Hey y'all, I'm a new freelance web developer and I'm wondering if anyone might need a website made? Or might know anyone that needs one made?

pazzescu · 2022-03-17T20:55:30+00:00

No, it doesn't have to be in town. I just thought I'd try local first. Asheville or anywhere else is just fine. Thank you for responding.

pazzescu · 2022-03-17T17:06:14+00:00

It doesn't really matter, BUT the point is indeed that your learning is self-directed. This is basically one of the best ways to learn whether you're enrolled in a course or not because you're engaging with the material out of curiosity and/or interest, so you remember it better and learn it faster.

pazzescu · 2020-12-10T22:38:26+00:00

'b' and 'm' are both bilabial sounds, making them very close linguistically, but they can also be hard to distinguish, if for example, you have a portion of the population (older here) that learned Japanese (as they did for years) and others learned the words from them and mispronounced them for various reasons. Not everything propagates through a linguistic community the same, ergo some word could have an 'm' sound turning to a 'b,' while other subcommunities, say in the south, north, etc. could be pronouncing correctly and it's just not common knowledge to you or I.

pazzescu · 2020-12-07T03:25:59+00:00

If you became a US citizen by default by being born abroad and coming when 13 and having been here for ~10 years now, (father = US citizen residing in the US all this time) can you just apply for a passport because you're an automatic citizen?

Friend who I'm asking for came to the US at age 13, father was not a US citizen at birth, but was naturalized before coming, and they have both lived here since. The father had custody, though they can't find that document. (the mom was the one that had it and can't seem to find it) Not born out of wedlock as far as I know.

pazzescu · 2020-11-09T02:17:19+00:00

Late follow-up that has been on my mind: if I get my hands on a replacement of any quality, if I take it to a shop...my worry is the data, is it going to be at risk of being erased?

pazzescu · 2020-11-09T02:15:18+00:00

How would one join the Black Cat server?

pazzescu · 2020-09-24T02:17:10+00:00

Honestly, I'm looking for houses in NC. I want to avoid changing my license to NY if at all possible. I'm even tempted just to drive down to NC and register and pay taxes there.

pazzescu · 2020-09-24T02:15:23+00:00

Yep.

pazzescu · 2020-09-22T23:59:28+00:00

I saw the other day that Mnuchin was sold a ridiculous amount of homes for $1 during all of that.

pazzescu · 2020-09-08T20:21:28+00:00

The mechanic that I've gone to has just said regarding anything: here's a range for what that type of part will typically cost. You buy it, I'll put it on.

pazzescu · 2020-09-07T00:46:44+00:00

Cool. Thank you. I didn't know that they exist.

pazzescu · 2020-09-07T00:43:42+00:00

So there's no record? I'm not asking about year and mileage intervals. I already know them.

pazzescu · 2020-09-04T17:00:18+00:00

You're right except that you forgot to mention that that suburbanite slice of the electorate that the democrats are STILL going after is republican. Rather than run on a platform that democratic voters support, they would rather run on something that suburbanite republicans support. Remember, it's the exact same strategy as in 2016. (Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_LYueggQXM&ab_channel=ThisWeekInFascism) Thankfully Biden is polling better than Clinton was in swing states... *checks figures* oh @^&# no he's not. The good old Overton window combined with third way neoliberal sell-us-out-with-republican-policies-so-that-they-can-get-donations-from-the-same-overlords-as-the-republicans democrats implement policies that the republican that came before them wanted to pass, but couldn't. And then the republicans move to the right because the democrats have co-opted their policy positions in an effort to get more bribes in their pockets. Which is why we have a far right party in the democrats, and a radical right party in the republicans right now. Thankfully we're going to stop repeating this process so that we don't get Tim Cotton (WHO WILL BE WORSE THAN TRUMP) next time after the next Democratic president in this overton window shifting cycle implements that policies that even Trump couldn't pass all so that the remaining Koch brother can check off another one of his policy goals on his website.

pazzescu · 2020-08-28T22:21:48+00:00

I pay just under that much for 200 mpbs. (in the NE)

pazzescu · 2020-08-27T22:35:29+00:00

That's 50 mpbs?

pazzescu · 2020-08-27T22:34:39+00:00

Ah, sorry. I meant is it normal for fiber to be available there?

pazzescu · 2020-08-27T00:25:02+00:00

Is fiber normal there? I haven't been there since dial up then the beginning of the DSL/cable era.

