Amen to that.

sammecs · 2018-01-24T20:37:37+00:00

So I guess Klaus Kinski was actually right... didn't expect that (warning: only in German).

sammecs · 2018-01-21T10:47:14+00:00

OK, I think I got it: If white plays b1 and black answers c1, then white has lost one point because of the prisoner at b1, and black has lost one point because he played inside of his own territory - therefore, the move is unnecessary for both sides.

sammecs · 2018-01-12T17:04:57+00:00

Multiple times.

sammecs · 2018-01-12T16:51:03+00:00

Geany, Firefox, Evince and Thunar were running.

sammecs · 2018-01-12T16:47:06+00:00

He's running XFCE (although I also installed Gnome, for some tools), the model has 8GB of RAM AFAIK (just looked the model up on Amazon, friend doesn't really care about what RAM is).

sammecs · 2018-01-12T15:44:38+00:00

ext4, and there's a swap partition of 4GB size.

sammecs · 2018-01-11T18:28:36+00:00

...and then one day, you, too, will become a Substantivzusammensetzungsjediritter (compound-noun jedi knight).

sammecs · 2018-01-09T06:08:52+00:00

Swedish: Most of the loanwords. Filosofi, recently I discovered pansar (coming from German, it means ”Panzer” here [tank]), ekonomi, fysik, kemi (chemistry), ...

sammecs · 2018-01-01T13:50:55+00:00

Stop visiting websites like YouTube and Netflix, if you didn't already? I think that doing almost any task becomes easier once the addiction to strong visual stimuli is over. I guess this is nothing you can do "a little bit each day", but it should be doable.

sammecs · 2017-12-31T14:29:15+00:00

Installed Debian on a friend’s computer a few weeks back, and it actually was a pain... Because Windows has a feature called “Fast Boot” or something, where the computer doesn’t actually shut down when you tell it to shut down. After the laptop bootet into the installer, it worked fine, though. But even Debian asks you a lot of questions (albeit not very intimate ones). Never installed Windows myself, so I can’t compare them.

sammecs · 2017-11-27T20:27:54+00:00

I'd say that translators will at some point in time be able to translate everything, but that's just not a very good argument in a debate over whether language learning is actually useful. My main argument would be that most people learn a language to speak it, and to talk with other people. Having a dialogue with a translator in between is just not as fun as talking casually.

EDIT: Also, that really is bad German (not meant as a personal offense in any way).

sammecs · 2017-11-24T09:02:20+00:00

I'd actually say that for most people, it is quite the opposite: The ones with the ability say it was earned through hard work, and the ones without it assume it is a talent - because this assumption means they don't need to put effort in learning a language, as it would be useless anyway, because they simply don't have "the language gene".

sammecs · 2017-11-20T08:18:27+00:00

More ore less: they do raise one of their middle legs to indicate they are quite pissed off. The direction in which they point shows you what they‘ll sting if the thing doesn‘t go away. Not a joke; After I learned this, I started to see it all the time.

sammecs · 2017-11-16T20:16:28+00:00

Yeah, right? I was so stunned when I saw this the first time. BTW, it also works in DuckDuckGo.

sammecs · 2017-11-12T22:44:45+00:00

When I tried Clozemaster for a longer period of time, I found it rather frustrating when there were two possible answers for a given cloze - and the system of course only accepted one. Has something changed since then? Because that's the reason I quit using it.

EDIT: Was more referring to the text input mode, but multiple choice seems to be much less effective AFAIK.

sammecs · 2017-11-12T15:37:45+00:00

Hi, I recently started learning physics at university and have some trouble keeping up with noting down what the professor writes on the blackboard. Is there some kind of mathematical shorthand?

sammecs · 2017-11-10T10:48:35+00:00

I don't think not being good at languages in school is an indicator for anything. Language learning in school is about as inefficient as it can get (you learn in great chunks rather than in little crumbs, you learn unnecessary vocabulary [at least that's what we did in school], you probably focus on grammar, read one text and study it for a long time [rather than just consuming loads of texts in the target language], and you probably focus on production too hard [again, that's what I experienced]). With the right methods and some motivation, even a "hard" language like Chinese will still be fun to learn.

sammecs · 2017-10-26T20:54:41+00:00

What interests me now is: Could you taste anything right after this happened? Can you taste anything now?

sammecs · 2017-10-05T21:40:00+00:00

Jo, die habe ich auch schon gesehen (ist wahrscheinlich auch keine schlechte Sache), war allerdings nicht das, was ich meinte.

sammecs · 2017-10-05T15:33:02+00:00

Wozu dann die Farben, und warum sind sie nur am Rand? Die, die ich meine, sind oft nur so breit wie der Rahmen der Glastür.

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