 4y ago
I live in the UK and it's relatively cheap here, and very popular.

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