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by arafalov 7mo ago
I am a decade+ older and in the winding down stage of the second marriage. I was where you were after the first marriage and am coming back to the same place because I jumped into the second one too fast. I also had a serious burnout/d
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by arafalov 11mo ago
Try Improv (comedy) classes. They sell them as something to do on stage, but the real advantage is pattern building around social interactions. First, you will stop being afraid to say the wrong thing. Then, you will start to hear the impor
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by arafalov 1y ago
You sound like you are just talking about virtual instruments, which are getting better and better. Something like this maybe, doing the virtual instruments (VST/VSTI) review for saxophone: https://news.ycombinator.com/
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by arafalov 2y ago
The one I tried, had a lot of issues. It was a music theory book and it did not know how to pronounce C# (it kept saying C 'hash'). It also referred to, but did not read out the diagrams, or tables. So, it was not just the voice,
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by arafalov 2y ago
Here is the rest of that story. When the foreign movies started to filter into the Soviet Union's illegal movie theatres, you would get 3 or 4 movies playing at once in one room. There would be a TV in each corner of the room and 4 or
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by arafalov 2y ago
Try this one https://www.hume.ai/ - I found the demos (voice to voice) interesting.
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by arafalov 3y ago
I am - very slowly - learning Unreal and they do seem to have such functionality. E.g. https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/tutorials/5Ed/u... Since they have a full sound engine built-in as well
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by arafalov 3y ago
If you had been diagnosed, it may be worth giving it a try. You may be able to convince a doctor to give you a one-month supply of fast acting pills to evaluate the results, based on old diagnosis. This will give you more than enough baseli
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by arafalov 3y ago
I want very similar to this but for shopping without a car. Like, if I want to buy something big from Walmart or Costco (to keep to generic shop names) and it does not matter if I am on a train/metro/subway for 10 minutes or 20 mi
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by arafalov 3y ago
This tool (Ethereal at the time) was absolutely invaluable to my job as Senior Tech Support of Weblogic family of products. I even got clients to run it and was able to provide solutions like "your large JDBC connection pool had all it
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by arafalov 3y ago
GTD has support for that with its "Project Support" documents, higher-level reviews, multiple Next Actions for same project, etc. I feel it does cover the situation, and you can still do it just when you run out of obvious things
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by arafalov 3y ago
The article was oddly unsatisfying. For me, GTD's biggest contribution was the focus on "Next Action". Which was mentioned exactly once in the article. I struggle with the perfect lists and I just can't get the Weekly Re
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by arafalov 4y ago
Remember: "if you are not the buyer, you are the product". Here, it looks like you are the product. Specifically, "Robert Smith" needs to say to his superiors that the "quarterly review" was discussed (socializ
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by arafalov 4y ago
And, the Blender's install ships with a bunch of Python modules as well, not just pure runtime. So, you have access to - for example - SQLite as well.
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by arafalov 4y ago
Libby is - also - awesome. I use it with Kobo (choose on phone, then sync to reader). And they have both books and audiobooks too, so I stopped my Audible subscription for now.
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by arafalov 4y ago
While most of the views use limited credits, Kanopy has some free titles. They are not often easy to discover, so I wanted to mention it here. The especially interesting free set is (at least through my library), is a nearly full collection
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by arafalov 4y ago
Kanopy redirects you to the library's own website to do the actual sign-in. And re-validates about once-per-month.
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by arafalov 5y ago
Not the suggester, but "won't do much" is a bit of a heavy critique. It depends on the underlying needs. It may well provide a community, be something OP does not feel the need to be good at and can start from scratch, can be
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by arafalov 5y ago
I feel (from similar experiences) that it may be worth solving this in multiple directions. Reading/Podcasts/Audiobooks (Audible or Libby)/new projects/long walks may help with loneliness. Later, maybe starting a private
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by arafalov 5y ago
I feel ES has been trying really hard to walk away from the features Solr is good at. While ES still supports multiple languages and custom tokenization chains and even custom pre-processing chains (somewhat equivalent to Solr's Update
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by arafalov 5y ago
They had me at: "The only viable solution to search was elasticsearch". /s
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by arafalov 5y ago
I did that for a programmable calculator. Without permanent memory.....
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by arafalov 5y ago
Congrats. Visual esthetic is very clean. The music is really nice as well, could be a programming background sound-track even. I am, actually, in the same age category and have suddenly realized that I am super excited to understand, explor
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by arafalov 5y ago
Sometimes, one can lose technical arguments on non-technical reasons. It is good to have options. :-)
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by arafalov 5y ago
Had to search a couple of them (extropian and widow's son). Also, I had the whitepaper one thrown at me several times. Maybe I will use it myself next time. My own contribution would be: *) This would violate Accessibility requirements
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by arafalov 5y ago
Interesting idea. After testing it a bit, I felt that 'tail-read' mode may be a tiny bit better if the bottom/active paragraph always started at the same screen location. That way the eye gets used to return to the same readi
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by arafalov 5y ago
Amazing, especially - for me - that the FTS5 full-text search just works. Longer term, I am if it were possible to split the DB code into read and write parts and cross-compile only read part for delivery to the browser.
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by arafalov 5y ago
For JVM, you have to bend a bit backwards and use still-evolving toolchain, but it is actually possible to create native-image of a Java program that will run on top of SCRATCH: https://jamesward.com/2020/05/07&#x
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by arafalov 5y ago
Right. I found you are running on Windows after posting the comment. Makes sense, though there were some fixes in the latest Lucene I believe. The Lucene's own benchmarks are at: https://home.apache.org/~mikemccand&#x2F
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by arafalov 5y ago
It seems you tried MMapDirectory and then commented it out. https://github.com/wolfgarbe/LuceneBench/blob/master/LuceneB... So, you may be hitting SimpleFSDirectory instead, which does have issues with t

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