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I find the process itself a balm for the soul. It’s the one part of my life where only my vision matters, and I am free to completely disregard what others want. That includes some…

Renshuu provides fantastic SRS based tools for memorizing the hell out of vocabulary, has a huge bank of grammar lessons and a variety of grammar quiz styles to bed in the knowledg…

Making mistakes and seeing exactly how you’re being misunderstood is the best thing for improving your speaking skills. There’s absolutely no reason to wait before speaking, as wan…

In the tests they’ve conducted the blue light had better results than the ordinary UV light.

I believe this is true for all learning, we consolidate knowledge by applying it, not by hearing about it.

How would this account for wildly different regional accents?

I like your visual approach. Very unique among bookmarking apps!

Training data?

A lot of playlist owners take submissions, and some have pricing lists, charging a set amount for featuring a song for a month or longer.

This is a technique that every music marketing outfit will recommend nowadays. It’s one of the most effective ways to promote new music, but it requires the effort to create and ma…

It started out on a service called Linkydink https://medium.com/@rrhoover/the-wisdom-of-the-20-minute-sta...

Weirdly, earplugs can make it easier to hear certain detail, despite the reduction in volume. I wear earplugs at concerts and I can hear all the instruments, despite them somehow r…

Fair, although previously I’d buy the same three packs without issue.

Not sure whether it was the removal of best before dates or Brexit, but fresh food and veg in Britain is often already rotting in supermarkets. So now instead of the store throwing…

In the UK the NHS recommends “pacing” for ME/CFS, which is a very slow, gradual increase in activity without triggering over-exertion - same as what you found effective. I believe …

Some features are “missing” or don’t work in a similar way. For example, Affinity Designer doesn’t have shape replication tools like Illustrator, manual copy paste is required. You…

Can’t speak for other people but I find it more time consuming to get ChatGPT to correct its mistakes than to do the work myself.

They used to have Soundtrap, which is a DAW in the browser and had two separate apps. They sold it back to the founders AFAIK.

I switched to Apple Music for exactly the same reason.

Agreed that the stigma is unnecessary and likely stops many people from getting the support they might find helpful. In my case the hearing damage is not sufficient to warrant a he…

You should look into the Conversation Boost if you haven’t already. Has given me the ability to socialise in noisy environments

I get that we associate focus and attention with not having anything in our ears. But consider that many people, myself included, will wear AirPods in noisy environments, because t…

Are you assuming that the goal for being creative is to produce content? Because often being creative is just a nice way to spend time while being alive, regardless of whether it p…

Like you I don’t have any work apps or accounts on personal devices, so it’s very easy to shut the work laptop down at the end of a day and keep the separation of church and state.…