fluentbyfire

Upvote for the pictures of cats :)

Zip drives malfunctioned too much. The "click of death" they used to call it.

If ninnyhammer.com isn't taken yet, I'm grabbing it.

I've paid for both Kagi and Perplexity, and I get much more value with Perplexity. But hey, if people want to stay with Kagi, that's fine. I just don't see why anyone would when there is a better alternative.

On any query, you get a summary answer from the latest LLMs (Claude 3, ChatGPT 4 Turbo, Mistral Large) and the list of sources. Very thorough, highly efficient, and no ads.

HN isn't immune to the latest fad or groupthink. I see it all the time here. Kagi is just another pet rock for HN natives to love and then to love to hate.

I say stop giving them free advertising and try Perplexity.ai. It's much better.

Only on Hacker News could people find flaws with such an awesome idea and execution.

Not all songs have hooks or refrains. Only the most formulaic ones.

I use Readlang for translating on the fly.

You are welcome and all the best to you!

I don't know much about my biological mother or her side of the family, but they are Polish.

When I "blitz", I'm looking for an immersive, memorable experience in my target language. Learning is merely a bi-product of that.

That said, as someone with an A1 ability according to CEFR (I started learning Polish 5 months ago), my ability to follow along with a native speaking narrator, even at 2x speed, has improved exponentially. My exposure to Polish vocabulary has also exploded, and I'm familiar with many Polish words in their various grammatical forms. However, I haven't committed to long term memory as many Polish words as I'd like to. Many meanings are still fuzzy, like a word at the tip of the tongue. I think I just need to see these familiar but fuzzy words in more diverse contexts before they are nailed down. That means more blitzing.

Learning Polish with an experimental method called the Bimodal Blitz. It requires reading an entire book in your target language in a day, or even a sitting, whilst listening to the audiobook at the same time. I've "blitzed" 39 Polish books in 39 days so far: https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/24584604-bimodal...

Also experimenting with albums!

Becoming an entrepreneur because you want to make the decisions isn't enough of a reason. You also need an idea that's so good, you must see it through and make it a reality. If you don't have that idea, get a job.

For me, it's a loud knocking on the door. It's as if impatient cops were knocking. It's not a pounding sound, it's knuckles to wood. I immediately awaken to check if someone is there, but no one ever is.

Happens once every few months. I've learned to check the response of my cat's. If they aren't looking at the door, it's in my head.

Bublup (https://bublup.com) is indispensable for me, but I also use Meistertask (https://Meistertask.com) to organize my projects a little further. Together, they work phenomenally well. Maybe the best setup I've ever had.