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What website/application would you recommend for spaced repetition of vocabulary?

I've found the changing Windows logon screens quite nice, since every other day or so there's a new beautiful picture along with a few bubbles of text in German, enabling me to learn a few new words (though I'll probably forget most of them).
> The main FSF Libre software benefits they tout ‘for users’ are only actually accessible by developers.

You're assuming that users cannot themselves be developers. Why can't they? Writing software is a skill and can be taught.
They reported $12 billion in profit last year. That's not low.
The Samsung smart watches look really nice to me, I don't know how decent they are in real life though since I don't own one.
I don't think writing is just about communicating things to other people. It's also communicating things to yourself.

I think the greatest value in writing things down is to order and articulate your own thoughts. Certainly in my own case, I never finish a large chunk of articles I start to write simply because during the research I find out I was wrong, or that things are more complex than I thought and I'm no longer sure I'm right.

See my personal website for a post I wrote about that :-) https://arp242.net/weblog/why-write.html

An additional reason is that publishing your thoughts also means people can point out flaws or points you hadn't considered. Maintaining a website is just one way of doing that of course (commenting here is another), but I find it's a pretty effective way.
The main difficulty is that there are so many French words in the English language, with slightly different meanings: so called false cognates.¹

1: https://www.thoughtco.com/french-english-false-cognates-faux...
Well, if the objective of the sentence is to teach the reader a word, it's more significant than missing any arbitrary typo in a foreign language.
Somebody mentioned "genocide and slavery was part of the making of america rather than try to hide it" but it disturbs the narrative of the shining beacon on the hill and Thanksgiving.

Virtue and compassion are not geographical traits.
I think it was a wonderful thing until people figured out how to efficiently exploit people with it. It just turns out to be incredibly good for exploiting people, and I think this bell can’t be unrung.
Tesla to reduce solar panel prices by up to 38 percent
I would imagine it varies a lot. I went through three different programs in my midsize town growing up, with different class sizes and teachers. They varied in many ways and one way was the attitude of other children. When the program was large, like a magnet school, there weren’t social problems. When we had a class of 12 kids in a school of 300 we were ostracized.

I stood out so much in normal classrooms that it was difficult to participate. I was about three years or more ahead of everyone, reading at a college level in fourth grade while some students still struggled to read compound sentences. I felt very fortunate to be put in a class with a few people my age who were at a similar level of intellectual ability.
The fact that they're not so neatly distinguishable is very much at the heart of the problem. One of the main ways companies avoid tax is by making it appear that their revenue, profits, and (to a lesser extent) costs are somewhere other than where they really are. Amazon in the US is very much aware of the tax implications of hiring or locating assets in the EU, whether legitimately or as a pure dodge, and depends on the difference.
Interesting, thank you for sharing. Nothing new since 2017 if I understand correctly? I understand that the C++ proposal system is very slow, still it would be nice to know if that’s still something people are working on. I would personally love to see something like this in the standard!
The answer to basically any spaced repetition question is always going to end up being Anki.

https://apps.ankiweb.net/
Very curious to see what their cash flows are like. WeWork has a ton of what Is effectively debt in the form of capital leases. A key indicator is going to be what load factor can they maintain profitability at.
Hackers Steal and Ransom Financial Data Related to World’s Largest Companies
At a high level of just considering taxable income that is true. However, the difference is there are a lot more things a corp can do to reduce taxable income than an individual can do. If you happen to be the owner of a corp you can also use those things to your individual benefit.

If the argument is to say "income is income", then "expenses are expenses" should apply too.

Edit: typo
This one is pretty good. https://apps.ankiweb.net/
> And your peak level might not last.

If you don't use a language, you lose it. Yes, even your native language. It does take longer because you know so much of it.
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@jeltz:

> Time sortable UUIDs...

Then perhaps store the time as a separate field? Makes them indexable and trivially extracted.

> you ensure that inserts are quite often done in sequential order, which is good for btrees.

I've just explained why that may not be the case under high insertion rates. This from https://www.sqlpassion.at/archive/2014/04/15/an-ever-increas... "With the best practice of an ever-increasing Clustered Key value you have a single hotspot at the end of your Clustered Key. The smaller your records are, the more contention you are introducing here. How can you solve that problem? Easy: spread your INSERT statements across the whole B-Tree structure of the Clustered Index."

@willvarfar:

> Its hard to find a natural key for something as simple as a customer...

OK, completely agree, and you go further - I can't dispute any of that. Only thing I'd say is perhaps don't use a UUID. A 4 byte int will give you plenty of space and use 1/4 of the memory of a GUID. But I may just be splitting hairs. Point accepted!

