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I've been saying the same since last year. I'm finally picking it up just trying to use it for regular everyday scripting work. It's been slow but atleast I'm starting now.

> Tools are pretty much irrelevant.

I won't go so far as to call them irrelevant cause I've personally found them very useful during my education. Whilst they're useless by themselves if the quality of the content itself is useless they can definitely help studying more easier and efficient.

Isn't that the whole beauty of it? You're learning what you've already learned on top without having to re-learn everything again. That's primarily why I've stuck with it. That and the fact that it's easily programmable even though VimL leaves you wanting more.

Can anyone share some insight on if there has been any improvements on this since the last time it was posted here [1]? From that thread it appears that it has few misinformation there.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4994367

I'm same as you too but I did have some background in math from college but I've been rusty on them already.

- I know it's said over and over again but KhanAcademy is pretty good for high-school math - For probability, I'm also going over this website[1] at the moment. Maybe someone else has other recommendations too - Linear Algebra is next on my list but others have given some reference for it already - Andrew Ng's course on Machine Learning from Coursera is also another frequently recommended if you are trying to learn math for it

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

> One major reason is that Ng is its own thing

You're spot on with that in my case. I already knew JS and wanted to build on top of it. React just felt natural to pick up than Ng. Also, the fact that ng completely changed in v2 really put me off and I haven't looked at it since.

I'm not a mechanical or electrical engineer by any means but how hard would it be to have a swap-able batteries like in the old cellphone days?

Yes, we can't overlook the fact that critical thinking is needed before searching for the solution but I see Internet as just one of many tools but with better feedback than libraries/manpages/britanica etc. What might have taken me few minutes or hours to find can be found in less time giving me more time to spend on the subject that I'm learning.

Alternative sources of lights (candles, kerosene lantern and backup batteries who can afford it) are used when there are power outages.

But you're right we do take power for granted but I think what I found most lacking during power outages were not the light source but access to Internet. Just being able to lookup something really quick while you're learning is much more efficient than waiting the next day to ask your teacher to answer it, which is hit/miss sometimes.

I don't know why I've never heard of farm-stay holidays until now. I'll have to find one which is more hands-on.

So, I'm not that young but how would a person living in an apartment in the city go about start learning this?

I mean I can kind of see the tech involved in this but actually putting into practice is probably going to be challenging due to the circumstances.

Okay you convinced me with that org-mode. I've already invested huge time learning vim and hopefully it translates well in evil.

Edit: Ah, I see emacs has it's own terminal which is why it was able to support charts and graphs.

This is pretty much why I haven't moved fully to VSCode as well. I gave it a try but I realized that my whole workspace is in terminal. Also, like you said the tools I have compliment to one another very well making it very flexible. The only thing I do miss when working in terminal is that whenever I'm working in markdown I wish it had dead simple preview like that in VSCode.

While I agree with you, if you have SSH access then you've opened up yourself to a lot of possibilities by simply mounting the remote directory in your local.

Also, couldn't you just set a limit in your budget in AWS. That and alarms on events etc?

Recently I discovered that you can flip to debug mode even on already running process without debug mode by doing 'process._debugProcess(<pid_of_process>)' on any other node process. This has made my life incredibly simpler by not having to remember whether I had run my app in debug mode with '--inspect' flag.

My go-to tool to see what yaml will look like. http://nodeca.github.io/js-yaml/

95% of all documents can be converted with pandoc. But in all seriousness I'm guessing author is using pandoc with syntax highlighting flag. http://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#syntax-highlighting

I was playing with @std/esm yesterday and it helps bridge that gap somewhat. I agree it feels great to not have to transpile anymore. :)

Does deep learning encompass all ML though? While I agree it can be used for numerous tasks I don't think starting ML with deep learning is such a good idea.

I haven't played with graphql much yet but one thing that really struck me most was that it's possible for a single graphql query to make multiple queries to database. I read that dataloader helps in this case, is this similar to what you mentioned in #5?

I wouldn't say people would stop, people would stop engaging as much but I'd still find it useful. I most often use facebook with `?sk=h_chr` query string to give me the content in reverse chronological simply because that makes sense to me most.

Wouldn't biometrics be good use case here since OP doesn't want to remember it?

That's awesome. I haven't played with webpack 4 yet. Just recently started playing with webpack 3. I'd be keeping an eye on it.

The document seems to have gotten a little better, lot better than Webpack 1, however the plugin ecosystem is the most frustrating part imo. Webpack gives plugin creator some form of freedom and because of that, and the lack of types in JS, you're at the mercy of proper docs on the plugins you're relying on. Either that or go through the source code to find out what the heck is even accepted as options.

In that case couldn't that be done with different endpoints?

I don't think you have to go that far. I think something like https://direnv.net/ should work too. Although, I do agree that having this restriction in the first place is bizarre.

Does the money from the shop go to foundation or just to the creator of the content?

On contrary it might actually bring some order in traffic situation.

I'm failing to understand how this is different from say buying a compute power from AWS or GCE. Isn't it almost the same except the transaction is done through ether instead of traditional money?