I find these kinds of projects are neat, but if I’m being honest, I tend to just keep plain markdown files as well. The only thing I find that’s missing with that is searchability. Once you get enough files, it can get unwieldy. Although, I’ve been playing around with just using a local model lately as the interface. You can throw opencode at a folder with the files, and even a small model can find stuff fairly competently there.
Same, I’m basically tone deaf and just assumed that Mandarin wouldn’t be accessible to me. But then I finally decided to give it a go, and turned out to not be much of an issue at all. I also find that it’s easier to remember the tones in a context of a sentence. It’s a lot like when you put an accent on different words when you speak English, so you can just memorize the cadence of the sentence, and you’ll start learning the tones implicitly.
The thing is that even if the war ended tomorrow, it’s going to be years before production ramps back up to prewar levels. So, the damage is already done. The only question now is how bad it gets.
That’s the approach I took as well. For the first year, I just stuck with pinyin, and then once I got comfortable enough conversationally, I started making some effort to learn the characters. I find drawing them out really helps you memorize them so you can recognize them later, so even if you’re going to write using pinyin, practising writing is still useful. And it does get easier, because there is a fixed set of symbols that all the characters are composed of. So, once you learn the first batch, it only gets easier from there. But yeah, putting that off is the correct call.
I’m learning Mandarin right now as well, and in some ways it’s much easier than other languages I’ve learned. Grammar is pretty straightforward, there’s not conjugation or tenses to worry about either. If you learn a word, you just have to learn it once, there aren’t any variations. The whole thing with tones is largely overstated I find. Even if you get the tones wrong, people will understand you from the context. Where it gets trickier is with writing because the character based system is genuinely more difficult to learn than an alphabet. The characters are basically words written in two dimensions instead of one. Most are composed of subcharacters of which there is a common set of. But the upside here is that once you learn them, reading is a lot faster because each one is basically like an icon. So, you can scan through text a lot easier than with words all written out left to right.
ooh neat
yeah logseq is great, but does need a bit of upfront investment
Exactly, China is just protecting their domestic supply here, but the real issue is that global supply chains were disrupted by the war on Iran, and we’re seeing more and more ripples from that every single day.
Also Khrushchevkas were built because a lot of existing housing was destroyed during the war, and USSR needed to house millions of people quickly.
Workers in occupied Korea long to be liberated by their comrades in DPRK.
something something capitalism in a crisis…
I didn’t mention Russia in a single comment in this thread.
Oh they very much do if you bothered engaging with them. But hey you keep on spreading your propaganda to receptive audiences. Clearly you’re very dedicated to whitewashing fascism.
No, I said all the other resources I linked proved ethnic cleansing. This was just the cherry on top that I linked much later. Try to keep your story straight. You’ve conflated to completely separate things here being the clown that you are. I didn’t drop anything, I’ve just been addressing your dishonest comments which focused on the notebook. I’ve already repeatedly explained the basis for calling what Ukraine was doing ethnic cleansing. You’re just so bad at trolling. Really should work on that kiddo.
we really should start interpreting this as in nations that stopped developing and are now stunted versus those that are actively developing
I started with what Firefox translates, but I’m humoring your interpretation which isn’t any better. I didn’t move any goalposts, I’m simply pointing out that no matter how you try to spin this, it’s obviously Budanov referring to people he sees as subhuman. And it’s hilarious how you keep trying to whitewash this. Next, you’re gonna tell me homophobia isn’t prevalent in Ukraine. 🤣
Rimu basically seems to be building a cult.
Oh that’s the magic of tools like opencode, you run it in a folder and it acts as a harness for the model where it can interact with the filesystem. You could do the same with an IDE as well, making your own agentic harness is actually pretty straight forward. So you could make a plugin that talks to, say, ollama https://ampcode.com/notes/how-to-build-an-agent