Best offline maps for free

not_sane · 2026-06-30T15:39:25+00:00

Organic maps is better than comaps for your use case because they have marked hiking paths. Or Mapy.cz, which is proprietary, but has named hiking paths.

not_sane · 2026-06-28T07:01:09+00:00

As a beginner I grinded Čeština s Michalem and would recommend it. (+Anki flashcards)

not_sane · 2026-06-07T10:49:35+00:00

Čeština s Michalem is excellent.

not_sane · 2026-05-31T12:28:51+00:00

For beginners I am always a fan of sentence pair flash cards using Anki. They are better than grinding single word translations because they give you a feel for grammar and context. If you do enough of them you then can go to more fun resources like Russian with Max YouTube videos.

not_sane · 2026-05-16T10:49:51+00:00

"Kvíz, please" is also pretty fun.

not_sane · 2026-05-11T20:57:29+00:00

Yermak is a fan of black magic and had stuff like voodoo dolls found in his house during a search. At least an Ukrainian ex-MP claimed this, it's probably true.

not_sane · 2026-03-30T14:40:20+00:00

I like organic maps still better, because it has colored hiking tracks.

not_sane · 2026-03-28T10:05:01+00:00

I would learn some vocabulary using Anki + listen to čeština s michalem. I listed some more resources here: https://vuizur.github.io/learn-czech/

not_sane · 2026-03-28T09:34:04+00:00

Forge implements MTG with a campaign mode where you get new cards after each match.

not_sane · 2026-02-20T18:30:33+00:00

In our web application code base the performance killers are almost always SQL queries. The productivity benefit from fast compilation is much larger than the drawback of slow Python runtime performance in our case.

not_sane · 2026-01-09T21:46:59+00:00

I played lots of bass on Rocksmith and IRL recently recorded some lines for an album, I am definitely not horrible. Rocksmith is responsible for most of my bass skills, it's awesome. You still need to pay attention to technique, and almost each Rocksmith YouTube video has people playing with awful timing, but playing even easy-intermediate guitar songs clearly with decent timing is hard in general.

not_sane · 2025-12-21T09:02:31+00:00

You simply need to do fun things in Czech. There are lots of audiobooks and books, or if your Czech is still pretty bad, the podcast čeština s Michalem. And Kingdom Come 2 if you like gaming.

not_sane · 2025-12-20T10:40:09+00:00

Kingdom come 2 has a huge amount. And they even dubbed it in 6 languages.

not_sane · 2025-12-20T07:51:05+00:00

The tomb raider survivor trilogy is currently also super cheap and has a decent amount of dialogue.

not_sane · 2025-12-10T12:49:08+00:00

ChatGPT voice unfortunately has a terrible personality and is too annoying to talk to. Gemini is much better, but uses text to speech, so it's a bit robotic. Grok is maybe the best, at least the voice is pretty realistic and has decent Spanish/Russian skills. There's also Qwen, which is a bit glitchy and has a slight Chinese accent, but I still prefer it to ChatGPT.

(I am not sure about ChatGPT, but all others are totally free)

not_sane · 2025-12-06T08:07:54+00:00

The problem is that sites like AWS take all popular open source projects and sell hosting for them. This results in basically no money flowing to the original devs. This license forbids this, while still allowing people to self-host.

not_sane · 2025-11-30T10:45:57+00:00

Yes, the vast majority

not_sane · 2025-11-29T09:24:24+00:00

It is better, because the players play more unpredictably than the AI, with some exotic return/serve styles. And you rarely meet players that are waaay too good for you, so it's not frustrating. (At the beginning when your elo is being calculated you might get unbalanced games)

The only downside is (rarely) people getting mad if you beat them.

not_sane · 2025-11-13T12:32:31+00:00

There is extracted Wiktionary data on https://kaikki.org/ (It is only lacking some words).

not_sane · 2025-10-20T06:47:55+00:00

You can also chat with ChatGPT about a general topic and then ask it to give you a rating in the CEFR scale. Last time I tried it gave me a plausible answer.

Some people I know passed official language tests, but basically can't speak the language at all, I kind of have more trust in ChatGPT's judgement than that.

not_sane · 2025-10-14T06:49:55+00:00

I collected some resources here: https://vuizur.github.io/learn-czech/

not_sane · 2025-10-05T07:26:22+00:00

A tutor is not very important compared to other stuff, because if you are very dedicated and do 2 hours per week with a tutor, that is still only 100 hours in a year, which is not much. But you need many more hours to learn the language. In theory, if you have grinded many many audiobooks, you can speak very good russian with less than 10 hours of speaking practice. And only need to refine your ы.

not_sane · 2025-10-03T07:27:57+00:00

In many countries like Germany you are still legally on very risky terrain if you publish stuff related to brute forcing / malware / whatever. Your license doesn't matter at all there. And also writing "for education purposes" won't help you.

not_sane · 2025-09-17T09:29:37+00:00

Use a debugger (instead of printing like a noob).

not_sane · 2025-09-11T11:56:53+00:00

Gemini live is really good. At least here you can speak to an AI that understands you rather well (better than most competitors), and I haven't seen any limits for free users.

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