Thank you! It was a really fun experience.

The Russians were less comfortable with English, much less so than with Japanese. I am a native English speaker.

Yes, in Japan.

I had the same issue. I enabled the option "Open links in external browser," and now it uses Firefox again, albeit by launching the full app separately instead of as an embedded activity.

This OS seems to have fixed all the things, based on what I constantly hear about it. Is Nix really all it's cracked up to be?

I haven't figured out an easy way to install a specific version of an app, which means that when an app update is broken I'm out of luck until a fix is released, so I'll install the snap of the app until then (Spotify is a recent example). Don't like that.

I think you can probably make the question a lot more interesting by asking them to implement max without using any branching syntax. I'm not saying that is necessarily a good interview question, but it is certainly more interesting. That might also be where some of the more esoteric answers are coming from.

I literally just watched the video from Louis Rossman, and came straight here. Pleased to see everyone already talking about it!

I actually vastly prefer this behavior. It allows me to jump to (readable) source in library code easily in my editor, as well as experiment with different package versions without having to redownload, and (sort of) work offline too. I guess, I don't really know what it would do otherwise. I think Rust requires you to have the complete library source code for everything you're using regardless.

I suppose it could act like NPM, and keep a separate copy of every library for every single project on my system, but that's even less efficient. Yes, I think NPM only downloads the "built" files (if the package uses a build system & is properly configured), but it's still just minified JS source code most of the time.

I asked a Japanese friend of mine what the significance of October 1st was with regards to this video; she said that there is nothing special about that date.

Nah bro they just all cheap asf

me and my zero friends who use it

I honestly can't say I've noticed much of a quality difference, so it doesn't seem like a huge value add. I might just be oblivious though.

Currently trying out Kagi, still on the fence. Boy am I blowing through the trial searches though.

I agree with basically everything said in the article.

It's also a bad article.

It's twice as long as it could be while only saying half as much as it should. An unfalsifiable thesis with an amorphous CTA, and a self-righteous, self-fulfilling conclusion.

How about we get some thinkers on this issue instead of loquacious parrots who love the sound of their own virtue-signaling.

The average Lemmy user is too slovenly to appreciate this perspective, obviously.

Well, actually I would tend to agree that &[T] is preferable to AsRef in most cases; all of the smart pointers you mentioned can also easily be turned into plain references. I probably could have chosen a better example.

Credit card info -> see timestamped transit transacting history, including station name (location)

The most difficult part for me was the listening, but reading comprehension was also tough, mostly due to the time constraints. I'm not fabulous at skimming text, especially in a foreign language.

Thanks for sharing your experience!

Hanlon's razor, but with coincidence instead of stupidity.

lib.rs has a pretty UI, but the dev kinda sucks, and after the latest controversies, using it leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Crates.io is good enough.

So they're good with privacy tech and money.

I just bought a new wallet that has a coin pouch because I use cash (and coins) so frequently.

Even if I disagree with a political faction often, I'm perfectly willing to show support when I do agree. It's the honest thing to do.

I think I had three or four tutors, but one in particular I stuck with for about 18 months straight.

I did italki for around 2 years between the stints when I lived in Japan, and I found that it improved my comfort level with speaking dramatically. My tutor did not provide me with highly structured lessons; each weekly conversation was simply free dialogue, so it really was just to exercise my speaking muscle, rather than rigorously learn vocabulary or grammar structures.

If you are in a spot where you feel like your passive vocabulary is significantly larger than your active vocabulary, it might be worth giving it a try. I would describe my experience with italki as mostly positive, and I have recommended it to my friends.

Yeah, it's showing up on my hot feed too. I just noticed another 2+ year old post up there as well...

(This post: https://lemmy.ml/post/85539)

I'm definitely a huge fan of all of the work that Proton is doing in the privacy space, I just have some slight reservations about having all of my services—email, calendar, drive, passwords, VPN—all from the same company. So, for now, I won't be moving over to Proton Pass, but I will be paying attention to its performance.

I'm not quite sure I fully understand the question, but would implementing the Default trait work?

Otherwise, I've used Arbitrary in tests before, maybe that's what you're looking for?

As much as I prefer other distributions over it, I am grateful for everything that Ubuntu has done to grow the Linux userbase.

You can do a credit/debit system, which is basically a form of escrow, or you can use a little fancier solution, like Superfluid, which is technically still an escrow, but they just have some nice APIs around it.

I've used Nord, Sapphire, and Catppuccin over the years, and I would recommend trying all of them.

You have to strike a balance between fun and effective. I wouldn't recommend doing things that make you miserable, but also don't only use study methods that are "fun."

As for the titular question, if reading the cards is still a slog for you, try:

1. Making shorter cards. I do full sentence mining for my studying, so I'll sometimes end up with kind of long Anki cards. I think there are some purists out there who believe you should be able to go through your Anki cards super fast. I don't care, and I'm fine with a little more ponderous pace, since I go through my cards on the train, which gives me like an hour or so. However, if reading the cards is difficult and taking too much time, try making shorter cards. Short sentences, or even single-word cards. If the kana are still a struggle to read fluidly, probably stick with kana-only cards, and then move up to kanji with furigana, and then without the furigana.
2. I don't really practice my accent and somehow ended up with a passable accent. Luck of the draw, I guess. What I do practice is cadence: being able to speak at a natural and consistent rate. Anki cards are actually really good for this in my experience: you can just tap out the morae and whisper the words to yourself.
3. Try reading through longer texts you haven't read before. This will stretch the muscle of sight reading.

I would generally recommend reading the cards aloud (or at least under your breath). Japanese pronunciation is not very difficult, so any mistakes you have will probably just be in pitch-accent, and imo it's better to be able to pronounce words almost correctly than not be able to pronounce words at all.

It's small, but here's a real actionable item that you can do to help:

Put a gentle "Use Firefox" (or any other non-Chromium-based browser) message on your website. It doesn't have to be in-your-face, just something small. I've taken my own advice and added it to my own website: https://geeklaunch.io/ (Only appears in Chromium-based browsers.)

We can slowly turn the tide, little by little.

Copy and paste:

<p>
    This site is designed for <a href="https://firefox.com/">Firefox</a>,
    a web browser that respects your privacy.
</p>

(I also posted this on the HN discussion.)

shish-kebab the white pawns

It's getting kind of difficult to keep up with all of the new language features in TS.

I'm working on a command line tool that automatically adds furigana to Japanese text.

https://github.com/encody/autoruby