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by sajforbes 6mo ago
It was a needlessly snarky way to word it, but they are right. The issue is the verb 'scale/s' rather than 'advance/s'
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How to teach yourself a foreign language(sajforbes.nz)
3 points by sajforbes 2y ago|1 comments
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by sajforbes 2y ago
After getting a lot of requests on Reddit for guidance on how to learn a language, I decided to make a proper guide for people. The first few chapters are available on my website. The full PDF/epub guide can be downloaded for free usin
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by sajforbes 2y ago
Curious to know how you think it's possible that Chinese people are able to speak with each other if you think writing their language phonetically would render it incomprehensible.
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by sajforbes 2y ago
I'm a bit confused about your reasons for signing up, but it looks real to me. It could be with all the buzz around AI it really did see a large surge in interest. I'd be interested to hear from the founders and how they managed t
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by sajforbes 3y ago
This idea was the foundation for the Quantum Country book [0], which was essentially an experiment in combining reading with spaced repetition learning to let you do just that: understand a topic deeply. Anyone interested in the theoretical
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by sajforbes 3y ago
Also reminds me of the Reddit thread [0] where someone accidentally used write access credentials that were on an onboarding document and wiped the production database. GitLab guy actually joined the conversation. [0]: https://ww
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by sajforbes 3y ago
Hard agree. People post links to websites with technical descriptions and little basic info all the time, and this is the first time I'm seeing a thread of people complaining about it. If I'm interested in something I see, I start
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by sajforbes 3y ago
I disagree for three reasons: 1. While Russia warned against NATO expansion, it wasn't (and still isn't) in their power to do anything to stop it. Its actions have resulted in the expansion of NATO, a reasonably forseeable result.
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by sajforbes 5y ago
I distinctly remember terming my searches as questions. I was young and this was back pre Google so I was using Ask Jeeves. Naturally if you're asking someone something you would phrase it as a question, so in my mind it made sense to
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by sajforbes 5y ago
If you're not aware, Wikipedia itself has an article on unusual Wikipedia articles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_articles Some of them can be quite... weird.
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by sajforbes 5y ago
Though I agree with you it's annoying, you gotta hate the game not the player. It's Google's fault for valuing things like this in its search results. All the author is doing is trying to get seen. I'd say that if they h
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by sajforbes 5y ago
Mirror here: https://web.archive.org/web/20211207151048/https://www.nytim...
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by sajforbes 5y ago
You're employing a red herring - the internment of Japanese Americans is not relevant to a security and vetting procedure. Whatever justification they used shouldn't change your assessment of how the specific justification used he
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by sajforbes 5y ago
Nobody called for racial discrimination. Vetting needs to be done based on potential risks posed by connections (possible or confirmed) to a hostile foreign power that is both an autocratic regime and capable of using its influence to coerc
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by sajforbes 6y ago
Completely uninformed here, but shouldn't "UTMS" be "UMTS", or am I missing something? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMTS
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How to Teach Yourself a Foreign Language (eBook) [pdf](github.com)
3 points by sajforbes 6y ago|0 comments
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by sajforbes 6y ago
Eyeballing the data line they provide makes me think most people struggle to date photographs. What surprised me is the magnitude of the effect in photos that were clearly taken after the advent of widespread mainstream colour photography.
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by sajforbes 6y ago
I have a similar issue! When I learned Russian I installed the Russian keyboard layout on my computer. Because my keys (obviously) didn't match, I had to type by feel using a small diagram I printed as a reference, carefully placing in
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by sajforbes 6y ago
The English words "respire" and "spirit" have the same root, too.
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by sajforbes 6y ago
> Any person worth reading in STEM fields already knows English, and I don't know why anyone would want to read Wikipedia in any language other than English That's not the goal of Wikipedia. The goal is to make knowledge freely
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by sajforbes 6y ago
A similar thing - the best explanation I've seen about how cars' differential steering works comes from 1937. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYAw79386WI
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by sajforbes 6y ago
The thing I find interesting about these is that, normally, when you hear something ungrammatical, you get an instant feeling of non-correctness. For example if I were to say "The people is walking down the street" - it instantly
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Escher Sentences(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by sajforbes 6y ago|1 comments
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by sajforbes 6y ago
For those who are there to learn, do you think they would also pass up the opportunity to both learn and improve their grade?
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by sajforbes 6y ago
Maybe I'm very cynical, but I think almost anybody would cheat if it was made easy enough and they were given the chance. At the end of the day, people are there to come out with a degree and a good grade, not feel good they didn'
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by sajforbes 6y ago
> Students used a fake UNIX login screen to hack my account so they could steal my work. Would you be interested in sharing with us what happened here?
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by sajforbes 7y ago
It's worth mentioning that just because something tops a list of conditions, doesn't mean money/effort is best spent there. The true measure is expected benefit per $ spent. Some conditions prove particularly resistant to res
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by sajforbes 7y ago
It's not a problem in of itself. I think the main issue is these are questions frequently asked by other podcast hosts already, and the people here are hoping for something more in-depth on topics the guests are more qualified to discu