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> They aren’t being “drilled” to learn “mama

They actually are, thou. Small kids are repeated the same things over and over, hundreds of times. They watch the same Bluey episodes dozens of times, get them read the same books dozens of times, listen to the same songs dozens of times.

They drill in their own ways, but they drill.

A language learning desktop application aimed at serious learners (especially at B1-C1 level) No gamification, no silly chat bots. Built from first principles after learnings from writing https://thehardway.guide

Main challenge: not be too perfectionist. I hate the hustling culture where each MVP has to be rushed in 2 weeks. It might be risk-effective, but it can't possibly be meaningful. I want to do the best I possibly can with the greatest care however long it takes, but I also don't want to waste (too much) time on irrelevant details and over-perfectionism

A language learning desktop application aimed at serious learners (especially at B1-C1 level)

No gamification, no silly chat bots. Built from first principles after learnings from writing https://thehardway.guide

People are coming up with new methods and fancy terms for them, but essentially everything that works are variations of the same core ideas.

This in fact is not so different from the Listening-Reading method...

The FSI guidelines are shared a lot, but they are really bad because they are hardly applicable to anyone that is not an US diplomat.

Check https://www.cambridge.org/elt/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/1..., it will give you a way better picture.

Only read the Floating Opera (brilliant) and The Sot-Weed Factor. I remember at that time not believing that such a book could be written by a single person. Such an impressive piece of literature.

Onitama is brilliant. For me the best along with Hive and Santorini.

Numbers in many languages tend to be harder to internalize, yes. Numbers in Danish are a whole other level, thou.

Consider e.g. the number 157. That'd be 100 + 7 + ((-0,5 + 3) x 20), only that they don't pronounce the "x 20" because then it is too long.

Language attrition: what we don't practice, we forget. Even the mother tongue.

Prosemirror user, it is fantastic. Didn't know Marijn was so prolific, all with free/open source projects. Wonder how can make a living...

Gender salary gap is a man's privilege, even in your country, to put just one example: https://ourworldindata.org/economic-inequality-by-gender

OTOH I am not going to ask what "privileges" women have in your country, but I hope you don't count abortion, longer maternity leave, reduced VAT in feminine hygiene products and such, as women's privilege.

Wishful thinking: I believe that the earth is round, even if I have not confirmed it with my own experience by walking around it.

As I also believe that women are as willing and capable to learn "deep stuff" as men, regardless of my (or your) experiences.

I did interpret "understanding" as "being supportive to" and not as "comprehend incentives / PoV". In that case, fair enough, but I don't think there is a ton left to comprehend, as in, I am not seeing many new arguments as why men career opportunities must come at the cost of women's, etc.

(An btw, not advocating / defending matriarchy either, but egalitarism.)

Just in yesterday's news I read a telling stat: +40% of men think that women had gone too far in pursuing equal rights... in my country, a fairly progressive one.

What's there to understand or forgive? This is unacceptable. Patriarchy is dominant culture in most parts of the world, and it utterly sucks, period.

Where "generally" means pretty much "always" until a few years ago, and still a lot today. And not only in literature, of course. Lise Meitner, Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Rosalind Franklin are some very famous examples, but there are many, many others.

Wow, are you seriously generalizing out of your anecdotes? This is incredibly harmful, and reason why women don't feel welcome in CS.

So I guess I can tell you a couple of my anecdotes, to make up for that one, uh?

One: I am an expat in a country with a pretty difficult language. Within my circle of expat friends (all couples), only the women had taken the time, investment and effort to go deep and learn the local language. In ALL cases she knows the language better than her male partner.

Two: At last job I met a woman who moved from accounting to CS in her late 30's. It was her second CS job, and in 3 years she "overtook" me in the company technical ranks, very deservedly so.

I could make a very long list, but I'll leave it here. So please stop being a judging jerk.

This is great, thanks! What Good RSS are there these days?

Nah, SicFi is so mainstream that that is not a valid argument anymore. Plus, they clearly made it for fans. It is barely comprehensible without having read the original.

Adaptation from Brian Herbert & Kevin Anderson, illustrated by Raúl Allén and Patricia Martín. Highly recommend.

> Even better than the first film

The first part left me quite underwhelmed, tbh. Maybe I had too high expectations given the director, but while the visuals are amazing, the characterization of some characters (like lady Jessica or Thufir Hawat) are very far from how the books depicts them, and I don't think is an interpretation thing.

I understand that Dune is too big of a masterpiece for a simple 2 part movie (it should be a 6-8 session series at least), but I think for instance that the graphic novels do a way better job of conveying the essentials.

I'll watch this anyways, I am still a Dune fan.

3 months without using a programing language, and I forget 70% of its syntax. A bit embarrassing to admit, but to me it helps with that, really simple things that I forgot because I don't use them frequently enough.

Sometimes I also use it to ask about a topic that I don't know about, and take its output as a starting point to dig deeper.

In a movie, if a character is far away, their voice comes from far away. Voice actors always have the mic in front of them, so their voices always come from the same place, not relative to the scene. That's what I meant.

I also think it is beautiful to hear the sound of the original language, particularly if it is one I am not used to. It's part of the charm.

I have grown up with dubs, thou, so I understand you. But once one gets used to no dubs, there is no way back. It's like removing sugar from the coffee.

Voices in dubbed movies don't have any depth, for instance.

That doesn't have anything to do with the quality of the voice actors. Everything sounds flat because that is just how they record it.

Dubbing is a useful convenience, an accessibility feature (even if it wasn't born that way). But they have way less soul.

im referring to https://app.highlight.io

Your home page is apparently a "welcome back" screen. I can't sign in with Github, get the error "Unable to process request due to missing initial state. This may happen if browser sessionStorage is inaccessible or accidentally cleared. Some specific scenarios are - 1) Using IDP-Initiated SAML SSO. 2) Using signInWithRedirect in a storage-partitioned browser environment."

Would be nice to be able to see the product without having to sign in.

I like this!

I guess the obvious missing features would be:

- Tailored to personal preferences in terms of language/country, topic, sentiment (eg. positive things happening in the world) - Summary with the top X news of the day (in 1 line per entry) - Links to source articles

And bonus points: detect and show fake news circulating on the internet

Oh my this is so addictive. Got some first discoveries such as...

- The Abominable Ramen Pigman - The Colorblind Lama - The Dalai Llama - Pig of Thrones - The Purple Monkey With A Laser Beam Attached To Its Head

Even then, I don't strive to deeply understand everything that I read. I explore, try to be curious and open minded, and then pick my battles.

That assumes that you want to memorize everything that you read. I disagree with the premise. I don't want to memorize everything I read, as a matter of fact, I am happy forgetting most of it.

ah ok, got it