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> Is there something we can do when learning new information that will help make it "sticky"?

For me, a big part of learning a new word involves creating chunks. Those chunks then form bigger chunks. Let's use 辞書 as an example: 辞 is talking/words (and also used as kanji for quitting) and 書 is books. So word book = dictionary.

The kanjis are also broken down by radicals. 辞 is 舌 (tongue) + 辛 (spicy). There isn't a logical connection between the combination of radicals and the kanji, so I'd make a memorable story instead [1]. Thus the only things I have to purely memorize are the radicals.

I go through above process when I'm creating a card and I believe the process itself helps me learn the word much faster than just rote memorization. Of course, you need to start using the word in your daily life too!

Edit:

[1] When I create a story, I close my eyes and try to imagine the story happening as vividly as possible. I also have a rule where radicals in the story must appear in the same order as in the kanji

> The real issue "modern" societies are starting to have is that everything is based on a pyramid scheme (more young people than old people) that is beginning to unravel everywhere. That is something nobody is ready for.

Keep an eye out on South Korea to see what happens when the pyramid scheme unravels. Our birthrate has fallen to 0.75 and we are in for a huge shock in 10 years. Yet our politicians are just fighting each other :))

It also fails to mention the actual reason why the houses have been “affordable” for Japanese people. The banks give out 30 year mortgages on very low rates which you can deduct from your income tax [1], without requiring a big deposit.

[１] https://japanpropertycentral.com/real-estate-faq/home-loan-t...

For a while, when I slept I made sounds that sounded like a creaking wooden staircase. I obviously had no clue but my wife told me about it. She recorded the sound and I played it to my doctor. The doctor had no idea how that could happen. I was pretty healthy so nothing came off it and I don’t think I make that noise anymore.

TIL the difference between strongly typed and statically typed. I’ve been using them interchangeably. Thanks for letting me know!

I’ve tried F# briefly and quite liked it too. I would like to get into it more later.

Strongly typed Elixir would be it. Even better if it can be gradually typed like Typescript.

Jose announced that they are working on it but I can’t wait :p

Isolation from the West has been strictly mandated until a US ship opened it forcefully, hence the ban.

https://99percentinvisible.org/article/flower-cards-japanese...

> It's my opinion that governments should ultimately be the deciders of what goes. Kiwifarms is allegedly committing several crimes. What should be investigated is: why did law enforcement not get involved sooner? After all, Cloudflare can be ordered to stop serving a person or legal entity by a court of law. So why hasn't that happened?

I agree ideally, but if you always wait for literal legal orders, any moderation would take _ages_. So you'd always need some sort of value judgement on the provider's part to interpret the law as they see it and act.

EDIT: not to mention governments are also putting pressure on providers to act fast.

Free speech is a right that is balanced against other rights and things like inciting violence can limit free speech. I don't think many people on this forum believes in unlimited free speech.

I think the issue is whether Cloudflare("CF"), as an internet infrastructure, should be involved in balancing free speech with other rights and if so, what kind of bar should they have before deciding to act.

Looking at the issue in this way, your argument that:

> Cloudflair's decision to stop doing business with kiwifarms is a step towards free speech, not away.

may be right and most people would agree. But some people may be more concerned about how CF has reached that decision and the future implication of this action. After all, there is a possibility that CF may have gotten this one right even with inconsistent reasoning/ shaky evidence. In that case, there may be future cases where CF jumps the gun too fast.

Some are also scared about how much (perceived) power CF has over current internet infrastructure. This is understandable as CF is a company and their decision making process isn't as transparent as public system. But if there wasn't such dominance by CF and it was merely one of many competitors, this wouldn't be a big contention.

TL;DR People are arguing about different things: short term result and long term implication. You can agree with the banning of Kiwifarm but still be concerned about how CF reached that conclusion.

Not to mention that giving healthcare, clean water and clean air to people who don’t have it will increase “growth” in long term, probably more than anything new.

My partner and I are looking to move back to NZ and settle down in around 3 years and I found it quite depressing that we need to now consider climate change impact on the city (near and far future) when we decide where to settle down.

> though James Shaw - the environment minister is Green

I've always been deeply frustrated at Green's unwillingness to work with National. By playing kingmaker like NZ First did, the party would have had much more impact on the environment, had their primary focus actually been environment.

I know that this would never happen because Green is not an environmental party but an actual left wing party that a Labour should have been instead of...generally doing nothing.

> Rapid release means I can no longer rely on the software that engages in it

I’ve been thinking that UI changes should follow something like semver like APIs. UI is a contract between you and your users and completely shifting layouts should be seen as a breaking change.

These breaking changes should be avoided more critical the product is. E.g. health management app for elders.

Sounds like people who passively waits for orders before doing anything ("what should I do?") instead of actively seeking out and doing things that aligns with the team's current goal ("what are we doing [now]?").

I don’t know. The train I take sometimes have SDG wrapping, the ads on TV always mention SDG and the Starbucks have been asking me whether I want my coffee without lid (futa nashi), so they must really care about it /s

First of all, Maybe you should recognise yourself for your hard work so far. Also, it is admirable that you’d like to become even better after reaching staff level.

My 2 cent: you say you don’t like tech, then switch away from it! Most companies have manager track as well which are much less technical and it sounds like you are already a great manager. Could you ask your manager (or find a new job) to switch to more managerial track instead?

