mtalantikite

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by mtalantikite 7d ago
The other night I was at an event and pulled out my iPhone 13 mini to show some people a video I had taken -- the two people on either side of me exclaimed and pulled out their iPhone minis and we all laughed about holding on to them until
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by mtalantikite 8d ago
As someone who has never owned a TV and doesn’t know about this space, are there any TV manufacturers that are just a basic screen anymore?
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by mtalantikite 2mo ago
I have the Assimil Sanskrit course sitting on my shelf that I’ve been meaning to spend time with. Would love to be able to read old sutras one of these days.
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by mtalantikite 8mo ago
Agreed, I'm constantly coming back to a Claude tmux pane just to see it's decided to do something completely ridiculous. Just the other day I was having it add some test coverage stats to CI runs and when I came back it was basica
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by mtalantikite 9mo ago
I don't speak Hindi unfortunately, but it's definitely on my list of languages to study (after Bangla)! It looks like the Hindi tanha comes from Classical Persian [1], whereas the Pali tanha comes from Sanskrit [2] [1] https:&#x2
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by mtalantikite 9mo ago
Do wholesome desires, like practicing the dharma, not change you? Do unwholesome desires, like staying stuck in your addictions, not trap you? My point is that desire is something that is deeply explored in all three major schools of Buddhi
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by mtalantikite 9mo ago
This is a core concept of Buddhism, called tanha, and has been contemplated for a couple thousand years at least: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ta%E1%B9%87h%C4%81
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by mtalantikite 9mo ago
Oh that's awesome, I never knew about this app! Walking around NYC it always feels like an easter egg when I randomly notice an Invader somewhere.
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by mtalantikite 9mo ago
Yes, but also it's just annoying to have a car in NYC. For many routes the subway is going to be faster than driving and sitting in traffic, unless you're traveling between outer borough neighborhoods that only have a connection i
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by mtalantikite 10mo ago
And GitHub got free hosting and support from Engine Yard when they were starting out. I remember it being a big deal when we had to move them from shared hosting to something like 3 dedicated supermicro servers.
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by mtalantikite 10mo ago
And also because she was from what is now Bangladesh. Same with Bose from this list.
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by mtalantikite 10mo ago
> Teams is not primarily a text chat software. It’s not built for this purpose as that’s not how most office workers collaborate. That’s quite obvious. The problem is that it’s a perfectly fine video meeting application (although what so
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by mtalantikite 11mo ago
Honestly, I feel like Paris does a great job. I know it's relatively small population wise for a major international city (~2 million), but it's population density is about 50% more than NYC without ever feeling overwhelming. Just
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by mtalantikite 11mo ago
I've been living in Brooklyn for just shy of 20 years and I'm very comfortable in dense cities. After spending about a month in India, primarily in Delhi and a bit in Jaipur, I remember getting back to Manhattan and thinking &quot
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by mtalantikite 11mo ago
Skipping rope is also a great option. Cardio is up there with running and it's not as hard on the knees. We usually start every session at my muay thai gym with it, and whenever I travel I'll just throw a cheap rope in my bag. I d
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by mtalantikite 11mo ago
I didn't say there should be no strings. I believe institutions should follow laws, and if they or society find those laws to be unjust, we have recourse through our democratic institutions. The Civil Rights Act was legislation put int
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by mtalantikite 11mo ago
Regardless of what is in the compact, it's important that our educational institutions have independence to run themselves as they see fit. To make funding conditional to a set of demands by the government takes away that independence.
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by mtalantikite 11mo ago
> In some schools of Buddhism, the tradition was to live with only one bowl and one spoon. The practice was to beg daily It still exists today. A friend of mine was a monk for many years and would make daily alms rounds. It also happens
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
I agree with you, it could have a place in a toolkit of things to acquire a language with. But I don't think that's what they're marketing themselves as. Their tag line is "The world's best way to learn a language&q
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
I tried it for a few months, but never was really able to get it to work for me, although I did find the dictionary hover overlay in YouTube videos to be helpful at the beginning. Yabla is different in that they will break up a video into p
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
The hack is there isn't really one thing, it's using multiple tools like I mentioned in my original comment. If I were to start again with a new language I'd do 1) A full Assimil course 2) comprehensible input and 3) an iTalk
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
By learn another language I mean getting to C1 or equivalent. Being able to comfortably spend time in a country that speaks your target language. Having regular, improvised conversations of various depths. Reading literature in that languag
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
Yeah, for sure, thanks for pointing that out. For them it seems like fluency is defined as the ability to work comfortably in a professional setting in that target language. I self studied some of their French courses and found them helpful
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
That's great! Maybe Duolingo has changed things up since the last time I tried them years ago. Being able to listen to even simplified native content and understand it would of course be beyond a basic grasp of the language. What were
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
Yeah, same for me using Assimil for French (along with a few other tools). Six months in I could read L'Étranger in French. My next project once I can pass the C1 test is to use their French -> Spanish course. I kind of recommend th
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
I think the thing I dislike about Duolingo is it sort of catches the casual person into a trap by misleading them into thinking that by using this app they'll learn another language. It's not that it's a bad app, it's ju
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
Oh great, I'm glad! I vividly remember the first time a friend that was studying 18 Musicians for a class at Berklee came over to my apartment with the original ECM vinyl and we just sat there silently listening for the hour. I don&#x2
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
I should try coding to Vexations sometime, it could last me the whole work day!
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
My year in review music roundups from Spotify or Apple Music have always been totally useless because I code to Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians almost daily. Something about that composition just gets me in the zone and I've
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful response and links! I actually think you've convinced me to go back and try to complete the whole French KOFI deck, as there are certainly gaps in my verb conjugations. For hearing French, I went through the o

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