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by laurieg 2y ago
I spent 3 years taking voice lessons with a few different teachers and I was really surprised just how little progress I made, even with regular practice. I'm very curious about your experience learning to sing. How long did it take y
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The characters are 守破離, they basically mean "follow" the rules, "break" the rules and "leave" the rules behind.
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In my mind video games are absolutely literature. My personal favorite example is Sam Barlow's "Her Story". It's a video based detective games where you sift through archive clips of a woman's police interviews. The
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There's a local weightlifting gym near me that has a website line this. Checking the source it looks like it was produced with done obscure site builder and it's hosted on the owner's ISP hosting. The html is simple but funct
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by laurieg 2y ago
You'd be surprised just how much effort people put into using a message board to cause harm to others. I was a mod on a reasonably large subreddit. One day, someone decides to post links to extreme and shocking images but make them lo
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by laurieg 3y ago
Japan. Housing is affordable here. There's plenty of supply of single person apartments. Regular people can buy houses. Often the statistics hide this fact by comparing price per square foot, but the average apartment or house here
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by laurieg 3y ago
I always think back to this radio 4 interview [1] on the same topic when I think of Ross Anderson. Muttering "porky pies" at the end of the interview as it is claimed that this fraud has never actually been used. [1] https:/
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by laurieg 3y ago
At least in Japan, not important. Japanese is written vertically in novels, comics, newspapers and some writing in school, but almost everything else is written horizontally. Textbooks, manuals, letters from the bank, websites. Restaurant
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by laurieg 3y ago
Cash is still king in Japan. I only know of 1 restaurant that is cashless in my town, and you're much more likely to find somewhere that is cash only. Even though cash is king, there are some real oddities. The new 500 yen coin that i
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by laurieg 3y ago
This story has finally been getting the air it deserves. If you want a summary and insight into the staggering scale of the injustice, this article from Private Eye magazine is worth reading: https://www.private-eye.co.uk/pi
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Here are the judge's instructions to the jury for one of the trials: "There is no direct evidence of her taking any money [...] She adamantly denies stealing. There is no CCTV evidence. There are no fingerprints or marked bank not
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by laurieg 3y ago
You're doing SRS right! Geeks like us love to get into SRS algorithms and chase after the 1% improvements with a cleverer repetition algorithm or a better input method. The real failure mode is much more mundane: People give up. I see
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by laurieg 3y ago
The flakey firebase local emulator is the bane of my existence, and poorly documented to boot. On top of the Googlized clickops, there's the whole Firebase vs Google cloud situation, where you end up having to drop down to "real&q
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by laurieg 3y ago
I hammered away for a while and the program was always around 50%. I wanted to be surprised at how accurate the prediction was but I simply felt let down. Funny how that works
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by laurieg 3y ago
Maybe this is obvious but in the original data, did they exclude rugby players, wrestlers, people with other kind of ear injuries? Cauliflower ear can totally change the shape and size of your ear.
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by laurieg 3y ago
When I was in primary school a local TV company film the series in my school. I remember watching it seeing the characters walk into one building and then walk out of a completely different building. This both amused and shocked me as a chi
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Metaverse Markup Language(mml.io)
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It's much more socially acceptable for a woman to live with her parents though her twenties than a man. It won't negatively affect her dating prospects etc. So much of life is centered around work for salarymen. Being out of that
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by laurieg 3y ago
Almost all houses in Japan are bought along with the land. Occasionally there are leasehold properties. I have seen 50 year residential leaseholds owned by a temple, but they are rare.
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by laurieg 3y ago
> According to Nomura, a brokerage, the value of the average Japanese house depreciates to zero in 22 years. (It is calculated separately from the land, which is more likely to hold its value.) Most are knocked down and rebuilt. This is
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by laurieg 3y ago
That is a fantastic book. It was very much written for magicians and gives away many of Derren Brown's famous routines so reader beware! The aspects of showmanship and performance really stuck with me. I often remember snippets of the
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This reminds me of a contract I did. End users had complained that they were getting more spam after signing up for an account. I thought it must be a coincidence. I jump into the firebase console and look at the security rules. allow r
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by laurieg 3y ago
I'm not sure this taking pride in ignorance. It just seems like she has other things that occupy her time and thoughts. Imagine if someone asked Linus Torvalds about the stitching pattern used on a shirt he wore in while giving a talk
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by laurieg 3y ago
I tried out the macOS version and really liked it. Some feedback: * I couldn't get the "open url" button to work. * I'd really love a Japanese monolingual dictionary. Or the ability to bring your own in some way. * I tu
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by laurieg 3y ago
Be acutely aware of your own knowledge level for all the concepts you're learning. There's a huge gap between knowing the name of something, being able to use something and being able to make something from scratch. For example:
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Derren Brown goes even further sometimes. The cups and balls on his TV show feature emphasis on certain words: 'for' said a little louder and longer than other words to make someone pick number 4 etc. He never directly explains th
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by laurieg 3y ago
I think it will be a long long time before we see an LLM generating a genuinely novel, interesting and fun to play mystery game. Good mysteries involve providing just enough hints so that the player can make the fun leaps of logic and exper
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by laurieg 3y ago
Teachers provide you with so much. Not only can they give you exactly the right knowledge at the right time, the good ones will keep your motivation topped up to get you through slumps and dips. I started learning to sing 3 years ago. I&#x2
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by laurieg 3y ago
Sorry about what happened to you. I can't imagine how that feels. I would first suggest learning to accept your limitations. This is the hardest thing in the world right now. All you want to do is fix things. You want to find that m
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by laurieg 3y ago
Absolute pitch is always held up as some kind of magical ideal but really this just gets in the way. I wish there was more information on training your relative pitch as a useful musical skill. After training I was able to do basic pitch re

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