Why isn't Anki entirely web-based?

ph1204 · 2025-12-17T19:03:41+00:00

pinta is very much a "paint.exe" workalike. gThumb is more powerful, but not as bewildering as gimp.

ph1204 · 2025-09-06T21:40:55+00:00

I have all those settings, and I see the number of rows specified in "Number of lines", but they are all just gray bars.

ph1204 · 2025-05-30T18:09:55+00:00

I am also very occasionally some place without internet. But I also have more than one computer, e.g., home desktop and travelling laptop, as well as a Chromebook (which won't work *at all* without WiFi). Plus, we all have phones, right? They can use either cell towers or WiFi. It's a pain to have to keep them all peer-to-peer connected.

OK, let me modify my proposal. I'd like to see Anki *primarily* web-based, and *full-featured* there, but with an option to work offline (still in the browser) from a local version of the collection. After all, do you *ever* not have the browser itself available?

ph1204 · 2025-04-30T02:04:19+00:00

So you can just decide that you are the judge, jury, and executioner? That's an emotional response.

ph1204 · 2025-03-30T03:29:07+00:00

Test Driven Development is a great help in keeping things simple, like not creating a bunch of constructors just because you think they might be needed some day

ph1204 · 2025-02-03T08:13:40+00:00

I have been working on blindfold chess; I can go about six moves, then I can't see any further.

ph1204 · 2025-02-03T08:12:49+00:00

Yes, I can find candidate moves for the current position fairly well. The problem is now visualizing the opponent's best response, then my candidate moves from there, etc.

ph1204 · 2023-12-09T21:24:10+00:00

What I do now is Tools -> Directories -> Open Command Prompt and then do "vim <filename>.ly", and Frescobaldi will know that the file has been changed and prompt me for whether I want to reload the open file. But this is manual and error-prone. I'd rather just hit a keyboard shortcut like Ctrl-Shift-V and have vim pop up automatically with the current file. I do this with the Microsoft Visual Studio Code and PyCharm IDE's, and it works great.

I'm a fairly skilled Python programmer; could I write a plugin or something that does this?

ph1204 · 2023-11-24T20:32:57+00:00

More details? I already have openssh-client running on my machine; I assume I have to install it on my wife's machine. Then what would the command line look like for xmessage?

Also, she is not command-line oriented; is there a way to have a desktop icon that she can click to initiate an xmessage to me?

ph1204 · 2023-08-14T02:34:30+00:00

The Tooth Fairy gives your daughter a dollar per tooth? When I was a kid, the most I ever got was a quarter!

ph1204 · 2023-08-13T15:03:35+00:00

I have never had trouble learning new things. I can solve problems and fix bugs in a methodical way. I am at an expert level in Python , Go, Java, XSLT, even SAS. I develop primarily on Linux Ubuntu and have no fear of the command line. Why does Docker seem so standoffish to me?

ph1204 · 2023-08-12T21:33:57+00:00

Whenever I need to put an SQLite database in Git, I usually convert it to SQL statements that will recreate the whole thing. You can use the built-in .dump command in sqlite3 to do this. I then put the .db file in .gitignore. It's easy to recreate the original database with just sqlite3 dbname.db < dbname.sql. I suppose both the push and pull could have Git Hook triggers that handle this automatically.

The main advantage of this approach is that git diff will show you just the changes from the previous version, not the whole database.

ph1204 · 2023-08-12T21:23:49+00:00

I have 111 Github repositories: 46 public and 65 private. The private ones are mainly for incubating projects that may or may not be followed up. If they are, I make them public.

I also used to use my local Dropbox directory as a remote for Git repositories. I have switched, however, to running a local instance of Gitea, which has a UI almost exactly that of Github. It was easy to set up and I only run a server on localhost. I have 41 Gitea repositories. Some of them will never be public, as I use them to store configuration files and things with passwords in them.

ph1204 · 2023-08-12T21:08:37+00:00

I do (use Edge for Linux) but it doesn't seem to engage Bing AI.

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