@heavenlyblue:

> A billion rows require a gigabyte per each extra byte in a row. That's nothing.

I can do the maths, thanks. But if you need real-time responses out a single DB machine serving many users, some heavy, then you have to cache 98% to 100% inside the RAM. Each gig of table read may be an extra 1-5 seconds, depending on disks & setup. Contention increases as more users pile in. Contention increases horribly if queries are greatly slowed by needing to read off the disk. I was fighting for that space to get, and keep, responsiveness.

"buy more machines" is a good response but only after you've optimised to the point of minimal returns. We were a small company, we had to make it work.
The problem appears to be sequential so how would SIMD help? Also what advances in squatting algorithms have there been specifically? None of the links you have provided appear relevant
It's actually a better excuse for traffic violations than for international politics. What the rules of the road specifically don't matter all that much so long as everyone is behaving predictably so doing what everyone else does is generally the best option even if it's not the letter of the law.
The pumps and monitors and smart phones being used by the DIYers in this case were all produced by capitalists. Without these things, the DIYers would not be able to do what they are doing.

The capitalists got these devices to market despite the regulatory processes of the FDA, which are expensive and time consuming.

What this story highlights is that the regulatory process has created a situation where only corporations with big pockets can generally play in this space legally. What the DIYers are doing is not legal. It is definitely moral, but not legal.
It depends on the gifted program. I was in one in high school and rather enjoyed it, though it was a pretty wide range of "gifted" (top 10% of my age cohort). I wouldn't characterize my experience as raising the the grade, but rather by diving into different material alongside different people. The material was ostensibly advanced/sophisticated sure, but it was categorically different from what would be encountered in the higher grades at the same "level."

A friend of mine was in a much more rigorous gifted program (through Stanford) and I think it was the best thing that ever happened to him. He had a very poor home life but he's phenomenally brilliant (he's one of a specific handful of people I've personally met who I use that term for). All he really enjoyed doing from the time he was 12 was reading math and physics books. Going through the gifted program put him on a path that exercised his talents in a way that he found personally very fulfilling. He ended up finishing undergrad at Harvard before the age most kids become sophomores, and then completed a PhD from Harvard before the age most people even begin one.

Then he went on to work for the NSA and, later, a hedge fund. Those things probably look soulless to a lot of people, but he's very happy.
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In college Mandarin courses we were required to learn 30 words a day. That was a nearly impossible task for 20 year old me and required three hours of study a day on top of the 1:20 or 1:50 long daily class. To think a person more than twice that age can learn 30 words a day is, to my aged brain, ludicrous. Maybe it’s just me, but my learning ability is now vastly below what it was in my teens or even college.
You can use the YAML-like declarative syntax [1] instead to configure the pipelines for 90% of what you do, and just use Apache Groovy for the more complex logic, or interfacing with plugins.

[1] https://jenkins.io/doc/book/pipeline/syntax/
> more to do with my family's obsession with being smarter than everyone else, which made me an insufferable, lazy little jerkwad.

Massive props to you for having the self-awareness to make that realization. So many people don't.

And so many smart people fail to realize that being smart is just one gift among many. And all things considered, once you reach a certain minimum, other attributes are probably more important in life success (like work ethic, and social ability). It took me until my mid-20s to make that realization.
> There was always demand for having servers that processed high numbers of requests (e.g. C10K)

Demand is not binary. In 1995 the demand for concurrency was a fraction what it is today. Not only multicore processing was an extremely rare sighting in comparison to what we have today but also:

1. Internet was accessed by 10% of the population vs today's 80%+

2. Capable smartphones? First iPhone came only 12 years later. There was no such thing as internet during commute.

3. C10K for example was coined only in 1999.

The 20 years between 1995 and 2015 did change the IT landscape wildly regardless of your beliefs.
"But it’s hard to explain to people not steeped in the subject."

I don't agree. Actually it can be understood relatively easily, if it's explained well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho7oagHeqNc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0aYcq1tqMo
Imagine a person preferring one ad-driven social network to another because of more advanced digital graveyard capabilities.
Kudos for the text.

This would be truly remarkable if this comes to fruition as it has many applications for those parts of the world without ubiquitous access presently.
Experience.. if we're not talking about a leisurely walk or light garden work, there is always some pain in exercise. (These endorphins people talk about.. how long do you have to run for? Maybe if one gets more fit? )

There is joy in moving (and good feelings afterwards) too, but if you are unable to feel that, then only the boredom and pain remains.
What do I do with a DVD though? Can just download the tarball from online
I'm from southern France and know it, fwiw (although my parents are from near Paris and from Picardie)
Or maybe present them as they were, perhaps through explanatory plaques to go along with the statues, portraits and monuments: "To someone who did a lot of good for America through A, B and C, but also ratified/genocided/did whatever else we now know to be bad".

