It's not like this in Sweden I can tell you.

In Sweden this format is called Hallon-almanackan (the raspberry almanack). I build an implementation here: thttps://hallonalmanackan.kodare.com/

Tack. :) I might use Stylus to change the layout a bit. But actually just what I was looking for!

Here's a rough draft of my interpretation:

https://abetusk.github.io/neatocal/?layout=hallon-almanackan

All spices basically too afaik.

Chilis, tobacco and tomatoes are all in the same family (nightshades). And they are all "New World" plants. Which means Europe had to live without them until 1600 or so. If you can call that living.

And coffee didn't make the jump until around the same time, either. No wonder Europeans wanted to be anywhere on the planet except Europe.

Coffee in Europe predates 1492 I think.

Coffee was around in Ethiopia and Yemen before that, but it didn't really spread in the Muslim world before 1500, and didn't spread from there to Europe until even later.

Don't forget the potato! Europe before the potato seems like a miserable place

yeah before potato they had lots of lots of turnips and rutabagas, it is little wonder they went out exploring the world looking for anything better to eat. the new world gave tonnes of food not just nightshade family plant mentioned earlier (gp left out eggplant btw) corn, sweet potato, chocolate, sunflowers, and pumpkins, squash, peanuts, pineapple, cranberry and turkey.

Eggplant is actually an old-world nightshade! Arabs brought it to Spain as early as the 8th century, probably from Southeast Asia

I've often had the mental image of Galileo trying to order a pizza and being very disappointed at the garlic bread that turned up.

Imagine Indian food without chilies… it’d be as dull as Russian food.

> Libraries should be preferred over frameworks whenever possible

You have to define the terms.

It's not clear how your statement above isn't semantically equivalent to "prefer good over bad" or something otherwise nonsensical.

Let me introduce you to development on Apple platforms, where "framework" is literally the term for all libraries since the NeXT days.

imo it's better to just figure out the definition in the current context, than try to force your own definition unto others. You can't anyway.

Motor learning is quite different from the type of information the article talks about. I tried adding dance moves into Anki to do spaced repetition and it's extremely obvious that it's a great way to remember a move very badly but never getting good at it. Compare that to the geography deck where Anki is just perfectly suited for the task and smashes it.

Do you have more experiences with learning dance moves and spaced repetition you can share? That sounds interesting. (Also what dance is it?)

Spaced repetition works well for motor learning. You just have to keep hitting “Again” until you are actually good at it.

I don't think that's very useful. You're saying basically treating anything except mastery as "I forgot". That's too much practice. It also doesn't take into considering that you are better of doing your reps later in the day (ie close to your sleep cycle).

Sure, you can sort of use SRS here, but it's suboptimal and probably will leave too many cards in the top priority "learning" pile causing too much load, or you train incorrectly.

Still, I agree that this is MUCH better than NOT doing SRS if you don't have an alternate tool with a better algorithm.

Apple forces names on the iOS app store to be globally unique. But if you search for the exact name of an app it's not the first hit.

A good example of this is my app Bit.

> Even if the evidence ends up showing that [I'm wrong] it seems like we should still [say I'm right]. [I like post-modernism more than I like truth]

There, I fixed it for you.

It could be survival bias trolling: those who accidentally troll get attention, not understanding that they are trolling.