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3y ago
This is wonderful! Just last night I realized I had a need for something like this, while using the "words containing" feature of Pleco. I find I can remember characters much better if I see their relationship to other characters.
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3y ago
My chromebook together with crouton was excellent until Google obsoleted it. I'll never buy another one.
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4y ago
I'm enjoying the Milewski series too. For a couple months I've been plowing through some books on Category Theory. It isn't easy for me. A disproportionate number of aha moments have happened while re-re-watching one of his p
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4y ago
I've been enjoying this book for the last 2 weeks. It's not an easy read for me. I did a BA in Math about the time negative numbers were discovered and haven't touched math much ever since. But with some effort this book is d
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4y ago
A little regex skill goes a long way. A little bit more goes even longer than expected. And you can count on regex being a thing years from now.
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5y ago
I used Dvorak for about 15 years and loved it. There are probably incrementally better layouts now, but Dvorak was available when I switched. I found it very much more comfortable than QWERTY. Perhaps a little faster. But ending the pain in
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5y ago
When my Chromebook fell out of "support" it became useless. Like, I couldn't open a console or run Crouton to do what I needed to do. The hardware was fine, just Google remotely broke my machine. I liked my Chromebook, but wi
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6y ago
This is really cool. I wish it had been available when I learned Chinese back in the mid-80s. I remember having to look up the pinyin in one dictionary to get the character(s) and then count strokes to look it up in a different dictionary t
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6y ago
I try to find excuses to express density in an area in terms of miles per gallon, but it turns out to be surprisingly difficult.
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7y ago
His book was horrifyingly interesting. Today I got annoyed by something stupid that Slack fails at but is easy in email. Then I realized I could be working on a Thai fishing boat and Slack suddenly seemed totally adequate.
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8y ago
I had one of these, and installed Linux on it (it came with Windows). But the hard drive was so noisy I couldn't stand to use it. That was the fatal flaw.
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10y ago
This book made a deep impact on my worldview.
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10y ago
I hate typing, so here's a short reply. I type less every year. 6 years from diagnosis. I seek work that is more looking at stuff to find the fault, and less data entry. Voice recognition is fine for dictation, but sux for editing code