intertextuality

Aside from org mode, I can do the same things with different applications. I don't want one big application that does everything. In any case, I don't extol the virtues of vim in emacs-related posts.

It won't. The concepts of bitcoin will be iterated on and polished into something that's actually useful. Bitcoin will not be the future as I said, but an improvement on it will. Something that's actually useful.

That's not rails, that's a few of rails' core components.

I guess it's not a vim article unless someone refers to emacs/another editor for no reason. Thanks for the unsubstantial comment.

Regardless of editor X, Y, or Z, this article is about a feature Vim received. I for one find it useful since, well, I use vim.

South Korea does not belong in that list at all.

The inflation rate is also only 1.4% to 1.5%.

Note that lawmakers were increasingly been targeting bitcoin in S.Korea. Foreigners (any foreigners, even ones with Korean visas and/or who are Korean but were born abroad) and minors can't sign up to exchanges anymore, for example.

We are allowed to acknowledge disadvantages and advantages of Bitcoin.

Bitcoin isn't the future, but it sure is the progenitor of what will be used in the future.

You say the small things. You mean like, how quickly the terminal opens and how quickly text gets painted on the screen?

iTerm2 blows hyper out of the water in those regards, and it actually does add up. Styling otherwise really isn't that difficult, but it begs the question of why do you need so much information? Are you actually developing or just spending time tinkering on your terminal to have bells and whistles that you don't actually even look at? Surely a simple colorscheme + font that aliases correctly should be enough to "feel nice" to look at?

The only thing keeping me from the better performance of alacritty is iterm2's infinite scrollback and some other miscellaneous features that alacritty will probably never get.

Tmux. Alacritty lacks basic things like splits or tabs so tmux or screen are recommended.

Do you know if there's an ipad app that easily lets you upload manga via zip files?

Parent probably was referring to reading it on a laptop or similar, which many people do. (I also read it this way).

I use the SimpleComic reader on OSX, first removing the menu and then fullscreening it. This requires me to download the manga beforehand. It works for me since I don't read that much manga.

Now that I have an ipad I wonder how well it could work.

There's no battle. Both Korea and Japan see the value in exporting cultural products, although I don't think the Korean government is focusing on webtoons as much as kpop.

Manga and webtoons are different and cater to different audiences.

In any case manga is much, much more popular and actually gets translations. I think this is due to the longer publishing schedules and how established manga is compared to webtoons.

It may be a little bit of A, a little bit of B.

Anecdotally I can tell you I've seen many, many people reading webtoons on their phones on the subway. I've done it. The vertical format in this case is perfect.

If someone did a subscription service for manga with quality translations (and coloring) they'd make a killing, probably.

I mean, "webtoons" aren't really a thing in western culture. You can think of the posts like chapters from a comic. Anyway, here's the latest chapter[0] of 마음의 소리 (The Sound of Your Heart) which is popular. Enough to have its own tv show on netflix.

You can see more of them at comic.naver.com [1]

[0]: https://comic.naver.com/webtoon/detail.nhn?titleId=20853&no=...

[1]: https://comic.naver.com/index.nhn

That is not what stoicism is at all.

> According to its teachings, as social beings, the path to happiness for humans is found in accepting the moment as it presents itself, by not allowing oneself to be controlled by the desire for pleasure or fear of pain, by using one's mind to understand the world and to do one's part in nature's plan, and by working together and treating others fairly and justly.

> Stoicism teaches the development of self-control and fortitude as a means of overcoming destructive emotions; the philosophy holds that becoming a clear and unbiased thinker allows one to understand the universal reason (logos).

> A Stoic of virtue, by contrast, would amend his will to suit the world and remain, in the words of Epictetus, "sick and yet happy, in peril and yet happy, dying and yet happy, in exile and happy, in disgrace and happy," ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoicism#Basic_tenets

Marcus Aurelius Meditations: A New Translation by Gregory Hays.

The Discourses of Epictetus

This argument doesn't work if you believe that not everything has to be type 1 fun- that is, we don't always need to be doing things that are pleasurable in the moment in order to be "happy".

For example, learning a skill to an advanced degree. Moment by moment it's not type 1 fun, but as you progress and look back, you realize that you've grown and improved. It -does- make me happy to see how far I've progressed in the hobbies/studying that I've invested a lot of time in. Conversely, seeing how much time I wasted doing "type 1" things all the time a few years ago makes me somewhat sad.

Consistently playing the slots [highly engineered products designed to be addictive] has to do with addiction and dopamine rushes when you get a hit. I wouldn't categorize that as the same as doing things like hiking or whatnot.

It's brilliant for memorizing random facts, so yes. It could be very useful for programming interviews.

Why is ctrl-[ not better? You split the workload between two hands.

You -do- have the useless, enormous capslock key remapped to control, right? ;-)

Anyway, it's common to remap jj or jk to esc.

It exists, it's called :h(elp). I've barely begun to delve into the mountain of documentation that is :h.

You can read Pro Vim or Modern Vim as well.

That's not what I was talking about. If I say something that's awkward like that, it gets pointed out and that's fine.

My friend, randomly, said that I speak non-idiomatically / kinda awkwardly in general.

Great. What am I supposed to do with this information? I already know that. It's just frustrating, especially since at the time I was in a rut about my progress.

I'm following this method: https://nihongoshark.com/learn-kanji/

I'm not learning the readings yet since a lot of them have multiple readings, some less common than others. My thought process was to learn the kanji, then the readings as I learn daily vocabulary through Genki 1 / TaeKim's grammar guide.