It probably wouldn't hurt to have commemorative objects of Indian leaders and country-shapers as well (of which I have no doubt there a good number), to present something more "complete" regarding American history (which, like any nation's history, is complicated and more like a series of connected creeks and streams than a single river sequence of events).
It's unrealistic to expect people to be willing to spend 14-15 hours a day in front of a screen.

While I don't spend the majority of my time programming any more, I still sit in front of a computer most of my work day.

My son has shown a great interest for programming and I really wish I had the time to do it with him more. But the last thing I want to do when I get home is sitting in front of a computer. My love and passion for programming are the same, and fortunately I get to spend most of my active programming and architectural time on things that can consume me completely. But I have a deep integral need to do things like cooking, gardening, training, reading etc.
Just got a Galaxy watch Sunday. So far I like it a lot. The rotating bezel is by far the best feature compared to other smart watches.
Why our pursuit of rationality leads to explosions of irrationality
"I have rent and bills to pay regardless of whether I'm making money, that is the definition of making a loss."

That is not a loss. That is an exchange of value; you pay $100 for your heating bill and receive $100 of heating.

A loss is when you have some value, and it disappears, and you have no compensating value. Buying a stock at $100 and selling it at $50 is a transaction in which you have less money at the end than you had at the beginning, and where you also had no compensating value exchange

Normal taxpayers do have rights to do things like carry forward losses in many circumstances. Business do get to be not taxed on expenses, but there are conditions on that. You can tell there are conditions on that because you can't just form an LLC and declare all your expenses to be losses, because you won't meet the conditions for your expenses to be losses. Note that that is the source of the problem, "form an LLC" is something you can totally do very easily, it's the failure for your personal expenses to qualify that is the problem.

While it might be emotionally satisfying to tax businesses on expenses, it's not hard to think about it a bit and realize why letting taxpayers deduct all their expenses, or trying to tax businesses on their expenses even when they didn't make a profit, are both not great ideas. (Think about the incentives created. Taxpayers don't need any more incentives to spend all their money on "expenses" as it is, if you've seen the credit card debt statistics.)
Nothing's changed. This is what strong nations everywhere, have always done to weaker ones whenever the weaker one has something they want.
Looks good. Time for you to do a Kickstarter!
I actually think that for her not letting go of English is the biggest obstacle. You won't be properly immersed if any significant part of your live still happens in your native tongue.

In my student exchange year this was very noticeable: all of us Europeans decided to not speak our native languages among ourselves while the large group of Brazilians kept speaking Portuguese with each other. At the end of the year the their English showed little improvement and they also did not seem be well integrated with American friends and so on.

On the other hand, we came home barely able to speak our native languages. That is a really weird feeling when you try to speak to your parents in German and your brain just gives you English words and idioms.

So yeah, before you give up because of age try to not leave your brain an out to be lazy. Brain, there is only one language now and you'd better learn it quickly.
(found via this excellent Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww/status/112294341339609907... ). Apparently the NUMMI plant is now Tesla..
Right now they're very gimmicky, Apple watch has a much better app ecosystem
This has been stuck in my mind for a while. The past months, whenever I searched for something I would get covered in pages upon pages of SEO-friendly copywriter bullshit without real content; it's driving me mad.

How possible would it be, to build something like this?
I grew up in Florida, a state addicted to standardized testing, and after a while you start to notice something. Standardized tests are like a meta game. I'm sure they provide a basic bench mark to see if you're literate or can do basic math but beyond that it's just pattern recognition. After a certain point you stop reading the passages, just skimming, because it's always the same types of questions and you can sort of intuit which beats of the story you need to look at to get the answer. The math sections are the same kind of thing. Match the question up to the right memorized algorithm and run it.

The tests measure your willingness and ability to become good at something with no short-term, obvious benefit, which is a clever system. However, not every high school student has 200 hours to spend getting good at bullshit.
> I think this is one of the biggest points. Kids spend all day in school being forced to learn, they come home and do homework, and everything they're doing day to day is exposing them to something new. Every little thing they know feels like a huge accomplishment.

