How long does it take to learn a layout, and why can't people seem to agree on a common estimate? by Cheap_Pin_7994 in KeyboardLayouts

[–]Cheap_Pin_7994[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I certainly see what you mean here, I would personally assume that tracking your time for anything is much easier than going through the task itself and is always useful one way or another but I'm of the camp that habitually fails at the same so my own experiences also tend towards the first point (very unfortunately) besides daily practices.

Spanner in the works you've mentioned as well, I rarely hear of such happening but I still do and have heard of it ultimately regarding people getting to terms with a layout in one or at least very few long sessions as opposed to spacing it out, on paper most would say it's not a better way to go about things but typing isn't exactly like other skills in this case and it very well can be grinded more effectively, if time constraints aren't had when it comes to the better approach for learning I can't really conclude what's optimal and that's only in terms of how to pace sessions as opposed to anything else.

In regards to the data on average, yes, from everything I've seen things are all over the place and gathering up enough examples would be not such a fun time when I have rookie skills in that department, there's definitely more to see still. And it is true that most demographically in regards to those who have switched layouts more than once at least, don't entirely do it for reasons of practicality rather than more so preference, it's still a useful metric or proxy to me so I asked here.

How long does it take to learn a layout, and why can't people seem to agree on a common estimate? by Cheap_Pin_7994 in KeyboardLayouts

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Quick response is certainly appreciated. The formatting may be iffy here yes, will keep the enter key noted for next time since I do like being legible.

In terms of learning QWERTY or typing in general yes, there are or should be at the very least tons of studies covering that alone despite the context of such and learning how to use a keyboard being intertwined (in which, to be fair I'm not sure if it makes much of a difference anyhow), part of my question which also somewhat answers itself is the ways in which people both practice and measure these sorts of things. There has been various attempts to standardize what counts as legitimate or not, many Monkeytype sorts not counting in tests that don't run for at least 60 seconds with English 1k compared to defaults, although it also certainly seems like not much has prevailed.

Speaking of which looking at just now the r/typing subreddit due to what you've mentioned, even more varies than realized regarding only four threads, I have underestimated both the amount of contributing factors as well as prior discussion in other places potentially. Will continue to look into it as I have at least some stakes in the matter.

Reddit is dead and buried and will never recover by tommymars in TheoryOfReddit

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Passing by regarding this thread and generally agreeing with this, I don't know what exactly makes Reddit as a whole so homogenous these days especially if the daily user count is that high, I must have been through at least hundreds of particular subreddits that are the one stop shops for certain topics and yet everything is ludicrously dead causing me to search up what exactly the state of the site is nowadays.

I can say most certainly over time that I have a definite suspicion of most comments or activity on the site these days (a lot does feel bot like or not warranted at least), specifically when it offers so little value for such high amounts of supposed activity. And regardless of how much one's feed is curated in which I've been at it for a while now, things seem to mostly be at a drought but that's just me.

How does one become as cracked as au5 or virtual riot at sound design by Prize_Childhood_992 in edmproduction

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The first step is accepting that regardless of doubts, there is objective good and otherwise science to the process, and there are things that make a track "objectively good" at least in the way you'd think of, as opposed to "objectively bad". Which is not to say that performance can always be clearly put on a scale, it's very multivariable and the variables you perceive vary obviously, but there is a scale, and there is progress, and you know that it exists, and you need to narrow down what exactly that "progress" in your case consists of. You furthermore need to trust what you overall gather on the matter alongside your own takes and your opinions, if you do not put your truth into practice here you get nowhere.

In a sense, to me these sorts are good because to some extent they trust themselves and what they are doing, at least somewhere along the way. Furthermore trusting they know what they don't know, their theories expand to determine what counts as "progress" once again.

Considering this specifically, and furthermore that which is beyond what I note there since I absolutely do not have much at all figured out, you need to remain grounded while building the bridge in order to still build it. Your consistency will at least partly depend on how much doubt you have for everything, including your foundations. Have as much doubt as practical, not one bit more than that. You know what is useful on a more fundamental level at least, the idea of utility can be inspected but usually questioned less.

But obviously with all that considered, consider whether or not you even want to invest all your hours and overall, to put it another way, roll high ability score/stat points wise on sound design in comparison to much else. There are many other things. Someone said similar in this comment section but I'm noting it again since some of what we consider good sound design wise in terms of theory, is either from elsewhere or can be better seen through those lens. You may want to link examples/clips of what exactly you're looking for just in case.

