droning_in_my_ears

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Fediverse Canvas 2024 | Canada Discussion Thread in c/[email protected]
[–] droning_in_my_ears 2 points 2 weeks ago

Can't seem to login. Getting "[200] Error while sending: Failed to send direct message"

Any dude that had experience with sex workers here?... How was it? in c/asklemmy
[–] droning_in_my_ears 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Get ready for the next battle

Lingonaut - A free language learning app currently in development in c/[email protected]
It's Saturday, what have you watched this week? in c/[email protected]
[–] droning_in_my_ears 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I watched my life go by

How did you acquire the first 1000 words? in c/asklemmy
[–] droning_in_my_ears 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

That's perfectly fine. Don't worry about forgetting words. You will forget them, look them up again, forget them look them up again, eventually they'll stick. Focus on the reading. Don't treat it like a vocabulary lesson. Every day you're here to read, as long as you reach the end you're good, over months you'll realize you learned a lot of vocabs.

At first because the text will be so dense with new words yes it will take a long time to read, that's why I typically only read a short maybe half a page per day. Then gradually increase that as your vocabulary grows over months. The goal should be to encounter say 50-100 new words a day. Notice I said encounter not learn.

Those websites where you look up words are really useful. Make sure they have text to speech and read out loud in the language not in English even if you see the translation in English that's fine.

Also do a lot of listening along with the reading. I usually get myself an audio book and its corresponding text, chop it up into 1 minute and half a page segments, for each segment listen once, then read looking new words up, then listen while reading at the same time a few times, trying to follow a long, looking up any words I forgot, then listen without reading a dozen or so times until I can follow along. Then movd on to the next segment.

How did you acquire the first 1000 words? in c/asklemmy
[–] droning_in_my_ears 6 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Do a lot of reading and listening to material you find interesting. The learning happens in the background.

If your mind got transported back 10 years right now with no time to prepare, how could you exploit your knowledge for personal gain? in c/asklemmy
Do you recognise any usernames on Lemmy? in c/asklemmy
You ever recover a lost memory? in c/[email protected]
[–] droning_in_my_ears 4 points 1 month ago

Might wanna write them down as soon as you wake up.

Dreams can sometimes inspire creative work so to me I like remembering them.

You ever recover a lost memory? in c/[email protected]
[–] droning_in_my_ears 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

I heard smell is particularly good at bringing back memories, sometimes even in Alzheimer's patients.

To me it's hearing that seems the strongest, especially music.

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You ever recover a lost memory? (self.casualconversation)
 

So one time, I was on a bus and this guy next to me was very bored and said "When the bell rings, the time will be 10:30 am...DING!", "When the bell rings, the time will be 10:31 am...DING!", in a robotic voice.

At first I was confused. I didn't know what he was talking about. Then I stared at him and I could just feel a wave of nostalgia. A very distant memory almost forgotten came back. I'm 7 years old, bored at home with nothing to do pre-internet. I call a landline number that has a service that tells you the time and just listen in... that's exactly what the telephone lady would say. OMG he's imitating the landline time service lol

It felt very satisfying too. It's like a eureka moment but for memory rather than thought.

Anything similar happen to you?

Is it just me or do Lemmy communities tend to skew left wing? Why might this be? in c/nostupidquestions
[–] droning_in_my_ears 1 points 1 month ago

Because demographics

We're still trickling in... in c/makenewfriendshere
[–] droning_in_my_ears 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Getting disillusioned is no fun I know. But it's always better in the long term.

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I swear sometimes my brain doesn't work (self.casualconversation)
 

Today I read a headline that said "Doctor who saved a senator's life now stranded...", but I only read the first part as "Doctor Who, saves a senator's life". I was like Doctor Who? Saved someone's life? That's amazing!

Sigh

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Today I learned: Desmos has a 3d calculator! (www.desmos.com)
 

It's in beta but it's been out since september of last year and all I can think is WHY DIDN'T ANYBODY TELL ME THIS?

I've been using desmos for years now and always wished they had one. I'm gonna spend the evening plotting random surfaces to see what they look like.

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I'm holding in the palm of my hand the sum of all human knowledge (self.casualconversation)
 

Well not quite but close. I'm holding a hard disk that has ALL of Wikipedia's text in 10 different languages.

Yes you can download all of Wikipedia and yes it can easily fit in a hard drive. Isn't that amazing? Text is incredibly dense compared to images and video. Around 22 GiB for English Wikipedia alone and 56 GiB for the 10 languages I downloaded.

I also have all of Wiktionary in the same hard drive. It's around 16.4 GiB.

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Any obscure community you're a part of that you wish would grow? (self.casualconversation)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by droning_in_my_ears to c/casualconversation
25 comments fedilink
 

Besides lemmy of course

Edit: By community I didn't mean lemmy community. I meant like a fandom for an old or obscure piece of media with still some activity

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Can installing an open source os on a pixel phone count as de-googling? (self.degoogle)
 

I mean they're still the ones who made the hardware

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I had a great uncle who died the day I was born and shared my first name (self.casualconversation)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by droning_in_my_ears to c/casualconversation
2 comments fedilink
 

Fun coincidence. Makes me think of reincarnation. Now I wonder what else we shared?

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How many hours a day do you spend on your target language? (self.languagelearning)
 

I usually spend 1-2 hours. Any more than that and I get too tired. At my pace it takes about a year and a half to 2 years to get to where I can read and listen. But I reckon it could be cut down if I was spending more time a day.

I heard that training diplomats spend 8 hours a day on the language they're learning: a full time job. Imagine that. I'd be completely exhausted and my brain would be buzzing by the end. You reckon you could do that?

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Doesn't each community being local to each instance split the audience? (self.nostupidquestions)
 

I'm a reddit refugee trying to figure this out. It seems to me like it's a decent idea to break up countrol like this, but unfortunately there are some inherent problems that mean it might not work in the real world.

The biggest in my view is that communities are scoped to the instance they started in. You could have 2 different communities with the same niche and the same or similar name but different insurances and the subscriber numbers will be split across them. I think this is damaging to growth because it spreads active users.

Eventually if the niche grows one of the communities of the niche will be the biggest and most active. So generally users will consolidate around the instances with the most active communities thus making those instances have a lot of control and defeating the purpose of federation.

Is there something I'm missing here? Because currently I'm not convinced this can both grow and keep things decentralized.

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