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I've been visiting sp since 2005, i eventually moved there '09 and lived there till '23. I remember the pre-06 cityscape. You were bombarded by visual ads in the 100s every half hour. It was absurd. Most of the buildings were absolutely covered in low-effort graffiti, callef pixação or pixo (pronounced peeshu). Since then there really has been a flourishing of murals and street art. The quality and quantity are flabberghasting. It added a lot to the sense of discovery while out exploring a new corner of the city and sense of place for places one returns to. Many of the artists like veracidade became close to household names. Overall it was a wonderful change whose impacts subtly changed the atmosphere of the city, making it much more livable. The only problem was in the liberdade neighborhood, home to the japanese disapora of the early 20th century: their local business depended on kanji signs hanging off the facades of the buildings. After the law change the neighborhood's economy sorta collapsed for a while, but is now recovering.

It's not reflexive to critisize US foreign meddling. It IS reflective because it requires considerable consideration to puncture the fabric of US internal propaganda and reach these conclusions. The problem is that it's built on a web of lies and treachery. That's not a very smart attitude to take between whole nations of people. Maybe it is if the end goal is further ethnic domination, subjugation, and/or exterminaton-- which the US has done and still does, systematically.

There are bearings a country can take, foreign relations wise, that over the long term that lead to better outcomes and just quality-of-life improvements in general. Benevolence and smart relationship management com ined with military dominamce has immense soft power, of which the U.S. has left unexplored.

I just found this reading up on S.Pacific politics:

Weiner, Tim (9 October 1994). "C.I.A. Spent Millions to Support Japanese Right in 50's and 60's". The New York Times. Retrieved 29 December 2007.

Add japan to the laundry list where these organized, professionalized, politically motivated paramilitary "groups" involve themselves in the democratic process of other nations, with absolutely no control or oversight from the very society they comes from.

So i guess that means any university with a religous foundation is not a university? Last i checked there are quite a few christian universities. Also common schooling in christian populations was and often still is done by members of their religious order: does their faith and religious element detract from the intellectual merit of their academic teachings? Ask that to people who still pay boatloads for they and their families to attend.

I think it is a good idea considering the temporal frame of reference. Payback on projects like these take decades. Furthermore the objectives of whichever local official with any sense of wit and honor most certainly must encompass and protect the needs of local citizens and global directives at the expense of energetically and ecologically expensive tech of arguably dubious merit.

I know this is kind of out in left field, but some people also mentioned query result history. I've been using phind since it was in beta as sayhello and encountered similar a faux pas where submitting feedback sent me to an plaintext error page. Going back and resubmitting the query produced a result that didn't include the important information in the original result. It would be helpful to have search history, but furthermore (and the reason for writing this) is an idea that's been floating around in my head about git-tree esque search histories in bash. Though it's currently outside the range of my expertise. While reading the comments of this thread I had an idea for a similiar feature, something i would probably pay for an recommend.

The feature relates to a problem I've encountered as an active intermediate developer with managing the multidunious and varied queries that i might do both getting up to speed and solving problems in-the-wild. I find that what i learn and use doesn't stick right away, so rather than making the same query (and in this case sometimes getting different results) resorted to keeping 3 notebooks for each subject: a technical reference, a working notebook, and a learning log. That's a lot of notebooks!

I mention this because knowledge management and effective learning go hand in hand. And learning something you didn't know seems to be the problem domain of ai search for developers.

Organizing query results thematically by learning trees would be a gargantuan undertaking, and probably far outside the scope of what is already an excellent service. Just putting that out there.

Thanks!

the -s command lists metadata, but from my explorations with the bytecode using ruby std tools and grep I've found there is likely a lot more than is shown from this command.

How might I use the tool for editing geodata? Their forum seems to point to the use of other tools.

Gattaca is a good movie. I can't wait to read this. I'd also suggest William Gibson (of neuromancer fame)'s Alien script.

Lots of good suggestions in this thread. Dark City's aesthetic and story-telling style made it one of the most impactful movies I've ever seen. You are in the dark most of the movie, both in aesthetic of the film and metaphorically in the sense that you don't know what is going on, but discover it slowly, and along the way you are lead to reach premature conclusions that turn out later to be false. I haven't watched this movie in years, but it's been permanently seared into the deepest darkest corners of my mind.

Another excellent sci-fi i came across earlier this year, from the late 70's early 80's is a polish film On The Silver Globe. The special effects are nothing more than lighting, photography, writing, costumes, set design, and excellent acting, but I can still say that it's psychadelic in the way it provokes the mind, the senses, and the emotions.

I'll still be in Sao Paulo over the next few days.

Nature ecologies are so full of examples of mutual aid across all types of life that we are still discovering new relationships everyday. I'd like to see an updated collation of all these findings since kropotkin's writigs. Any suggestions?

Collectively held norms and expectations are commonplace across cultures, otherwise how would we effectively cooperate? They are kinda like protocols. There are many ways to raise people to uphold those sets of customs without falling into the domination and homogenization traps.

