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If you want to learn a language you are supposed to feel emotions. I speak OK English now (not my mother tongue obv.) and I still remember the silly mistakes I made while I was playing online games 10-12 years ago and people made fun of me. Never made those mistakes again.

Now I am learning a 3rd language in a new country. I started with Duolingo and never believed in "Paid courses". I have used it close to a year with little impact on my skills. But I have made most of my progress when I actually talked to someone. There is a feeling of embarrassment and defenselessness when you put yourself in uncomfortable situations like that and that is what you need to make it stay.
I understand and respect your comments about the relative risk for you personally. That's a personal judgement and your position on that does not seem unreasonable.

Vaccination also protects other people by reducing the spread in the population. By not being vaccinated, you will increase the chances of other people being infected.

How do you factor the risk to others into your decision?
Also, native languages are weird. The last sentence above, for instance. If I had said “green little bird” or even “little cute green bird” you would have clocked it as wrong immediately. Apps alone aren’t sufficient to learn these nuances; every language has tons.
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First, you don't need 10k kanji to read. About 3000-5000 depending on what you read is enough. Then count 400-500 kanji per year if learning at university and being motivated (lot of people stops).

For conversation count two intensive years for the bare minimum, add one for more fluency. Actually all depends on how much effort you spend on it, I know a guy who was JLPT N2 or so after it's first university year (needless to say, he spent an aweful amount of time practicing, especially with natives). Then add at least one year in Japan to really get a good grasp (I went from N3 to N2 in a year while basically partying).
It’s a win but a small one, because what about every other animal displaced by concrete, light pollution, lack of wild flowers…? Where I live near Paris there where hedgehogs until a few years ago because there were still a few unmaintained and unbuilt land, and finally real estate project after project they are finally completely gone from the city.
Basic implementation for car, cdr, map with function pointers and clang blocks, the rest of Lispy stuff is left as an exercise. :)

https://godbolt.org/z/Y5qWs4c64
Some interesting tips on this list (and in the comments). It’s definitely worth taking a step back every now and again and investing a little in picking up some newer tools for better workflows.

I recently switched to the latest neovim and redid my config from scratch using more modern plugins. Took a while to understand the ecosystem and figure out how to get things working together nicely. But now, between telescope, ripgrep, trouble and better overall LSP etc, I’ve gone from fast to faster.

The balance of payoff probably still isn’t there yet, but it’s made me want to code more.
All of that except the door is easy to do at low cost.

Whether you can get a nice isolated place depends on the particular place you're living.

But I was never arguing that isolation isn't necessary! Please look again at the initial comment I replied to.

"Either you paid for more space or you lost space at your home during the 8 hours you were previously working at an office."

My concern was only with the second half of that "or". To get to the second half of the "or", you have to take it as given that there's a suitable spot in your home. When you argue that many homes don't already have such a spot, I agree, but that's irrelevant to what I was trying to comment on.

Everything I've said here should be interpreted like this: "Okay, so you've decided you don't need an additional room? Well in that case, I don't think the space taken up by working from home in an existing room is a big deal, because xyz."
I guess the optic nerve should see the same in complete dark vs in darkness with eyes closed - if noisy then noise in both cases. But here we are talking about a significant difference between eyes closed and low light.
> There's no basis to it other than projection and feels.

The basis is that the authorities can lock you up if you dissent. You have no right to free expression and no chance for a fair trial. You know this and will deny it happens.

I am not saying that for example HK polls are biased pre-NSL (they are because smart people knew what is coming 2047 or sooner), I am fully aware that half the people will support any government, no matter how bad. That also happened in Eastern Europe, so China is not as unique as you seem to think. It simply does not matter. Once dissent is not allowed - or you know you might be prosecuted for dissent in the future, or your family in China might be in danger - you will start self-censoring.

> Where is the massive propaganda campaign?

all over the world. See for example the Confucius Institute network associated with various universities, its overt task is to teach language and culture, but covertly to manipulate and to pressure lecturers and students and basically anyone around to toe the party line (happened to a friend very recently). Many similar stories all over academia, pressuring companies etc.
People having control over their own bodily functions is one of the main arguments of pro-abortion, right?

The counter argument being that when conception happens it's not just one person anymore, this has lots of levels of restriction over a person's body depending on when you consider this "conception" of a conscious being happens
So I am using Duolingo as I will have to take the sane exam at some point over the next year or two. I think it works ok for being able to consume simple German but less well for understanding spoken German, or constructing one’s own ideas.

In other words, it doesn’t make the hard things easy or easier.

