juanz.bsky.social
Learn languages meaningfully: thehardway.app
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Looks interesting!
By the cover, thou, I thought it was asymmetrical ;)
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China fits well your narrative. Brazil, Indonesia and Japan fit a bit less. I'd say language plays a big part as well.
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In 🇩🇰 , as usual, it is *complicated*:
1st May is school holiday on *some* municipalities, meaning that parents of little kids must take the day off from their holiday budget, meaning that even when it is not a national official holiday some regions run at half stem.
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So this was written before LLM era. What a premonition.
Arguably, their point stands, but 100X worse.
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Similar thing happens in small scale software. As a consumer I much dislike the concept:
A) Don't like being sold stuff that doesn't exist
B) If everyone does this, informed decisions become impossible (way too much noise)
C) Execution makes 50–90% of a good product (means 50–90% uncertainty)
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I wish well to everyone in the world except those who buy domain names to resell them more expensive without making absolutely any contribution and nothing out of value
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Depends on competence level, but until C1 ideal for me is around 40% reading + 30% listening + 15% writing + 5% speaking.
I use flashcards extensively as a means to do those things, not just to drill vocab.
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This is 100% true for me when I create my own flashcards. I always remember the original source content even if I don't remember the answer
(which points to the evidence that creating flashcards is a means to learn on itself, not to just review them)
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I have not tried them yet, but i am fascinated about games that explore language and meaning as the mechanical crux: DaDaDa, Gibberers, Rosetta, Signal, and a few others.
Time as communication is another interesting one (The Mind)
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I see. Hexes sound too complex then. Does the board has a physical function? Can each player have a stack of discs representing points so that they need to earn them from lowest to highest value?
Among the boards, the octagons are easiest to read.
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It is a shit show. Here is a good chronicle from @davidbonilla.bsky.social
(You can use a browser translator)
us2.campaign-archive.com?u=374c664073...
us2.campaign-archive.com?u=374c664073...
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Also, if the game has a theme, that might inform the decision too
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What is the player count?
If quadrants correspond to player areas, perhaps an hex grid can do.
4 levels is 60 tiles (6+12+18+24) + central, and 60 happens to be divisible by 2,3,4,5 or 6 players, so you could color-code regions of tiles do differentiate between levels and player areas.
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Toolchain is fantastic; but I hate syntax and error handling with all my being (at least before generics, haven't use it since...)
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hmm I see, thanks
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Why are board games counter cyclical?
Entertainment and holidays are normally the first thing families cut when money doesn't flow in.
Covid was exceptional because everyone was stuck at home, and in many parts of the world there weren't that many layoffs. Even then, biggest surge was digital games
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Sorry to hear, Nick. I'll keep reading you here or elsewhere if you keep writing. Time to be stoic, best of luck to you!
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Isn't it better to search online reviews instead of defaulting to Amazon?
I have bought many things on independent specialized webshops (board games, books, painting supplies, etc) and couldn't be happier to support them. But I research first. Takes 5 mins
www.trustpilot.com/review/petra...
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you have a fantastic accent in all languages you speak!
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I find Galaxy Trucker a fascinating example, in that "what happens" ranges from slightly good to catastrophically bad, and the catastrophically bad events are the most fun.
For some reason losing the things you previously gained doesn't feel too bad, and I don't know why it doesn't feel bad.
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It sells very short what programming at scale is: millions of lines of code distributed across dozens of projects, hundreds of contributors each with their parcel of domain knowledge, requirements constantly changing on the go, people coming in and out of projects... can't get any messier than that
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Dixit
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btw, seems that a coop version of Kelp could be thematic enough :)
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/w...
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Portuguese one is misspelled, and not very sure is the most common one.
But let me see if i get the colors straight:
- Pink: normal or solitary sex
- Black: transactional sex
- Blue: certain kind of organic matter
- Green: biblical place with lots of fire
- Netherlands: really???
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Je, ya :)
Quiero decir que nunca he escuchado ningún neologismo que tenga que ver con moverse en bici, ni en inglés, español, ni danés (idioma local).
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> we use the term velonomy (a neologism mixing ‘velo’ and ‘autonomy’) to describe the emergence of a parenting logic of enabling children’s autonomous mobility by bicycle
¿No se llama "enseñarles a ir en bici"? :)
Vivo en el extranjero y en mi familia nos movemos en bici, pero nunca escuché eso
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He will also occasionaly play when not his turn, right? I don't think that 3yos grasp the concept of cheating.
They're just squaring rules with objectives, and like anything else in life, need to be told the rules so many times just the same as they need to watch same Bluey episode so many times
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Being incorporated in the US does not entail allegiance to the current administration.
Just so it happens that LingQ is a far superior product...
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Not sure what you mean by geo-locked content. If you refer to media, Spain is king.
If you refer to actual language; Spain, France (specially these 2), Italy and Germany have official language regulation institutions that do lock language to some extent.
English has none of that.
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1 - 2018 source is indeed old, trends are changing
2 - doesn't account for food waste, which varies significantly between countries
3 - likely count potatoes (that are vegetables, but have not the same nutritional benefits as others), but not tomatoes
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didn't know that yt channel, it looks great!
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also this one:
chêne / roure / carvalho / roble / quercia / stejar / carballo
even more funny, there is quite a lot variability in germanic languages as well for both firefly and oak...
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Holy crap, I think I understand 3 words, but of 2 I am not sure 😂
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Hehe, I knew it! :)
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1. Solo
2. Live tutor
3. Spontaneous learning (well, I'd call it self-directed)
4. Books
5. None, but the most inspiring for me is probably Kató Lomb, she was truly remarkable.
What about you?
If I can take a guess: we differ on first one and coincide on 2-4 :D
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How, a 30 min video on creaky voice. This is brilliant!
I feel a bit less bad now about Danish glottal stop
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I only came to appreciate that after traveling to the US and hearing the experience of some US colleagues: drive 8 hours, and you are roughly in the same place.
Never been in that part of Asia, it has to be fantastic.
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Yes!, but in this case isn't it like this?:
Can provide compute resources -> closed
Can't provide compute resources -> open
Open models aren't made open out of unbounded love to humankind, but because it's the best way to downplay the bigger players (imo).
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Hmm actually you are right, this is a tricky question :)
Checked the dictionary and both masculine and feminine are accepted: "¡Por una Internet más libre!"
SO: it's complicated... but generally in technical / academic circles is proper noun (capitalized), but normally it is not
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🇪🇸 always lower case, usually no article, but sometimes we say something like "el internet no funciona"
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It has a very valid point, but I don't think the job interview experiment is fair.
I would intentionally offer different versions of myself because I know in different cultures they value different things.
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Denmark has many great things. But it is definitely NOT the happiest country in the world (they know that).
At most, it is the one that complains the least about things – a very Danish cultural trait.
But that has nothing to do with happiness.
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I do it very little, but all are valid points!
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No. I'm saying that words matter, and intentionality matters.
If you offer me a political game, I wouldn't expect vikings plundering.
But if every game is "political", we have 1 word less in our vocabulary to describe what games can and can't be.