Windex007
@Windex007@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
I see it ALL the time, across MANY domains.
Language, music, golf, programming, driving, competitive gaming, etc etc.
It’s not necessarily a bad thing; it’s WAY more effort to push for improvement. Once you’ve gotten to the point where your skills are serving your needs, is that what you want to invest your finite energy into? Maybe not. God knows I’m not actively trying to improve on every skill I have. Very few. Most of my things (music, games, sport) are just to have fun. If you’re having fun you’re probably not really improving, and that’s ok.
But when people lament that they’ve hit a wall on a skill, in my experience it’s this effect, MUCH more than any other.
I think if OP reflected on their already MASSIVE achievement of becoming functional in another language, they’d likely conclude that their skills rapidly increased up until the point that they had a functional level of the skill, and then hit a plateau once they subconsciously began expending less active effort on improvement.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
I think when people are learning some new skill, eventually they reach a proficiency where they stop actively working on improving. Instead, they’ll transition from “improving the skill” to “applying the skill”.
Practice does not make “perfect”. Practice makes permanent.
- Comment on I think better when I'm calm. So it follows that getting calmer will make me smarter. 1 week ago:
Gonna pull out my hair splitting razors for a moment…
OP didn’t say more intelligent, they said smarter.
Can one get smarter? Does “smart” conceptually include the quanity of acquired information? Does the quality of thought impact the ability to acquire new information? Does smart include the concept applying knowledge appropriately? Is the ability to do that informed by the quality of thought?
We might have different definitions for a lot of these words, but I think I gotta say “yes” to all of them.
I’m not this guy so I can only guess their experience, but the more time they’re able to spend in a mental state that maximizes the quality of their thought processes, I would expect it would help them learn new things and more effectively apply that knowledge. I’m contented to say that counts as smart.
So ya: More think good make more smarter that guy.
- Comment on Ahem, well well 1 week ago:
I’m so far beyond the point of caring how people look at me, and so far past the point of wanting to talk to anyone.
What you’ve just described would be considered total victory.
- Comment on Ahem, well well 1 week ago:
My strategy for overcoming this is to congratulate myself out loud so they know not to answer until I’m done.
- Comment on Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket 3 weeks ago:
Guess we doin rockets now
- Comment on If a sandwich is defined as any food item between two pieces of bread, then a layer cake is a type of sandwich. 3 weeks ago:
Cakes predate the Earl of Sandwich so really a sandwich is a subset of cake
- Comment on PROGRESS 3 weeks ago:
Poinignant illustration of a flux capacitor
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Directly from my ass, it’s my assumption that the primary maintainers just don’t have an incentivize the cost of supporting older devices and the disparate hardware configurations.
Like, planned obscellesance or not, smartphone churn is going to happen anyways. People lose them, smash them, fall into a pool with them, decide they NEED the newer camera soldered into them, etc…
It’s not like there are old phones in a closet somewhere propping up business critical infrastructure like with computers.
The cost vs utility of maintaining forward features and security patches for a massive catalog of hardware configurations just isn’t there.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 4 weeks ago:
They’re either trying to get your goat, or it’s genuine. Either way, it’s not making the world any better by bestowing upon yourself the title of judge and enforcer. You’re either taking bait or you’re a fucking cop. “Ok” is all you gotta say.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 4 weeks ago:
I’m uncomfortable with the idea that the only reason that being trans is valid is because of biological factors.
If we could construct a human that came into existence without being Female at some gestational point, you gonna tell them they can’t be trans? If someone has a thyroid problem such that they their body CAN’T handle a sex hormone, you gonna tell them they can’t be trans?
I feel like we’re looking for a 9-D chess play when a 1-D play is sufficient: you say you’re trans, you’re trans.
- Comment on ‘Fake, baseless’: Israel denies Iran’s claim of downing two F-35 jets, capturing woman pilot 4 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t have believed it until the “fake media” comment and now I 100% do
- Comment on Is there a way I can easily set up my own federated instance for free or no? 4 weeks ago:
Why?
- Comment on There's a lot to be known about me by knowing who my exes are, what my favorite songs are to sing in the car, and my fast food orders. 4 weeks ago:
Be me None any anime theme song exclusively chicken tenders. Should I be concerned anons?
- Comment on I made an audio thing 4 weeks ago:
From the post, it sounds like it’s just whatever they ripped out of an old pair of Bluetooth headphones… So probably a proprietary purpose-built PCB rather than something more generalized like an esp32 or something.
