AlchemistCamp

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by AlchemistCamp 19d ago
Migaku is far from perfect, but it's fairly polished and supports a ton of languages. Honestly, I wish it just focused on a couple of languages and did them well instead of trying to support as many as possible, though.
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by AlchemistCamp 19d ago
I tried Language Reactor a couple of years ago and bounced off of it because of its absolutely atrocious support for traditional character Chinese. Its page literally says there is none on Netflix despite most their Chinese content being
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by AlchemistCamp 10mo ago
Of my closest friends when I was in high school, the one with the best social skills had been home schooling since I met him when he was 10. However, he did participate in extracurricular activities at the local public school, like a comput
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by AlchemistCamp 11mo ago
Charging devs a percentage App Store sales is very different from shoplifting and equating the two is extremely misleading. Devs voluntarily choose to publish apps on the App Store and doing so gets them both another discovery channel and a
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by AlchemistCamp 1y ago
Firefox has been my main browser for almost 10 years and I haven't encountered any challenges other than availability of plugins, but even that has been a very rare issue.
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by AlchemistCamp 1y ago
SEEKING WORK | Remote | Fullstack Engineer / Fractional CTO Location: Taipei, Taiwan (US citizen, open work permission) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No, but I can shift my work hours up to four hours in either direction. Technologi
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by AlchemistCamp 1y ago
Yes. In America, there are over 60 million fluent Spanish speakers, which is more than the entire population of Spain. In many southern and southwestern parts of the country you can do just about anything you need to in Spanish and being bi
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by AlchemistCamp 1y ago
That must be nice. They’re probably blocking based on geolocation or something similar. I’m on an iPhone, using Safari and no VPN.
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by AlchemistCamp 1y ago
Sounds like Craig’s list.
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by AlchemistCamp 1y ago
I flagged this because upon following the link, all I get is: Forbidden You don't have permission to access this resource.
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by AlchemistCamp 1y ago
Probably the highest profile and most consistent example would be Stripe. The most popular Stripe wrapper for Elixir’s docs point to a 2019 Stripe API version: https://github.com/beam-community/stripity-stripe Worse st
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by AlchemistCamp 1y ago
I don't know what that person meant but, like many in the region, Koreans have family registries (戶籍) that record their family lineage. At least among people I've known who have spoken about theirs, Korean family registry records
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by AlchemistCamp 1y ago
Yes. This is a big part of what initially drew me to Elixir. It's more than feasible to run a server on a cheap VPS, get great, though not quite Golang or low-level language performance and have a much easier scaling story when you nee
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by AlchemistCamp 1y ago
Not knowing what language she’s learning, it’s a bit tough to say. Many have an app with lots of reading material with audio and assistance tracking learned words, tap to dictionary lookup, etc. It’s a pretty good category and a lot of kids
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by AlchemistCamp 1y ago
So trading daily time and effort for six years for an option on learning a language in the future?
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by AlchemistCamp 1y ago
Almost anybody serious about learning Chinese is going to want to read some things written before the 1960s and for those things, people are reading the exact same books, essays, poems, speeches, etc. The simplified versions of all of tho
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by AlchemistCamp 1y ago
If you're speaking in the context of language learning, there definitely are some great tools for "mining" audio cards from YT/Netflix and also for getting text from the subtitle tracks. Some are open source, free and ea
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by AlchemistCamp 1y ago
That's a great idea. I was an early Anki contributor and ended up wasting a lot of time with SRS. Basically every language blogger I knew in 2008 was obsessed with it. If I were to go back and learn Japanese again, (which I may do sinc
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by AlchemistCamp 1y ago
Very well, but it's very slow compared to what you can do if you mix it up with some higher effort activities.
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by AlchemistCamp 1y ago
Sure. This kind of project seems to be pretty common. I'd strongly suggest using traditional characters as a base because it's very easy to map multiple characters into simplified forms but much harder to disambiguate simplified f
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by AlchemistCamp 1y ago
> ”I realized I was hitting an issue where I theoretically "knew" a word (would get it always correct on the card), but wouldn't always recognize it in a novel context.” Some of the problem is due to the specificity of t
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by AlchemistCamp 1y ago
I grew up in America and didn't find it incendiary at all. The extreme reaction was surprising to me, as well. The word was very common in 80s and 90s songs with no illicit or incendiary connotation whatsoever! In fact, I find headline
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by AlchemistCamp 1y ago
Partner doesn't mean that at all. Warren Buffet and Charley Munger were partners. So were Jobs and Woz. Or Buffet and Gates while playing Bridge many times. There's absolutely nothing romantic or sexual about the word "partne
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by AlchemistCamp 1y ago
Strange. I don't think "lover" sounds illicit in any way, though maybe it suggests youth and romanticism.
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by AlchemistCamp 1y ago
Most times I've read "partner" the meaning has been "business partner", e.g. a cofounder or a partner in a law firm or agency, etc. I've noticed a trend, especially in Commonwealth or European countries to use
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by AlchemistCamp 1y ago
They felt fake 10 years ago. Some good still came from them but except the one I did at Facebook, they all felt dominated by BS. FB at least had a separate room for people actually coding who didn't want a constant stream of interrupti
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by AlchemistCamp 1y ago
It reminds me of an older dev I met when I was just beginning who had worked even more years and said Fortran 95 was "fine". And he could use it to build pretty much anything. That doesn't mean that more powerful language fea
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by AlchemistCamp 1y ago
Hours so? I’ve found that Phoenix LiveView has made integrating the server and client code much simpler. It’s dramatically reduced the need to write JavaScript in general, including for things like image uploads. Or are you speaking of one
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by AlchemistCamp 1y ago
I did, in 2023.
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by AlchemistCamp 1y ago
One of TikTok’s largest markets is Japan. Their shop revenues in particular, doubled in Japan last year. Those earnings are taxed locally and have nothing to do with Ireland.

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