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Spaced repetition works well for motor learning. You just have to keep hitting “Again” until you are actually good at it.


I don't think that's very useful. You're saying basically treating anything except mastery as "I forgot". That's too much practice. It also doesn't take into considering that you are better of doing your reps later in the day (ie close to your sleep cycle).

Sure, you can sort of use SRS here, but it's suboptimal and probably will leave too many cards in the top priority "learning" pile causing too much load, or you train incorrectly.

Still, I agree that this is MUCH better than NOT doing SRS if you don't have an alternate tool with a better algorithm.


What makes Zoom better than teams?


Not OP but in my experience it’s more likely to Just Work with fewer glitches and at a higher video resolution. I’d like to get away from Zoom but with consulting work it’s the only thing I’ve found that typically works with clients on the first try and with the fewest artifacts.


Idk. in my experience Teams nearly always works, but sometimes glitchy.

On the other hand with zoom I did had the experience of it just arbitrary not working at all for me.


I have not had the same luck with the video calls as you. People have mentioned “new Teams” which is perhaps better and more stable. When I used Teams last year it was not at all comparable to Zoom


Zoom just works. Teams usually works, but there are random issues from time to time.


Git? Syncthing?


I do use Git for source control-purposes, but this is the first time I hear of Syncthing. Would that allow for completely automated and frictionless syncing?


it'll be very good. it won't resolve conflicts for you, though - just like Dropbox or Google Drive also wouldn't. It's last-write-wins, so you either need to keep your devices connected and syncing at all times, or you need to be careful when you edit the same files on different devices.

I use Syncthing for all kinds of things and it's excellent, but it's not really a silver for bullet for mutable data like text files.


I have a small vps as one of my syncthing nodes, and every device syncs with that central server in addition to syncing with eachother. This removes the need to keep everything online at the same time as the vps is always online, receiving and propagating changes from any device.


Yeah me too. I love syncthing but prefer using it with an always on 'server' like dropbox rather than just pure p2p.

What I really like about it is that you don't have to sync everything everywhere. I have work folders I sync with just my work machines, and personal ones that go to my personal VPS.


I'll look into it, thanks for the suggestion! The risk de-synchronization poses can probably be mitigated with automated local backups.


BTW, just a second vote for Syncthing, here. It's basically my "move data around" Swiss Army knife.

Need to get my Keepass database on my phone? Syncthing.

Need to back up my reMarkable to my NAS? Syncthing.

Need to replicate game saves between my PC and my Steamdeck because the game doesn't support Steam Cloud Sync (I'm looking at you, Subnautica)? Syncthing.

I run Paperless as a document management system and use Genius Scan on my phone. I use Syncthing to automatically move scans from my phone to the Paperless inbox folder.

And none of that data resides on a third party cloud. Just encrypted, peer-to-peer sync. It really is fantastic.


I went to Syncthing.net and they didn't mention iOS or Android.

Does it run on those?


If I can ask, what is Paperless? Google is strangely unhelpful.


It's a self-hosted document management system:

https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/

Think: replacing paper file folders with a digital system. Supports OCR, a variety of metadata, tagging and categories, etc.

My primary use case is taxes, but for any important legal or financial documents, I throw 'em in Paperless.


I can’t recommend Paperless enough. I set up email forwarding to the Paperless domain and it automatically downloads the attached documents. The only problem I have now - I am using a somewhat older version and there’s no direct migration path to the recent one.


People run marathons without shoes, so I don’t think grip would be an issue.


Can you go into some detail about how you meditate to reduce anxiety?


There's a great book by Culadasa: The mind illuminated. It covers a lot of what ancient meditators thought about the practice, but the essentials can be found in the first chapter.


Second this. He is a professor for neuroscience and meditation teacher for decades. Breaks it down into 10 steps, in plain english. A must, if you are into meditation, IMHO.


He was, unfortunately.


Goes to show the importance of Right View with these practices as well. They don't suddenly make you a great person on their own, etc.


I meant - his body dissolved and he got reborn or not (Idk whether he was an Arahant)


Ah - I forgot he had passed. I meant the sexual misconduct issues.


That sounds like he molested someone, which he did not. He had a secret relationship with a prostitute, who he treated well, helped her with rent, even got her a flat IIRC. He was unfaithful to his wife, if you believe in monogamy. Many species of birds believed to be monogamous are not on close inspection. Both human sexes want to have sex with other people, besides their primary partner more often than we think. To suppress these desires leads to resentment and other problems i think.


Not who you asked, but Healthy Gamer GG has a lot of short meditations that only take a few minutes. There's a course on his site but a lot of the same information is scattered throughout his YouTube.

https://youtu.be/86sYinrLuPA


Headspace helped me tremendously.


Nice. Can you talk a little bit about what this is written in and how the development process went?


This web project is Python Flask web server backed by MongoDB, mostly written as Jinja template HTMLs and forms instead of any slick JavaScript which was fun to try!

The mobile apps are Objective-C for iOS (with very small amounts of Swift, boy I have been slow to pick that up and start migrating my codebase) and Java for Android. Backed by a Flask API and MongoDB.


He was part of the Silicon Valley Linux User Group in the late nineties.


Yes. But that's also true of laptops, tablets, cell phones and lots of other items in our houses.


And that's why computers used in classified areas have their cameras and microphones physically disabled.


For a while Amazon loved selling the smaller units for a little as a dollar (and often including several months of Amazon music for free or almost free as well).

Sell enough of these 30 dollar gadgets for a dollar and it will add up quickly.


What did you write it in?


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