Well that's a bit complicated. Traditionally, yes. Korea has been a Confucian society, which meant that the eldest son gets the parent's house, lives with them and takes care of them. Incidentally, being a wife of the eldest son is also very hard, because you are supposed to take care of your in-laws (boy do I have some horror stories).

With modernisation, this has changed.

1. Most women no longer wants to be servants for the in-laws (rightfully so) and wants to live separately

2. With less children, you won't necessarily have a son.

So now, parents live separately, until they are unable to do so anymore. When this happens, the children might take them into their house and care for them or admit them into hospice or retirement home.

You might ask, what happens if your children don't take care of you and you don't have money? Well you are kinda f-ed, as seen with the high elderly poverty rate.

> [Korea has] the highest elderly poverty rate among OECD countries

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8871725/#:~:tex....

Oh, Korean national pension is also set to run out within 10 years or so, which will make the issue worse and/or make the future generation pay disproportionate amount of tax :)))

Ah but the younger generations will need to support the older non longer working people who also happens to have more votes. Korean national pension is going to run out in 10 years or so, and there is already talk of raising the mandatory contribution from 9% to 18%.

As other people have mentioned, its about not being able to afford to buy a house to raise kids in.

I do want to also mention though, a unique Korean system called "Jeonse", which is a large deposit that is 50-80% of the property value. After putting in the deposit, you can live there on yearly basis without paying rent. This system has been and is being used as property ladder for young families (as they don't have to "lose" money on rent) but as "Jeonse" is pegged to property value, they've been rapidly rising as well AND frauds around Jeonse has been on rise, in which case you can lose the whole deposit or be tied up in court battle for years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeonse

Yes but the house price in Seoul will remain the same-ish while all the other regions crash first. Korea already has a 50.4% of the population living in/ around Seoul and this is going to get worse as population drops off. This would mean the demand to live near Seoul might stay constant even with the absolute number of population in Korea dropping. Later though, the house price of Seoul will drop as well.

It's absolutely on Korean people's mind. This has been on the news quite a few times now.

I've been meaning to write about this for a while, but this does not surprise me in the least. The life in Korea is way too competitive and stressful. The hellscape begins in pre-school and primary school where parents make kids go to private school AFTER school, often till late evenings. This progressively gets worse and worse until university.

In my father's generation, people could relax after getting into university. They could party around, barely pass and still get decent jobs. Nowadays, that's definitely not the case. Getting a good job is insanely hard. You need to take care of your GPA. English certs like TOFLE/TOEIC are pretty much mandatory and you'd probably want other cert/ extra curricular experience.

Okay. So you've went through all that and you've got yourself a good job. Now that's all done, can you finally start to relax and enjoy life? Haha, no. 52-hour weekly working limit has only recently been introduced, and the current president wants to get rid of that. Even if you work your ass off, it is _very_ unlikely that you can ever afford an apartment in Seoul.

In the end, you have tired and jaded people without a fun childhood, who can't even buy their own house. I certainly would not choose to have children in these circumstances.

I've "escaped" and live a decent life outside of Korea now. But I have many friends in Korea who have "given up" (in various ways) in light of all this . There are some friends who are married and have kids, but they all have rich parents or studied/hustled really hard. In spite of all this, I miss Korea so much. But I don't think I'll be going back.

This is only one reason in declining fertility rate. There are many more (some mentioned in other comments) but this comment is already getting too ranty.

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EDIT: This comment got much more attention than I thought it would and I'd like to add some positive stuff too. There are certainly people who enjoy life in Korea by refusing to participate in the rat race and by prioitising building meaningful communities in their lives. Some things are getting better, albeit slowly, with each generation.

I forgot to reply but your fix is working!

> Cloudflare universal SSL caused a redirection issue

TIL, good to know that could cause this. Thanks for sharing.

I worked 4d weekday in my last job, taking every Wednesday off. I lost 20% of my salary but I loved it, the break into middle meant that Mondays were no longer dreaded things and I could do all the chores during Wednesday, freeing up my weekend to do whatever I wanted. (Also Fridays had free drinks , pre-covid)

I think the company got a good deal out of it too, as they paid 20% less for almost no productivity loss at all.

Yeah I do wonder about this. Atm, US is putting on immense pressure on chip manufacturers and their countries to control the supply and add factories in US soil.

Once the factories are built, would US be as invested in defending Taiwan and further, South Korea? I know US won’t give them up easily, but when push comes to shove … I don’t know.

Awesome! will do when I get back home! Just curious, what was the issue by the way?

검사 is 檢事. 検査 has the same pronunciation but means “to inspect”.

Not sure if you can read Korean but here is the link that talks about differences between the two hanjas: https://m.ch.yes24.com/article/view/33205

You could hook up Prisma (or any other Orm) to Supabase and use their transaction API. Though this will still need to be in server part of NextJS (api routes or getServerSideProps), but would be faster than rolling an entire backend.

Never about work, always about school. All the bad memories around pressure / expectations as an immigrant kid comes back and still haunts me to this day.

Yeah it's weird. I can see in the inspector that the element's href points to that url.

- This is my user agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/104.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

- I'm in Japan

- the initial request to the url results in a 301 redirect to that IP

- same result in incognito mode

- works on my iPhone Safari and MacOS Safari

- I get 3 warning messages on Chrome with same message `crbug/1173575, non-JS module files deprecated.` but not on Safari

So it's looking like some weird Chrome issue