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I don't see any substantiated arguments on why this is 'madness' and in what sense these are 'poisons'. And on how to implement your 'solution'.

Well but it's not very useful if you study ineffective materials every day for years.

Precisely. I use quizlet for that, which is very similar, except it doesn't market itself as 'teaching you the language'. It's for memorizing stuff, vocabulary in particular. And you get much more control on which sets to work on and can create your own.

Seriously, it depends on what you're trying to do. You're not going to learn a language using memorization only, and you're not going to learn a language through an app only.

I use quizlet for learning vocabulary, because that needs to be done by sheer memorization. For everything else, I take a course. On Italki you can find people who teach online.

Can anyone that understands these things (i.e. not me, a meek python end user) explain this in simpler terms?

I checked th Pyston website, it essentially says it makes your code faster and nothing about what's the catch and how it magically works.

Note that before lidar, photographs taken from a plane were also very useful for discovering archeological sites that are not obvious while seen from the ground.

Wikipedia has a whole article on it, including lidar developments: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_archaeology

I remember the student union at the university of Edinburgh having massive welcome signs printed on a wall in all languages, and the Arabic one very clearly had the mistake in the points 2 and 3. Printed on a wall. It was very clear to me even though I don't speak a word of Arabic.

The difference, I suppose, is that Roald Dahl was alive and well in 1972.

And that, compared to references to African pygmies, some of the things that have been changed in this new edition are totally baffling.

but did you check if they're real? that's a known flaw of GPT

I think perfectionism is a problem for me too. I quit hobbies too soon because I get frustrated if they're not so easy.

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When I was in high school, we had an (excellent!) teacher of Italian literature who always interpreted texts according to a specific key, which she tried to explain through the historical and philosophical background of the era. At some point she gave an interpretation of a novel and, rumour has it, because it was the time of the rise of social media, one of her students contacted the author on Facebook and asked if the interpretation was correct. And, rumour has it, he said no. We were all outraged at the teacher!

However, it's difficult to talk about any artwork without ever discussing an interpretation. By saying "I had nothing in particular in mind", we risk having the opposite effect, that of forbidding any kind of interpretation or discussion. It should be made clear that this means "you are free to interpret", not "there is no interpretation whatsoever".

Finally, a remark: the author is saying they had nothing in particular in mind, but this is not true. Not that they're lying - they are fooling themselves.

> the light comes from North West, which is impossible in the northern hemisphere

that is technically not correct, in the summer for sufficiently high latitudes, the sun sets in the northwest.

well no. Have a look at how long it takes to go from Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium (i.e. all countries that are not France) to Barcelona.

Yes, even heads of state who visit Kiev are currently mostly travelling by train afaik

Coincidentally I took Zurich-Amsterdam and Amsterdam-Zurich right this week. It was a direct nightjet sleeper, not sure what you're talking about.

There is a clear lack of connection toward France and Spain. EDIT: Paris is of course well connected, but southern France and Spain are not. I live in Zurich and it's quite easy to go north, south, and east by train, but going south-west towards Marseille, Toulouse, Barcelona is really inconvenient. And it's not just about Zurich, because doing so from Milan or Frankfurt, I would guess, is the same. However I heard of plans for a Zh-Barcelona night train, does anybody know anything about it?

I have the feeling that behind this kind of experiment there's a wish to hold a 'moralistic' take on 'where is the world going! people today are too busy to notice art!' etc.

First of all, it relies on the incorrect assumption that 'the same people' would pay a lot of money to see him play at a concert hall. I'm not sure this is right. About one in 1000 people did stop and recognize him, and I feel this fraction is not too different from the actual percentage of people who have heard of him and would pay to see him, so this isn't surprising. He is famous, but not that famous.

Second, there is a fundamental misunderstanding on what it means to go to a concert. The whole point of the concert is to take time specifically to listen to music in an attentive and dedicated way. It's not like an improved version of listening to music in my headphones during my commute, it's a wholly different experience with a different purpose. Moreover, it's a collective ritual. We don't go to the concert hall just because of the music and because of Joshua Bell, we also go because it's nice to treat yourself to an evening out, to dress nicely, and to enjoy the fancy atmosphere of the theatre with its, say, baroque frescoes or modern architectural design. Joshua Bell in that context is literally not the same as Joshua Bell in a subway, otherwise why would he dress nicely for the concert? And you know what, there is nothing wrong with that. Theatre and music have always been this way.

I will always remember one reported on my high school Latin textbook: "Apollinaris medicus Titi imperatoris hic cacavit bene": "Apollinar, physician of the emperor Titus, here pooped well"

> Have you ever mentioned something that seems totally normal to you only to be greeted by surprise?

Once some (foreigner) person was surprised at my dipping toast with Nutella in my latte. I was equally surprised by his surprise.

> the body doesn't typically sense falling very well without visual cues

the post talks about freefall (-1g) and +2.7g. These would be very noticeable.

I am admittedly someone who wishes Bash were Python (ish). What's wrong with that though? Of course I want the REPL features of Bash, its terseness, its builtin commands for all sorts of OS and filesystem operations. But is it wrong to ask for a more modern syntax on the language side of things (i.e. the for loop for example)?

Periodically someone comes up with this kind of comment. If it's on the front page, it's because the community finds it interesting. And these kind of unusual but stimulating posts really are what makes HN interesting. I wouldn't read it if it were all about the latest Julia release and the latest startup.

It's quite likely that moving may not be necessary, in fact.

For what I understand, burnout happens a lot to people who are/were really passionate about their job or at least some part of it. Their passion became their job, and at some point they run out of meaning or satisfaction arising from it.

At this point, as you say, sports and hobbies help, but it's a bit hard, because the temptation is to get hobbies related, say, to coding or computing; or other intellectual hobbies that may be difficult when you come home tired at the end of the day.

Hikes, surfing, skiing, are very nice options, but so could be, say, playing soccer with friends once a week, building model trains, learning to paint, trying a new sport, going to the cinema more often, getting into baking, and many other things.

Presumably they are not yet public?

If only the rest of society understood this, we would be so much better off.

Oops, the random image it chose as an example to show me was pretty nsfw :D

This is why I like HN. It's supposed to be about hacking, but sometimes you can just see it's a community of deeply curious people with all sorts of intellectual interests.

When wikipedia articles are posted, this becomes particularly evident, because it's not a news article, which tries to convince you why this is interesting: it's just the plain and simple wonder of discovering something exists.

Since you're on HN anyway, you could spend 5 minutes improving it :)

This is not quite the same as a full breakdown, it sounds more like a burnout. Which is still important and a lot of people will relate with, including myself. Part of it (i.e. as long as it doesn't affect your life experience in a disproportionate way) is also very normal -- we all wander what's the meaning of our life.

Searching around for burnout, including on this website, might give you some relatable stuff to read. It's possible that solving it might require you taking a long break (if you can), or reevaluate your life and change careers. These are things that take courage however, and a lot of people just keep going because they hate it, but it's still their comfort zone. Give yourself time to mature a decision, might be a few years, even.