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by mtalantikite 1y ago
Did you get through the entire KOFI deck for Spanish? I started the French one, but didn't make it past a month or two before I fell off. I'm thinking of going through the French -> Spanish Assimil course soon and might give th
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
For sure! I've gone through some pre-made verb conjugation and vocab decks -- and actually have been meaning to upload one I made for learning Bengali script -- but I still find grinding Anki decks to not be that effective for me. Whic
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
I've had some successful sprints using Anki, but I always get fatigued making cards for it after a few months, even when leaning on LLM tools to speed up the process. One app I used early on when beginning French was Clozemaster, set t
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
I'll take JFK over LAX. The construction going on right now at JFK sucks, but LAX is comically bad. Just last week I was on a rental car shuttle at LAX and watched 3 separate groups of people at different terminals miss their flights b
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
> I like to think that books (novels and fantasy) are low-resolution prose, so the crux of the matter is distributed — mostly useless info — across several pages. Well, novels are just more subtle. A good novel will get you deep into the
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
Well, one is active and the other is passive. In the case of watching an hour of video, you're just there consuming what's going on. Reading a novel requires you to world build internally. I'd say that sort of attention is a
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
> I could watch an hour long fast paced video just fine, but watching a slow paced show, or reading a book is so much more difficult. Attention and concentration are skills that can be trained, so not all is lost. I was feeling like I wa
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
I'm just waiting for Apple Watch to not require an iPhone at all. I'd actually love to just ditch the phone altogether.
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
This reminded me of something Milford Graves said in a book (paraphrasing): "The first sound we encounter is our mother's heartbeat in the womb -- and it swings!" [1][2] [1] https://www.inventorypress.com/prod
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
Yeah it’ll be interesting to see how it deals with our pedestrian traffic. I’m sure they’ll figure it out, but pedestrians are a whole different sort of thing here than on the west coast. I notice I don’t really jaywalk in LA, and do less i
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
Crossing the street as a pedestrian without a walk signal in NYC goes: - look in the direction of oncoming traffic as you approach the intersection, cross if you think you can make it without breaking your stride - if there is traffic, step
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
There are definitely descriptions of virtuous and non-virtuous results of actions (karma) in Mahayana/Vajrayana Buddhism. A teacher of mine, who spent 20+ years as a Gelug monk, gave a nice talk about it from a Vajrayana perspective [1
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
No, I read the article before I posted. The driver was not charged. There are plenty of articles that mention it, but here is from one of the top links on Google: "The driver was not charged in the case, but both of Legend’s parents, S
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
Acknowledging is not the same as dwelling. We must acknowledge because it is reality and it is our duty to look reality in it's face. And because it is a reality that others in this present day experience the effects of, it affects all
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
Violent crime by all measures are at generational lows. It's just the truth. I was being hyperbolic because OP was being ridiculous too. To say "your country opened the doors to rapists and violent murderers" is a very specif
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
I hate to break it to you, but the violent murderers have always been here and they're probably not the people you're thinking of... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_genocide_in_th... https:&#x2
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
It's unfortunately very American. Build the entire environment for cars, with very little if any thought for pedestrians, and then put the parents in prison for letting their kids walk a few blocks home, while the driver of the enormou
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
> What would not be survivor bias is you telling us what happened to the kids around you. Oh they all died because adults weren't around. No but seriously, everyone was fine. Kids died drunk driving in high school, but not playing s
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
> ...we asked parents what they thought would happen if two 10-year-olds played in a local park without adults around. Sixty percent thought the children would likely get injured. Half thought they would likely get abducted. During summe
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
Here in NYC the transit fare is about 35% of the minimum hourly wage for a round trip. I'd guess it's still cheaper than owning and maintaining a car though.
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
I had flat feet most of my life, until I started a 5x per week yoga practice (ashtanga based). One day about a year into it I noticed that I had defined arches, something I hadn’t expected at all. All those one leg standing balancing poses
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
Can confirm. Also of the same age, and if I was at a cafe reading a book or doing my math homework when I was younger, it was totally fair game for someone to ask me something or engage me in random conversation. If I was really on a deadli
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
A friend of mine had passes to Rage Against the Machine with Run the Jewels at MSG a couple years ago and brought me. A few songs into the RATM set I realized there weren't that many young people in the stadium, because there wasn&#x27
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
Oh for sure, I wouldn't blame anyone for being misguided by these symbols, and generally these wrathful practices aren't even taught until a practitioner has had quite a lot of experience in their meditation practice. It's fa
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
> You seem to be trying to integrate Eastern philosophy’s emphasis on acceptance with Western ideals of active engagement and personal agency. Where is the contradiction here? Westerners too often think of acceptance and compassion as th
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
Or do both! I primarily train Muay Thai these days, but I mix in two minimalist kettlebell strength sessions per week. 20 minutes of emom double kettlebell ABCs with some sets of pull-ups at the end keeps me in zone 3-4. So I'm getting
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
This reminded me of an old Dave Chappelle joke about the Siegfried & Roy tiger show (around 1:10 min mark): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kth0UOU5a_M
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
> why mention that he was a "Pro-Palestinian Student Protester"? That does not seem relevant at all Because it seems highly unlikely that if I were to walk out of my apartment right now, walk down to the waterfront, and throw a
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
My immediate thought was "well, what do these bacteria feed on?".
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
Yeah, I'm not totally sure how to fix that tbh and always have assumed it's just off. Open to suggestions though! I use WorkOutDoors (with a Polar H10), and I've attempted the whole "do hill sprints" thing to calcul

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