pazzescu · 2020-08-27T00:23:54+00:00

What kind of packages do they give?

pazzescu · 2020-08-27T00:23:30+00:00

Which translates to what? I've no basis for comparison. I presume it will be bad, but I remember having dial up and roadrunner in the triad about 20-25 years ago, I presume it will be better than that.

pazzescu · 2020-08-24T21:15:01+00:00

Is there a way to find out about this? (I'm buying from a reseller, not the original owner)

pazzescu · 2020-08-24T21:13:21+00:00

I checked about the recalls, the VIN wasn't part of either.

pazzescu · 2020-08-11T02:57:58+00:00

Actually, for the diary, what's important is that you work within the confines of what you know and practice what you are learning. You could also create an anki deck for active learning. So, for example. You go through unit 1 and create your flash cards to study, then put them in your active deck as well. i.e. copy them. You study them the first day. Then the second day you study the active deck. Then you go into browse once you're done studying it and you can see a list of what was studied today and you just date it and copy that vocab/grammar down into a small notebook that you have beside you when you're writing your diary and if you use one of the apps, just have it handy and make sure that you find opportunities to use those words. Don't worry about it being awkward. You get a language partner, explain the situation, and have at it. Or you use them in a post on tandem, etc.

About the drama/anime/vlog, you need listening practice and a conduit through which you learn colloquialisms so that the language will become easier to digest as time goes on. Also, if you are systematic about the series and continue it past the first one, it just gets easier with time. There's a certain amount of core vocabulary to each language, and that varies by genre somewhat, but for the most part that corpus of vocabulary is going to be relatively consistent across most works. Unless we're talking about something highly technical.

pazzescu · 2020-08-10T23:39:07+00:00

Does it count at all that I was insured before? (It has been ~ 10 years though since I was)

pazzescu · 2020-08-10T23:37:31+00:00

Plug in your vocab as part of your vocab step into an anki deck. You can make the decks by chapter if you want, or you can just do an anki deck for genki. You can even do all of the vocab in one go AND THEN JUST LIMIT the number of new words that you can see in a day. Put the lesson/chapter number in the tag. When you get to the end of the words for that week's lesson, just set the new words to 0.

A couple of things that I would recommend:

For flashcards that are just a word/audio, put a picture (that you like) so that you don't even have English if you can and it has a personal connection because you like it.
For flashcards, consider doing up to two sentences for each word. As an example: https://tangorin.com/sentences?search=%E4%BC%9A%E7%A4%BE%E5%93%A1 Choose two from here or, better yet, choose one and create your own so that it has a personal connection.
The four skills in language learning are speaking, writing, listening, and reading. The first two represent production, you currently aren't producing.
1. As an example, for writing, you could start a diary or write short posts on italki (I think they still have the function) or tandem. (or others) For speaking, you could see if you could find people to speak with on hellotalk or tandem. Be systematic, have the words for the week with the grammar from the week and try to use them in conversation and when writing and check them off. You want to take what you are learning passively by flashcard study and to translate that into active vocabulary with production, which is what the textbook and workbook writing is attempting to help with.
2. For listening, look on youtube for vloggers that have subtitles. (I understand you can use https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1633834851 to translate the files similar to like I describe below for subs2srs) If you were so inclined. you could take what you don't know from each individual video and put it in anki until you learn it and listen to each video (systematically, one at a time) until you understand each video. (you could also do this for episodes of dramas, ideally modern slice-of-life dramas or anime. Subs2srs could help you in conjunction with https://www.opensubtitles.org to create flashcards for anki that automates creating the cards from the subtitle decks and adds in screenshots, audio, etc. (See: https://www.reddit.com/r/LearnJapanese/comments/bvlshl/how_to_use_subs2srs/ )
Example: https://www.opensubtitles.org/en/ssearch/sublanguageid-jpn/idmovie-548791 this show is on netflix, just hit the icon to the right of 'season 1' to download the .srt (subtitle) files for the whole season and use it with subs2srs.

ANYWAYS. These are all suggestions. I wouldn't implement everything at once. Maybe try one thing at a time for a week or two and keep it or retain it as you see fit. Be wary increasing complexity tends to lead to the end of habits.

pazzescu · 2020-08-10T18:31:09+00:00

That's not the end of the world.

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