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by jghn 1y ago
> I'm just trying not to drop out of leagues or ruin my streak You could try not getting suckered in by the gamification. I've been using Duo for years. I have no idea how I'd even find out what a league is, much less if I
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by jghn 1y ago
Good point on functional vs purely functional. To the GP, what we're seeing is that more mainstream languages are taking the most popular features from functional languages and integrating them. The combination of Scala & Rust are
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by jghn 1y ago
Exactly, that's a big part of my issue. I'll catch some words & phrases so can sometimes catch a big picture view of what they're saying, but that's it. If I watch a video intended to be educational & at a slower
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by jghn 1y ago
This may be part of it. I refuse to use the app. I use the website only. It sends me daily reminder emails, which I use as a reminder to do it if I have a chance, otherwise I ignore them. It flashes up a bunch of crap after I complete a les
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by jghn 1y ago
> I grew to hate the gamification I don't understand people who say this. I completely ignore the gamification. If I don't feel like doing it one day, I don't do it. I don't even know what the leagues are, despite see
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by jghn 1y ago
People just need to properly set expectations. I've been using Duolingo for about 15 mins per day on average for a few years now. What I've found is that my reading skills are actually pretty good (roughly A2/B1 level), for i
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by jghn 1y ago
I live in an urban area. Most people I know have a cleaner. Most of those people, including myself, found their cleaner via word of mouth. No services, no googling, no ads.
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by jghn 1y ago
Why would anyone want a "discovery" type of feed on any site? On sites that insist on showing me content from things I don't follow I just block it.
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by jghn 1y ago
It's like when AOL was allowed onto USENET
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by jghn 1y ago
Yes. And I seeded my feed with people I already knew. Just like I did with Twitter back in 2008. And just like Twitter all those years ago, from seeing what they repost, I expanded my network. People who are incapable of finding content wit
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by jghn 1y ago
Sure, and I did almost mention that. This is an outlier though. When people normally discuss this they act as if their choice of server has a huge impact on whom they can follow. Except for degenerate cases this isn’t true
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by jghn 1y ago
I never see that but on both sites I only ever look at the feed that only includes people I follow. I don’t understand why anyone would use a feed that includes other co the t
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by jghn 1y ago
This. I still don't understand why there's so much consternation over choosing a Mastodon server. It doesn't limit who you can follow. I suppose if you're the sort of person who actually likes seeing random content from
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by jghn 1y ago
What I've found is that most of the people I really want to follow are exclusively on bsky. BUT most of the people I'd prefer to casually follow either exclusively or mostly only posts on Twitter. And the 2nd group is a much large
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by jghn 1y ago
This. I have colleagues who helpfully break things into small PRs, but more often than not I wish they hadn’t. I usually want to review things in context of the big picture and that gets lost. Usually what I do is check out their last PR, f
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by jghn 1y ago
Many people will do things like use Google Travel to narrow down an initial set of potential flights based on times & cost, and then go to the individual airlines from there to book things. The GPs post is still a problem in this scenar
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by jghn 1y ago
I've been bumped out of my paid preassigned seat for other reasons and have never received compensation.
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by jghn 1y ago
And yet as someone who only flies 10-15 times a year and being a terminally online dipshit, I have seen this happen. Not like one of those TikTok videos with fisticuffs, mind you. I remember as I was annoyed that this whole thing was holdin
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by jghn 1y ago
Have you never seen a confrontation erupt from this? Or a flight attendant "suggesting" the person being asked to move?
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by jghn 1y ago
I'd pay $99 so that the person in front of me *can't* recline their seat
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by jghn 1y ago
FWIW I have found him to be a good follow over the years. Unfortunately he mostly only posts on Twitter & not Bsky so I only see his stuff when he crosses over to bsky.
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by jghn 1y ago
When I was young there was a discount airline named People Express that actually operated like this. In retrospect I imagine a lot of their nickel & diming would be considered standard these days, but back then it was revolutionary in b
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by jghn 1y ago
I know way too many parents who take the stance of not bothering to pay for assigned seating, on the assumption that people will move around to accommodate them. As someone who pays for an assigned seat so I can sit where I want, this annoy
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by jghn 1y ago
You can also see his takes on bsky [1] or h blog he posted there [2] [1] https://bsky.app/profile/erratarob.bsky.social [2] https://cybersect.substack.com/p/that-secret-service-sim-far...
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by jghn 1y ago
There's an entire book from the author on this topic [1] [1] https://www.amazon.com/American-Nations-History-Regional-Cul...
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by jghn 1y ago
> It is finally a worthy successor to my Minis It's much larger in every dimension that this mini lover cares about.
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by jghn 1y ago
People seem to be missing the part where DHS reserves the right to allow exceptions for any company they desire. Now they have another way to play favorites.
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by jghn 1y ago
Don't worry. The actual text declares that DHS has the discretion to give exceptions to companies. [1] I'm sure this does not at all imply that what this policy really means is that companies who bend the knee won't see this
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by jghn 1y ago
> I live in Sweden and this is absolutely not a socialist country. This is where I was going with my question. It seems unlikely that they live in a truly socialist environment
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by jghn 1y ago
Facebook, IG, Twitter, Bsky. To be clear, I'm talking purely about being forced to see content from accounts you don't follow and not things like them choosing to show you content from one account more than another. Not all of the

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