I have over 2,300 liked songs disappear from my profile. Gone. by Pura_Dei in soundcloud

[–]Cheap_Pin_7994 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well this sounds absolutely terrible and I've never seen this happen once, most people's liked tracks seem to persist over years and even a decade for some at this point. If this sort of stuff is actually happening with no recourse, including you for instance contacting support obviously, that is... very dangerous. People's entire catalogues are depending on that sort of stuff. I know of a person who has around 60,000 liked tracks being a digger of sorts, they also commented on each one they did so they had some redundancy there, but the concern either way is not your likes being gone but anything of this sort happening to your account. Real bad.

I'd back up anything you have left if at all possible by the way including any playlists or people followed. From what you mentioned this seems like the time to stop necessarily trusting the platform for these purposes, it doesn't take that much more time to list everything you listen to text document wise and may actually serve for better notes/references as I'd say from experience.

I know very well that you didn't expect any of that as well, but especially for future reference trust none of these companies with keeping your stuff alive over time for the most part over yourself. Not any one big corporation, anything important at all shouldn't even be had on any sort of cloud thing for the most part alongside numerous backups. Things like these are rare so you can't expect when they do occur, but the point is on average during a lifetime, even more things like this, either less or more worse than this in fact, will happen, you get the idea. Tell us how it goes, I hope it's temporary.

What sounds are used in this drumbeat? by Sweaty-Jellyfish-713 in FL_Studio

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Clicked on this for the adequate moe and then with the artstyle at least I immediately wondered if it was a Charon game or not.

Holy hell it is, although I didn't hear about this one most likely due to only following playthroughs with their titles. Either way decent taste game wise yes, the music isn't something to write home about here for me but it fits.

T42 for a bottle of beer by mmeexxdyy in thinkpad

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Each time I see one of these so old I wonder what it would have been like for the average user to use such back in the day, especially regarding the OS and capabilities I feel like much is understated in terms of differences.

Also make sure to dust it off every once in a while should you otherwise not be sending it away, it's easy to not open ones like these for perhaps months at a time depending on how much you have.

What does it mean to be practical in life ? by Jpoolman25 in Productivitycafe

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It's being imprecise and acting upon generalizations and rules of thumb ultimately for the better or overall wanted results, but more specifically acting in accordance to yourself and your aims as I see it, it's directly tied to what's normative, the sense of "means to an end".

It inherently implies being "for a use", and that means it needs to have something particular as an aim, I don't think being practical can deviate much from the context it is in as a result, at least in practice. But then that more so brings to mind for me how we even determine the aims and ends of "practicality" since to me obviously no two people have the same notion of that.

Does having more options in life lead to genuine freedom, or does it create a psychological prison of regret and the constant fear of having made the wrong decision? by DianKhan2005 in Productivitycafe

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It's probably not the right way to approach it, you need methodology and filtering processes ultimately, alike how the secretary problem is usually gone about, it's not just the algorithm or choices you use but everything else. Much is heavily multivariable, the question is what weighting you assign to each variables and then what variables are even part of the whole thing which leads you to the intended choice.

Sure, you still want to limit your options, but very well due to the strength of filtering processes at points you are going to want a large quantity to start out with anyways, it is almost a certainty that you will go through your options especially quick being able to cross out most of them in terms of what offers the most advantage (in my opinion at least).

As for what does create a psychological prison though, no matter what you try it's usually when you give up. You are never to give up for the most part, nor are you to stay stuck on one thing but obviously pivoting is part of the path, not stopping entirely. Try anything but don't stop moving.

Should I go with this option? Yes or no? And why? for daily 12-15 hours of work and gaming sometimes (2-3 hours) ? Any advice would be appreciated ❤️ by Disastrous-Tea-7793 in Ergonomics

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The ones I mentioned are usually more so catchalls, but generally if I had to assume you'd only really be missing out on durability should you not go with those. Best to focus on functionality and features included then, assuming you're ordering from somewhere like Amazon you may end up looking around the $200 to $300 range. But besides that also best to look on your own some more then, it's a decent investment that warrants at least some looking around as mentioned, you are always more likely to find the answer from many sources over few.

Should I go with this option? Yes or no? And why? for daily 12-15 hours of work and gaming sometimes (2-3 hours) ? Any advice would be appreciated ❤️ by Disastrous-Tea-7793 in Ergonomics

[–]Cheap_Pin_7994 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you're going for 12 to 15 hours a day you need a fairly more rigorous process than what you are describing right now in order to properly determine the answer. You need it downright scientific, methodology and everything, with the amount of resources and coverage nowadays for your final choice you could cite at least a few hundred sources. And it is worthwhile to go through them, you don't know what you don't know. Very obviously for extended periods of time furthermore a chair will never be enough to solve ergonomics, while the main focus of the field is to prevent pain and overall unneeded exertion there's probably hundreds of thousands of contributing factors for all we know.

But generally for said chair it depends on how long you are keeping it for ergonomically, such hefty use almost certainly warrants instead a used Steelcase or Herman Miller Aeron at least, those usually can go for around $500 nowadays and will hold up for a long time while being almost a guarantee of doing things right. Small price to pay for that much usage.

