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Agreed, I love the app but would prefer to be drilled more frequently on misses and less frequently on first-time hits.

Second this

Previous related discussion (2022): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30403438 (100 comments)

To anyone interested in further exploring this theme I warmly recommend "The Courage to be Disliked" by Kishimi and Koga.

Thanks, I had been wondering about that! Lots of good info in this article. Edit: The article is about Debian's packaging and distribution process.

Any update on this 24h on? It would be really interesting to understand whether Meta is playing an active role in blocking the use of Whatsapp for users with a particular country c…

vifm allows you to rename multiple files in bulk by opening a temporary file containing one filename per line in actual vim. Edit: apparently ranger has this feature, too.

!! substitutes the last command: sudo !! and cd - takes you to the previous directory.

Also, when using an nginx reverse proxy, including 'X-Accel-Buffering: no' in the HTTP header of the server response may be required to keep events from being buffered.

Unfortunately, I haven't read the new translation! (I was thrilled to learn of the discovery only weeks after finishing Hardy, but the whole thing receded from my attention in the …

This is as good a place as any to mention that Koestler's long-lost original German manuscript titled "Sonnenfinsternis" was discovered in 2015 by a doctoral student digging throug…

This is ace. Thanks for posting.

Note that the before/after images were taken two months apart.

From the FAQ of the linked page: > In general, people are sent to solitary not by a judge or jury, but solely at the discretion of prison staff. In many prisons and jails, solitary…

See the comment by lonelappde, but note that the example under discussion here is actually not about `is` vs. `==` either.

Yes. By the time I realised my second example is redundant, it was already too late to edit the comment. Thanks for clarifying.

To see that this is not about precedence, evaluate the following: >>> True == False is False False >>> False == True is False False

I'm really sorry to hear what you had to go through. Thank you for sharing your experience (and to the many others who have written here). I wish you all the best in finding friend…

Right! I did assume a continuous space because that's what it looked like to me. Hence my pedantic comment which was sort of comically at odds with the light-hearted spirit of your…

At the time of writing the Gibbs phenomenon -- the overshoot occurring at discontinuities of a square wave, which does not go away no matter how many harmonics are included (see ht…

I've always admired Agilent's Programmer's Reference for the ESA series electronic spectrum analyzers http://literature.cdn.keysight.com/litweb/pdf/E4401-90507.pd...