The Very-Many-Questions-Not-Worth-Their-Own-Thread Thread XLII

[Aiken_Drumn]

Did you ever see his Microsoft Paint art? The thread is down in the early pages in A&E. It's really gorgeous stuff

I think it would be safe to bump?

Or at least link?

 

[sophie]

Whenever I edit for math/coding people, they always mention Anki flash cards. The idea has floated a little in the back of my mind but I've never pulled the trigger on it, as I'm not sure entirely what would be the best way to do it. Just the words? Sentences? Questions that require me to think? Etc.

Anki’s what I use. There’s some good resources out there about deckbuilding best practices. The main things I would say are: 1) avoid overloading the card (I.e. don’t try to test a bunch of different things in one card), 2) make good use of the digital format, use lots of pictures, sounds, screenshots, videos, etc. anything that helps building the association in your mind. 3) include a cloze/sample sentence to help fix usage in your mind. I always include the passage where I encountered the word at the bottom of the “question” side of the card. Really helps when, say, “Bach” isn’t just some word on a card, but is stored as the image of where the Starks found the wolf pups

4) the base algorithm settings are trash. Most tutorials note this, but change the new card appearance rates or you will very quickly find yourself drowning in hundreds of reviews per day.

I find myself frustrated with Duolingo often. It does not explain when to use different tenses/pronouns. It just throws them at me and I guess until I get them right, and then I just have to remember that I use that tense in that context, and hopefully then remember to apply that to similar contexts later. Horribly inefficient. And the lessons they use are of little to no utility as well. I can say that the turtles aren't eating fish in Swedish, which is maybe useful if I lived near a turtle reservoir.

The funny thing to me, having used the service off and on for nearly 10 years now, is that it originated as a Rosetta Stone-style simulated immersion software that was fervently opposed to any kind of explainers or verb charts or dictionary definitions (to the extent that the discussion section in every lesson usually contained a comment left by a power user giving a full lesson on the concept and including links to sites that did provide verb charts), and over time has shifted more and more away from “learning through intuition and community interaction” and towards something that looks more and more like a formal online class following a lesson+home exercises format.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Or at least link?

MS Paint Museum

I see that everything has a hideous Photobucket watermark on it. I guess Bozo Erectus didn't renew his subscription.

At least you can still mostly see them.

I saved some myself, as he gave me permission to make something either rug or needlework-related based on a couple I really liked.

 

[Synobun]

Anki’s what I use. There’s some good resources out there about deckbuilding best practices. The main things I would say are: 1) avoid overloading the card (I.e. don’t try to test a bunch of different things in one card), 2) make good use of the digital format, use lots of pictures, sounds, screenshots, videos, etc. anything that helps building the association in your mind. 3) include a cloze/sample sentence to help fix usage in your mind. I always include the passage where I encountered the word at the bottom of the “question” side of the card. Really helps when, say, “Bach” isn’t just some word on a card, but is stored as the image of where the Starks found the wolf pups

4) the base algorithm settings are trash. Most tutorials note this, but change the new card appearance rates or you will very quickly find yourself drowning in hundreds of reviews per day.

Is it possible to buy/download/acquire/whatever-the-term-is someone else's language review deck?

Good idea about associations, though I am honestly at a loss on how I make those. I've never been a mnemonic person, and associations seem to be totally random. (For example, I forget the pronunciations for all the Swedish diacritics, except for ö, because of how Malmö is pronounced. Surely that means I could just use another word for the other diacritics, and yet...)

 

[Synobun]

My budget Moto G6 is over three years old now and has become useless at running just about everything. So I guess I need to start looking for a new phone that doesn't break the bank.

What's the best budget phone these days? I paid around $300 CAD for this, so equal value is ideal.

 

[gangleri2001]

Can anybody tell me what's the time format preferred by Australians? Is it 12h time format (6 am, 6 pm, etc.) or is it the 24h time format (6 am, 18 pm, etc.)?

 

[DaggerDigwillow]

The rule is if you watch something that is on TV in the UK at the same time then you need a licence. So you are OK watching recorded stuff on youtube. You could watch cbc.ca live as they do not broadcast in the UK. You could not watch CNN.com live as they do broadcast in the UK.

As far as them knowing, they have had this story about detector vans driving around and working out who is watching TV from the emissions from the antenna. We do not really know if that is true. What we do know if that they get lists of people who do not have a TV and pay people on commision to hassass them, including going round to their houses and pretending they have the right to come in and look around your house (which, in the absence of a warrant and the police, they do not).

That seems like pretty Orwellian V for Vendetta dystopian nightmare fuel.

