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by nxor 1y ago
Longish reply: Thanks for the nice reply. I think it's harder to skim a video and say you understood than it is to skim a long book and say you understood, and I know countless people who do this. So if I watch a video on a topic and s
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I don't know. Watching x amount of quality videos and reading x amount of quality written works is surely better than just reading x amount of quality written works. And finally, of course the content of those words matters. I could re
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Some are, just like some books are (not necessarily to the same degree)
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Don't we though? My generation is also known for watching hour long youtube videos (video essays), and even if that's not all of us, that's more than past generations (of course). And we are known for listening to hour long p
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What do you mean by fail? Even if we have flaws we still seem to have a decent education system
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Yeah, when Trump was in the news for having said in another world him and Biden would have been friends, it was celebrated, but to me it was just one more indicator that they have more in common with each other than with the people who put
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Yeah and speaking of LinkedIn, it continues to amaze me that people regard that site as worthwhile. Which sounds harsh, and I know people have gotten jobs there, but with how the rest of the site is, I am skeptical of it
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Has the school changed? And can we assume that because AI has made it easy to solve some hard problems, other hard problems won't arise? Not that I don't agree And hasn't the internet generally added to this attitude? And if
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I think it has, but not necessarily from programming, rather from other pursuits. I think the hype has gone too far. That said, it hasn't stolen the satisfaction from language learning, so I still think there's things it's su