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Looks like it's a well thought project. I might consider it to replace my old Kobo. There are only two things I don't see in the description:

1. A dictionary

2. A flash card creation functionality

I recently read the book Being Mortal by Atul Gawande, a doctor. He emphasized how terminal care should focus on quality of life instead of attempting to prolong it and making it awful.

I find using flashcards very stimulating, however to reach this status it took me quite some time and some trial and error. So if you're new at using flashcards don't quit just yet! Keep using them. My morning ritual is now coffee and anki.

Like the author said, understanding the card you're writing in your deck is fundamental. In my case, I would add, this is even true of when you add language cards. For example, I once added the word `thwart`. This card doesn't "cleanly" translate to my native tongue, and I was failing it at all times, I was confusing it with other words such as stifle, stymie etc because have a close meaning but not quite the one in thwart. Only after I grasped the exact definition and usage of it I started to not block on it anymore. I now attempt to be better at it by trying to also recall or make up the antonym of a certain word.

Also I started to create decks for:

1. Emacs commands, including custom shortcut which I use daily, or trying to drill new commands or features that I leant.

2. passages from books I read, mostly for those I use cloze deletions.

3. simple arithmetic, in order to be quicker at doing those without having to use a calculator at all times with me

4. shell commands, for example less frequently used git commands, grep or rg options.

A final note on using LLMs for flashcard creation. Sometimes the LLM can come up with some useful examples, or memory hooks, which help in retaining the information. Yes, I agree here with the author: out of 10 cards created with the LLM you're probably going to retain just one, and even that one will need rewriting.

With the Temporal API will all of the browsers / nodejs etc be able to get the time right when performing operations around that time or will they need to be updated in order to not mess up calculations?

I also started on spacemacs but then I wanted to learn the basics of it and switched to writing my own configuration from scratch. What helped me the most is reading though the Mastering Emacs book by Mickey Petersen which is an amazing resource to learn the basics and beyond. Right now I'm in the process of reducing the number of external packages I use and I'm trying to use more of the built in functionality that is available "out of the box".

I have been using emacs for the past couple of years. Started because I wanted to try out org mode and stayed for the extreme flexibility it offers.

as content creator this makes me not wanting to create any new content, in fact this year I slowed down a lot, probably I'm going to a complete halt.

After struggling with different webcams, including the MacBook Pro camera, I opted for this setup: - Canon RP - 50mm Canon lens - Tripod located between my two monitors

All it fully tax deductible, amazing quality and even more flexibility when I have a meeting, for example ability to show my desk.

what's anti-CCP?

Asia, Australia/New Zealand are well awake and almost at the end of their working day :)

How many of us are reading this article while "at work"? Just me? I don't think so. I open HackerNews four or five times a day and I read some of the articles. Right now I am in a company where I have to work at least 43 hours a week. Needless to say that I don't feel rested as I used to and my productivity is way lower compared to the past and I get distracted longer and more often than before.

I never had the problem mentioned in the article, but for misspelled commands I trust git autocorrect:

git config --global help.autocorrect 1

It will run the correct misspelled command after 100ms. For example git stauts will be corrected automatically to git status http://schacon.github.io/git/git-config.html

I feel the other way around: I prefer serif fonts in general, however well designed websites should not have any issue with the font style chosen, as long as the basics of design and human vision are respected; e.g. contrast ratio, size, line heights etc.

Human are made to interact one each other, love and enjoy life. Even if you feel alone sometimes because you might do not have someone that can understand you, you should try finding a person to love. Also love is the best feeling you can have.

I used to get contracts through oDesk/UpWork as well ( https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/~015eaccf9967b4f9f4 ) However the quality of the jobs I can apply for are a continuously going backwards, even if the quality I am able to deliver is really high compared to many other freelancer on the platform. This is why I almost do not use UpWork to do my freelancing anymore.

I see how a lot of people in this thread are just conservative American thinking "government is bad" and "private is good". Very open minded for HN.

This is just a "positive" aspect of the TPP so that you can say it has positive things in it. Surely it has a lot of caveats for other industries, companies/lobbies. Typically corporations have lawyers working for them full time.

It is designed to remove power from the people and give it to the big corporations.

Giving to a private company the ability to effectively sue a government is the worst idea ever. Imagine a world with no regulations because there are damaging the business. Welcome to a world where you need a mortgage if you are sick because there are royalties to be paid to the pharmaceutical companies. One example is already happening: Phillip Morris Honk Kong is suing the Australian government because the laws to discourage people from smoking are damaging their business (here is the link: https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/29064155/tobacco-giant-s... ). This was going on before the TPP even it is not active yet.

Just yesterday I saw here on HN a news about what the TPP actually means for intellectual property, which should be a quite known problem here in the community. Interestingly enough though that news has only got 10 points and right now it is quite low in the list. The first news today in HN is about CPU caching. What do we need it for if we're losing our rights so quickly?

Where I work we decided to avoid using libraries and frameworks, because decisions taken at that level was do not give us the flexibility to deal with the problems that we face. The main issues we found were:

1. Change of behaviour between versions, (e.g. the way a frameworks integrate with a page)

2. Reliance on functionality being supported into the future

3. Customer expectations

4. Browser support

That said, it is true that a frameworks gives you the ability to put together an app in a few weeks. However, when you know that what deal with with something that needs to be maintained for years than knowing what does each piece of your code is far more important.

I'm been using Anki in the last couple of years and I got from zero to more than 4000 cards. The best way to effectively learn new words for me it's put the word with the English definition and than the same word with the translation in your original language. Of course not all the words require this.

That's a known one, then there are the ones from the Soviet union.

I really like the idea of floating labels. I did the same but almost without JS using AngularJS directives: http://maurizionapoleoni.de/blog/Float-label-pattern-with-an...