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Re:It's quite hard to lose a Duolingo streak on Sunday July 03, 2022 @10:13AM (#31967829)
It is a good way to get started with a new language, but you won’t make it to fluency. They don’t have enough content for that.
> My only complaint is that I don't particularly like PDF and wish there was an HTML-zip format that could be sent around and the browser did all the rendering work, while the udnerlying data tables are stored in well-defined formats so they can be programatically extracted.

Back when I was doing Math research it was common to submit LateX files to ArXiv. A quick look at some of the Physics papers, though, suggests it may not the case for other fields.

Re:Project Euler on Saturday November 13, 2021 @06:41PM (#29214164)
There's no real need to know so much math for most professional programming jobs. Math problems tend to be over-represented on challenge sites because they are easy to implement.
Re:Why cats won’t punish a stranger who harms you on Saturday April 10, 2021 @12:18PM (#26762584)
I'm not sure that plunging my arm down its throat and choking it with my fist would be my first instinct if I were attacked by a dog :)
Re:2020 Game on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @12:20PM (#25765106)
Nice to see this working well on Safari. Web games posted on HN sometimes don’t.
I couldn't get it to work properly in Lynx.
You have a gift for understatement.
Re:We Wasted $50K on Google Ads So You Don't Have To (2019) on Friday January 24, 2020 @08:38AM (#22138061)
My content blocker wouldn’t let me see this site... did I miss anything important?
Re:Firefox to Discontinue Sideloaded Extensions on Friday November 01, 2019 @07:56AM (#21417829)
I was amused by this doublespeak:

"To give users more control over their extensions, support for sideloaded extensions will be discontinued."

Re:The FBI Is Tracking Our Faces in Secret, and We’re Suing on Thursday October 31, 2019 @05:10PM (#21413743)
I did some experiments the other day and found to my surprise that Google has by far the best no-Javascript experience of the major search engines. Duck Duck Go could learn a thing or two from them.
I just changed my Battle Tag to "FreeHongKong", let's see how it takes me to get banned :D