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>Ultimately, I abandoned Anki and recently proceeded made my own tool for learning the characters, that is highly configurable and that can change the direction with the change of …

Is the concept of someone who usually doesn't eat potatoes getting a bag and spending the next week making some potato dishes really that inconceivable? I don't doubt that this wil…

I don't even think it's a good strategy for creating elite athletes. Can we really determine someone's "elite potential" by how good they are as a young kid? If one kid has parents…

It's exhausting trying to find these brands. You have to do a ton of research, most of which is sifting through ads and the worst google results you've ever seen. If your already i…

That's an interesting way of looking at it, it's not just different from person to person but also from hobby to hobby. For me climbing is mainly about 1, but on reflection I defni…

Just do this ;) https://www.instagram.com/reel/BLO7_P_jIcR/

When I tried bone conducting headphones a couple years back, the audio quality wasn't good enough to really enjoy music, podcasts worked well through.

>If you want to be good at math, piano, chess, sculpture, or whatever you need the talent and then it can be nurtured. No offense, but you sound like you don't really know anything…

For me personally using a translator app just adds an additional layer of awkward to every interaction. Where you have to fiddle with it and the other person might not understand h…

The Danube running through Vienna is safe to swim in: https://www.wien.gv.at/forschung/laboratorien/umweltmedizin/... The water quality doesn't protect you from the current or the …

I studied quite a bit of latin in high school (not in the USA through) and I have to say I'm not overly impressed by the test. It certainly doesn't test for fluency in Latin or Gre…

Yeah, how dare they use a word which succintly describes the problem with these substances. Also PFAS and Microplastics aren't the same thing at all.

People have been organizing the same on a favours basis for longer than money has existed. I just don't understand how money could possibly qualify as an "unit" here. Now how much …

Ah, your right. It still doesn't make much sense, if you ask me. I spend way more on cycling than I do on my parents and friends (we don't do large gifts), does this mean I care mo…

Well, it certainly reads like a lesswrong post. > Economies of trade and professional specialization are not just vaguely good yet unnatural-sounding ideas, they are the only way t…

It looks funky, but it's just railway track gravel cleaning machine, without the spaces.

I do this and it looks pretty damn good, lots of different wildflowers and tall grasses, but I guess it's a matter of taste. I like the feel of having my own bit of nature close to…

Is there even such a thing as "your type" if as the article states 50% of people get a different result the second time they take the test?

I actually really strugle to retain anything I learned with anki and I was wondering if this affects anyone else. A prominent example is when I was working through a deck of japane…

I would have answered wrong even if i read all the questions beforehand. Answering 2-99 gives you a score of 98/100, while doing it correctly gets you 3/100.