danabramov

I can reproduce the same in incognito mode.

This is not true. I regularly get HN front page hits, and still use em dashes. Nobody accuses me of AI writing. Writing with em dashes is not a problem if you have something to say.

There is this one! Though I have not tested it. https://github.com/stephenturner/skill-deslop I found it funny to just read through.…

Please please please write your own blogposts. I already read “but here’s the biggest unlock, and it’s the part that’s hardest to see” all day. I just don’t understand why undermine your own announc…

In practice, "what's actually best for the community" (growing a community of engaged engineers who feel listened to and who understand what you're doing) is not necessarily easy t…

I think so, maybe.

Rendered Markdown: https://github.com/bluesky-social/proposals/blob/permissione... Note this is an early draft and will likely change, as PR description says.…

>You claim that only 2 groups are taught when 3 get taught. I skipped the handful of exceptions because they have no rules associated with them, you just have to memorize them. Yes, it would be 3…

Again, it's my mistake in terminology. I'll fix it. It has no bearing on the actual conjugation procedure that the article tries to teach.

I wasn't aware that this community gatekeeps the word "teach" to exclude personal blog posts. I have no desire to participate in this community anymore, but you're welcome to menta…

Thank you! Appreciate the kindhearted comment. Frankly, this thread was kind of wild, and it really got to me. It's not my first rodeo on HN, but the amount of wilful misunderstanding, weaponized…

Is it “learn kana” or something else? I know kana. I’ve read through both replies once more and I can’t find any other unifying thread. Did you assume that I don’t know kana because I’m not using kana…

What is the advice though? Is it to not write at all about what works for me? Is it to change what I write into the “accepted” approach and away from what I actually wanted to write? Is it to presen…

That seems like the best diagnosis so far for what’s happening in the thread and gives me some peace. I guess it also means I’ll try to keep my future explanations to myself because intersecting with …

I don’t know what post you’re referring to. I understand romaji is the character set. If you’re nitpicking on this sentence: > I thought it’s acceptable to refer to Hepburn as just “romaji” I’ll ex…

I feel like there’s some kind of miscommunication, and I can’t bridge it, which is driving me a little crazy. I genuinely don’t understand why it’s bad that I wrote something for people who don’t want…

Ah, I see what you mean. For me personally, knowing the shape of the system underneath has a sort of calming effect because I have a sense of the upper bound of how annoying it will be to learn by osm…

>the explanation here is misleading Misleading means it leads to a wrong conclusion somewhere. Please demonstrate which wrong conclusion my article is leading to. >and that's because of …

Intuitively I suspect that you severely underestimate how many people give up on the language somewhere in the middle of the process of learning this "basic part" in the traditional way. My …

> have some ideas about what works for language learners that is not expressed by language learners experts. This seems like a culture clash. In programming blogging, it is completely fine to wri…

I genuinely don't understand where our disconnect is. To me, “this just works for me, personally” and “this my unorthodox method of teaching/explaining conjunctions in Japanese” is the same …

Can you just explain what you’re trying to say. I genuinely don’t understand your point. What is my mistake?

My interpretation is that there’s a lot of dogma around how Japanese “should” be learned, in particularly among the English-speaking community. This dogma includes things like “you must learn kana fir…

> if you intend to write more about language learning, try sticking to strictly “this is where I struggled, this was my heuristic and this was the gap that I had, and this is how I solved it for m…

Let’s just call it a blog post. I used the word “teaching” loosely and didn’t mean to hit a nerve. If somebody else called a carefully assembled sequence of learning units teaching, I wouldn’t blink a…

Ordering topics by strict topological sorting with no cyclical dependencies, ensuring that there's a consistent picture built with each step, and that this picture monotonically converges towards…

All of that makes sense to me — I think we’re in agreement here! You can see it as a somewhat speculative theory that nevertheless is self-consistent and may be helpful to some people.

I'm saying that there's a subset of people (people like me) who find this approach enjoyable. Maybe you find it difficult to believe; that's cool. I'm not here to litigate whether …

"Headcanon" implies I made it up and it's plain incorrect. Now we seem to be litigating that it's correct within its scope but the pedagogical approach is unsound? I'm not say…