After 12 years, from age 17 to age 29, of using every spaced repetition tool under the sun to learn all kinds of weird little things, this is the advice I have to give to anyone feeling like they’re dying under the burden of Anki repetitions.
Every minute of your life which passes resculpts, often imperceptibly, the way your neurons are wired together. Anki is a tool which allows you to get certain neurons to fire together at an interval which science has loosely deemed ‘optimal’ for keeping them wired together.
That’s it. That’s all it does. And you can choose anything to put in there. Your shoe size. The names and faces of your coworkers. Pictures from your wedding. Videos of your kids playing in a sprinkler park. The last words of famous men. Leetcode problems. A simple list of life lessons you discovered when you were younger and decided it made sense to steer by. Things you notice make your 2 year old niece howl with laughter. Mistakes you will never make again. Gwern’s list of ordinary life improvements since the 1990s. Photos of delicious things you made with instructions on the back. An instruction to mentally run up and down the Lydian scale on a fretboard. Minecraft recipes. The names of different kinds of clouds.
It is up to you. But no matter what, at the end of the day, all you are doing is sculpting your brain. Don’t fall hostage to the chisel.
From a reddit user: https://www.reddit.com/r/Anki/comments/171gwp3/its_not_retaining_information_its_sculpting_your/
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“A 72-year-old man presented to the emergency department with a 2-day history of an itchy rash on his back. On physical examination, edematous, flagellate plaques and linear patches were present across the patient’s entire back and upper buttocks. There was no adenopathy, dermographism, or mucosal involvement. What substance had the patient most likely handled and ingested before subsequently developing this rash?”
- Phenytoin
- Shellfish
- Shiitake mushrooms
- Toxicodendron radicans (poison ivy)
- Warfarin
The correct answer is 3, Shiitake mushrooms
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A summary of changes since 14.0-BETA4 includes:
- An issue preventing binary upgrades using freebsd-update on earlier
supported releases had been fixed. - Several networking-related bug fixes had been addressed.
- Experimental support for Amazon EC2 cloud-init AMIs had been added.
- Several additional miscellaneous bug fixes and enhancements.
https://download.freebsd.org/releases/ISO-IMAGES/14.0/FreeBSD-14.0-BETA5-amd64-bootonly.iso
- An issue preventing binary upgrades using freebsd-update on earlier
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So the official RELEASE announcement is shifted on 7 November 2023
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Using open-source as my daily driver has increased my productivity and there is no way back to Windows in the near future. I regret not transitioning into Linux a decade ago in 2012-2013.
The next step is FreeBSD + ZFS as a desktop !! It is just the simplicity, the low maintenance, cost and complexity. Once you set your defined, prefered parameters the system can run stable for years with minimal intervention.
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Let’s celebrate by smashing the space bar !! 🙂
I’ve been using Anki since May 2018. My first flashcards were from BRS Physiology for my USMLE Step 1 preparation
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It is probably one of the most toxic Reddit communities. Some members offer help while other just make fun of novices, downvoting responses and posts for no reason or being total arrogant.
In contrast FreeBSD is the most welcoming community with experienced users in the IT world …
Just an observation that I made during the past couple of months.
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The stable version of Chomium does not allow me to sync my data across devices, while beta functions as supposed to be.
“Version 117.0.5938.149 (Official Build) Arch Linux (64-bit)” vs “Version 118.0.5993.54 (Official Build) beta (64-bit)”
UPDATE: The problem is related with the limited Private API availability and is present from March 15 2021. Unfortunately the Stackoverflow instructions were unsuccessful
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67459316/enabling-chromium-to-sync-with-google-account
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Vermaden shared some cool Unix wallpapers in his blog
Download link: https://github.com/vermaden/scripts/blob/master/distfiles/wallpapers-freebsd.tar.gz
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“A nasty vulnerability has been made public today concerning Glibc’s dynamic loader that can lead to full root privileges being obtained by local users. This affects Linux distributions of the past two years”
FreeBSD does not use glibc and has it’s own libc system that is not affected by this vulnerability.
Even the Linux Binary Compatibility package emulators/linux_base-c7 should be safe according to https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2023-4911
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“Fortunately it is slow-growing and manageable follicular lymphona, so he will probably live many more years nonetheless. But he now has to be even more careful not to catch Covid-19.”
/root 