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by uselesswords 1y ago
Some of us also value having freedom in what we use for the majority of our day.
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by uselesswords 1y ago
A big problem with other spheres like education is that they do not react immediately in the sense that the effects of a change in policy won't be realized for decades. The economy on the other hand basically has an instant reaction to
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by uselesswords 1y ago
disclaimer: Not medical advice. Just an exercise in theory. See a real doctor/neurologist or migrane specialist. I would be very suspect of a Medication Overuse Headache (MOH) due what appears to be acute/abortive use of painkille
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by uselesswords 1y ago
The deck used to just be shared on reddit & such. But for all your questions, there is now a central "upstream" entity called AnkiHub that organizes and maintains updates to cards, syncs, etc. It's a $5/month subscri
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by uselesswords 1y ago
https://bbc.co.uk sends me to https://bbc.com in the states and it is just infuriating
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by uselesswords 1y ago
This is probably my biggest gripe. It’s so much information to digest at first, it’s a tough ask. And there’s so many rookie mistakes. I made the mistake of just jumping in and I would say I spent the first 6 months using Anki “wrong” in th
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by uselesswords 1y ago
That’s because the default model is designed for the general user. If you sat down and really worked with the documentation, you would realize you shouldn’t be using decks or collections for management you should be using tags. Decks and co
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by uselesswords 1y ago
It’s amazing how every single point you’ve made here is wrong as the other commenter already dove into. On top of that Anki is one of the best documented pieces of open-source software I’ve messed with. If you’re able to program, ChatGPT ca
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by uselesswords 1y ago
I’m my own villain
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by uselesswords 1y ago
What’s with this rising trend of authoritative comments on HN thinking their individual rationale/experience generalizes. It wasn’t this bad just a few years ago, but now I’m seeing just outright absurd generalizations like this.
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by uselesswords 1y ago
Why is it that apps in the US are not as (overtly) commercialized or gamified (like Temu) as some of their chinese-counterparts? Is american culture just less tolerant of it? You would think there is more profit to be made by doing so which
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by uselesswords 1y ago
Granted my response was a bit more hostile than the general tone of responses on this site. The person I was replying to had made a very large claim about passwords and general security that ran counter to what I think we can agree are gene
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by uselesswords 2y ago
These are all practical reasons, not really philosophical. Unless any form of logic is philosophical but then everything is. If your claiming your philosophical stance is setting passwords doesn’t provide security, by your own reasoning in
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by uselesswords 2y ago
Gratuitously, maybe he has a device that can’t connect to WiFi network with a password. Realistically, probably just laziness. Neither of these are philosophical though…
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by uselesswords 2y ago
What you’re describing is just human nature. I also wish for a world where everyone was honest with their intentions. It’s not realistic. You might as well just complain about humanity as a whole, unless you have a better idea, or can fix h