droning_in_my_ears 1 day ago • 100%
Nice try, pickpocket
droning_in_my_ears 1 week ago • 100%
With different diameters so where would it be on the Y axis?
droning_in_my_ears 1 week ago • 100%
Where would a penny-farthing go?
droning_in_my_ears 3 weeks ago • 100%
What about all the lions vs all the lionfish?
droning_in_my_ears 1 month ago • 100%
Can't get rid of it if I tried
droning_in_my_ears 2 months ago • 100%
Is it a vet?
droning_in_my_ears 2 months ago • 100%
Can't seem to login. Getting "[200] Error while sending: Failed to send direct message"
droning_in_my_ears 2 months ago • 100%
Get ready for the next battle
droning_in_my_ears 3 months ago • 50%
droning_in_my_ears 3 months ago • 100%
I watched my life go by
droning_in_my_ears 3 months ago • 100%
That's perfectly fine. Don't worry about forgetting words. You will forget them, look them up again, forget them look them up again, eventually they'll stick. Focus on the reading. Don't treat it like a vocabulary lesson. Every day you're here to read, as long as you reach the end you're good, over months you'll realize you learned a lot of vocabs.
At first because the text will be so dense with new words yes it will take a long time to read, that's why I typically only read a short maybe half a page per day. Then gradually increase that as your vocabulary grows over months. The goal should be to encounter say 50-100 new words a day. Notice I said encounter not learn.
Those websites where you look up words are really useful. Make sure they have text to speech and read out loud in the language not in English even if you see the translation in English that's fine.
Also do a lot of listening along with the reading. I usually get myself an audio book and its corresponding text, chop it up into 1 minute and half a page segments, for each segment listen once, then read looking new words up, then listen while reading at the same time a few times, trying to follow a long, looking up any words I forgot, then listen without reading a dozen or so times until I can follow along. Then movd on to the next segment.
droning_in_my_ears 3 months ago • 100%
Do a lot of reading and listening to material you find interesting. The learning happens in the background.
droning_in_my_ears 3 months ago • 100%
Reminds me of space force dollars
droning_in_my_ears 3 months ago • 100%
Nope
droning_in_my_ears 3 months ago • 100%
Might wanna write them down as soon as you wake up.
Dreams can sometimes inspire creative work so to me I like remembering them.
droning_in_my_ears 3 months ago • 100%
I heard smell is particularly good at bringing back memories, sometimes even in Alzheimer's patients.
To me it's hearing that seems the strongest, especially music.
So one time, I was on a bus and this guy next to me was very bored and said "When the bell rings, the time will be 10:30 am...DING!", "When the bell rings, the time will be 10:31 am...DING!", in a robotic voice. At first I was confused. I didn't know what he was talking about. Then I stared at him and I could just feel a wave of nostalgia. A very distant memory almost forgotten came back. I'm 7 years old, bored at home with nothing to do pre-internet. I call a landline number that has a service that tells you the time and just listen in... that's exactly what the telephone lady would say. OMG he's imitating the landline time service lol It felt very satisfying too. It's like a eureka moment but for memory rather than thought. Anything similar happen to you?
droning_in_my_ears 3 months ago • 100%
Because demographics
droning_in_my_ears 3 months ago • 100%
You can probably check that out in the performance section of your browser dev tools
droning_in_my_ears 3 months ago • 90%
No
droning_in_my_ears 4 months ago • 100%
How do I register with one of these nickservs? I tried with an android client but I couldn't figure it out.
droning_in_my_ears 4 months ago • 100%
What about signing up? Is there no such thing as an account there?
Also what about mobile?
droning_in_my_ears 4 months ago • 50%
I never used IRC. I tried to get into it once but never figured out how to make it work.
droning_in_my_ears 4 months ago • 100%
Some pockets here and there are still fun. It's just hard to find them.
droning_in_my_ears 4 months ago • 87%
It seems you're allowing one person to talk on behalf of a whole group a lot.
droning_in_my_ears 4 months ago • 100%
droning_in_my_ears 4 months ago • 100%
Orange is light brown
Today I read a headline that said "Doctor who saved a senator's life now stranded...", but I only read the first part as "Doctor Who, saves a senator's life". I was like Doctor Who? Saved someone's life? That's amazing! Sigh
droning_in_my_ears 4 months ago • 25%
لم أعد أرى أي حلم. كأن أحلامي نفدت...
droning_in_my_ears 5 months ago • 100%
Good point
But the YouTuber who put the sponsor segment there assumed everyone would see it. So I think they'd have to be pretty shameless to have their video content be so obviously influenced by the ad. Ok sometimes it's more insidious but come on. People will catch it and call them a sellout.