The discussion is in the chat history of the ruby channel in matrix chat. (lol)

Alas, logs aren't easily accessible in the element android app (which is what i've got).

most of the posts here are criticisms of the OPs efforts. they seem misplaced. Ruby lacks accessible, consistent, example-based explorations that cover the breadth of the language in practice-- as a programming language, rather than just a dsl for OO and REST apps.

I'm fairly new to Ruby and to programming in general. I've found so far that Ruby is sorely underdocumented. Coming from JS, where we have MDN, the docs for Ruby are obtuse and don't provide examples.

If you do google search you get wordy, outdated, non-idiomatic code examples that often feel incomplete or are even flat out wrong. There are a lot of gotcha's and hangups in the language* that you can sometimes find in books-- but not consistently and never in blog posts.

My learning process so far has been to look at the docs, which often are EMPTY (see Symbol#to_proc)*. Then I'll read through 5-6 blog posts from 2016, not find the answer, then do searches through multiple (expensive) books that are almost always nothing succinct (not reference style). I eventually have to ask on a chatroom or some other asynch forum, in which case that knowledge has no foward discoverability and the experts in the language find themselves in a samsara of questions/answers.

I could (and often) do github-wide searches of usages of a specific method or idiom, but that is tedious, inconsistent, and overly dependent on one of many features on a 3rd-party service.

TL;DR: what i'd like to see as a newcomer to the language is a canonized and community-driven knowledge base, ala wiki.

*an example of a hangup: some types are immutable and others not. array.each on an array of intergers will not behave the same as an array of strings.. so for ints you have to use map for certain transformations

*the doc entry for Symbol#to_proc is exactly one line and doesn't even use the method! it uses the &: operator.

X-post from lainchan /lit/ : "english is my native language. At 23 I moved to Brazil and started teaching english a fews years in. Today, after 13 years, I am considerably more expressive in portuguese than english. People only realize I'm American when I tell them my name. I am living proof that you can reach native-level proficiency starting in adulthood.

That being said my first tip for y'all is to not get too hung up on writing. Languages are called languages because we use our tongues to speak them (the root of the word means tongue). Most of us take it for granted that languages are the basis of speech and are the basis for organizing our thoughts, while writing is derivative, a mere simulacra of that. There's a lot of science to back that up, but i won't get into that here. I invite you to go out into the interwebs and seek out an entrance to that rabbit hole if languages and language learning interest you.

So my advice is to focus on nailing down the verbal aspects of speech production early on, and don't let up--- ever. You should drill the muscle memory of not only atomic words, but phonemes, and, most importantly, phrasings. Beyond the gross aspects of just producing the sound correctly in an academic sense, seek to sound right to the average person. That means tone, breathing, pitch, melody, rhyhtm, resting tongue position and tongue position while producing vowells, etc.

This should all be drilled within the context of spontaneous speech production. If proper speech is the hardest part, being able to build sentences and organize ideas on the fly while still sounding proper and being able to keep the native speakers engaged is harder than the hardest part.

Connected to our fixation on writing is the belief that languages and human communication are mostly about ideas- if you actually take the time observe universal human behavior you will find that this is false. Otherwise small talk wouldn't be such a commonality worldwide. This fits into the category of what i call primordial language. It is three things: it is gestural, emotive, and verbal (though sometimes just gestural). This also applies to other species from crickets, birds, dolphins, dogs. Our second-order languages are abstract, symbolic, and logical. So don't confuse the map with the territory. If you want to learn a language, seek to understand and be understood. Do that by prioritizing the primordial aspects of language learning.

That being said, don't neglect the mental tech our schooling and literacy has ingrained in us. Be systematic. Build spreadsheets of words and phrases and practice them. Carry around a small notepad or a folded piece of paper and a pen. I personally have to write down words and phrases when I'm just starting a language to anchor that stuff in my memory. Only after thousands of hours do the sounds become reliable anchors for my knowledge (i'm a visual learner).

My third tip is to engage in at least 5-15 minutes of conversation daily with someone with a skill level ranging from near-your-level all the way to way above your level. There are a lot of reasons this is important that i won't get into now. You can (and should) start off talking to yourself all the time in your target language, and finding and mirroring videos of speech, but eventually YOU MUST seek out some way to actually use the language-- minimum 5 hours a week. If you neglect this last step you will never become fluent, no matter how much you study alone.

That's all i got to say about that (for now)"

I spent around a decade as a dedicated professional in the area of second-language acquisition of adults.

I haven't read through this in its entirety yet (I'm cooking dinner). I'll go ahead a post this to keep the thread warm.

