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> The receipts: speed and cost I don't get why cost per reply is at all relevant here? Why do so few who attempt comparisons actually compare dollars per task.

I tried SICP straight from the book once, but I think the lectures are much better and the book acts as a supplemental reference.

This is cool! but also maybe you could put a button on the landing page to trigger the demo because it's a bit startling to hear my fans go crazy when opening a webpage.

> just find some starting point that doesn’t look like a sales funnel this adds to the difficulty in getting started; so many times you start down a path, don't make good progress …

What are you doing for Chinese word segmentation/pinyin?

Cool but why do I have to create an account to keep playing? I hit the back button to review the rules and now I can't even try the game out.

Because billionaires accumulate wealth through assets and unrealized gains, many of them skip taking a traditional income and pay. If the numbers in the links below are to be belie…

This is awesome. I'm doing something very similar with Chinese and Yu-Gi-Oh right now. So many language courses seem to cater to certain topics like interviewing for a job, getting…

The biggest shift in the past ~100 years or so was the fact that mass-literacy became a thing. People started writing how they speak. The written language's disconnect from the spo…

Ctrl + S - Stash

Update: my friend at meta escalating my ticket got me unbanned with no notification or explanation. Just that internal person telling me was the only indication I was unbanned.

I've done this same println debugging thing so many times, along with some sed/awk stuff to figure out which call was causing the issue. Now it's a small Go package. With some `run…

This is a subreddit full of users who have, according to them, been unrightfully suspended (appealable) or disabled (permanent, no appeal process). A few months ago my dad went thr…

IMO the SotA for this is https://www.speechsuper.com/ . Amazon suffers for similar > One annoyance is that for Mandarin, the percentage is calculated at the character level, wherea…

the commenter's username (i'm guessing they mean 大胖子, feel free to google translate)

I'm also building a language learning app and after checking out Morpheem, it kind of rocked my world. It does a much better job than I'd expect on Mandarin. Wow.

App for learning chinese, aimed at intermediate learners. SRS, reader, import content. Lots of fun problems like word segmentation, relevant distractors, integrating with LLMs, loc…

I'm currently building an offline-first app that has a custom sync between a local SQLite and Postgres (Supabase). The "ejectable" idea here is so good and I will definitely implem…

I hate flashcards so I made my own app for studying Chinese after finishing HelloChinese. Very similar interface, but allows me to bring my own content.

If you try to use every single feature of Istio, sure. If you just need encryption it's not that bad. And it looks to be getting better (no more sidecars, eventually).

No OO?

https://www.landow.dev/posts/tech/3d-autotiling/ Wanted to make a cartoony dark souls with a built in level editor. Games have so many fun rabbit holes that it's hard to actually m…

They have won "market share" I'm not sure exactly which competitors they've undercut in the process? Are there any examples of a legitimate competitor that failed because they coul…