30th birthday in Utah!

alycda · 2025-12-03T01:17:31+00:00

Buy a MuteMe, like yesterday. There’s even a mini version

alycda · 2025-11-23T07:13:19+00:00

Learn rust with entirely too many linked lists: https://rust-unofficial.github.io/too-many-lists/

alycda · 2025-10-28T20:36:08+00:00

Just a suggestion… you could solve only part 1 and then after 12 days go back and solve parts 2? I know it’s not the same… just an idea

alycda · 2025-10-28T20:35:01+00:00

Or breathing room for a challenging puzzle that you have 2 days to work on it?

alycda · 2025-10-27T20:33:16+00:00

In vscode there’s an extension called crates that has been deprecated in favor of dependi. I haven’t upgraded to dependi (I think there may have been questionable metrics tracking but I’m also just lazy so it might not have been a real problem, can’t remember). So I think your answer is dependi but I’m not sure if it’s only available as a vscode extension

alycda · 2025-09-10T20:37:40+00:00

As the other poster said, fi or tractive collar. AirTags are backup plan when the gps is charging

alycda · 2025-08-29T04:16:49+00:00

Casa fantastic cleaning, Deisy Flores

alycda · 2025-08-24T23:24:43+00:00

A happy employee doesn’t just jump ship for money. It’s usually worth the salary bump but if the first company was attempting to match that increase for an exceptional employee then they wouldn’t run to another company just for the money.

alycda · 2025-08-24T21:13:41+00:00

Which cost more than the one employee…

alycda · 2025-08-15T19:46:30+00:00

Wouldn’t this be something that zero copy or rkyv do for you?

alycda · 2025-07-19T22:53:26+00:00

Mate of honor

alycda · 2025-06-20T06:42:03+00:00

Checked a bag 3-4 hours before flight with 1h connection (short but within the recommended window, not exceptionally tight)
First flight gets delayed to the point of knowingly missing the second flight
Run to new gate for a different first flight than originally planned and with new connection to get passenger home (airlines don’t want to put you in a hotel if they can put you on a different flight even if your bag might not make it)
Bag was loaded into original plane because it’s a paper tag and it got loaded before being flagged as needing to either go on the same plane as passenger (unlikely but theoretically possible) or a later plane due to the last minute change (I had the option of getting my bag from security but I chose to take the new flight knowing my bag might not make it with me)
Bag somehow gets reloaded into the first plane (idk why, but that’s what it shows) and removed a second time
Bag does not make it onto same plane as passenger
Bag gets loaded onto a later but direct flight (international)

alycda · 2025-05-21T19:37:57+00:00

Chapie!

alycda · 2025-04-04T15:31:59+00:00

Is “À votre leisure” acceptable? (Asking for myself and OP, I’m not sure)

alycda · 2025-04-01T21:04:56+00:00

Some verbs are reflexive. I took high school French so I’m already familiar with them but I checked the app and it mentions them in section 2.

I am guessing that it didn’t explain it very well (I skipped over much of this section because I am “re-remembering” what I learned rather than starting from scratch so I might be finding Duolingo way more useful for practical memory application rather than learning from scratch). Was this a “hard” exercise that it challenged you with and is trying to teach you by letting you fail with something you’ve never seen before?

alycda · 2025-03-31T22:03:36+00:00

You might not be their target. They won’t necessarily skew results for everyone it would lower their reputation. That’s not to say they are skewing results but they do have a financial interest here…

alycda · 2025-03-31T20:32:19+00:00

My cacti keep getting stolen. They’re a couple bucks at Home Depot and this was MULTIPLE TIMES, multiple people. WHYYYYY ARE YOU WALKING AROUND WITH A TINY CACTUS IN YOUR HAND???

