supersrdjan

As a complement, I would also suggest this thoughtful article with a broader perspective, explaining the proper place of SRS in learning to code to a professional level:

https://experimentallearning.substack.com/p/functions-descri...

I see. Well then, my initial gut reaction was unwarranted, thanks for making me realize it.

Reading the rest of this thread, it seems that the anti-anti-natalists (to which I gravitate more closely) are misrepresenting the anti-natalists' view and that they don't actually expect everyone to be anti-natalist?

Right, I overstated the implication. More people deciding not to have children does not lead to extinction. It's just that when people say things like "not having kids is good for environment" it comes off as a moral prescription that ought to apply to everyone, and hence those who violate it are the bad guys (selfishly acting to harm the environment). And yet if sustainability -- rather than self-extinction -- is the goal, we need a mix of both types of people.

Am I wrong to interpret it like that?

The ones who insist on having children as an ultimate virtue, I find them to be just as wrong.

Either choice is fine, and the moral objections to either one are unreasonable.

Edit: edited to expand the last sentence.

Indeed, give the environment a fighting chance :)

The absence of people with bad ideas won't help as much as a surplus of people with good ideas. Since even if we had half the people they could still pollute like crazy.

The environmental argument against kids insults me (not that you should care). As if it's a binary choice between preserving the environment and preserving our species. I like to think that humans of tomorrow will find ways to solve problems we don't yet know how, so that we can save the environment and our species :)

That said, here's a fine poem in support of your angle: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48419/this-be-the-ver...

In regard to determining pledges/pricing tiers. Rather than go by a few universal rules of thumb, it might be better to look into what people had been prepared to pay in the past for crowd-funding projects similar to yours.

A few years ago I helped a friend raise 300k on Kickstarter for a board game project. One thing I did was scrape (gently) pledge and backer data from ~100 or so projects that seemed to cater to the same kind of gamer he wanted to attract. Then I plotted to see which pricing range tended to bring in the most revenue.

It's still a judgement call in the end, because each project is unique, but at least you're not shooting in the dark.

Orthic has a much greater economy of strokes, so it's as much about convenience as it is about speed. That is, you can write quite quickly without actually rushing.

It also does not take long to learn because many of the consonants are simplified versions of ordinary letters (such as 'C', 'G', 'b', 'n', 'm' and so on), whereas the vowels are just lines.

And so I don't think your recommended strategy would pay off.

Oh yes, and it takes up way less space, so it is very economical, you can cram a lot of notes into a single page of a pocket-sized notebook

I use Orthic to jot down notes. It has been perhaps two years since I implemented it. I view it as a tradeoff - it is way easier and faster to write… but harder and slower to read. This is why I use it for brief notes primarily. Perhaps the most consistent issue is mixing up the letters “e” and “u” but there are other ambiguities that creep up too, so sometimes you have to read a word a few times. I think I am getting better though.

For Japanese train enthusiasts I recommend this Youtube channel with over 1000 cabin-view train ride videos from Japan: https://www.youtube.com/@HKASAMA

I made a little python script/alfred workflow that plays an arbitrary 7 minute segment from an arbitrary clip from that channel. So I have a keyboard shortcut to drop me into a random train ride whenever I want to chill out (without risk of getting sucked into the social media wormhole)

I use the shortcuts app on the iphone to create a widget that , on a button press, records a dictation, transcribes it, and appends it to a note together with a timestamp.

No, I was only aware of the Eizo models, too expensive for me, but am at this moment looking at various recommendations people are sharing in this thread.

yesss... I discovered how wrong the widescreen displays are after I had found an old IBM Thinkpad in my basement and tried it. To add to what you said, I will also point out that it's the vertical space that often gets pinched by toolbars and such, effectively squishing your working area to an even wider ratio. And when working with text (reading, writing), the left and right edges of my screen are just slabs of emptiness. Given all that, a taller display feels more roomy for the same surface area.

The only disadvantage though is that putting two windows/panes/buffers of anything side by side would no longer be as convenient?

Do you have a 3:2 screen yourself, which one?

I think you are right about the eyesight part. Though I think what you did there indeed is unfair, you made it sound like “screen time” can only mean “passively spoon feeding endless low brow entertainment.”

Thanks for sharing, I will look into it.

To that I would also add, fun does not necessarily mean easy.

Why is screen time singled out as an undesirable form of sedentary activity for children when it is just as sedentary as, say, sitting and doing homework?

Seems like a spectrum, if you stay too close to the familiar, you will be boring. But if you deviate too far away from the familiar, you will be confusing. A nice surprise lives in a sweet spot somewhere in the middle. Like the very narrow band of our planet's orbital radius where we are close enough to the sun to keep water liquid but not so close that proteins would disintegrate.

Indeed! Plus, whether something is surprising depends on what was expected in the first place. So you have to create some shared expectations first, right? Some kind of buildup?

Counter opinion: I regret getting a dog. Bad timing. It was around the time my second child was born. We are not succeeding at giving him the attention he requires because obviously the kids are the priority. He demonstrates his dissatisfaction by pissing on the stairs every other day. Pity, since you can tell he's a cool dog, just frustrated.

This makes me regret ghosting a lady who wanted to hire me for some kind of dog app. And I felt bad about it anyway. Sigh.

I heard an analogy that goes like this: As a driver, all I want to see is current speed and RPM. But I like knowing that my car tracks a hundred other things, too, because when it fails, those other metrics will come handy. Or alert me before it fails. I heard it in the context of people analytics[0] but it seems to apply everywhere.

[0] https://youtu.be/WE2ePETzzYQ?t=1434

If you're in the mood for a co-operative family-friendly experience, take a look at Forest of Radgost.

Good point about education. Child labor is ugly when it either forces children to do something they don't want to, or it's too hard on them, or it deceives them into thinking it's the best choice they got, or robs them of the opportunity to grow and develop their talents freely. If I squint a little, a coercive education system does the same.

Larry McEnerney, Director of the University of Chicago's Writing Program, makes the point that (I'm paraphrasing) students don't learn to write for real world audiences by writing for an audience that's forced to read their crap (teachers).

I may be misremembering what I heard when I watched this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtIzMaLkCaM

I like this book list much better than the one from the Sound of Silence guy from a few weeks ago! I like how the reviews jump right into it, as if there was an introductory sentence or paragraph which was then deleted before publishing

Props for having the Bridge on Drina first on the list of best books, it's my first time seeing it in my internet circles

Click one of the articles from the front page. The short articles about the app are because the wiki is also used to answer questions from users of the app.

It's the lower case i, m, sh, t and p that all look similar in cursive. Here in print: и, м, ш, т, п (though t and p and t have little lines above them to differentiate them, and some people are taught to put a line under sh to distinguish it. At least it's like that in Serbian.