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hatchet,

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.

hatchet,

So they’re good with privacy tech and money.

hatchet,

I went the static site generator route. I’m using Hugo: geeklaunch.io

hatchet,

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.

hatchet,

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

hatchet,

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

Otherwise, I’ve used https://docs.rs/arbitrary/latest/arbitrary/ in tests before, maybe that’s what you’re looking for?

hatchet,

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

hatchet,

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.

hatchet,

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: geeklaunch.io (Only appears in Chromium-based browsers.)

We can slowly turn the tide, little by little.

Copy and paste:


<span style="color:#323232;"><</span><span style="color:#63a35c;">p</span><span style="color:#323232;">>
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    This site is designed for <</span><span style="color:#63a35c;">a </span><span style="color:#795da3;">href</span><span style="color:#323232;">=</span><span style="color:#183691;">"https://firefox.com/"</span><span style="color:#323232;">>Firefox</</span><span style="color:#63a35c;">a</span><span style="color:#323232;">>,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    a web browser that respects your privacy.
</span><span style="color:#323232;"></</span><span style="color:#63a35c;">p</span><span style="color:#323232;">>
</span>

(I also posted this on the HN discussion.)

hatchet,

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.

hatchet,

shish-kebab the white pawns

hatchet,

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

https://github.com/encody/autoruby

hatchet,

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

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

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