- Comment on What in the... 4 weeks ago:
Glory is eternal
- Comment on Massaging the neck and face may help flush waste out of the brain 5 weeks ago:
Study was done in mice, and it relies on massaging specific lymph nodes which are easily accessible for massage (sounds like most of the lymph nodes related to the brain-flushing mechanism are too deep in the neck to really get at).
Super curious if/where humans have analogues.
- Comment on What is the cutoff distance when you point and say [thing] is "here" or [thing] is "there"? 5 weeks ago:
Maybe I misunderstood your definition of locality. Inferring it based on your two examples which were both of great scale is difficult. Also on earth the air is mostly made of nitrogen.
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 5 weeks ago:
This is right, where every other comment in this thread is wrong.
Don’t take the bait.
Even just a flat OK is better than taking the bait. Honestly, silence is better.
Do you care? Then you are poor and mad.
- Comment on What is the cutoff distance when you point and say [thing] is "here" or [thing] is "there"? 5 weeks ago:
It’s beyond that, the context even matters. If I’m in my garage, and my car is parked in the driveway:
-If someone asks where the car is (implication my wife could be out getting groceries, it could be at the shop, etc…) the answer is “here” (on the premises) as opposed to “there” (the grocery store, the shop, etc)
-If I want to change the oil in my garage, I could as someone to bring it “here” (being the garage) because it’s currently “there” (the driveway).
In both cases, my location and the vehicles location is the exact same. “For what purpose?” Informs if something is “here” or “there”.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
In this and other similar contexts, when “it” isn’t really referring to anything specific, you can kind of consider it to be “The General State of Existence”.
It’s raining.
It’s cold.
It is what it is.
Make the best of it.
It’s Thursday.
It’s Friday.
Friday.
Gotta get down on Friday.
- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 1 month ago:
Another consideration might be how far your “town” is from a more major center.
A town with a population of 1000 might not feel that rural if it’s 10 miles down the road from a city of a million.
If the next closest center > 5,000pop is 250 miles away… Perhaps a different story.
I’ve hear it said that in Europe 100km is considered a long distance and in North America 100 years is considered a long time.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Fantastic 2 minute video clearly debunking lie detector here
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted this sob story 1 month ago:
You would be shocked by the homogeneousness of even employers who are hiring STEM. Tribalism is real. They just chalk up the je ne sais qois to “fit”… But you take a step back and suddenly…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Are you suggesting it “shave” its surroundings to make it look bigger…?
- Comment on Cheers lads an lassies 1 month ago:
The one who got his ass beat by the battlestar Galactica robot at bi-mon-sci-fi-con?
I wanna say… “Steve?”
- Comment on Shine a laser on the moon 1 month ago:
The average cubic meter of space has about 6 protons worth of mass in it.
- Comment on Why Do Co-Op Stores Only Work in Small Towns? 1 month ago:
Western Canadian cities (pops of about 1mil) still have co-ops.
Not really an answer, just another data point for you.
- Comment on Fake reviews on Play Store by Plex staff 1 month ago:
For the record, I fucking hate Plex.
But this is a disingenuous simplification of where the gap is.
Me, my brother-in-law, and friend all share our libraries with the same elderly relatives.
The GAP is that great grandma has to log in/out between servers to find content that may or may not be on an individual server. Plex lets you search/aggregate from all sources without having to jockey credentials and servers.
It’s not a giant ask. I heard a fucking absolutely brain-dead take that “that would require a centralized server which is against Jellyfins core ideology”.
So, I dunno. Maybe it isn’t YOUR use case, but it’s MY use case. Doesn’t make me a shill. I’m still pissed as hell.
But don’t fucking pretend that there is feature parity when there isn’t, and don’t accuse me of being a shill just because Jellyfin literally doesn’t support my use case. I WISH it did. I HATE PLEX.
- Comment on Pope Joan 2 months ago:
People play real fast and loose with these terms.
My advice is to do what you’re doing here, which is learn… But to remember to meet people where they’re at.
By these definitions, with sex relating to biological things, you might be tempted to tell someone they can’t just “decide” their sex, by this definition. Don’t do it.
Not saying you would, but resist the urge to get into a semantic argument. Just ask the specific people what they mean by these words when they say them, and roll with it. Prioritize understanding over being understood.
This advice goes for anything, but this is a particularly spicy meatball.