At first glance it seems to be very comprehensive. In my experience having relied on many of these approaches and observations has been the primary fulcrum of successful acquisition. Of particular importance are the early stages of the process, as it is when many so called 'affective filters' are staked out. I prefer the term 'autonomous emotional responses' upon spontaneous exposure and SLA activity engagement. I would branch out to argue other formative phenomenon are formed and entrenched in the early stages, such as the learner's wide-view expectations of scope and acquisition-velocity. the last but arguably most important early-stage developmental phenomenon is the primordial formation of the neuro-circuitry' used when engaged in second-language use and acquisition.

That last one can be paraphrased as "habits like on the fly translation from mother-tongue vs direct and spontaneous production." Essentially refers tp mental habits (neuronal tracks) in the computational aspects of pre-cognition (see neuroanatomy broca area) that can reactivate the language-activation instinct, or, if mal-formed, harness acquisition and effective production, requiring it to pass through 3x more executive function filters.

It is of my professional opinion that mal-formed pre-cognitive mental habits can restrict reactivation of the language-acquisition instinct many times over. The textual and rule-based learning approaches further hinder learner success due to the increased cognitive-load of translating and juggling a bajillion rules.

Learners with this profile fail to organize their ideas effectively when speaking; reading comprehension is compromised; accent, tone, mannerisms, and 'modes of expression' remain quintessentially foreign to native speakers; and (most importantly) overall acquisition-velocity remains largely stagnant despite constant and long term study.

You can find in the article the following criteria. It is an excellent set of axioms for the early phases of learner's SLA journey.

The article stipulates the following:

Note: For reading to help L2 acquisition, it must

be 98% comprehended

restrict vocabulary load to learners’ levels

be interesting in and of itself

recycle vocabulary

All of these are inextricable elements of early phases. My requirements also include the need to be 60% verbal, with 30% anchoring vocabulary through textual artifacts.

I'll keep reading and adding notes for those interested in the subject. Meanwhile I'll post something a few days ago on a (more lovable) internet forum:

I spent around a decade as a dedicated professional in the area of second-language acquisition of adults.

I haven't read through this in its entirety yet (I'm cooking dinner). I'll go ahead a post this to keep the thread warm.

At first glance it seems to be very comprehensive. In my experience having relied on many of these approaches and observations has been the primary fulcrum of successful acquisition. although some specific conclusions i must reject outright, for now; that SLA is slowed by speaking the target language rings of absolute blasphemy.

I am currentlty using total-commander internal writing widget. it would be nice to have persistent buffers and a (publishing mode?)

Page volume in scientific reporting is not at all an indicator of quality or validity. Disclaimer: I haven't read the report yet. Just sayin'

I agree. Establishing communication and seeking understanding them are nice approaches.

I like what his guy has started doing recently in his parent's basement https://fungimancy.neocities.org/ but am a bit put off by his 'life-form as tool' approach.

I havent managed to get my hands on the sequel =(

Gobekli Tepi is a megalithic archeological site from (going on memory) 11,900 years ago. Are you aware of when the last ice age occurred?

The level of sophisticated engineering capability and large-scale coordination of populations makes it difficult to falsify the theory that it was produced by a civilization. I have no idea how else megastructures can come into existence. All surviving hunter-gatherer, simple hunter-agrarian, and pastoral groups demonstrate little capacity to produce such things.

Excuse my ignorance about the series and mr.hancock, as i havent bothered with the series or his books, but i'd like to reach an understanding: the claims of the space-debris collisions 12,000 years ago are false?

If not then these two facts aren't false, then it's important to note they coincide with myths of a global cataclysm, and do a lot to confirm graham's theory. Which seems from my 2-mile away viewpoint to have less to do with hand-wavy atlantians-this and more to do with the two points i mentioned above.

i think we can all agree thay academia (and especially anthropology) is one of the most anti-intellectual places on the planet. There's been tons of evidence over the past few years about how a lot of the "knowledge" and analysis that is produced is distorted at best and often outright incorrect. I'd say academia is just jealous and riding the wave of the absolutely fanatical censorship crusade that's been going on.

(for what it's worth my mom's an archeologist)

There is so much to love about this book. I read it twice, back to back. It's probably one of the more concept-dense books you'll read from the period, but unlike lots of scifi lit stross wrote a very solid story that's worth reading in it's own right.

Another good book by Stross that doesn't get much love is Saturn's Children. it has the same inventivness and story-telling prowess. the most outrageous elements of the story are the very glue that make the whole thing more tractable.

It'd be neat to build a device that can interface with the electrochemical signal layer of mycellium networks in an attempt to understand the nature of their awareness, if it can be called such. I suppose the best way to further our understanding of them is through experi(m)ential methods. It's worked well for the natural sciences so far shrug

The technical word for this is chelation / chelating. I've seen it used with respect to iron, lead, mercury and cadmium. When a substance can render one inert it generally does with the others as well.

There are a number of pltants, roots, and fungi that do this. I was looking into this yesterday with respect to curcuma, as the region i am currently visiting is known to be contaminated with lead and everyone likes to eat fish from the nearby river. I came across this article which shows solid evidence that curcuma can also remove lead accumulation from the bodies of mammals. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31489882/