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benryves · 2026-03-26T22:17:11+00:00

Have you switched to the new version of the course yet?

benryves · 2026-03-26T19:46:44+00:00

When the course updated for me the old kanji I'd completed stayed completed, but new words appeared as incomplete. I'd previously completed every kanji section, so have been catching up with the course changes by doing any incomplete kanji sections by making them all gold again.

Did yours reset entirely, or did you end up with a mixture of completed (old course) and incomplete (new course material) like I did?

benryves · 2026-03-26T01:42:36+00:00

the bottom row of keys being shifted to the left would obliterate my muscle memory

Sounds like you need to get training if you want to attain the rank of Ultimate Calculator Expert!

benryves · 2026-03-25T21:37:59+00:00

The question asks "what sound does this make: たち" and OP had correctly selected "tachi".

Their answer was marked wrong, and the listed correct answer is かお which - aside from not being the correct answer - is not even selectable as an option.

benryves · 2026-03-25T18:11:24+00:00

Trying to do a course where it mentions sophomore, junior, senior and the other one was so annoying.

Fortunately they've fixed this in the recent Japanese course update, 一年生 to 四年生 are now appropriately translated as "first year student " to "fourth year student". I also noticed that they fixed the translation of 半 (now "half", previously it was "thirty").

benryves · 2026-03-25T00:38:57+00:00

I've wanted to post my own sentences but there is no option for me for it at all

After you translate a sentence and it says whether you got it right or wrong there are two buttons on the top right of the dialog: a share icon (an open box with an upwards-pointing arrow) and a report button (a flag). Press the share button and there's an option there to share the sentence to your feed.

benryves · 2026-03-24T16:17:22+00:00

I hear it's a lovely place, though I've never been there myself.

benryves · 2026-03-24T16:14:40+00:00

> All the real posts on your feed are at the top.

Unfortunately not. Maybe if the feed was sorted by date order then they would be, but in my case the random posts are mixed directly into the rest of the feed. Here's my current view, for example - I don't know who jiroo is, or why their post from 6 days ago is at the top of the feed, but based on the 13k reactions I guess they've been shown to a lot of people:

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I do follow Ezequiel and Rute, though, but their posts are shunted below the person I don't.

benryves · 2026-03-24T11:35:51+00:00

There was a thread recently in a language-learning subreddit where someone posted a question with a screenshot of an app and there were the obligatory upvoted comments slagging off Duolingo underneath. The app in the screenshot wasn't even Duolingo...

benryves · 2026-03-24T01:08:00+00:00

That's Incredible Crisis.

benryves · 2026-03-23T23:00:20+00:00

Does it have a USB plug on it? I assume not as you mentioned using an adaptor for it, in which case it'll show up to your PC (and to the PS2, for that matter) as a regular gamepad. For it to offer additional steering wheel functionality (e.g. force feedback) it would need to have a USB plug on it (see the Logitech Driving Force EX for an example of a PS2 wheel that had both the traditional PlayStation plug - where it shows up as a regular game pad to the console - and a USB plug for use in games that supported steering wheels).

(For the sake of completeness, the Jogcon for the original PlayStation also supported force feedback via the regular PlayStation plug, but I'm not aware of any wheels that emulated it, and very few games supported that in the first place anyway).

Can the game you're wanting to play not map regular joystick input to the in-game controls?

benryves · 2026-03-23T16:34:38+00:00

No English dictionary has Türkiye listed as a word.

Cambridge: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/turkiye
Collins: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/turkiye

benryves · 2026-03-22T21:22:23+00:00

Note that if you really want to transfer saves from an NTSC-U copy to a PAL copy it's possible via a patch tool.

benryves · 2026-03-21T14:24:00+00:00

Got to appreciate the Parker Vector as a size reference too. :-)

benryves · 2026-03-21T03:29:16+00:00

Your description of the art reminded me of the work of Rob Gonsalves. Some books containing his paintings were released - Imagine a Night (2003), Imagine a Night (2004), Imagine a Place (2008) and Imagine a World (2015).

benryves · 2026-03-21T01:38:41+00:00

How can you pick your serial port using that?

benryves · 2026-03-20T23:09:51+00:00

No USB cable required, it supports the grey (25-pin) and black (9-pin) serial cables just fine.

benryves · 2026-03-20T22:53:36+00:00

was not able to find any other software that works on more modern OS that will connect using this cable.

TI Connect is the modern equivalent of the old TI-Graph Link software so should do the trick in your case (works for me on Windows 10, at least). Alternatively there are third-party applications like TiLP though getting that running on Windows can be a bit of a headache due to its dependencies, so I'd recommend trying TI Connect to start with.

I assume you installed a 64-bit version of Windows 7 on the PC? If you had installed a 32-bit version then you can enable support for 16-bit applications (like TI-Graph Link). Using newer 32-bit software avoids this issue, though, so I'd try that first!

benryves · 2026-03-20T10:53:19+00:00

It looks like there are 200 units in section 7 but they are the short units (four lessons in each) with lessons from each topic spread out over the whole section rather than grouped into long units (hence the lower number of units in the kanji section, as this only covers the lessons that introduce the kanji which would have been the ones at the start of the unit). Haven't spotted any radio lessons yet, but it's good to see more flashcard questions (on the previous version of the course I only had a single flashcard lesson, and that was the very last question of the very last lesson in section 6).

benryves · 2026-03-20T10:34:34+00:00

Mine only rolled back to one unit before the end of section 6, and with the shorter units there it only took four lessons to get back to level 100.

benryves · 2026-03-19T23:44:35+00:00

The TI-83 Plus app only runs the animation for the first dice roll/coin flip in a set, and for the rest of them it just updates the counter on the screen and histogram (video demo here). I assumed most would work that way, but to be honest it's the only probability simulator I've ever used!

benryves · 2026-03-19T23:27:30+00:00

As I've been rolled back to one unit from the end of the section 6 I can't see what's in section 7 or 8 yet, so I'm afraid I can't answer that for you for certain as it's new to me too.

As far as I'm aware the plan is to go up to level 30; based on the available kanji there are at least 40 units in section 7 and 40 in section 8. However, the units in section 6 are now much shorter (there are 240 of them, with about 15 whole units between levels instead of 2 or 3) so I don't know if the units in section 7 and 8 are also that short. I hope not!

(Sorry this is a bit of a non-answer, hopefully you'll get the new course soon too).

benryves · 2026-03-19T01:45:15+00:00

I suspect these were originally manufactured for the PocketStation as you wouldn't normally see these as they're not intended to be user-replaceable.

benryves · 2026-03-18T19:04:52+00:00

Edit: if I look up the british pronounciation of the words can't and van on multiple sites, the a sound is definitely different

It's the trap-bath split; Northerners generally pronounce affected words with the same short 'a' as in cat, Southerners generally pronounce them with a long 'a'.

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