It is a great alternative to wasting time on social media or news sites, however.
Here is one thing that happened to me after using Duolingo every day, multiple times a day for more than a year. I became extremely good at it. Throw any language at me, I'll complete it in record time. Sometimes I played it without even the sound on.

Do I speak any of the languages in the game? Hardly. This realization came to me after I completed the Japanese class and my sister asked me to count to ten. I knew all the numbers, their symbols, and the placement in a sentence. But I could not count to ten.

Duolingo is a game before being a learning tool. It is fun to use and I'm almost jealous that they are going to IPO. But it's kinda like farmville. You become good at the game, but you probably won't become a farmer after playing.
There’s no shortage. It became a buyers market during Covid (employers had the pick of the litter). It seems to be tilting back towards the middle. I don’t know anyone that’s not trying to get into tech.

It’s hyper competitive out there for anyone in the middle of the normal distribution.
I was naïvely disappointed that the light was not from beyond the event horizon, but instead some kind of gravitational lensing. It was not the "regular" gravitational lensing but something much more exotic, but still, I was disappointed it was not some kind of Star-Trek level beoynd the event horizon information peeking through. :-D
The main problem I have with how the issue of climate change is addressed is that there’s a huge disparity between how it’s described and how most authorities and luminaries have acted. If we are really on the brink of an existential crisis then why haven’t we been panic-building nuclear plants for decades? It was at least a temporary measure that would have bought us time while renewables and batteries caught up, but, nuclear has been widely panned amongst the environmental cadres for decades. True crises call for extreme measures and nuclear is pretty tame by comparison! Also, why haven’t we been running multiple global Manhattan projects to effectively mitigate warming or adapt our lives and our ecosystems to the threat? The intrepid yet comparatively pedestrian efforts of a few billionaires and government research grants are not nearly proportional to the descriptions of what is allegedly imminently upon us. Instead we have mostly platitudes and political theater, like the Paris Climate Agreement. It should come as no surprise then that many people suspect the danger is being exaggerated for political gain.
Those are terrible, terrible arguments. I'm not making a rigorous demonstration, I'm putting forth a Feynman-style back of the envelope approximation. MY argument is about plausibility. You're attacking it for not being rigorous. That is pure strawmanning. But let's address it anyway:

> First of all, that seems to completely ignore the uneven distribution of population

Half of China (the North Western part) is mostly a desert, almost all of its population is located in the South Western half. For my argument, that means you just need to cut my allegorical map in two before you throw my virtual dart. Big deal.

> where it is argued that in large cities, you have a much greater chance of getting a pandemics from a small number of cases.

Count the number of the large cities in China. There are a lot. See there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_China

From that same article: there are 102 cities governed by People's Republic of China with an "urban area" population of over 1 million.

Change my hypothetical map to a square grid of 102 cells. Wuhan is rather large at 11 millions, so make it 10 times bigger than the other ones. Let's not touch Beijing's or Shanghai's square, even though they are bigger. Oh my, that changes everything! Not. Now there is a whopping 10% chance that this happened in Wuhan randomly. Or in other words 90% chance that this is linked to the virology lab.

> I'm also not sure what you mean by "next to the lab". Like right outside of it? I doubt that.

12 km as the crow flies. You can check on Google maps.

Now look at those two maps:

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/D961/production/...

https://www.travelchinaguide.com/images/map/hubei/wuhan-subw...

Line 7 of the Wuhan metro links the two sites directly.

> Hell, we had no idea where the first SARS came from until over a decade later

There is one way, one sure way, one easy way to disprove the lab leak hypothesis. The way that would have been walked months ago had this happened almost ANYWHERE else in the world rather than an authoritarian communist dictatorship: an independent investigation.

But there is no independent investigation. The Chinese régime won't let it happen. Nobody's stopping them from disproving it. If this were a murder investigation, this would be held as evidence of guilt.
The problem with housing is that people don't want to pay land value taxes. They actually love buying a house to live in, speculate with that house and then never actually sell it because they realize they don't want to speculate on housing and just live in it. So you have this hybrid speculator/owner occupation thing going on where the speculator is draining money from everyone else but not actually benefiting from it. That person will then argue for lower property taxes because he cannot afford them which will make it easier for real speculators to make money off of real estate.
Should they wait until after people start dying again to implement preventative measures or something?

This is exactly the kind of bizarrely short-sighted reasoning that results in pandemics exploding in the first place: "Things aren't bad yet, so why do we need to do anything??"
I don't think that has aged well at all actually.
Abortion is another example of

> My right to make these personal decisions regarding my bodily autonomy

and also something that is typically condemned by the anti-vax crowd. The comment implies hypocrisy.
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yup, we mandate email on matrix.org atm as an anti spam measure
The keyword data was based on searches in Norway alone, it is an order of magnitude higher in Poland. In Norway almost anybody could rank for that keyword if they tried due to the difficulty being different based on location and language.
Solid article. A commenter here gave me some similar and excellent advice: just don’t clean up very much.

