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Readit Newsdodos commented on Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles daiz.moe/crunchyroll-is-d... · Posted by u/Daiz
I was pretty happy with all the animes produced by Netflix I watched ; they had a good choice of both audio and subs
Netflix is fine so long as you don't live in Japan (I wonder how other countries are). They only give Japanese subtitles for most anime here. Netflix produced anime do have a great breadth of options for subtitles and audio though.
dodos commented on Podman Desktop celebrates 3M downloads podman-desktop.io/blog/3-... · Posted by u/twelvenmonkeys
I've seen podman advertised as a dropin docker replacement. how valid is that assertion?
Mostly valid. There are a few gotchas but for most use cases it is drop-in.
I think I've run into issues with the podman socket, and there were some permissions problems I had getting games-on-whales setup in userspace.
As far as I know you only get a ticket if you're actually parked there when the sweeper comes by. There's a parking cop car following the sweeper and ticketing the cars. You're allowed to re-park in the street after the sweeper has done its job, even if it's still technically street sweeping time.
So if you've got a ticket, there almost certainly was a sweeper that came by at that time.
Pretty sure it varies depending on where you live. iirc When I was in SF the tickets would get distributed ahead of time and the sweeper would follow within an hour or so. Once the sweeper went by you were free to re-park.
You might want to check Firefox' telemetry settings if you care about privacy. Or you can use Librewolf, it's an extension-compatible FF fork with privacy turned on.
Librewolf is great, but from my experience the default settings are painful for daily use. My biggest gripe is the auto-clear cookies on restart. I understand why it could be useful to some users, but for most I doubt they'd want that in a daily browser. This makes Librewolf need tweaking just as much as Firefox does which kind of ruins the point of it in my experience. (although you are tweaking for usability rather than privacy)
dodos commented on Open hardware desktop 3D printing is dead? josefprusa.com/articles/o... · Posted by u/rcarmo
I very recently was in the market for a 3d printer and was interested in making a voron or something diy, but even ordering parts from china it would've cost about double just getting a pre built with better software presets, less room for error, and about the same specs from a Chinese company. It's hard for me to comprehend how diy buying parts individually from AliExpress can be more expensive before shipping,but I guess that's what economics of scale get you.
dodos commented on I used to know how to write in Japanese aethermug.com/posts/i-use... · Posted by u/mrcgnc
When learning Japanese, I purposely chose to _not_ learn how to write any of it by hand. As the author notes, writing (by hand) is in fact a separate skill from reading. So I decided I would not invest my limited time, motivation, or brain space to writing.
Overall it's been a successful approach, and I recommend it to new learners unless they have a particular interest in being able to write by hand or they feel strongly that writing the characters helps them remember them.
It's only rarely that I have to write anything other than my own name in Japanese. I've practiced my address but writing it in English is fine in 99% of situations. Being able to write properly would save a little embarrassment, but I still believe my language learning time would have a much higher ROI in other areas.
The one thing I noticed when I was focusing on learning to write is that it helped me a lot with differentiating between similar characters when reading. I forget which ones now, but there are many characters that differ by a single radical and have similar meanings, knowing how to write each one helped me quite a bit there, but overall I rarely write anything other than my name and address now that I live in Japan.
This feels like the LLM-enabled version of this behavior (except that in the former case, students will quickly realize that what they’re doing is pointless and ask a peer or teacher for help; whereas maybe the LLM is a little too good at hijacking that and making its user feel like things are still on track).
The most important thing to teach is how to build an internal model of what is happening, identify which assumptions in your model are most likely to be faulty/improperly captured by the model, what experiments to carry out to test those assumptions…
In essence, what we call an “engineering mindset” and what good education should strive to teach.