Mama told me not to come.
She said, that ain’t the way to have fun.
I’m reading the pessimists part as China taking over the world, so learning Chinese is a survival thing. Learning Russian also seems like a survival thing of Russia takes over your part of the world.
If optimism for you is Putin instead of Winnie the Pooh, you must have a pretty awful base line.
Those never made it to trial, right? My understanding is they settled, because that was cheaper than the trial.
But wouldn’t optimism be your old language making a comeback?
Then you’d be wrong. Unless you pick SQLite and that’s all you need.
Generally speaking, if a professor recommends something, it probably sucks. Their information is incredibly outdated and is usually whatever they used in their own undergrad program.
At school I learned:
Each of those has a better alternative, with C# being the least bad. For example:
Formal education is for learning concepts, learn programming languages and tools on your own.
Postgres. It’s more strict by default, which leads to a lot fewer surprises.
Here’s my rule of thumb:
Persistence and reading comprehension.
There’s no need to learn Python or any programming language to self host stuff, you just need to be able to follow blog posts and run some Docker commands.
I’m a software dev and haven’t touched a single line of code on my NAS. Everything is docker compose and other config files.
How is learning Russian “optimism”?
Exactly. I’m American too and that’s the entire point of the first amendment. I can burn flags, flip off police and politicians, and cover my car in unhinged stickers and a judge will side with me. As long as I don’t threaten or hurt anyone (or cause too much of a disturbance), I’m good.
The TikTok ban should be unconstitutional and thrown out by the Supreme Court. If I want to let Winnie the Pooh spy on me (not saying that’s what’s happening), that’s also my right, so back off and let me use foreign spyware instead of domestic spyware.
That said, I hate TikTok and think nobody should use it, but I’ll defend my right to use it because who knows what they’ll come after next. I also hate the CCP, love my country (US), and largely hate my government.
I’ve heard Mandarin at least is pretty straightforward, it’s just the writing system that causes problems.
#2 is a ban.
I’m really not sure why that’s so hard to understand. If I said, “sell me your house or get out of town,” how is that not me running you out of town?
If you fail the quiz, don’t retry that one.
I can usually crank out a segment in a day if I feel like it’s slow. Since I also use other resources, I’ll skip ahead periodically.
If Duolingo is your only resource, you’ll have issues. You should be exploring other resources as well and using Duolingo as a way to get in some practice on the go. Most of my Duolingo use is on the toilet or while cooking, and I set aside time for more serious study.
That depends on how you use it.
I use DuoLingo as daily practice, and I add a bunch of other stuff to it as well. I did really well learning Esperanto this way, and have learned a fair amount of Spanish and Korean as well. Generally:
Duolingo by itself won’t get you fluent, but it’ll teach you basic grammar (if you read the grammar notes), vocab, and build a habit of learning with a minimal time commitment. Use it as a sort of stretching routine before more serious study.
I’m no anti capitalist, but I also learned Esperanto a few years ago. But nobody really speaks it, so I switched to learning something a bit more practical (SO’s native language so I’m less helpless when we visit their country).
Jes. Mi lernis paroli Esperanton antaŭ kelkaj jaroj. Estas amuze, sed neniu parolas ĝin.
I think it’s great for basic grammar and vocabulary. Pair it with a grammar text book, dictionary, and media in the target language (written and spoken) and you should be able to understand the language fairly quickly. If you can get conversation practice with a native speaker, you’ll learn so much faster.
They do, but is that actually helping build your relationship? Or does it make you feel like you’re more connected than you are and justify calling/visiting a bit less?
It turns out, people care about supporting channels they watch a lot. In fact, I go out of my way to use affiliate links if they helped me decide with their review.
All they need to say is “Honey strips our affiliate links, so I’d appreciate if you don’t use that extension,” and provide some evidence. It doesn’t even need a full video, maybe use it as a segway into a sponsor that does honor referal URLs.
If users know Honey is messing with URLs for their own benefit, maybe they’ll look for an alternative.
Well yeah, because he’s objectively wrong, yet doubled and (I think) tripled down on it.
What he meant was that blocking ads eliminates his revenue (which is bad), but it’s not piracy by any definition I’ve ever heard of.
That said, I don’t think it has anything to do with how trustworthy LMG is, there are plenty of other reasons to have concerns about that (GN made a video about that). I watch them occasionally as entertainment, but rarely for actual information.
I’m not arguing that they should discourage people from using coupons, I’m arguing they should have explained why Honey is problematic and why they’re no longer taking their sponsorships. There should be no call to action, merely information that Honey isn’t great. Users can then consider other sources for coupons that may be more friendly for affiliate links, or not, the information is merely why they’re no longer working w/ Honey as a sponsor.