Personally I don't care. I'm here to watch the video and ads don't work on me 99.9999% of the time. Because I associate them with bad products and services, if your product or service is good it'll sell itself. I trust word of mouth way more.
droning_in_my_ears 5 months ago • 100%
Get sponsorblock extension on website or on revanced if you're on mobile.
I haven't seen a sponsored segment in ages.
droning_in_my_ears 5 months ago • 100%
It's Sudan. War's been raging since April of last year. The war is between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces, a militia responsible for a ethnic genocides in Darfur years ago that are now being repeated.
Also I'm not caught up in that at all. Some extended family is. But I'm very very lucky to have been living somewhere else since I was 6.
droning_in_my_ears 5 months ago • 100%
Correct. Sudan.
droning_in_my_ears 5 months ago • 100%
No. I haven't lived there since I was 6. I am extremely lucky.
I have family there and the only news I hear are bad. I'm also still a citizen of the country and I'm worried it might break apart and I'll end up stateless.
droning_in_my_ears 5 months ago • 100%
Every country is different.
I would say at least in the American civil war I know who to root for. In ours we've got a corrupt kleptocratic oppressive government turned military junta vs a genocidal militia headed by a rich and powerful warlord with ties to the Russian Wagner group. And oh by the way the militia was supported and enabled by the former regime as they used it to hold onto power but now it's turned against them. So it's like "pick your poison". I thank my lucky stars I don't live there but I also stopped following the news cause it's horrible.
I agree America has some serious problems but they're just not on the same level as the 3rd world.
droning_in_my_ears 5 months ago • 100%
I've said it before and I'll say it again. As someone from a country currently going through civil war, the US is nowhere near close.
droning_in_my_ears 5 months ago • 100%
You reminded me of the loading screen in "The Stanley Parable". There's text that reads:
"The end is never the end is never the end is never..."
And it wraps around the screen. Fitting for that game.
droning_in_my_ears 5 months ago • 100%
First day moving to Germany in a study abroad. Lost and confused in country where I don't speak the language. Dragging 3 luggage bags up a hill searching for my rented apartment. This old lady and her son comes and helps me find the building and even drags my bags along with me up the hilly road. Was very kind of her.
It's in beta but it's been out since september of last year and all I can think is WHY DIDN'T ANYBODY TELL ME THIS? I've been using desmos for years now and always wished they had one. I'm gonna spend the evening plotting random surfaces to see what they look like.
droning_in_my_ears 5 months ago • 100%
There there. Idk is the best cure for meanness on reddit, kindness on Lemmy?
Probably not because we humans tend to focus on the negative. But nonetheless I hope your day improves.
droning_in_my_ears 6 months ago • 100%
Thing is these generation labels are not as common outside the US. I doubt they know or care.
droning_in_my_ears 6 months ago • 100%
Too general, aka always wrong
droning_in_my_ears 6 months ago • 100%
I had no idea there even was a graphical interpretation of matrices, why did no one tell me this?
Well not quite but close. I'm holding a hard disk that has ALL of Wikipedia's text in 10 different languages. Yes you can download all of Wikipedia and yes it can easily fit in a hard drive. Isn't that amazing? Text is incredibly dense compared to images and video. Around 22 GiB for English Wikipedia alone and 56 GiB for the 10 languages I downloaded. I also have all of Wiktionary in the same hard drive. It's around 16.4 GiB.
Besides lemmy of course Edit: By community I didn't mean lemmy community. I meant like a fandom for an old or obscure piece of media with still some activity
I mean they're still the ones who made the hardware
Fun coincidence. Makes me think of reincarnation. Now I wonder what else we shared?
I usually spend 1-2 hours. Any more than that and I get too tired. At my pace it takes about a year and a half to 2 years to get to where I can read and listen. But I reckon it could be cut down if I was spending more time a day. I heard that training diplomats spend 8 hours a day on the language they're learning: a full time job. Imagine that. I'd be completely exhausted and my brain would be buzzing by the end. You reckon you could do that?
I'm a reddit refugee trying to figure this out. It seems to me like it's a decent idea to break up countrol like this, but unfortunately there are some inherent problems that mean it might not work in the real world. The biggest in my view is that communities are scoped to the instance they started in. You could have 2 different communities with the same niche and the same or similar name but different insurances and the subscriber numbers will be split across them. I think this is damaging to growth because it spreads active users. Eventually if the niche grows one of the communities of the niche will be the biggest and most active. So generally users will consolidate around the instances with the most active communities thus making those instances have a lot of control and defeating the purpose of federation. Is there something I'm missing here? Because currently I'm not convinced this can both grow and keep things decentralized.