cblum

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Crosstalk(dreaming.com)
3 points by cblum 7mo ago|0 comments
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by cblum 8mo ago
+1 to using it as opportunity to listen to a podcast. I consider it some of my best podcast listening time. Somehow I’m more tuned in when doing house chores vs. trying to just sit and listen, or while walking outside where I have to pay at
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by cblum 9mo ago
To add a bit more to this: AJATT (all Japanese all the time) later evolved into MIA (mass input approach), which then became Refold. The gist of those methods is mass input + create SRS cards for sentences where only one word or grammar pat
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by cblum 9mo ago
Pimsleur is awful for Mandarin. I wish I hadn’t wasted my time on it.
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by cblum 9mo ago
Can you elaborate on that? Sounds really interesting. I grew up in a place you could call “rural South America” (specifically in a rural border town between Brazil and Uruguay) and at the time didn’t feel free there, but these days there’s
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by cblum 11mo ago
> FSAs are insane, conceptually. Indeed. I don’t understand why they cant just make medical expenses tax-deductible up to a certain amount. The effect would be the same. Why do I need a separate account for it, and why do I have to guess
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by cblum 1y ago
Somewhat kinda related: I grew up in a Brazilian town that borders one of our many Spanish-speaking neighbors. We used to make fun of the folks across the border for pronouncing pizza like piça (“pissa”), which on our side of the border was
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by cblum 1y ago
FWIW, I’m not in NYC, but I’m in general a “ban the cars” type and have a wife and kid. We’re intentionally raising the kid in the city because we believe it’s a richer cultural environment than suburbs, and also because we both grew up in
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Reverse Pip: A Fresh Way to Get Unstuck in Your Career(medium.com)
1 points by cblum 1y ago|0 comments
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by cblum 1y ago
This reminds me that when I was a kid, I read an Uncle Scrooge story where a cruise ship of his runs aground and he sends Donald to run it as a new kind of hotel. I carried that in my head as fact, that there was once a cruise ship that ran
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by cblum 1y ago
What’s the work culture there like? Is it more relaxed than in North America or Western Europe?
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by cblum 2y ago
On a related note, I don’t know how Apple has managed to mess up so badly the idea of storing your own information like address, phone number, etc. Every time I’ve moved, for months afterwards I keep having to fix my address when using Appl
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by cblum 2y ago
Very sorry for your loss. I lost my dad almost 13 years ago and my mom 4 years ago, much earlier than I though I’d lose either of them. The initial intensity of the grief you’re feeling will go away with time, and you’ll go back to feeling
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by cblum 2y ago
> Parking apps are worse than parking meters. I generally agree, but I’ve had a great experience with one of those. I just wish they all did the same streamlined thing this one particular app I used did. The QR code I had to scan actuall
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by cblum 2y ago
Other than the Bible, that would be Dune and Starship Troopers. I can't really put my finger on how specifically they influenced me, but I often find myself recalling scenes and quotes from those two books when discussing deeper topics
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by cblum 2y ago
I'm learning Chinese characters following Heisig's method. I use to create mnemonics when those are not provided in the book, since I have a hard time coming up with my own. Turns out ChatGPT can get quite creative. I also use it
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by cblum 2y ago
I'm not a native English speaker, but that's what it guessed. Over the years, starting in my late teens (I'm in my late 30s now), I've put TONS of effort into sounding like a native speaker (moving to the US 10+ years ag
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by cblum 2y ago
I’ve read it all recently and I felt like the later described utopia was also a kind of dystopia, very Brave New World like (or at least the seed for a BNW-like dystopia). I kept waiting for a twist in the story, where the main character wo
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by cblum 2y ago
Dune. So many thought-provoking quotes throughout the books, especially the first one. This one pops up in my head often, many years after having first read the book: "Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what de
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by cblum 2y ago
> My plan is to keep chugging through and get to HSK 6 studying after my newborn infant arrives in 2 months, though I don't know if I can keep up the 10 hours a week I'm currently managing. I have a 5-month old baby and I can t
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by cblum 2y ago
> there are lots of people who take it way too far I wrote in another comment that that’s exactly my issue. I can easily spend hours, days, weeks even just tweaking my card templates due to Anki’s extreme customizability. That stems from
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by cblum 2y ago
I too find it wild when people do it at a beginner stage. Back when I was learning English during my school years, I only started seriously watching native content after I already had either a B1 or B2 certificate. At that point I already k
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by cblum 2y ago
The trouble with ChatGPT is that it can produce wonky sentences sometimes, and as a learner it can be hard to validate that. Most of the time it’s great though, just need to be cautious and ideally find a way to validate the content it gene
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by cblum 2y ago
I use Anki but oh did I have to learn to discipline myself. Anki’s extreme flexibility coupled with an engineer’s mind had me spending whole stretches of days or even weeks just tweaking my card templates, hoping to achieve some sort of opt
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by cblum 2y ago
I see, I didn’t know about Argentina. I grew up in a border town bordering Uruguay and over there I’d definitely see folks carrying their personal thermos and cuia. But I would see groups on the Brazilian side of the border.
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by cblum 2y ago
Correct, that’s a thing only in Rio Grande do Sul. Source: born and raised there :)
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by cblum 2y ago
> I'm trying to understand why the characters in Dune fought with swords, pikes and knives. At least part of the reason is that the interaction between a lasgun and a shield would cause a powerful explosion that would kill the shoot
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by cblum 2y ago
> "oh, if I cry I will get to eat right away." This kinda matches what I’ve read recently in a parenting book. I’m currently reading Bringing Up Bébé, a book written by an American journalist who lived (maybe still lives?) in P
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by cblum 3y ago
Chinese also describes time in terms of “in front” (前) and “behind” (后), and it’s the opposite of what you might expect: the past is “in front”, the future is “behind”. I find the concept fascinating. It makes sense: what’s in front of you
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by cblum 3y ago
Lol I’m that partner. I’m very particular about how clothes should be washed and dried. I care about things like sorting loads, proper machine settings for what’s being washed, etc.

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