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While laughing at the stereotype of French being on the street all the time

What if you are not from the northern US?

I agree with you, also about the strawberry analogy. I was quite surprised to read that author is 22 years old. So many young smart people around!

As per info on the site, author is not German and does not live in Germany (Russian living in Poland). Apparently, his name however is "German".

Best habit, by far. I'd also recommend taking a walk free of any devices. I leave my phone at home and walk through the park few mins away form my home.

I agree, very low-effort article

Unfortunately, I don't know how else to ask something I am genuinely curious about.

I'd just start with learning all the notes on the fretboard, [...] and scale shapes

This is not as simple as it sounds. It seems, from my experience of learning a guitar and observing others, that there is something inherently illogical how tonality changes between strings. There are two main ways to do it, either you remember by memory, or you simply hear what happens. Both are hard for average beginner, because it just doesn't make sense.

After I have been practicing a guitar for quite some time I started learning a piano for some reason, and seeing the keys in front of me it all made sense instantly

How is the battery?

among people who like me can charge at home

OP said this, you clearly don't fall into this category. And if servicing an electric car costs more than servicing an old Landrover I will not eat for a week

Well... I am sure someone made good money out of that.

In Slovenia, a post-Yugoslavian country, the school library coordinated a textbook borrowing scheme, where they would own all the material and lend it to students each year. Parents would pay a small "subscription", so each year or two one subject would get new books.

The problem with the back-of-the-book is that once you answer the same exercise few times, you remember what the result is and you work on memory not on skill. At least this is something i struggled with.

Digitalization should be able to provide you with drastically larger number of exercises to practice, and if possible should also provide you with the exercise that is at the right level for you

What? Are you serious?? :o Sorry, this is the saddest sentence I have read in a long time.

That's because our idea of "Digitalisation of Schools" is putting a textbook into pdf form, let student use a computer to open it and call it digitalisation.

I am somehow involved in this field and am yet to see an actual paradigm shift anywhere in Europe. Going back to books just mean that we will continue using old methods, because those same old methods moved onto screen didn't bring improvements we though they would as we labeled them digitalisation

Not only that! You know the typical image of a witch? With a pointy hat and a giant round-shaped pot?

Those were illegal beer brewers in Belgium! Women would put their pointy hat on their door as a sign that there might be, if you ask nicely, some beer for you to buy there.

There is a subreddit called r/r/SelfAwarewolves, where people unknowingly and accidentally basically answer their own questions or suspicions without realizing.

And this is how I feel about recent few pg's essays. There is this new market, political and social reality, that pg decribes well but for some reason just doesn't want to call what it is.

You can guess what I have been doing for the past 2 days :) Coincidentally, the last episode was about a song from my favorite album, so it was meant to be ;)

I think what you are trying to say is that Hendrix captured a specific sound and won over a generation of listeners, while Knoplfer displayed a mastery of the instrument, rarely seen in the mainstream. However, don't underestimate him, they sold out Wembley 16 nights in a row in '85, I am sure that spring some bands. It's now a bit forgotten, but for a period of few years, Dire Straits were the biggest band in the world. Knopfler is usually associated with saying "your favorite guitarist's favorite guitarist" :)

Omg man, thanks for ruining my life! I wish I would have this when I was obsessed with it as a teenager in 2010s, and no one else liked similar music.

I only saw Hendrix play live one time

I love how nonchalantly you threw this one in. I am proper jealous, how was it?

On your first remark, I agree. This is why I love Dire Straits and Mark Knopfler. The studio recordings are amazing, and then you listen to their live stuff and it's even better.

Eu actually plans to introduce something similar through its EUDIW initiative. It will be a digital wallet focusing on privacy preservance and user control over attributes that are shared.

It will take some time tho before it is successfully implemented.

To add to this discussion as someone who had above experience this winter, after (literally) years of mood fluctuations, fatigue and brain fog.

I have started taking SSRI after a harder-than-usual body collapse, and after no matter what I did my mood hasn't improved for a month. Regular running, meditating, writing, crafting, coding etc were my antidote to my mood swings but this time it didn't work. Started taking SSRI and continue doing all this things, and I was reborn.

My therapist said that a big chunk of why i am feeling better is also because I kept doing things that are good for me. That she sees with a lot of her patients that they think a pill will magically change the situation. It doesn't work on itself, you need to show up and do things that release serotonin in your body.

But seriously, unbelievable, years of frustration and friction in my life disappeared and I have never felt better.

Maybe I don't entirely get it, but what is stopping you to just continue coding?

Interesting, can this be an expected outcome of AI adoption? Mergers of big competitors?

Reading him, Wallerstein and Arrighi was life-changing for me and it completely altered my view on society, economy and history. Can't recommend it enough.

My Finnish gf told me that the police in Finland is so reasonable and human, that often they will stop by just to check in if everyone are safe and well and if anyone needs assistance. She mentioned countless of times she was with her international friends partying, or doing sauna or skinny dipping in the lake, often all the three things in the same night of course, when her friends got nervous when the police stopped by, and she was like "ahh no, don't worry, they just want to check if we are all okay".

Police asked if they are all safe, nodded and wished them a nice party.

It seems like this, but it actually not true. What's interesting in F1 is that you have to find the right balance between innovation and consistency.

James Vowles, current Williams TP ordered his team to "break everything" in order to improve and change: https://youtu.be/nYzwvTSffiY?t=3129

What is often forgotten is, that all F1 cars are prototypes, they NEED to constantly change and innovate, and every year it starts from the beginning (almost).

There is a fantastic book called Total Competition, which is a conversation between two ex-team principles, one of them Ross Brawn, probably most successful F1 engineer. In it, Brawn says: "But where I think Formula One is very strong is in the culture. If you wanted to develop a concept and to drive things forward at maximum pace, utilize it in Formula One. The composite companies love Formula One because we are willing to try things. If they’ve got a new resin system or a new type of fibre, they give it to the Formula One teams to explore for them, to look at the applications and come back with the feedback. If they put it in the aerospace industry, five years later they would have an answer. Put it into Formula One and five months later they have got an answer"

Here’s the thing, though. To experience VR properly, you need to be able to walk arbitrarily through space

This is why racing games are such a good use case for the VR. Seems to me it is the only place where VR is used regularly

My new life motto, thank you very much! You just made a stranger's day better

Not trying to be rude towards you, but I am always a bit shocked and a bit sad hearing people take their life as an investment strategy. I understand your point of view, but life also needs to be lived, not experienced as a constant chart moving up and right. My brother was/is like that, who is calculating profits and opportunities when hanging out with his friends, and will stay friend with someone as long as he will get something out of that himself. I find it a bit weird.

However, I understand if you are coming from a poor background, most of your life resolves around how to improve it, so me not knowing anything about you, I am not judging you for this, just find it different.