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This looks great. I have previously written a small GUI application with Qt where it's just a slider and a text label, and when the value of the slider is changed, a command is ran and the label updated. In quickly hacked together Python/Qt, it's 71 lines. It seems like I can cut that down quite a lot by using this. I will have to test it. Thanks!

> its such a shame so many video games still only support MS

This is very true. It's a shame, but the only way to help this change is to create the market for video games that support other platforms, for example Linux, as well. Help make it profitable to develop games for Linux

There are already quite a lot of games on Steam that support Linux, especially if you add Wine/Proton [1] to the mix, where 78% of the top 100 games have a score of "Gold" (runs perfectly after tweaks), "Platinum" (runs perfectly out of the box), or is running natively on Linux. This means that you are no longer missing out on the huge library of games you were missing out on just a few years ago.

[1] https://www.protondb.com/

It's the same for Norway. This website report 400 cases, 4 deaths and 22 recoveries. These are quite far off from the actual official numbers. The official numbers are released once per day at 18:00, by the Norwegian institute of Public Health [0], and VG (a newspaper) are keeping the numbers updated [1] with reports coming from municipalities and hospitals around the country [1]. The last official numbers (from yesterday) were 489 cases, 0 deaths, 1 recovery. The last numbers from VG are 642 cases, 0 deaths, 1 recovery.

0: https://www.fhi.no/

1: https://www.vg.no/spesial/2020/corona-viruset/

I had a year of French at school, and my teacher kept saying all year that no matter how much or little we learn from his classes and exercises, as long as we are able to say "I don't speak language X, do you speak language Y?", everything would be so much easier when dealing with strangers in foreign countries. It also helps a lot to add a "please" and "thank you".

This piece of advice helped a lot in both Germany, Ukraine, and Russia.

I am currently listening to Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, and it is by far the most interesting book I've read/listened to. I have been moved to tears again and again by this book.

Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun (1917) just turned 100, and it is also one of my most favorite books of all time, it too was moving me to tears again and again.

I listen to a lot of podcasts and audiobooks while doing other things; walking, cleaning, cooking, traveling, playing games, etc. Every time I try speeding up, even just to 1.25x, I don't enjoy it as much, as it feels rushed and stressful. I think it could be interesting to learn to listen and read at extremely high speeds, but nothing more than interesting, and I'm even doubting the usefulness of it.

During my recent visit to Saint Petersburg, I visited the Museum of Soviet Arcade Games, and I would highly recommend all the games to everybody who is interested in the games! In case you are in the city, it's one of my top 5 places to visit, at least if you are interested in games. I went there alone, but I would highly recommend bringing a friend, as some of the games are designed for two players, and it's far more fun to play with a friend than a random stranger.

My favorite games were Sniper and Sniper 2, but I would recommend trying everything.

This looks really cool! It seems like it's just what I've been looking for lately, without realizing it. Will look more into this when I get back from vacation. Thanks for sharing and showing.

I visited the library, and saw an advert in the local newspaper about a programming job in a neighboring city (~3 hour drive). The day I saw the ad was the deadline for sending an application, so I hurried home and threw together an application, along with my CV. After just a few days, I was asked to come in for an interview where I got a small task that I then went home and worked on the task for a day or two before sending everything back to the company. They loved both talking to me and what I had done on the task and I was offered a job just a few days later.

The questions are styled to use courier, though.

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>unfortunately I'm blanking on his name

John Nash (supposedly) had this mindset? Is that who you're thinking about?

I don't think taking notes is the most important part of learning from a lecture. For me, throughout the years, actively participating in lectures through asking questions or discussing the concept being talked about, either with the lecturer or the person I'm sitting beside. Compared to taking notes, this has lead to me gaining a deeper understanding than when writing or typing everything that is being said during the meeting or the lecture. Usually, the only things I write down in meetings and lectures are words or concepts I don't already understand so I can research those later, or specific tasks that I am going to do as a result of the meeting or lecture.

Thanks, but this is what I've been doing for the last few months, although I have also listened to music that is somewhat similar in genre (Norwegian music, electronic, hip-hop, pop, etc). I don't think I should stop listening to the music I like in order to manipulate the algorithms into giving me the music I like and want to listen to. It's counter-intuitive.

The biggest problem with the Discover Weekly is its inability to understand _why_ you're listening to a specific subset of music. It might not be that your taste in music suddenly changed, or that you discovered a new genre that you're incredibly interested in, even though your most listened to genres or songs changed for a few weeks, or your listening patterns changed for a few weeks.

A few examples:

I'm Norwegian, and listen to quite a lot of Norwegian music in Norwegian. Norwegian music is also European music, Scandinavian music, Nordic music, etc., and as a result I get music from Germany, France, Finland, Iceland, Sweden, Denmark, among other countries and languages. However, the reason that I enjoy listening to Norwegian music is because I speak and understand the nuances in the language perfectly, while this is not the case with any of the other languages.

In Norway, we have «russefeiring» (russ celebration) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russefeiring) from approximately mid-April to mid-May. In the recent years, many groups of «russ» have been making/ordering songs to represent them throughout their celebration, and in that period, I listened to some of those songs because it was fun during that period (around April-May), but it's not interesting to listen to outside of that time period at all, pretty much like Christmas songs. Now it's the second week of October, and my Discover Weekly list still contains a lot of songs (12 of 30 songs) created specifically for the «russefeiring». Imagine getting half your Discover Weekly filled with Christmas songs in May, because that's pretty much my experience with this.

I don't know what they have to do to make Discover Weekly not give me shitty suggestions, but right now it keeps giving me suggestions that are outdated and uninteresting and I have no good way to give that feedback.

I'm really saddened by this, because for the first half year of Discover Weekly, the playlists were so good that I stored them in separate playlists to be able to go back and listen more to them.

I just wanted a list, not an article. :~(