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by wafflemaker 1mo ago
Is the article about something else than how math on Khan Academy was thaught? I remember minimal videos (3-13 min, usually 5-8), and then exercises drilling the techniques until you understand it and don't make mistakes. If you got a
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by wafflemaker 1mo ago
OTOH creating neural connections takes time. It's a real distance. Small for us, but great for the cells. That's why explaining difficult concepts too fast, while cool for people getting things instantly, is not good for general p
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by wafflemaker 1mo ago
It's more like, don't eat ice cream cos they taste stale or wrong. You are not forced to eat or read things you don't like/enjoy. And that's why most of us reads the articles or eat ice cream. Especially when you c
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by wafflemaker 2mo ago
>ofc long gone are the times where you could walk into a shop and talk to someone who actually had a clue about what they were selling and most likely was even an expert on the matter. that isn't coming back but that happened long b
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by wafflemaker 2mo ago
No idea, only played in low sec. There you shoot everyone. So it's kinda "safe" - no surprises, you expect everyone to try to kill you. Maybe except your own militia, and that's not always. But the rule is good. Can&#x27
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by wafflemaker 2mo ago
Just follow the old Eve online adage - don't fly what you can't afford to lose. If there's lot of theft and you can't store bike at a secure place - have a cheap bike.
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by wafflemaker 2mo ago
You have me a good idea. My granny can barely walk. She recently started getting constant alarms on her apple watch about Atrial fibrillation - poor cardiovascular shape. Excruciating exercising with resistance bands is something she could
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by wafflemaker 2mo ago
>(my flavor of autism includes aggressive pattern matching) This gave me a smile. I've never heard of pattern matching being described as aggressive.
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by wafflemaker 2mo ago
As teachers at my school say, AI is a good aid and a terrible worker.
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by wafflemaker 2mo ago
Guess it's time to contact support for the few necessary apps that still don't work on GrapheneOS.
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by wafflemaker 2mo ago
All this is happening in a country where it's legal and OK to make unsubscribing from a paid service nearly impossible. I mean it's OK for the crowd here, because amongst us are people who created the technical backends to let the
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by wafflemaker 2mo ago
On multiple occasions I had trouble getting people to accept a self signed cert to show them something on a local webpage. It seems that elderly nowadays are super vary of any hacking or scams. YMMV.
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by wafflemaker 2mo ago
Look at the positive! If they force people to smile to log in, the whole population will be statistically happier*. Maybe even happier enough to offset being violated like that. *: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562
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by wafflemaker 3mo ago
From the title I've learned that git uses an em-dash instead of double dash as options delimiter. Thanks for pointing out that the title was wrong -- I've never had a need to use -- with git, so didn't know that it doesn&#x27
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by wafflemaker 3mo ago
To be specific, Vyvanse/Elvanse is lisdextroamphetamine. But IMO it's not really that incorrect to say there are two main types of stimulants. You rarely (at least never where I'm from) get instant release methylphenidate. Al
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by wafflemaker 3mo ago
OTOH, reading some wise comments on hn can help you get out of your biases. It was initially some hn comment that convinced me that ADHD is not lazy people's excuse, but an actual thing (even if overhyped on some hn alternatives -- soc
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by wafflemaker 3mo ago
IANAD, Clinically, the measurement for diagnosis is if symptoms disturb your day to day life. In some countries they need to disturb multiple (1<) spheres of life. (Work, family, health etc.) Then you'd have people with symptoms, bu
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by wafflemaker 3mo ago
What caused the end of the world then? I guess I might try again with the game, but asking here I could get moderate spoilers without a complete spoiler.
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by wafflemaker 3mo ago
I reported 3 errors/feature requests in Oura Ring app. After going through the reporting process I felt much less irritated at the bugs and smiled to myself thinking that must have been the purpose of the reports. To my astonishment, 3
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by wafflemaker 3mo ago
It's off topic, and it was also possible for decades, but: you can connect two sets of mouse, keyboard and monitor to one PC and have two people using it, each running their own X session . The true multi boxing!
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by wafflemaker 3mo ago
My wife is working in preschool and wanted to have some examples to discuss with her. I know plenty of those for overrepresentation of AuDHD spectrum in IT (especially males), but don't know any for schools. Especially since women are
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by wafflemaker 3mo ago
Can you write more thoughts or describe some situations?
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by wafflemaker 3mo ago
It's more about people with "everybody steals so I should steal too" also known as "tylko frajer by nie ukradł" -- "only a loser wouldn't steal that" -- mentality. And while its somehow "cultural
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by wafflemaker 3mo ago
Don't forget that before, the Talibs were seen as crazy fundamentalists and outsiders, probably called Khariji IIRC. US bombings convinced the people to them and made them into state protecting freedom fighters, which they initially we
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by wafflemaker 3mo ago
>It takes a situation like Ukraine to 'prove' to everyone that 'cheap things can work well'. It's likely not even that. According to Jacek Bartosiak, Polish geopolitics popularisator, it came by a kind of blind &
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by wafflemaker 3mo ago
It's kind of funded by the demand for dollars due to whole world needing dollars to trade with them. So that it's not the USA and Americans paying all that interest in inflation due to money printing
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by wafflemaker 3mo ago
Found it! It's on the southern exit from the Mjelva village. Viewpoint is not marked. It felt like a quite a private place, so I don't really want to post more details. Someone dedicated can still easily find it.
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by wafflemaker 3mo ago
I was once on a trip in Åndalsness, one of the most scenic places in Norway. Fjords, mountains, you know it. On the walk to our cabin, a little outside of town, I was checking something on OSM, might have been just learning to use it and re
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by wafflemaker 3mo ago
China is also supplying Ukraine and the countries that supply Ukraine. Maybe you meant North Korea?
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by wafflemaker 3mo ago
>In emacs, c-x 8 RET prompts you for unicode character names (or hex)[...] Which is super useful for hard space - non line-breaking space - so that one letter words don't appear at the end of lines.

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