Thanks for the wonderfully thought-out response. I definitely agree on the not-self-diagnose-yourself front. I'm somewhere in between your two possible reactions to such books, leaning closer to the "Whoa, whoa, whoa"…
I dunno if that is connected to ADHD, and I dunno if I have ADHD (though by reading the textbook* on it, it kinda seems I do)... but I genuinely don't remember my childhood either. *Taking Charge of Adult ADHD
Yeah, I had a Canadian friend who was in a motorcycle accident. He could see the hospital from where he crashed. He begged the paramedics to let him walk, but they judged he should not. He was billed 600$. The…
It has always been ridiculous, but getting more and more since everything much match each other perfectly. MyNumber, bank, credit card, residence card and passport... There are a few services I outright can't use…
Is it okay if Mom teaches the lessons about respecting the rules?
Hmm... I think the majority of people working jobs are mostly just there "for the paychecks." It'd be rather beautiful if all jobs were purely passion driven, but that is simply not the case. Nor could it be. And yeah,…
They might be able to find a few retired-aged people locally, should they keep the non-automated version.
I'd walk with my CRT monitor and tower (stuffed all cables, mouse, keyboard inside) over to my friend's to play games/mess with computers a couple decades ago. We called it the "sneakernet", too.
You do you, but this "organized fun" is not for me. I completely get using tools to efficient-away the boring parts and maximize limited times and resources... but the joy of planning and traveling and taking things as…
Some of the health tests in Japan that elderly people take include a "standing to sitting on the floor and getting back up all unsupported" test. Scores are based on time, effort, emitted sounds (like grunts),…
I live here, but some of the online places are fairly gatekept, such as r/japanlife where non-residents can't post. It might be worth checking out some travel discords (https://discord.gg/uwTxWekyS) or subreddits do get…
And the Shindo system is best described as "what it feels like at the specific location" So an earthquake can be a 4 at the epicenter, a 3 a little further away, a 2 even further away, and so on. Common online…
I wonder if they can feel the air pressure change while submerged.
I've been commuting with a mirror for 5 years; it feels SO dangerous the odd time I commute with my non-mirrored mountain bike.
I don't have strava or anything. I don't even know how long my rides are, my best times, my altitude. I just go for a ride; successfully capturing the exact feeling of riding since I was a teenager.
Kei cars can comfortably go up to about 60mph. Not great for an 8 hour drive, but I regularly do 3-hour-drives with a loaded kei-van. Yep, same 660cc three-cylinder engine that those kei-trucks have. It'll hit 70mph,…
Those were hobbyists, audiophiles, professionals, artists (recording, performing, etc.). They are talking about a much larger group of people.
By all means, it is fun to play with a language. And every person's brain works differently. I like to use this metaphor, though. You're hiking a mountain, this journey to the "peak" is reaching some goal of fluency.…
A creative solution! What if we rethought what "retirement savings" is and should be?
One of the cool things about LLM-assisted language learning that I have found is this: Language is (for almost every adult) deeply personal. Even the best of teachers must be so nuanced for every error correction,…
Clearly the whole gun thing is working, though. Regular citizens can all feel safe in public areas and schools, while the potential of a fascist government greed-fueled rise is kept well-at-bay by the fact that the…
Yeah.... So many bad tenants. So many bad landlords... So many weird laws protecting and hurting both. What if we shifted to a different system?
Fun, and a programmatic perspective. However, it can be too easy and fun to get super caught up in these details, if your goals are some level of fluency and ability to communicate/read. The majority of people that I…
Oh, I have one laying around here somewhere.
It was a tough time, indeed. But I feel that had I used an "all unknowing and answering" LLM, my retention and understanding of the class material would have been significantly lower. But I didn't have any choice as to…
Thanks for the wonderfully thought-out response. I definitely agree on the not-self-diagnose-yourself front. I'm somewhere in between your two possible reactions to such books, leaning closer to the "Whoa, whoa, whoa"…
I dunno if that is connected to ADHD, and I dunno if I have ADHD (though by reading the textbook* on it, it kinda seems I do)... but I genuinely don't remember my childhood either. *Taking Charge of Adult ADHD
Yeah, I had a Canadian friend who was in a motorcycle accident. He could see the hospital from where he crashed. He begged the paramedics to let him walk, but they judged he should not. He was billed 600$. The…
It has always been ridiculous, but getting more and more since everything much match each other perfectly. MyNumber, bank, credit card, residence card and passport... There are a few services I outright can't use…
Is it okay if Mom teaches the lessons about respecting the rules?
Hmm... I think the majority of people working jobs are mostly just there "for the paychecks." It'd be rather beautiful if all jobs were purely passion driven, but that is simply not the case. Nor could it be. And yeah,…
They might be able to find a few retired-aged people locally, should they keep the non-automated version.
I'd walk with my CRT monitor and tower (stuffed all cables, mouse, keyboard inside) over to my friend's to play games/mess with computers a couple decades ago. We called it the "sneakernet", too.
You do you, but this "organized fun" is not for me. I completely get using tools to efficient-away the boring parts and maximize limited times and resources... but the joy of planning and traveling and taking things as…
Some of the health tests in Japan that elderly people take include a "standing to sitting on the floor and getting back up all unsupported" test. Scores are based on time, effort, emitted sounds (like grunts),…
I live here, but some of the online places are fairly gatekept, such as r/japanlife where non-residents can't post. It might be worth checking out some travel discords (https://discord.gg/uwTxWekyS) or subreddits do get…
And the Shindo system is best described as "what it feels like at the specific location" So an earthquake can be a 4 at the epicenter, a 3 a little further away, a 2 even further away, and so on. Common online…
I wonder if they can feel the air pressure change while submerged.
I've been commuting with a mirror for 5 years; it feels SO dangerous the odd time I commute with my non-mirrored mountain bike.
I don't have strava or anything. I don't even know how long my rides are, my best times, my altitude. I just go for a ride; successfully capturing the exact feeling of riding since I was a teenager.
Kei cars can comfortably go up to about 60mph. Not great for an 8 hour drive, but I regularly do 3-hour-drives with a loaded kei-van. Yep, same 660cc three-cylinder engine that those kei-trucks have. It'll hit 70mph,…
Those were hobbyists, audiophiles, professionals, artists (recording, performing, etc.). They are talking about a much larger group of people.
By all means, it is fun to play with a language. And every person's brain works differently. I like to use this metaphor, though. You're hiking a mountain, this journey to the "peak" is reaching some goal of fluency.…
A creative solution! What if we rethought what "retirement savings" is and should be?
One of the cool things about LLM-assisted language learning that I have found is this: Language is (for almost every adult) deeply personal. Even the best of teachers must be so nuanced for every error correction,…
Clearly the whole gun thing is working, though. Regular citizens can all feel safe in public areas and schools, while the potential of a fascist government greed-fueled rise is kept well-at-bay by the fact that the…
Yeah.... So many bad tenants. So many bad landlords... So many weird laws protecting and hurting both. What if we shifted to a different system?
Fun, and a programmatic perspective. However, it can be too easy and fun to get super caught up in these details, if your goals are some level of fluency and ability to communicate/read. The majority of people that I…
Oh, I have one laying around here somewhere.
It was a tough time, indeed. But I feel that had I used an "all unknowing and answering" LLM, my retention and understanding of the class material would have been significantly lower. But I didn't have any choice as to…