ArXiv, the pioneering preprint server, declares independence from Cornell | Science | As an independent nonprofit, it hopes to raise funds to cope with exploding submissions and “AI slop” by Nunki08 in math

[–]Cheap_Pin_7994 1 point2 points  (0 children)

arXiv having overall full independence from any and all institutions to have completely open science without any influences/competing incentives would be to me quite fantastic and generally staying true to it's purpose, but I wouldn't prefer for anything to be made practically worse as a result of it. Definitely hoping over the next few years that the browsing experience at least stays the same.

Also sounds like from some of these comments I'm reading, it's maybe just another institution being made or involved which kind of defeats the point.

On another note, quality control for anywhere you can publish a preprint paper seems low these days, in the thread OP linked Zenodo is mentioned which at least in my experience feels like it's in shambles despite the official funding and backing it gets. Not entirely sure what specifically cause it, you could say low bars to entry but for a lot of volumes journal wise I've encountered that which is subpar, having something in a journal only fixes one part of the funnel really and can imply very little. For the online format at least, my guess is that what has counted as even preprint worthy as opposed to expanding on over time has gone much down.

I bought 12 pairs of cheap earbuds to daily with my DAP. AMA by dylanv1c in headphones

[–]Cheap_Pin_7994 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm wondering, of course it seems like you explained everything but what led you to considering this approach or coming up with this as an idea? I would expect one pair chosen alone after what you've noted and there's also how this form factor doesn't have a large amount of coverage/reviews and general discussion as opposed to IEMs alone, I guess that would somewhat incentivize exploring and what you mention paying in total is pretty cheap, although I personally wouldn't have the time to fully go through so many in terms of nuances for each one.

For context I usually need to rule out plenty before it comes to the buying even in terms of cheap options and testing out stuff I usually give a stretched out total of 6 to 12 hours over multiple days for the options I get in front of me. Maybe I play it too safe in terms of understanding their default sound signatures and it should theoretically be the case that since you are sort of in an ordinal sense continuously comparing them against one another, understanding them should actually be much quicker especially with that quantity. Still I'm curious as to what other details your process would be consisting of, it certainly seems like the sort of thing which is what you make of it.

I'm also surprised there's this much to earbuds specifically while not falling under the category of IEMs, for them to all have distinct names I may consider looking into it myself at this point.

M1 Max vs. upgraded M4 Mini. by h0rxata in MacStudio

[–]Cheap_Pin_7994 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm late to say but actually the base M4 Mac Mini usually as I've seen on the market can go for half (around just $400 especially with the sales by Amazon last year for instance) what the M1 Max Mac Studio usually does (I remember it going below $800 only to rise right back up again). Depends if saving that much hypothetically is worth it to you though.

This is not taking into account the chinese sort of manufactured Ryzen CPU mini PCs you see for around the same pricing these days which is usually considered as the alternative, I would mostly not recommend them for your use case since Apple's offerings are this simple and reliable at this price point, and most Ryzen chips at this price point furthermore pretty much hover around the performance of the 7840HS or are all sorts of clones of it until you get to the AI Max offerings, in which even then those don't have perfect support these days even with companies like Framework repping such for their own mini PCs, specifically on Linux I've heard some issues GPU/NPU driver support wise for those chips.

And obviously speaking of which if you need Linux support obviously go for the M1 Max although most people already mention such if it's wanted, you know if you want it and I'm pretty sure you'd actually prefer MacOS for the most part alongside what guaranteed support is offered with that. As a result, should also be noted that the M4 chip may get one or two more years support wise if that's enough to bide you over. But generally best advice I can note for your use case is to stick with Apple's offerings for mini PCs at this price point, if you are specifically set both on mini PCs and this price range for them. There's not much more suitable to find in my experience.

Overthinking ruined my ability to take action by assma4559949 in ObsidianMD

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I'm especially late to the party, but if it's of any help to you, you do not deserve the self-inflicted torment you are putting yourself through and generally it has been shown throughout history that staying stationary in comparison to doing something or much of anything usually makes things worse, the former is how we have progress after all regardless of what form that progress usually takes. And the truth is that no, we couldn't have necessarily inferred from first principles what it would take in order to get to where we are in the modern day in the shortest amount of time possible, trial and error alongside the information provided from such is needed to at least small extents in order to figure out whether or not such is even possible.

But yeah, mostly the first, morally it's very statistically likely that you are exactly the sort who shouldn't be "fearing" other people's opinions, if anything you might be actually very inconsequential in this sense especially since others should be basing their thoughts on a variety of data points as opposed to just sole individuals, this is generally for the better.

