emb, emb@lemmy.world

Yeah, there are some I still follow. Love to see that they’re still kicking, here and there.

10 new words also doesn’t necessarily mean 20 cards - not everyone (for every deck) goes for both recognition and production cards!

NodeBB seems like a really cool thing. Forums never should have been abandoned!

Yeah, I worry about that. Seems like everything a human can do to prove they’re human, imitation machine learning will be able to look at those inputs and outputs and fake it.

If you can’t have spaces filter out bots (already hard, probably impossible in the future), trust and validity completely go away. Spam will become unmanageable, and in many cases more subtle. Abuse will scale and could become unblockable.

I’m sure there sill be some kind of good ideas to push back, but I’d certainly say I’m pessimistic atm.

Good article! I knew FSRS was a big enhancement in Anki, but I didn’t know much else about how it came to be.

One of the posts it links to, from the FSRS repo or creator, really lays out the advantage clearly:

Aside from allowing the users to easily control their retention, FSRS has some other advantages when compared to Anki’s default algorithm. With FSRS, users have to do 20–30% fewer reviews than with Anki’s default algorithm to achieve the same retention level (2026-02-12 udpate: the figure is based on simulation results). FSRS is also much better at scheduling cards that have been reviewed with a delay, for example, if the user took a break from Anki for a few weeks or months.

I’ve come around on it somewhat at work. Recent models really are getting pretty impressive. It’s at the point where I can tell it to read a Jira ticket and implement it, and for simple ones it basically just does it. I’m not sure it’s worth the massive environmental and infrastructures detriments (or rather, I’m pretty sure it’s not), but it’s definitely a productivity boost.

It’s also creating cognitive debt tho - every change it does for me automagically is one I don’t have to think about and ‘earn’ myself. You could argue the AI compensates for that by then explaining the code for you, but I think it will lead to some bad results in the mid-long term.

For any personal programming, I don’t/wouldn’t use it, beyond just replacing Google searches maybe. It defeats the fun of it, and cost money on top of that.

Not sure how patient it is, because I ordered the physical console version ASAP. But I just got my copy of UFO 50, everyone’s favorite new-old game compilation from yesteryear.

I’ve tried about 10 of the games so far, all very interesting. Some I really enjoy, some feel like they’ve intentionally added too many rough edges to make them feel retro.

Barbuta seems such an interesting one, but I really wish the character was just a little more fun to move and control.

If you actually just download a .py file, you need to run it with python. Like in the example you linked, something like

python3 _filename_

(and if that’s the case, you might need to add a line at the top of the file, telling it where the interpreter is. But probably you actually want the following)

To install, you use the python installer program, pip. Something like

pip _package-name_

Before you do either, you need yo install python and pip. I don’t know exactly (look for correct package names), but you need to run something like

sudo apt install python3 pip

That’s a very specific wiki

Wow, I had no idea that it might be that recent! It’s one of those things I never thought much of.

The Ink Spots are an interesting case. They’re a vocal group from the 30s. Not only did that group Theseus itself and then dissolve by the 50s, but afterward there were legal disputes. A bunch of the past members claimed rights to the name. Courts ultimately said ’nobody owns the name, you can all use it’. So anybody with any connection was going around performing as The Ink Spots, and those groups were also changing members. So over the decades there were probably multiple fully Theseus’d versions of the group going at the same time.

Andrew Hickey has a good podcast episode on it that you can listen to/read. https://500songs.com/podcast/the-ink-spots-thats-when-your-heartaches-begin/

Here’s a couple I’ve seen around, tho I haven’t dived too deep:

• OpenGameArt (Usually kind of a mixed bag on quality, but the site has good concept and intentions)
• https://musopen.org/ (public domain, classical stuff, also a bunch of sheet music if you want to do things the hard way)
• https://degitx.com/ (an individual that produces rock/metal/chiptune kinda stuff)
• https://gravitysound.studio/ (Had it bookmarked, but it seems the free page is gone. Looks pricey, and terms don’t seem clear)

I also sometimes consciously dislike things because of annoying ads.

But it doesn’t matter. The overall result is that now you’re aware of that brand, you have a place for it in memory. After time passes it will be The One I’ve Heard Of unless you’re dedicated to remembering to avoid it. There’s something called the Mere Exposure Effect - it mostly works and they know it. :(

I haven’t tried it. What aspects make it different from what Loops or Pixelfed are already doing?

Sad to me a lot of times means stuff about time passing and getting older or things changing, so most of these are along that line. Some of the ones I think of first:

Time, Fat Old Sun, and High Hopes by Pink Floyd

In My Life by The Beatles (also Ozzy)

Hurt by Johnny Cash (orginally NiN)

Preaching the End of the World by Chris Cornell

There Was a Light Here by Demon Hunter

Thanks!

But yeah, it is rough. No wonder they keep it a secret, lol.

I have occasionally. I’ve got Google Play on my phone and I used to use a small tablet to do some reading.

Ultimately I find much better success rates reading a paper book. Having a single purpose item laying around helps motivate me, and the low-tech approach reduces distraction.