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by sivers 2y ago
Agreed. I've been using it for all DNS and CDN for over two years now. Great company, great support, great performance, great API. Everything. Love it. I'm a big fan.
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by sivers 2y ago
Agreed. I just had that moment like the guy in the movie "Her", the first time he speaks to his OS. Laughing at myself for talking to a computer like a real person. Then had to hang up because it crossed that uncanny valley. But t
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by sivers 2y ago
Sorry for my dumb question, but the timing of this topic is perfect because I'm just now considering getting my first TV. Can't I just get a nice OLED smart TV and NEVER connect it to the internet? Put MP4/MKV movies onto a U
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by sivers 2y ago
From an old David Letterman interview with her long, long ago, I learned a cool little life hack: She moved to the big city and was getting into the entertainment industry, going around with her CV/résumé, trying to get jobs. The most
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by sivers 2y ago
In case anyone comes across this in the future, I've posted my PostgreSQL version here: https://github.com/sivers/srs
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by sivers 2y ago
I know my up-vote of this comment is supposed to be enough, but I just have to add, as an extra praise @jl6 here: That's the funniest sentence I've heard in a long time. “Nobody ever thought to themselves: I sure could go for some
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by sivers 2y ago
So weird how some minds think alike in more than one aspect. I already loved your writing, but I never would have predicted that anyone else (besides me) was trying to put spaced repetition algorithms into SQL. I've been in touch with
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by sivers 2y ago
https://nownownow.com/ is still hand-made by me, not automated. The only way a website gets added there is if the owner emails me, and I checked out the /now page, and decided to add it. Every now and then I get a subm
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by sivers 2y ago
PAYMENT TANGENT for my fellow entrepreneurs here that take Visa/Mastercard payments: I tried to sign up to Lambda Labs just now to check out Hermes 3. Created an account, verified my email address, entered my billing info... ... but th
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by sivers 2y ago
I'm a fan of the Little Schemer, so I'm happy you're trying this format. I hope you keep trying more than once. Sometimes these things take a while to get right and find the sweet spot. Little Schemer was instantly appealin
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by sivers 2y ago
Maybe DAW workflows are like programming languages. Some say language X is elegant and productive, while language Y is awful. Some say language Y is the great one, while language X is unusuable. Some workflows just make more sense to some b
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by sivers 2y ago
For what it's worth, it's not just you. I had the same experience with this same machine. I used Logic and other DAWs for many years, and used to be super-productive with them while running a professional recording studio in NYC.
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by sivers 2y ago
(hi Vincent.) I've lived in New Zealand for the last 12 years, and still also appreciate the the sounds of the birds every day. It never gets old, for me. The tui birds, bellbirds, saddlebacks, and grey warblers in particular. When I l
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by sivers 2y ago
Great summary. Thank you.
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by sivers 3y ago
Wow, Eggy, you have a really interesting background and even more interesting continued pursuit. Consider connecting: https://sive.rs/contact
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by sivers 3y ago
Very cool. I've got all the /now pages from https://nownownow.com/ in my PostgreSQL database (I'm the creator/admin of it) so feel free to contact me if you'd like a more direct data connection.
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by sivers 3y ago
> How did he encode what the neighboring countries are? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria#/media/File:Syria_(ortho... That map of the globe i
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by sivers 3y ago
His decks: * computer * culture * English * math * music * nature * where I don't think we've ever pulled anything out of the deck. There are some cards that it says, when we mark [easy], that it will ask him again in 6 years. W
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by sivers 3y ago
If you care enough, you'll do it. Every day I brush my teeth, write in my diary, do my Anki, check email, eat something, etc. It's only a few minutes a day.
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by sivers 3y ago
We do it together, just 2-5 minutes a day. When I'm away he does it on his own maybe 50/50.
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by sivers 3y ago
It's not perfect, but it's better than not doing it. He enjoys it.
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by sivers 3y ago
Not at all, and not particularly smart. Just a normal fun-loving kid, and this is something we do just 2-5 minutes a day.
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by sivers 3y ago
About 1000 cards now. We do it daily. It's often just a few cards per day, so it takes 1-5 minutes. Spelling is the biggest category. I record myself saying a word that I've seen him spell wrong. The answer is the written word. Ma
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by sivers 3y ago
Yeah sorry, I started writing the comment, then had deja vu, so I looked at my HN history, realized I'd already said it better before, and thought it was worth just pasting the previous one. Not automated.
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by sivers 3y ago
My boy is 11 now. We've used Anki with him every day since he was about 5. Examples of things he's memorized, for fun: * every country, recognized by unlabeled shape on the map * spelling * many body parts, names of bones and orga
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by sivers 3y ago
We use the app on whatever device is around: iPad, Mac, Linux, etc. They're synced through https://ankiweb.net/
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by sivers 3y ago
We do it together. It's just a few minutes a day. Like brushing teeth, something you just have to do, but he usually enjoys it. Regular Anki for iPad, Linux, MacOS, synced. Whatever device is handy. I do the card entry. He just answers
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by sivers 3y ago
My boy is 11 now. We've used Anki with him every day since he was about 5. Examples of things he's memorized, for fun: * every country, recognized by unlabeled shape on the map * spelling * many body parts, names of bones and org
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by sivers 3y ago
At age 54, I'm now in the final quarter of my life. That assumption inspires me. It discourages procrastination, and encourages me to let go of plans that probably won't happen, since I'm almost out of time. “To achieve great
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by sivers 3y ago
That is quoting an article from 2002, 21 years ago. https://everything2.com/title/BSD+is+dying (I've been using OpenBSD as my primary OS since 2000 so I guess I'm one of the 7000 OGs.)

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