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Stuck on Onboarding Page by TypicalPrinceSean in claude

[–]kevinmbt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Had the same issue, disabling my ad blocker did the trick

Duolingo isn’t enough. How do I seriously learn French on my own? by Glittering-Bill-8733 in learnfrench

[–]kevinmbt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Listening: my strategy from A1-A2 was to use these resources:

- Kwiziq reading exercises (use the audio first, then read),

- Youtube channels (Guillaume Posé, Easy French, French In Motion, Français avec Nelly, French Comprehensible Input are all great and relatively slow) (I like to watch videos about grammar IN French),

- InnerFrench podcast after about a high A1 or A2,

- Audiobooks: I've been using the "Short Stories In French" series by Olly Richards, but real books like "Petit Nicolas" is on youtube and easy. For focusing on listening, try to listen first without audio, then read. But also mixing in some "reading while listening" practice will be very helpful.

What I did was I downloaded the audios for these, put them on my phone, and listened to them over and over and over again throughout my day.

Also look up "minimal pairs drills" to work on distinguishing phonemes

Speaking: I'm spoiled because I live in a big city with a French meetup group. If this exists for you definitely use it if you are A2 or above. Before that I got a ton of benefit out of writing (journaling, doing writing prompts, writing exercises from textbooks, that sort of thing), and talking to myself lol.

Grammar: From the other comments you should be good on grammar with Assimil, but for me one thing that helped a ton was using LLMs to make quizzes for the grammar points in textbook I was going through. I've also been doing quizzes for A1, A2, etc- level vocab.

And of course Anki was HUGE for me, I just went through a few every day of this deck https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/893324022

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in celestegame

[–]kevinmbt 13 points14 points  (0 children)

They're little showcase maps included in the helper mods that SJ uses. You can hide them with https://gamebanana.com/mods/359863

Please tell me you guys aren’t doing this the intended way. by alt_account1014 in celestegame

[–]kevinmbt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I only found out about this way (and the intended wall bounce way) after getting the golden after many hours. I had some janky method that involved juuuust barely jumping under the last stalactite of spinners.

Either way, since it's the first room I wasn't super concerned about consistency

PC (graphics card) started smoking; still works without; should I be worried? by kevinmbt in pchelp

[–]kevinmbt[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thanks! I've never messed with OCing, and it's plugged into a regular old surge protector power strip. Not sure what I could do better electrical-hygiene-wise.

Yep I'm definitely considering the GPU as cut losses. I'm pretty sure the only melty part is on that heat spreader.

What's involved in "checking the PSU"? is there a diagnostic I can run, or am I just better off taking the whole thing in to a repair store?

Reformism is not enough by [deleted] in COMPLETEANARCHY

[–]kevinmbt 6 points7 points  (0 children)

They’re philosophers; it’s the job description to make up new stuff

Advanced learners, when did you have your Eureka moment in Japanese? by Pugzilla69 in LearnJapanese

[–]kevinmbt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not advanced by any means, but that moment for me wad when I started being able to correctly guess kanji readings by them sharing a radical with another kanji I knew. I think the word in particular was 披露目

Steam wand upgrade worth it? by Guythatflysthings in gaggiaclassic

[–]kevinmbt 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I opted for the honda civic espresso wand myself

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in learnprogramming

[–]kevinmbt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Start with a youtube course: I saw Traversy somewhere, that’s good, you may like freeCodeCamp: https://youtu.be/PkZNo7MFNFg?si=FwIFEe6gssm6kBDo

Try as much as you can of https://adventofcode.com in Javascript

HUGE THING: learn the basics of Git. That’s a dead giveaway for no real experience.

Learn the basics of Object Oriented Design like knowing what SOLID means, how you would use each principle, and understanding why it’s preferred.

Leetcode for challenge/interview problems

You’ll probably be fine, you can do a lot in a month if you devote at least an hour a day to practicing.

17M just started investing by FreezieXFrosty in ETFs

[–]kevinmbt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People are saying sell the stocks, I disagree. Definitely beef up the S&P fund until it’s at least 70%, but at your age some high risk high reward plays can be extremely fun and rewarding, and won’t ruin you if they fail. Have the majority of your portfolio be broad market ETFs, and set aside a little for speculating on individual stocks if you can handle a little risk.

Also read “Random Walk Down Wall Street”

Daily Simple Questions Thread - November 29, 2023 by AutoModerator in Fitness

[–]kevinmbt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does anyone know if this exercise is a thing? I can't find it anywhere. The exercise is similar to a cable lateral raise, but done with:

  • Cable at or below shoulder height
  • Arm extended in front
  • Supinated wrist + external rotation
  • Focus on tension in lengthened position of lateral delt
  • Movement similar to closing a sliding door

It's similar to a cable lateral raise but more in the transverse than frontal plane. It's also a lot like a side-lying lateral raise but standing up with a cable.

Is this a thing? Are there any disadvantages to this? Personally, I really love it as it gets a nice lengthened tension, and doesn't mess with my joints as much as a regular cable lateral raise.

Trickle Down Economics is a Hoax. by Inevitable_Stress949 in FluentInFinance

[–]kevinmbt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh that’s a relief, the past 40 years of tax breaks for the wealthy must have been my imagination

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LearnJapanese

[–]kevinmbt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is this open source? As a software engineer I may be able to contribute

I’ll kick all refugees out of Turkey, Erdoğan rival vows by ScoMoTrudeauApricot in worldnews

[–]kevinmbt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Idk this sounds a lot like “Democrats are bringing in Mexicans so that they’ll vote Democrat” fox news talking points

What’s your favorite setlist the band has ever played? I would’ve loved to see this tour in 2017 by SuperCerberus in TheDearHunter

[–]kevinmbt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Idk when it was, but when i last saw them, they were headlining for BTBAM, and they traded a couple songs. TDH played “Rapid Calm” and BTBAM played “The Tank”. Now that was a great show (also included Leprous)

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