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I do too, and I hate it. Some of my pet peeves from the top of my head (there would be more most likely if I'd think a bit, but maybe later):

    > I keep pressing the second button to OK a card, I rarely use the 3rd and 4th. But if I fail a card, that button becomes a NOK, and I keep pressing it out of reflex
    > I can't help interpreting "card was a leech" notification other than "how dumb can you be". Fortunately there is no way to turn it off.
    > It keeps phoning home for some reason, each time it gets into the foreground. It is really great when you are behind a proxy, and it keeps complaining that there is no network, every single time. Of course that call can't be turned off. Also, have no idea what it sends home. I try to trust that it's not some nefarious.
   > Some years ago, for some reason Anki changed DB format, in a backwards incompatible way. There was a notification at the start of the app, that if I don't want it, I shouldn't update my app. I did turn off auto-update. A few weeks later it bricked my deck (my deck got updated to the new format, even though that old iOS app was the only way I accessed it), also trashing my 3 years long strike.

I'm sure that making this even more public will win him a lot more smiley stickers from HR.

It will certainly help his ability to get hired in the future!

Testing is important, even the ancient Romans knew that.

Lately Google's image search started to do the same some time ago. Click on an image, and then on the link beneath the image - it first opens a redirection notice which needs to be confirm. Acting like it's something unusual to click on a link from a search result screen...


Do you have a spare RPi (or other Arm SBC) at hand? Spend an afternoon at https://armasm.com/

Though I don't think ASM will help you learning other languages, it could be an interesting couple of hours.


They managed to earn enough to retire? Nice


Hack:

    long-running-command &
    pid_of_long_running_cmd=$(pidof long-running-command)
    tail --pid=$pid_pf_long_running_cmd -f /dev/null && forgotten-command
Tail quits when $pid_pf_long_running_cmd disappears, and kicks off the forgotten-command. (It won't know however the exit code of the original cmd, so that's a drawback)


Yeah, the problem here is it requires preparation and preemptively adding that '&' to the first command. It doesn't work for the "oh, right" situations. Running all commands this way by default wouldn't make life easier.

But along those lines yeah, it's basically the same as the "wait for it in another terminal" approach and I guess a solution would contain something similar.


So you want to host it yourself, or you want to use bittorrent? The former is how people distributed cat videos before the Youtube era.

The latter is not hosted by you, but by all users participating the swarm. The first page for "bitternt stream online" (sic) keywords in your favorite search engine should should give some ideas about that (I use ecosia now, which gives at least usable results for this).


Well I would seed the torrent and my hope is other people would participate in the swarm at some point. If it was a bittorent user, hopefully they would find it somehow by browsing the list of new videos on piratebay or something...

The goal is for visitors to visit my website read about the video in question, click on the video and get it streamed to their web browser from the torrent itself without a local BitTorrent client.


Personal opinion: 1000 users sounds realistic, but only with a service that appeals the masses, some generic good. I find Japanese learning to be a fairly niche thing, however. Now saying that it's a bad idea, but probably you should readjust your success criteria based on the size of your target market.


    If we delivered a bad quarter, it is evidence there's an AI bubble. If we delivered a great quarter, we are fueling the AI bubble,
While I think the bubble pop will be spectacular, he is not wrong here. You can't do right, if others want to see bad only.


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