Player6225

hace 10 mesesdiscuss

This has been my bag, more or less, for the past 3 years, moving around to different cities a few months at a time:

https://bpev.me/notes/how-i-travel-packing

It changes your relationship to objects for sure. I see something cool in a store and my first thought is "ooof but that looks heavy".

Player6225

hace 10 mesesdiscuss

I saw it mentioned elsewhere in these comments, but plaintextsports.com is my goto for live sportsball stats

Player6225

hace 2 añosdiscuss

AFAIK, I think the most popular version of this idea is https://readlang.com

Player6225

hace 2 añosdiscuss

Oh great timing! I was just starting to play with building a toy project (https://github.com/bpevs/multireader) for practicing Spanish while reading books with my e-reader, but frankly, I'm just building it because I haven't found an app that works for me, and I'd rather spend time actually actually learning language...

Just playing with your app for a bit, and it's pretty cool! had a few questions though:

1. Wondering about the decision of using English books and translating pieces into other languages vs starting with (for example) a Spanish book, and translating the other way? Also, would something like this be a future thought of plan? Because currently I'm trying to read more popular books in my target language, rather than English books (right now, my toy app is just highlight arbitrary text -> send to azure translate). I tried to upload my book into your app in Spanish, but I guess it only works rn if the source is in English? Basically, a mode for even more immersion would be killer (Ala either full-target-languge mode or upload target language books).

2. The practice mode is pretty cool! I like this format of "complete the sentence". It looks like it's not based on book content at all, right? Would be cool to practice based on what I'm reading.

3. I'm reading on an e-reader, so I'd reeeeally like a no-animation/no-scroll mode. On an e-reader, the paginated page refreshing can help to reduce ghosting. Even better if there could be an e-reader mode that can flash the screen to further reduce ghosting issues on those devices.

Player6225

hace 2 añosdiscuss

This reminds me of the article comparing the computing power of the Apollo 11 Guidance Computer vs USB-C Chargers

https://forrestheller.com/Apollo-11-Computer-vs-USB-C-charge...

Player6225

hace 2 añosdiscuss

There it is! I've been looking for something like this!

I've been using my own homebrewed toml spec, but since I am more experienced with code than training, I was concerned if it would still work well as I become more experienced. Not sure if I'll use this, but good to see another interpretation of this kind of data!

Player6225

hace 2 añosdiscuss

For me, $12/month

Player6225

hace 2 añosdiscuss

fwiw I turned off history and all the recommendations settings, and now they hide the shorts and frontpage recs

Player6225

hace 2 añosdiscuss

And then there was that time some people used jsfuck to do xss on Ebay:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/ebay-...

Player6225

hace 2 añosdiscuss

Thanks! Yaya... selecting what emojis to show has been challenging, trying to balance clarity with word usefullness. Also cuz sometimes I miss how different some specific emojis look on different OS; it can muddy the intended meaning for some platforms.

Player6225

hace 2 añosdiscuss

I've been using Anki a bit to supplement my language learning. I built an Anki deck generator that makes emoji/tts/word flashcards! It's worked pretty well for me to get some better word recognition.

https://flashcards.bpev.me

Player6225

hace 3 añosdiscuss

This is very strange to me, because I have always used Sublime Text for super-giant corporate repos, and always found it snappy compared to vscode. Wonder if it was a specific usecase or something...

Every little while, I try to make vscode my main editor, because I enjoy all the features. I always switch back to Sublime just because VSCode's slowness bugs me.

Haven't really tried Zed in earnest yet, though, because of no custom LSP support.

Player6225

hace 3 añosdiscuss

Seems like a really great way to play more passive longer-running kinds of study music/sounds like coffeeshop noise or lofi-hiphop!

Player6225

hace 3 añosdiscuss

Oh ok, then I guess we just have a different definitions. I would define AAA titles almost purely by budget/resources.

So for example, I would say that Fortnite and Genshin were AAA games from the start, and that LOL and Pubg became and have been AAA titles for years now.

Player6225

hace 3 añosdiscuss

This take seems pretty wild to me, considering that freemium multi-player games have kinda dominated top-grossing for the last decade. Fortnite, League of Legends, Genshin, PUBG all follow this model.

Player6225

hace 3 añosdiscuss

tbf you're not really behind; alternate js runtimes still aren't widely used. People are aware and keeping track of them, but to me they still feel more like up-and-comers than industry players. Don't have a source, just going by anecdotal feel.

Player6225

hace 3 añosdiscuss

https://bpev.me

Player6225

hace 3 añosdiscuss

I have been using JD for a while now, to the point that I built a CLI for it (using Deno).

But I just enjoy the speed of feeling like I can cd to any directory at any time in like... 8 keypresses (`jd 20.21` is an alias I use to cd).

https://github.com/bpevs/johnny_decimal

https://johnny.bpev.me/

Edit: I had a separate hierarchy I used on my work machine when I was still working at a larger company, but this is the one from my personal machine (with some redacted)...

  10-19 Notes
    10 Quick [Daily-life kind of stuff]
      10.01 Daily Notes
      10.02 Cooking
      10.03 Listening Notes
      ...
    11 Research
      11.00 Device Setup
      11.01 Project Name 1
      11.02 Project Name 2
    12 Reference [Basically categorizing random notes]
      12.00 Unsorted
      12.05 History and Current Events
      ...
      12.28 Spatial Audio
      12.29 Music, Cognition, and Computerized Sound
    13 Travel
      13.01 中文
      ...
      13.10 Maps
    18 bpev.me
    19 Documents
      [Various documents here]
  20-29 Projects [Active Projects]
    20 Code
      20.00 gists
      20.01 bpev.me
      [insert projects I am committing to often]
    21 Media
      21.01 Music
        [insert Music album work here]
  30-39 Archives
    30 Code
      30.03 favioli
      30.04 johnny_decimal
      .....
      basically, maintanence-mode projects.
      If I start committing on a more regular cadence, I move to `20 Code`
    31 Media
      I have a separate, date-based hierarchy within these...
      31.01 Music
      31.02 Photos
      31.03 Videos
      31.04 Memes
      31.05 Screenshots
    39 Backups
      39.01 Contacts
      39.03 bpev.me
      39.04 Savefiles
      39.05 Applications

Player6225

hace 3 añosdiscuss

Hmm looking the settings I saw a search engine I didn't recognize... I guess they also have a google proxy?

https://leta.mullvad.net

So I guess now you can go full Mullvad.

Player6225

hace 3 añosdiscuss

"The Mullvad Browser is a privacy-focused web browser developed in a collaboration between Mullvad VPN and the Tor Project. It’s designed to minimize tracking and fingerprinting. You could say it’s a Tor Browser to use without the Tor Network."

https://github.com/mullvad/mullvad-browser

So basically like... hardened Firefox?

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