 

[Synobun]

How much impact does butter/oil have in a pressure cooker? I need to switch up my daily-rider meal a little, which was previously minimal on the fat due to the gallbladder. Just some skinless chicken with no oil of any kind, plus a cup of water. And steamed broccoli, of course. Now that my gallbladder is out, I (paradoxically) need to up my fat intake, and so I thought I'd try and see if I could add fat to what I've already been eating.

Would adding oil or butter to the chicken in the Instant Pot change its flavour profile at all? Good, bad? Useless?

 

[Samson]

How much impact does butter/oil have in a pressure cooker? I need to switch up my daily-rider meal a little, which was previously minimal on the fat due to the gallbladder. Just some skinless chicken with no oil of any kind, plus a cup of water. And steamed broccoli, of course. Now that my gallbladder is out, I (paradoxically) need to up my fat intake, and so I thought I'd try and see if I could add fat to what I've already been eating.

Would adding oil or butter to the chicken in the Instant Pot change its flavour profile at all? Good, bad? Useless?

It will change the flavour, it will be hard to say in advance but I would expect it to make it better. Using a more fatty cut of chicken in the first place may be better again, as well as cheaper.

 

[Synobun]

It will change the flavour, it will be hard to say in advance but I would expect it to make it better. Using a more fatty cut of chicken in the first place may be better again, as well as cheaper.

I would be keen on getting chicken with skin. The issue is that my grocery store does not seem to have skin-on chicken unless it also includes the bone (perhaps it's impossible to debone while keeping the skin intact?), and I don't really have the bandwidth to spend deboning meat myself.

 

[Samson]

I would be keen on getting chicken with skin. The issue is that my grocery store does not seem to have skin-on chicken unless it also includes the bone (perhaps it's impossible to debone while keeping the skin intact?), and I don't really have the bandwidth to spend deboning meat myself.

I cook in a pressure cooker or slow cooker all the time, and I use chicken thighs. They only have one bone, I leave it in during cooking and chew on the ends. I kind of like it, and it is a good source of calcium (and perhaps things like hyaluronic acid).

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I have a YouTube-related question.

I'm confused about the "handle" issue. I got an email saying I can choose my own "handle" or have one assigned. I have until November 14 to do this.

My question is this: If I pick one, does that mean that all my comments will have that name on them instead of the one currently there? Would a new one retroactively change the name on my old comments?

I would appreciate some help with this, please, as an old stalker from a forum about 12 years ago just found me tonight on that site. I reported him, but am not inclined to let him follow me around like he's done before.

Obviously a new name would help with future comments but if all my old comments get retroactively changed, they'd know what the new name is.

 

[Synobun]

I have a YouTube-related question.

I'm confused about the "handle" issue. I got an email saying I can choose my own "handle" or have one assigned. I have until November 14 to do this.

My question is this: If I pick one, does that mean that all my comments will have that name on them instead of the one currently there? Would a new one retroactively change the name on my old comments?

I would appreciate some help with this, please, as an old stalker from a forum about 12 years ago just found me tonight on that site. I reported him, but am not inclined to let him follow me around like he's done before.

Obviously a new name would help with future comments but if all my old comments get retroactively changed, they'd know what the new name is.

Yes, handle/username changes are retroactive.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Yes, handle/username changes are retroactive.

So changing it means they can find me anyway. Crap.

Thanks.

 

[Takhisis]

Question: why is the answer to ‘what can be everything, but not anything’ ‘a bagel’?

 

[sophie]

“everything” is a topping option on a bagel

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_bagel

 

[DaggerDigwillow]

Question: why is the answer to ‘what can be everything, but not anything’ ‘a bagel’?

Everything Bagel is correct. The movie drops into nihilism in an attempt to assert you can build your own meaning. The bagel is a motif for absurdity Jobu asserts the only truth is that nothing actually matters the bagel is also a reference to the star trek looped universe, mindless consumerism, and some more obscure physics theories. Nihilism borrowed heavily from Albert Camus and consequently Frederick Nietzsche which I just happen to be currently reading again.

 

[Moff Jerjerrod]

Been away for a week or so but when I came back today just before logging in I noticed that all the forums except Civ6 were collapsed. The OT wasn't even displayed until I logged in.

New security features, or did I get released from the Federation Funny Farm too early? (Even though I'm a Romulan)

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Been away for a week or so but when I came back today just before logging in I noticed that all the forums except Civ6 were collapsed. The OT wasn't even displayed until I logged in.

New security features, or did I get released from the Federation Funny Farm too early? (Even though I'm a Romulan)

You'd get a better answer in Site Feedback, where the admins post. Here, we can only speculate.

 

[Moff Jerjerrod]

You'd get a better answer in Site Feedback, where the admins post. Here, we can only speculate.

Ah, good point. I'll post this observation over there.