You’re far too kind to school. You can teach an illiterate 9 year old to read English in 40 hours, about the same time as it takes to cover the entire primary school math curriculum with a 12 year old. Homework in primary school has nugatory impacts on learning; it’s a theft of time from children and their families for ~0 benefit. You can take a native speaker of Mandarin from completely illiterate to grade level in reading and writing in three years and that’s either the most difficult or the second most difficult language after Japanese to write. If children actually retained what they were taught in school maybe it would be worth it but the average US adult doesn’t know each state has two senators. People do not retain knowledge they don’t use or find interesting.

School before 12 years old is an exercise in teaching children things slowly and haltingly that they are capable of picking up quickly and easily in a fraction of the time two years later, and things that genuinely help children like play time, especially unstructured play are forced out to increase test scores in earlier age groups when the increase washes out to nothing compared to those of two decades ago by the end of high school.
Before I go to a mechanic I am checking their review online.

Before I hire an artist that would make some graphics for me I would ask for a portfolio. Nobody in graphic industry is surprised when someone asks to show some of their works.

Same with IT, you would try to do some background checking. See if there was some recommendations from person's past employers or some sort of porfolio.

Should it be everything I would use to evaluate person? Hell no! But if I can see someone's actual achievements it gives me much more insight and confidence about how I am evaluating the candidate.

Would I miss some good candidates? Probably. But the strategy is not about not missing all good candidates, it is about ruling the bad ones. E.g. in Germany if you were hired, everyone though that you were ok, but then they found out that you are shitty, they cannot just fire you. They have to give you head ups that you are underperforming, then they have to make a formal evaluation to make sure that it isn't about them oppressing you and finally they are obligated to propose a recovery plan for you - only after you fuck it up the company is allowed to fire you. So you might end up with a guy not doing enything for 6 months. In such perspective it can be better to miss 2 good candidates than to hire one bad one.
The problem with French is that the French are very sensitive to mistakes.

If I speak bad English (I am Russian), everybody is still happy, the worst thing can happen is I’ll get corrected, and in 99.9% of cases it’s not even that.

If I speak bad French with a French person... may God have mercy upon my soul. Especially if I forgot to say bonjour/bonsoir first (abomination! burn the heretic!)
Yes, Azure supports Shared Access Signature (SAS) tokens. [1]

I'm afraid my Javascript is rather poor but I'll happily look at what it would take to create a plugin for Azure this weekend. Presumably the S3 multi-part uploader and associated companion server would be a good base to understand the flow?

[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storag...
Wow, that is awesome! Thanks for the link. HN delivers again.

For anyone who doesn't want to download the link, the abstract states:

"We measured the frictional coefficient under banana skin on floor material. Force transducer with six degrees
of freedom was set under a flat panel of linoleum. Both frictional force and vertical force were simultaneously
measured during a shoe sole was pushed and rubbed by a foot motion on the panel with banana skin.
Measured frictional coefficient was about 0.07. This was much lower than the value on common materials and
similar one on well lubricated surfaces. By the microscopic observation, it was estimated that polysaccharide
follicular gel played the dominant role in lubricating effect of banana skin after the crush and the change to
homogeneous sol."
Surely they can be reversed engineered and some manufacturer can make them on the cheap or am I missing something ????.
Attacking a device should be illegal without a warrant.
Should we have been allowing amazon to capitalize that R&D though? It creates one of their largest assets and yet is not reflected on the balance sheet and is expensed immediately.
Right, except the candidate with the most detailed and thought out policies designed to tackle these issues (and one of the front runners currently) is Elizabeth Warren, a senator who has built her career doing the exact opposite of what you're claiming. The vast, vast majority of her funding comes from individual contributions and the vast majority of the rest comes from such "lobbying powerhouses" like Emily's List. Are you seriously claiming that the NYT's political master is the woman who spearheaded the CFPB?

Intellectually void "everyone is corrupt why cant the sheeple see" tripe is best saved for Reddit.
do you think if the internet had somehow existed prior to these inventions, their creation would have been hastened?
I had this experience in "music appreciation" in college. I was supposed to get the same feeling from the music that the "expert" in the book did, and was wrong if I didn't.

I failed that class. I never bothered re-taking it.
> Where I define "best" as "suiting my data better".

Can't argue! You're in the best place to decide.

> UUID's [...] but at least I will never get a collision

Hmm, please do some googling for that. I've heard complaints (on the web, not in person) of this happening surprisingly easily. This may not apply for you though. Personally I only trust what I understand, or what I have written guarantees for. Anyway FYI.
Would you say that things like coworking spaces and exercise classes have replaced the church as the place to socialize with the community?
I don't know what foreign learners of french learn, but native speakers very early learn the complete list of words ending with ou whose plural is with an x instead of an s, which poux is one of (there are only 7 of them)
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