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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • It’s always strange to me that software can never be complete or mature, it’s straight from ‘getting new features’ to ‘dead’. Not picking on the comment in OP, the announcement post reads like that too mostly. I get software requires some level of maintenance, but I wish we treated feature-complete as a good thing, something to celebrate.

    Anyway, it was also weird to me how Tildes didn’t seize the moment with the Reddit drama a couple years ago. As I recall, they just weren’t trying to be the target of that migration. That was the first time I’d heard of it. Seems a nice place, from all my impressions of it.






  • The elevator thing is interesting.

    At first, you just would think it works on a delay.

    People notice that they don’t really do anything. Rumor spreads that the buttons aren’t even wired.

    Eventually I remember coming across an article that explained most of the time it’s a glitch. The button is telling it to close, but there’s some kind of timing limitation that means the auto-close just happens first.

    But yeah, for both I’m sure there’s a lot of variation.




  • Yeah, these are annoying!

    The main thing I’ve changed that helps with that, is I’ve started putting the example sentence on the front of the card.

    I like it for a few reasons. The point at hand - disambiguation. A lot of times in context, it’s obvious which answer I should remember. But also, then I read the example sentences more often. When they’re on the back, I tend to skip over them if I’m powering through several reviews. In the case of Japanese, this also gives me an opportunity to try and read the whole sentence w/o furigana.

    Downside is that the example sentence can make it too obvious. This is actually totally fine IMO. The whole point of the Anki card is to prepare you to actually use language. If the word is clear in context, great, that’s the whole point. It’s also not too hard to ignore the sentence if you are in that mood.

    But then, sometimes I still mess up similar words even in context. Rather than let it leech, I add a caution note.

    Edit: re-reading, I realized that my mind went to a slightly different kind of disambiguation. Still, I think the answers apply all the same.




  • When I was a kid, I saw my mom cut expired cards in half when throwing them away.

    Ever since then, I always strategically cut my old cards into several pieces, making sure to break up the number, chip, date, name, etc. I’ll throw them away in separate trash cans and maybe wait to throw some pieces out after we take out the trash for a week.

    Lol, it’s pure silliness, no one is desperately piecing cards together out of my trash. (In reality, you’d probably just find compromised cards online, or go hit someone with a wrench.)

    But this headline makes me feel ever so slightly justified in my goofy behavior.