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by rcarr 3y ago
Well for starters, you have courses on the freecodecamp channel which will literally teach you everything you need to know to get AWS DevOps qualifications. But you can teach yourself literally anything. MIT has seven thousand videos on its
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by rcarr 3y ago
A guy a few years older than me at school was massively into maths and took out every book he could find from all the local libraries. When he finally arrived at Cambridge University to study, he ended up going to third year lectures becaus
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by rcarr 3y ago
This is one of the root problems of Western society today and I think it has its origin in the financial crisis. The perpetrators got off scott free everywhere (except Iceland) and everyone who wasn’t a banker ended up paying the price. The
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by rcarr 3y ago
I agree with the author. I just cancelled Spotify and got YouTube Premium and it was an absolutely brilliant decision. Pretty soon I’m going to cancel Netflix and Prime too and just take out the odd month subscription to a streaming service
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by rcarr 3y ago
From the wikipedia on the Foreign Service Institute: FSI provides more than 800 courses—including up to 70 foreign languages—to more than 225,000 enrollees a year from the U.S. Department of State and more than 50 other government agencies
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by rcarr 3y ago
They've added written conversational practice on the new AI plan. The courses aren't at B2 level yet, but it doesn't take much imagination to see that a complete conversational chatbot with verbal and written modes is not ver
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by rcarr 3y ago
If you pay for premium, there is a dedicated listening exercise option that will give you nothing but listening exercises.
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by rcarr 3y ago
> 1. That Duolingo has the ability to teach a language to the US Foreign Service Institute standard. I have reasons to doubt that. My point is that how many people here have put in the requisite time to even find out. I’d wager less than
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by rcarr 3y ago
It’s normally in the pop science articles that concentration starts bonking out around 40mins so I assume there are some studies backing that up. Personally I would take 7 x 15 minute sessions per week over a single 1hr 45 minute session or
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by rcarr 3y ago
> Honestly, the app does not seem significantly better than when I first used it in 2013/2014. I disagree with this. I have also been using it since this time frame and believe it is significantly better than it used to be, at least
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by rcarr 3y ago
I agree that the fact it only asks you to draw the character once isn’t great. At the same time, I do wonder how much drawing with your finger is going to translate into remembering how to do the same thing when you’re holding a pen (althou
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by rcarr 3y ago
15 minutes a day gets you your 480 hours in 5.2 years. The problem is not the marketing line, the problem is people expecting to learn a language in 1 year with only 15 minutes a day practice. There is a reason why a full time university co
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by rcarr 3y ago
> Agreed, and more solutions should try solving a problem shots way. It’s a pretty simple formula. They work to understand something and then experience it repeatedly by reviewing it to move it long term memory. Coincidentally, this is a
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by rcarr 3y ago
On the mobile apps at least (but I also believe they exist on the web app as well) there is a supplementary materials button on most lessons. They are also lessons for learning the individual characters of languages in non-latin alphabets.
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by rcarr 3y ago
Well I hope you’re right and they get implemented. Unfortunately I think we‘re going to see riots if not civil wars all across the globe in a couple of decades.
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by rcarr 3y ago
Fifteen minutes a day can teach you a language. In another comment on here, I mention that the FSI estimate that a group one language takes 480 hours to learn. If you study for fifteen minutes a day, that means you will need to study for 5
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by rcarr 3y ago
Everyone slags off Duolingo on here but I highly doubt many have put in the time necessary for a fair evaluation. A quick google search will show you that the US Foreign Service Institute (e.g overseas diplomats who probably know a thing or
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by rcarr 3y ago
To be quite frank mate, if that’s what needs to happen to make housing affordable again then that’s what needs to happen. If it wasn’t for bloodshed and civil war, black people in America would still be slaves and France would still be run
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by rcarr 3y ago
> You’re going to federalise house pricing? And again, you’re depending on commonsensical bureaucracy. That’s a losing move. Especially when rules-based systems are available. Put another way: if you empowered such a panel, there would b
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by rcarr 3y ago
I agree you can’t stop it entirely. But when you catch someone doing it, you seize the property and then stick them in a jail cell for 20 years. You break the law, you face the consequences.
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by rcarr 3y ago
> Let me introduce you to the myriad of definitions of income and area, and how dare you suggest we include public subsidies or salaries in the calculation, also, why aren’t we creating a special category for [things]. These floating var
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by rcarr 3y ago
> This is a trap. It sounds good on paper. In practice, every bureaucratic busybody wants to define affordability to deliver to their constituents. It’s a trap if you let it be a trap. You define affordability using median earnings of th
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by rcarr 3y ago
Here are some laws that partially curtail housing as investment: - ban anyone non-resident in the country from owning property - create an exponential property tax. 0% for first home, 2% for second home, 4% for third home, 8% for fourth hom
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by rcarr 4y ago
I have been a long time Apple user and have never owned an Android but the last week or so I’ve been considering it. I’m going travelling soon and considering buying a pair of nreal air glasses to code with on the road. If I make the switch
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by rcarr 4y ago
I’m assuming this is a tongue in cheek question so the following isn’t really necessary, but for the people who aren’t convinced: Good leaders = happy and motivated employees. Happy and motivated employees = more productivity. More producti
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by rcarr 4y ago
Personally I think most managers could do with watching TNG rather than TOS. Picard is the quintessential leader. He always asks his crew for input on situations, defers to their expertise in their chosen areas, puts trust in his crew rathe
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by rcarr 4y ago
I agree that the hanging out at home with friends thing is probably over represented in sitcoms for plot purposes. That said the entire culture in Europe historically centred around working then going to the village or town pub/tavern&
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by rcarr 4y ago
Here’s another thing no one talks about because it’s taboo: drink driving. Right up until the mid 70s, it was completely socially acceptable to drink and drive. Now I agree that it was probably a good thing that’s it’s been banned, but havi
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by rcarr 4y ago
They did something similar to what you said with cricket and had some successful results. A traditional test cricket match takes place over four innings which can last up to 5 days at which point the game gets abandoned as a draw. In an eff
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by rcarr 4y ago
I've been trying to hold on to using Sublime Text because I really appreciate the super clean interface which helps me stay productive, but I think I'm probably going to have to either go back to VSCode or possibly JetBrains Fleet

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