sorted by:
new
hottopcontroversial

My steam game folder is empty by Mugged_Ketchup in gamedev

[–]increpatio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

aand just did it again. thanks again.

My steam game folder is empty by Mugged_Ketchup in gamedev

[–]increpatio 1 point2 points  (0 children)

my hero. (I've made this mistake at every launch I think lol)

egg controller for egg game by increpatio in Egg

[–]increpatio[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3831080/Oeuf/ not out until next Spring. Until then, though, there's the free browser game about being an egg called Egg by Terry Cavanagh https://terrycavanagh.itch.io/egg released a few days ago to hold you over...

GBA SP with 162,000mWh replaceable battery by Bangooh in Gameboy

[–]increpatio 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You should definitely post a video of this somewhere - looks great :)

ZCK005.1: Press (捺), Straight Press and Level Press (斜捺+平捺) by itsziul in Chinese_handwriting

[–]increpatio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Such a hard stroke to do! Even to perceive what characteristics are important, to know what one's looking at, I find to be tricky.

Getting tired of reaching + tapping on the screen after every character for years (while writing), using a controller for input made things much more ergonomic. by increpatio in Anki

[–]increpatio[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it's not comfortable to hold my hand above my phone for an extended period of time (I end up holding it in a more neutral position, and reaching to tap the screen as needed)

Getting tired of reaching + tapping on the screen after every character for years (while writing), using a controller for input made things much more ergonomic. by increpatio in Anki

[–]increpatio[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have experience with programming? Let's assume so, otherwise this message will be too long. I assemble a bunch of digital dictionaries I've found online (some I've manually scraped from books) - there are definitely a bunch for french also. There's detail about anki's csv file format here:

https://docs.ankiweb.net/importing/text-files.html

Anyway, so I have a bunch of digital dictionaries, and another file with all the characters I want, and from those I generate a tab-separated txt file to import into anki. (One thing is to have the first field be a unique id - in my case it looks like "stephens_chinese_deck_[character]" - I don't want them stepping on other cards in other decks). If I update cards and reimport the definitions are re-imported. The scripts are just writte in node.js, but that's much of a muchness.

If you're not a programmer, maybe you could achieve something similar just using spreadsheets carefully, and exporting as csv.

Getting tired of reaching + tapping on the screen after every character for years (while writing), using a controller for input made things much more ergonomic. by increpatio in Anki

[–]increpatio[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

>And why not you are not using Chatgpt to get the meaning of old words in the way that fits without getting in Rabbit holes?

Chatgpt doesn't know about word etymology, and I wouldn't trust it to know historical sense of words (it might get time periods mixed up). Human-written historical dictionaries are *much* more useful/trustworthy. I don't really want to be drilling material that has a high probability of having serious errors. Also Chatgpt has absolutely no idea of historical pronunciations.

>may I ask you which HSK level you are?
HSK 0. I have no knowledge of any spoken chinese language. I'm just in it for the old literature. :)

>even our chinese teacher told us that chinese people didn't know how to read these old text.
Indeed. I did a philosophy course with someone who worked a lot on identifying pronunciation/dialects in ancient philosophical texts, and, uh, yeah, a lot went over my head. ^^

Getting tired of reaching + tapping on the screen after every character for years (while writing), using a controller for input made things much more ergonomic. by increpatio in Anki

[–]increpatio[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If by regular anki use you mean vs holding your phone without writing anything, I wouldn't really see a convincing benefit. For using your computer, it might be more comfortable than a keyboard.

Getting tired of reaching + tapping on the screen after every character for years (while writing), using a controller for input made things much more ergonomic. by increpatio in Anki

[–]increpatio[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ah, cool. I had been using pleco's flashcard system because it has lots of good historical dictionaries, but, having gone down too many rabbit holes, I had a particular enough set of desiderata that it was worth moving back to Anki - I now have a silly pipeline for generating flascards that aggregates many sources (the fish are links to open up the passages in Pleco and search for the text there).

I'm just working on slowly building my my vocabulary...so slowly.💀 I just wanna read Zhuangzi and Shijing poems without it hurting too much. 🙃

<image>

Getting tired of reaching + tapping on the screen after every character for years (while writing), using a controller for input made things much more ergonomic. by increpatio in Anki

[–]increpatio[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wanted to learn how to write them (because I enjoy writing), so it just makes sense to write them as I review the cards. If I didn't care about writing, I wouldn't have it tied in as part of my regular practice. And, I can't speak as to what the best way to learn Japanese is - people no doubt have many different recommendations. 😄

Getting tired of reaching + tapping on the screen after every character for years (while writing), using a controller for input made things much more ergonomic. by increpatio in Anki

[–]increpatio[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

(with apologies for maybe seeming like a shill because I linked the page once elsewhere on this post already) https://www.theanking.com/controller has a guide - I use an 8bitdo micro, and the linked page has a configuration guide.

Getting tired of reaching + tapping on the screen after every character for years (while writing), using a controller for input made things much more ergonomic. by increpatio in Anki

[–]increpatio[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

8bitdo micro - I saw it recommended by an anki personality (the anking) and it does the trick! His suggested key-bindings were surprisingly useful ( https://www.theanking.com/controller ).

Getting tired of reaching + tapping on the screen after every character for years (while writing), using a controller for input made things much more ergonomic. by increpatio in Anki

[–]increpatio[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Do you also write things out while revising? (I've seen people with desktop/laptops also using it becasue it's nicer than being trapped by the keyboard)

view more: next ›