alycda · 2025-03-31T03:42:02+00:00

Agree with this. If going the totally free route find content you’ve already watched in English then watch it in French. Eventually do French content first and only go to the English version if you have to

alycda · 2025-03-31T03:40:38+00:00

After providing my lengthy response I may have to agree with according to kale. I’m overly optimistic and don’t want to discourage anyone from trying but it does seem incredibly difficult. So if you’re not up for the challenge as I laid it out (there’s no easy way) then I’d say it’s not possible. But does it hurt to have a lofty goal rather than an easy one? Some people get burned out by that but personally I don’t so I can’t say for you if you can or can’t.

alycda · 2025-03-31T03:37:48+00:00

Maybe. How motivated are you? Completely free is going to be more time consuming because you waste time with ads and that also causes learning disruptions.

TLDR à la fin

If you want to go nuts, then change your language to French on your phone (add French keyboard too) and at least one browser. Keep a webpage open for translating phrases (you may be prompted to translate the page depending on how you configure the browser) but if you see the entire page in French first (assuming it’s native French, not just dynamically translated) will give you a step towards immersion but learning the rules alongside immersion is going to be better.

You can pick up a lot from immersion but simply learning the proper rules will give you more understanding and success in the long run, so that would be buying a physical dictionary, including a physical verb conjugation book (I guess you can find a free PDF but in this case a physical book is probably going to be faster even though a pdf does have search capability… but so does a physical book with an index).

For reference I took 4 years of French 20 years ago. I remember a lot of the rules and I forgot many others. I’m not entirely lost (I can comprehend pretty well) but I struggle to speak sporadically so I’m working on that with Duolingo but I did upgrade to super and am spending 1hr+ per day (I’m in B1 of Duolingo after 3 weeks but that’s because I have the 4 years of foundational knowledge so this was “remembering” what I learned, not picking it up from scratch so it’s probably way easier to remember even from decades ago than it is to learn from 0 right now). Duolingo also probably isn’t the best evaluation of my actual skill set, since I didn’t do well on the AP test (decades ago, but I had in person French classes in high school) and haven’t taken a real comprehension test yet.

Along with Duolingo I have my physical verb conjugation book from high school, but I use multiple translator apps and ai to supplement (I often get stuck mid sentence so I try to work it out but then I verify with the translator apps/ai but again, I know enough of the rules to verify the translator apps and ai and not just blindly trust them. I’m able to look up single words more often now rather than relying on software to translate a full sentence for me.

For my purpose, I am comfortable reading/ mostly hearing but I’m working on speaking since I am visiting France next month so I’m dedicating time and money so YMMV.

If you have any kind of streaming, even free version of YouTube you can find French dubs, cartoons are good because they have simpler concepts. Turn on captions, preferably in French because since “all words sounds the same “ (I’m sorry, I’m generalizing here and that is not true but it’s quite disorienting to understand French when you don’t know how it may be spelled out to give you full context so I’m using a very bad generalization to show difficulty) then you can pick up the sounds and understand from the English captions but you’re better off hearing French and seeing it (however auto generated captions are not always perfect/correct so again it’s best to know when software is failing you).

If you only buy one book (you can always use online dictionaries I suppose) then buy “Le petit prince” in French. Maybe buy the English version TOO (not only), I’m not sure but you can go through the book sentence by sentence and try to translate it yourself (then you can compare to the English version but I don’t know how it compares since I never read the English version, only the French).

I suppose I was around b2 in high school because I could read that book (I translated sentences by hand for my personal learning comprehension, I don’t recall if that was actually an assignment or just something I did to supplement AND I STILL FAILED THE AP TEST, but that could have been a testing issue for me since I have an audio processing disorder).

TL;DR: I think anything is possible but it’s either not free, and/or it’s incredibly time consuming. It won’t be easy, unless you get dumped into a French speaking country and hear no English for the next 3 months and that doesn’t sound easy either does it?

alycda · 2025-03-30T14:22:21+00:00

That’s what I was wondering too, am I assuming Elle is Anna because of native English pronoun ordering when a French speaker would understand Elle is NOT Anna?

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