I don't know if this is actually the best way to start learning Japanese but I thought it would be fun just as a personal goal to learn the 2,200 kanji before anything. Studying Korean takes up the lion's share of my time so I haven't started studying Japanese grammar much yet.

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I just follow the default progression of anki. 1 day -> 2 days -> etc. If it takes me zero effort to remember, I grade it as Easy. If it takes me more than 3-4 seconds to remember it, I grade it as Hard. If it takes more than 10-15 seconds I reset the card and start learning it again.

So far the only resets have been on similar looking characters and some newly-learned ones from the day before if I was a bit distracted.

You can see my progress from April 2nd until now:

https://i.imgur.com/yyHvgf9.png

Some are much easier than others, I marked kanji like 林 (grove) as Easy pretty quickly, as well as commonly used ones like 見.

This would be true except that a large percentage of suicides are snap decisions in the moment, not planned out. For example, switching to natural gas from coal gas in the UK ended up dropping suicide rates in general.[0]

I also read another study that looked at two similar bridges about a mile or so away from each other: 1 bridge was popular for suicides, and as such had guards put up. You'd think that those people would have just gone to the other bridge, but suicide rates declined in general. I can't find the source at the moment.

[0]: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/means-matter/means-matter/saves...

The show's premise is disgusting and unrealistic. It's complete garbage that netflix should pull, but won't, since so many people indulge in it.

Let me first describe my initial routine, and how it spiraled into me quitting anki entirely. Then my current routine which actually works.

When I started learning Korean, I grabbed anki + Evita's 5k words deck. It's a pretty good deck, but lacks sentence samples. I use the mac osx app at home and the ios app on the go. The ios app is $20 but you can use ankiweb.net to do reviews. The android app is free.

For about six months I did anki just about every day, @ 20 new words/day. This took me anywhere from 30-50 minutes depending on my focus. It always took longer if I missed the previous day, because then I would have to re-do the newly-learned words (1-3 days interval). I had to commute on the bus every day so I was able to easily knock out anki as I just forced myself not to use reddit/HN before doing anki.

However after a certain point I had missed a few days, which made the next anki cycle take longer. It was frustrating, and caused me to miss more days.. Eventually I had so many reviews piled up that I didn't even want to open anki at all.

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How did I fix this? For starters, I used a custom session to knock out all the 400+ backed up review cards at once. It took me a good 3 or 4 hours. Next, I reduced the new daily card limit to 10. I think 20 is unsustainable unless you are consistently studying at least 3-4 hours daily. Since I work and also study Korean grammar/resources it was just too much.

Next, I changed the default system from "mixed review" (new cards + review cards) to "review cards first". This way even if I don't have the time or energy, I can still knock out the daily reviews. If done right it can be as short as 5-10 minutes depending on how many reviews you have for that day. It's not ideal but still far better than you backsliding on your learned words.

For beginners you can use premade decks, just make sure they have good reviews, and are ordered so you learn words like "mom" before you learn "diplomacy". If you google anki + $language deck, there are recommended ones on reddit usually. That's how I found the core2k japanese deck, which may be the best I've used so far.

However after that point you really ought to be making your own decks. Through your study you should be finding new words; write these down and add them to anki but be prudent about it. I made the mistake of learning advanced and niche words before learning "circle" and "foggy", which are way more useful to know. Also, add sample sentences. It's not really helpful to know a word but not the context when it is used.

In anki you can add custom fields for card types, so I added ones for grammar type, notes, sample sentences, and hanja. I also made a color card with custom html and css styling to let me practice memorizing color words. You can look into cloze deletion cards, I have heard they're good but have not used them myself.

Tip: You can bulk import anki cards from csv files. I maintain a spreadsheet and add them every so often.

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Nowadays I use 2 decks: my personal korean one @ 5 words/day and nihongoshark kanji @ 20 kanji/day. The reason being I am focusing more on memorizing 2k kanji right now. I do the korean one while taking the bus home from work and then I do the kanji one right away at home or at a cafe.

Hopefully this clarified things, otherwise let me know if you have any questions. Anki's manual documentation is actually very good so I recommend reading that.

> Perhaps you should, how else would they learn?

I already know where my skill level is. I know that I make certain mistakes and definitely don't speak idiomatically.

Telling me this is not only useless but a stark reminder of where I'm at. If you're in a rut, or the accursed "intermediate plateau", it really sucks to hear things like this, even if they're 100% accurate.

You actually can use anki online, it's ankiweb.net. You can't modify decks on the website but it works for studying daily cards. Otherwise I use the mac osx or ios apps.

You don't get better at what you don't do.

English books use different registers, vocabulary, and grammatical tenses than found in everyday speech also. Basically every language has differences in formally printed books and daily speech.

And it's not like you have to read dense texts only. There are plenty of short books, or books with lighter material, that learners can definitely read. It's a very good way to discover new vocabulary and see how words are used in what contexts.

Here is a better resource: https://www.state.gov/m/fsi/sls/c78549.htm

Both resources list the languages according to "time to Professional Working Proficiency" level. Not native level.

Learning any language to a native degree is going to be exceedingly difficult. French has more difficult pronunciation and spelling rules, significantly moreso than Spanish or German. Even for native English speakers.

The fact that overall, learning French is easier than say Korean, does not change the fact that French has difficult pronunciation.