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by vr46 3y ago
I've only recently started the classroom learning, week 5 just began, and I'm in there five days a week, four hours a day, so that's really great and the outcome required is, I think, B1 level. Duolingo over 18 months contain
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I’m bilingual from birth and have never found languages difficult, but finding the time to put into them does get more challenging over the years. Maybe that’s why I went with Duolingo initially. I’m not finding the language learning partic
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by vr46 3y ago
Duolingo should be on borrowed time, as a method to learn a language it’s inefficient to the point of being ineffective - it seems to serve as an acceptable reason for fiddling with one’s phone, like a Guilt-Eze pill. I spent 18 months on i
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It’s in the queue but luckily I’ve run out of money
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by vr46 3y ago
My Steam Deck arrived in the summmer of 2022 after years of not having a PC but occasionally dual-booting an Intel Mac for games, and doing the whole Steam Sale thing of filling my boots with games that would barely get played. Well. That p
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by vr46 3y ago
Speaking of people with no shame, what are his parents up to?
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by vr46 3y ago
There’s a lot of comments here and in the article - and in previous (honestly better) articles by others - about the lack of sunlight, and it’s definitely a thing, but we ensured junior was outdoors for the majority of his waking life and h
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by vr46 3y ago
Not really. Flatbeds give excellent consistency in their results and their workflow. Setups with digital cameras vary, require quite a bit of equipment for the serious, and are subject to a lot of variations in the process plus require more
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I think Pry is EOL, last time I checked, and wasn’t getting much help either.
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Some great examples there, and look at how many frameworks are “$LANG on Rails”! Rubyists introduced me to automated provisioning and deployment - Puppet, Chef, Capistrano - as well as concepts like test-driven-development and the genius of
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I’m a version away from current events and playing catch up, hoping that these new improvements can replace pry!
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by vr46 3y ago
As both a Ruby programmer and an DevOps/Infrastructure in the past, I have found Ruby to be a superlative programming environment but just as easy to program in badly as any other. I have never found it harder to run, monitor or debug
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Very true, the railway fell from prominence but in the last twenty years, London has been seriously revamping its stations to possibly recapture some of that old, well, prestige and glamour are probably overstating the drive, but certainly
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My dad was one of 13, my mother one of 5, I had a huge family growing up, but most of my uncles and aunts didn’t have children, so I had fewer cousins. But still 11-12. Still big. Fast forward to 2023 and nearly all the older generation ar
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by vr46 3y ago
I found a loophole - check my older comments - to let me get out of their system, but they may have closed it. I bought Affinity for a laugh but switched to Capture One for better skin tones, Photo Mechanic Plus for better management. Both
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It’s total madness, isn’t it. Long time user, from 1-5, then everything fell apart with CC, subscriptions and the clusterfuck of shite installed on my Mac.
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It’s a replica, for sure, but it is still a commemorative monument, and it was specifically commissioned by the railway company and restored about fifteen years ago, with some bollards added to protect it from cars, but it’s forlorn and fee
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by vr46 3y ago
The Charing Cross, erm, cross is marvellous and yet so badly situated, the mind boggles. My ex-girlfriend was a tour guide and filled me in on it about twenty-five years ago and NOTHING has improved. Look at where it is on the satellite ima
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by vr46 3y ago
Personal recommendations are: * Elmo’s Song * Feist’s Sesame Street version of 1-2-3-4
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A total shambles getting to and from the stage, but a devilish charisma once on it, great performer, RIP Shane, fecking hell
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Oh hallelujah, I've got a lifetime sub due to buying their app back in the day and was grandfathered in, so I can escape some of the marketing, but their crazy, pants-on-head UI makes guitar harder a lot of the time.
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by vr46 3y ago
I have no idea what has gone wrong with American appliances, apart from the general crappiness of using a top-loader washing machine in the first place, but I’ve had multiple different washing machines/dryers and dishwashers in the las
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Tooting or Elephant & Castle? Even the new design of E&C is terrible last time I looked, as ambiguous and confusing with little time to get into the right place
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Very cool technology, for those who don’t want, need or can’t make creative use of the visual artefacts that come with other cameras.
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I’m sure a lot of people would love to bomb the BBC out of existence but that might be hard.
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Agreed, a fascinating story about a company making fantastic cameras. I have an ETRSi on my shelf right now. In the 1980/90s many a serious advertising photographer used them in the UK and I can't believe how reliable and resilien
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Maybe. I reprocessed a couple of 5D2 raw files a year ago with new tech (Capture One 22) and the images were fabulous, no complaints. I shouldn’t have been too surprised, I was making A1 prints from the 5D2 in 2009 so the camera is more tha
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by vr46 3y ago
Without the expensive gear, the iPhone looks considerably downgraded compared to better source equipment. I had a Canon 5DII the day it was released and within a week some friends and I had a music video entered into a festival, and within
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Isn’t the HP35 around for about €50? EDIT: OMFG no and look at the prices
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I still have my 1980s/90s Casios which work well and they’re not hard to find on the market. My newish HP35 is great for newer stuff. I have considered buying a new Casio but this postmodern capitalist strategy to make everything an Op

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