hp49 | 6 years ago | on: The Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve (2019)
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hp49 | 6 years ago | on: Drive drunk twice in Quebec, get ignition breathalyzer for life
>That site is a joke
Might be (first source that popped up). Does it make it untrue?
The point is: One the one hand people are willing to forgive terrorists and reintegrate them into society, on the other hand you're forced to have a breathalyzer in your car for the rest of your life for drunk driving twice within ten years.
hp49 | 6 years ago | on: Drive drunk twice in Quebec, get ignition breathalyzer for life
No! This is unforgivable \s
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/trudeau-sparks-outrage-wit...
hp49 | 6 years ago | on: Pocket Popcorn Computer: Linux in Your Pocket
It can triple boot :)
Any of the following, if I'm not mistaken:
Android / Android rooted / Debian / Sailfish / Kali
hp49 | 6 years ago | on: Pocket Popcorn Computer: Linux in Your Pocket
It's mostly minor things
+ settings for screen-lock-on-idle aren't saved - sometimes I want the screen to be always on, but it doesn't work
+ screen brightness goes to 100% every time you unlock the screen (and to lower it again, you have to increase it first)
+ and a few other things in that ballpark
Maybe they fixed it, but a while ago the whole update process broke because of a bad Open Office package. I'll switch to Android / Kali Linux (which wasn't supported in the beginning) soon.
EDIT: But yea, I would still recommend it if you want something super portable with an actual keyboard. I don't know if I would pay the retail price, though.
hp49 | 6 years ago | on: Pocket Popcorn Computer: Linux in Your Pocket
Two years ago I was looking for somoething highly portable with a physical keyboard. Found the Gemini on Indiegogo.
I backed it there, travelled for almost a year on a bicycle with the Gemini in a bag and it's still running.
The Debian distro has its issues, though...
hp49 | 6 years ago | on: Pocket Popcorn Computer: Linux in Your Pocket
Nice - I like the idea of chording keyboards. Especially handheld.
> 200 bucks
Why?
hp49 | 6 years ago | on: I invested my life savings in a digital currency. Here's how I lost it all
>It wasn’t entirely my fault!
Sorry mate - it was.
>I was 37 and had never invested in anything, let alone digital currency
I'm 30 and started investing about three years ago. Simple vanilla stuff that doesn't get you rich in the short term, but will likely make a profit in the long run. Crypto was always off limits for me, because I know that I don't know much about it.
>but I felt like I was missing out on a huge opportunity
FOMO is one hell of a drug.
>As a precariously employed freelance writer
Invest what you can actually afford.
>I started to hear about cryptocurrency everywhere—the news, social media, even at my local barbershop.
>Maybe I’ve discovered an Amazon in its infancy!
This is the kicker. If you hear about something everywhere, chances are you didn't discover it.
But at least he learned the right lesson:
>Maybe Ethereum will revolutionize the financial system one day, and if my barber tells me about it, I’ll swallow my FOMO
Hope he makes it back somehow...
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I think it's worth noting that Ebbinghaus' original experiment had people learn nonsensical isolated syllables and measuring the rate of forgetting.
See on page 30: https://archive.org/details/berdasgedchtnis00ebbigoog/page/n... (It's German, though)
But real world information always comes within a context and it has inherent value. For example language learning:
If you learn the English word 'table' (as a foreigner), you don't just try to remember the writing and pronunciation. You already have a full semantic concept of what a table is, which helps you tremendously to remember the word 'table' in turn.