Iron is a sponge that simply needs to soak up oil. c.f. Oilite™ bearings, or your feet. Keep them constantly moisturised with oils and don’t let them dry out.

On another note, I love the look and feel of cast iron but the heat dissipation is crap compared to sandwiched metal pans. If you can make me a cast iron skillet with a copper core I will throw my money at you.
Same here.

12 minutes on average (there is one 2 min semaphore) with car. Would take on average 45 min by public transportation
Takes about 25 min by bike.

But i think i am in almost worst case. There are plenty of my friends in same city that have usable commute with public transportation
But you need to overhaul it way more frequently, and buy replacement parts, and consumables regularly.
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How is this functionally different from mandatory vaccinations currently required for schooling?

Companies have a responsibility to provide a safe workplace. If some people are disinterested in avoiding harm to their coworkers, employers are under no obligation to indulge them in that.
This misses the point.

"Liberty" isn't the freedom to put yourself at risk with no consequences to anyone or anything else.

It is recognizing that there must be, at some point, a prioritization of giving people choices that might impact others.

>individual freedoms must be balanced by the responsibilities

Must be balanced not obliterated by "responsibilities".
In Europe many appreciate the benefits they get from union agreements, even without belonging to them.

Ironically I have never heard of anyone going to management stating that they wanted to be out of the agreement that was settled for the industry they were in, regardless of their actual job.
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In my lifetime I have contracted chickenpox and covid. Therefore I have naturally acquired, broad-based immunity to both diseases. Following Big Tech logic, will I also need a chickenpox vaccine to return to the office?

Sad to see science and reason thrown out the window in favour of politics and groupthink.
Yeah, I've seen this domain a lot lately. But I've complained about the Norwegian results for years [0]. For most searches there will be a result that's just keyword spam ranking high. Retried my "pes anserinus bursitt" search now 2 years later, and two results are spam from havfruen, and there are some other results from https://no.amenajari .org which is also just translated and scraped content for all languages google seems to love, as I've seen it for years. A third domain I often see as well is "nem-varmepumper". Apparently a site about heat pumps has content on everything.

Can't fathom Google not catching this..

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21621099
> A unanimous public opinion tends to eliminate bodily those who differ, for mass unanimity is not the result of agreement, but an expression of fanaticism and hysteria.

-- Hannah Arendt

Thousands die worldwide each die from hunger and thirst. And just earlier, these two stories were flagged off the front page after shooting to the top very quickly:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27986986

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27988737

That stuff about "saving lives" sounded hollow from day one and is wearing increasingly thin.
We're already at the point where any phrase from any book ever written is probably insufficiently secure. (Mixing phrases from multiple books might work.)

We've got a few parameters to work from here:

- By a Google Books estimate from some years back, there were roughly 140 million books ever published. That's been going up by ~1--5 million a year for the past decade or so (only about 300k are "traditionally" published). See Bowker.

- If we limit ourselves to a reasonable canon -- the 100, or 1,000, or 10,000 most-frequently-read books, that number goes down a lot. (Twenty years ago when I had this conversation at work with a user, I said "a phrase from Alice in Wonderland isn't obscure enough. They'd chosen lines from "Jabberwocky", and no I'd not run a cracker.)

- A typical book runs about 250 pages, at about 500 words per page, and about 10 words per sentence. That's about 125,000 words, or 12,500 sentences, per book. Even assuming no sentence ever repeats (they do), that's "only" about 1.7 billion sentences in all published books. For the top 10k, it's only 125 million, the top thousand and 100 are 12.5 and 1.3 million respectively.

Computationally and cryptographically, those are small keyspaces.

Oh: and many of those books are scanned and OCRed. ZLibrary (from which LibGen and other sources pull) has over 8 million books (http://zlibraryexau2g3p.onion/) --- approaching that of a substantial university library collection (The University of California library system has 40.8 million print volumes across 10 campuses and 100 libraries, with 4.3 million digitised in HathiTrust: https://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/about/facts-and...).

Randomly-gathered words (EFF Diceware or xcdpass, see https://www.eff.org/dice or https://pypi.org/project/xkcdpass/) are robust --- we don't just combine words at random typically. And as mentioned, joining phrases from different books should be reasonably memorable (combinatorics work in the defender's favour).
Goes back to Rome, one had to become a citizen to vote. Join the military and get mustered out as a citizen with farmland.