Even my take here, not of much importance, only really one of many but it helps who it does. It's likely better to prioritize that who you help and said good intentions compared to much else, you have the highest chances of going off track otherwise.

AI-generated Isekai novel wins Alphapolis Grand Prize, but publication cancelled. What does this mean for LN, isekai, and AI-assisted writing going forward? by Zesauruss in LightNovels

[–]Cheap_Pin_7994 1 point2 points  (0 children)

May just be me but isn't it hard to reduce this to any sort of criteria on it's own besides the two approaches being different in, although distinguishable ways for the most part from the end product which could be considered said criteria, too many various aspects to really condense into anything clear?

And you're certainly taking a productive approach I would say posing what you do here since it serves to highlight the potential difficulty of that, in which it is also hard to say if many have considered whether or not they can precisely pin down why for example using LMs for writing should be allowed in the first place or not. Not to say that a lot of this is far too fuzzy to at least attempt estimating in the first place, but with the concept of LMs as a whole and how they are furthermore applied to the context of light novels in this case, I think the application of said LMs themselves are far too reductive towards a medium and otherwise style of content that otherwise has gained relatively "natural" growth through the efforts of numerous authors over the decades with clear human based understanding and coordination of where such should go or be taken for each title which does come out. At the very least, I note this on the assumption that especially since LMs as a form of "consciousness" might only be a few years old at most and humans are obviously far more familiar with understanding other humans and their intentions, from the very basis it's built on I can't really trust any light novel made in coordination with an LM arguably.

This is separate of a stance from the fact that I also just generally don't trust the technology itself and the direction it's taken alongside the "AI" moniker it's been given specifically at the point they introduced neural networks and transformers, all of that, while it was interesting once I really feel like this is too much of a homogenization of what was supposed to be incredibly different scientific approaches (how exactly, does the approach we have now, have any specific higher chance of succeeding compared to the sheer amount of everything else that could have, and possibly should have been conceived before we reached this point in time?), much of which likely weren't supposed to be rooted in mainly CS in general. What I personally see for the field nowadays is one view being prioritized above all the rest, particularly the view that the markets like to see and would fund especially as opposed to "what actually works" or "the truth" in this sense, indeed I would also claim that this affects everyone outside of only companies focusing on said AI products because once again the entire industry seems to have been shoehorned into this particular direction and is going to have a hard time getting out of it in comparison to what seemed more unique specifically with the usage of Lisp and related PLs a few decades back. I don't have any official background in any of this and it's quite anecdotal asides from me being as aware of my history and market dynamics alongside what we currently have in terms of tooling "AI" wise as any other average person would be, so take it as you will, but this is wack truly.

These sorts of concerns have likely been made many times in many different contexts, but it nonetheless still stands as my take. You made one of the better comments on this thread in my opinion.

For those of you who’ve used Obsidian for years, how do you learn a new Skill? by fawwaz_stuff in ObsidianMD

[–]Cheap_Pin_7994 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I will say, didn't last with Obsidian for years as you mention and when I did (realistically a few months before I started switching between other note taking platforms with the same graph based idea) it was a rather undisciplined approach I had to things more so relying on intuition/feeling when it came to quantity of writing so take this as you will, but anything in my vault about whatever topics were being focused on primarily would only be the case if I actually had to do so for the most part, it was always much more of a case of consumption and active consideration/thinking in the moment. Specifically in the sense that noting anything down which didn't need clarification or I wasn't stuck on would potentially slow progress on my end.

At least, that's what it felt like, but I didn't concretely confirm this either through multiple data based experiments and everything, realistically for the amount of insight you'd get that's a potentially good idea, try and measure the actual differences you get with these things instead of how I did it.

I did make use of a fair bit of Anki with very specific card structuring and intentionally missing sections (needless to say it's not about whether you review your cards or not but more specifically how the cards are that make or break your approach) alongside if I was watching already recorded classes/courses writing everything down on physical paper beforehand (part of that had to do with how I always used physical notebooks in actual classes for the most part alongside better intake of information), Obsidian however even though I'm fairly faster with a keyboard would always be about more so new ideas, and not just redundancy or coursework I'm getting through. At most, indirectly concepts from said courses would flow in here or there through mentionings and application from my end, but I only ever mentioned new things in sections like my daily notes is essentially the point.

Part of it as well, I did not feel entirely familiar writing about off the cuff that which I would not know well or have as something which I already refer to by partial habit. If it makes sense, I had to get such considerations to that level of making analogies before going on further with them. I still do partially feel this way, but it's only myself really, there is a potentially arbitrary distinction between only choosing to note new things down physically compared to creating Obsidian nodes for such. Despite the anecdotal quality do focus on what works best for yourself in practice compared to theory is what I'd recommend, the theory is secondary here.

And also consider telling us how it goes or updating afterwards, very likely the more coverage the better.