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I am a decade+ older and in the winding down stage of the second marriage. I was where you were after the first marriage and am coming back to the same place because I jumped into …

Try Improv (comedy) classes. They sell them as something to do on stage, but the real advantage is pattern building around social interactions. First, you will stop being afraid to…

You sound like you are just talking about virtual instruments, which are getting better and better. Something like this maybe, doing the virtual instruments (VST/VSTI) review for s…

The one I tried, had a lot of issues. It was a music theory book and it did not know how to pronounce C# (it kept saying C 'hash'). It also referred to, but did not read out the di…

Here is the rest of that story. When the foreign movies started to filter into the Soviet Union's illegal movie theatres, you would get 3 or 4 movies playing at once in one room. T…

Try this one https://www.hume.ai/ - I found the demos (voice to voice) interesting.

I am - very slowly - learning Unreal and they do seem to have such functionality. E.g. https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/tutorials/5Ed/u... Since they have a full sound …

If you had been diagnosed, it may be worth giving it a try. You may be able to convince a doctor to give you a one-month supply of fast acting pills to evaluate the results, based …

I want very similar to this but for shopping without a car. Like, if I want to buy something big from Walmart or Costco (to keep to generic shop names) and it does not matter if I …

This tool (Ethereal at the time) was absolutely invaluable to my job as Senior Tech Support of Weblogic family of products. I even got clients to run it and was able to provide sol…

GTD has support for that with its "Project Support" documents, higher-level reviews, multiple Next Actions for same project, etc. I feel it does cover the situation, and you can st…

The article was oddly unsatisfying. For me, GTD's biggest contribution was the focus on "Next Action". Which was mentioned exactly once in the article. I struggle with the perfect …

Remember: "if you are not the buyer, you are the product". Here, it looks like you are the product. Specifically, "Robert Smith" needs to say to his superiors that the "quarterly r…

And, the Blender's install ships with a bunch of Python modules as well, not just pure runtime. So, you have access to - for example - SQLite as well.

Libby is - also - awesome. I use it with Kobo (choose on phone, then sync to reader). And they have both books and audiobooks too, so I stopped my Audible subscription for now.

While most of the views use limited credits, Kanopy has some free titles. They are not often easy to discover, so I wanted to mention it here. The especially interesting free set i…

Kanopy redirects you to the library's own website to do the actual sign-in. And re-validates about once-per-month.

Not the suggester, but "won't do much" is a bit of a heavy critique. It depends on the underlying needs. It may well provide a community, be something OP does not feel the need to …

I feel (from similar experiences) that it may be worth solving this in multiple directions. Reading/Podcasts/Audiobooks (Audible or Libby)/new projects/long walks may help with lon…

I feel ES has been trying really hard to walk away from the features Solr is good at. While ES still supports multiple languages and custom tokenization chains and even custom pre-…

They had me at: "The only viable solution to search was elasticsearch". /s

I did that for a programmable calculator. Without permanent memory.....

Congrats. Visual esthetic is very clean. The music is really nice as well, could be a programming background sound-track even. I am, actually, in the same age category and have sud…

Sometimes, one can lose technical arguments on non-technical reasons. It is good to have options. :-)

Had to search a couple of them (extropian and widow's son). Also, I had the whitepaper one thrown at me several times. Maybe I will use it myself next time. My own contribution wou…