Would not fly today.
Does demand sometimes exceed supply at current prices? It seems like it. Sometimes prices go up and more of an equilibrium is achieved, sometimes buyers complain they can't find adequate quality at current prices. The world keeps spinning.

Is that a shortage? Kind of. It is in some sense, it is not in others.
Driven by many refugees that sought asylum in Sweden, I believe.

https://blog.duolingo.com/our-commitments-to-helping-refugee...
dired-subtree does this, albeit on demand, not eagerly descending into subdirectories. dired-hacks more generally has lots of good stuff like filtering etc.
https://www.amazon.com/Thoughts-Design-Paul-Rand-ebook/dp/B0...
The A1 exam is a pretty simple test ;)
Apparently it works in Europe, go figure.
I work remotely (on and off) since 2012. Neither directly nor indirectly have I ever seen offshoring being considered because of people working remote.

In my experience, people working remote are often in the same timezone or even in the same area. Thus, they can easily come to the office if needed. They often share the same working habits, the same culture of communication and they speak the same language. This does not alway apply to offshoring.
this is the most resonatingly true thing i've read lately
The main reason I started using cast iron was because I switched from a gas stove to an electric and my food just would not turn out. I could not get a good amount of browning. Cast iron mysteriously fixed the issue. I tried a clad pan with little improvement.

It took some time to figure out but I realized I was crashing the pan temperature. This wasn't an issue as much with gas because the heat was always on. But an electric stove cycles. Many clad pans are built with an inadequate amount of core material. Such is the case with All-Clad's D3 pan wich only has about 1.6mm of aluminum if I recall.

I now use a mixture of iron and clad pans. But it took some research to find a clad pan with a thick core of aluminum. I use All-Clad D7s which are out of production but can be found on overstock sites or used occasionally.
Let a machine, or dice, do that for you and avoid common pitfalls.

https://pypi.org/project/xkcdpass/

https://www.eff.org/dice
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Interesting, I recognize the channel name from his toxic anti-feminist rant videos I'd seen years ago. Great that he's doing something productive now
So immunocompromised people shouldn't be around other humans, because anti-vaxxers are too selfish or anti-science to get vaccinated?

If everyone got vaccinated, the pandemic would likely be over or close to over in rich countries.
I don't know how recent that statistic is, but the statistics Duolingo released a few years back were misleading. I believe Duolingo claimed, for example, that Swedish speakers were most interested in learning Arabic, but they left out the fact that they only offered one course for Swedish-speakers aside from Arabic.
I've learnt both English and German at school, for pretty much equal amounts of time - about 12 years each. And well, I can speak fluent English, but barely any German, despite usually having at least ~2 hours of lessons a week, plenty of homework, oral exercises.....

For me, it has everything to do with actually using the languge in practice. English was and is everywhere - it's much easier to practice when all your favourite movies, games and books are in English - but my real life experience with German was limited to those few times we went to Germany or Austria.;

I feel duolingo has the same problem - no matter how much you "learn" with the app, it won't ever stick unless you can practice somewhere in the real world.
“Show my password” checkbox shouldn't be where “Remember my password” is
Just thought about this, muscle memory can make ticking "Remember password" automatic, but then sometimes its "Show me my password".

Does anyone else have this muscle memory problem?
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I cannot relate to any of distortions mentioned in the article. The most "bizarre" thing that happens to me, is that I unvolontaly see wierd shapes and colors when about to fall asleep,that's about it
On a small island, usually far away from the mainland? Where even government mail arrives late or never?

How to say it, the rule of law, while neatly painted on the maps, does usually not uphold well in remote places. Afghanistan is governed from kabul, we were told, right? But its not. Its a thousand villages, each being there own little "Afghanistan" in their minds. The nation state and the emotional investment in it, is a very recent western invention.

Same might go for some island. Whatever the outsiders say goes, "when its police show and tell, else, we keep to ourselves and thats that".
There's plenty of free apps in the App store, that is not the reason.

An app you download and immediately asks for a login before showing you anything? You don't think that's a bit suspicious?
You could just be some shady app harvesting data, why not just ask the user if they would like to sign up for alerts?
Try to get a non-work private life with non-virtual contacts. Or maybe move to Sweden - it's more common to seek family and friends in your company - with all strings attached…
I'm not exactly recommending a minimal setup, I'm saying that if someone already has a minimal setup they're happy with then they can repurpose it for work.

I'd add a big screen or two, a real mouse, and a better keyboard. But that would take up very little extra space when not in use.
And yet, we widely have mandatory vaccinations for other things like schooling.

Your right to bodily autonomy does not extend to a right to put others at risk of harm.