imo the behavior being talked about here is the more toxic flipside of the "I won't immediately get a vaccine when I'm eligible, I'll wait for a while so people who deserve it more can get it" attitude which is also incorrect
not everyone who says "I'm going to wait a bit for the vaccine because i don't deserve it" does the way more toxic "if you get vaccinated and i don't think you deserved it i will judge you", but both come from the same place
yeah, worth highlighting, it's *absolutely a good thing* to ask, eligibility requirements are weird and we need more awareness
just ask with empathy and frame it in a way that does not oblige an answer
A thing I realized yesterday is ... the operation of seeing text and reading it is not the same for all people?
Like, if there is a book on the table, and I see the book, I will read the title. There is no way for me to not do that, and it doesn't take additional effort/attention
If there's an open book on a table, whenever I glance at it, my brain will register some paragraph on the page
When I go on walks every store sign, every ad, every street sign, every scrap of text my gaze falls on are immediately registered in my brain
As a kid i would read the backs of cereal boxes. nutrition info. i knew the word "riboflavin" from a young age despite never using it
A thing that frustrates me a bit is that my ability to type words in different (non-English) languages varies *wildly* based on precisely which computing device i'm using
on Android, I can type Hindi, Marathi (phonetically w/dictionary), Chinese via pinyin for both simplified and traditional and also via jyutping
and also a bunch of other stuff I use sometimes (Urdu, etc)
but I can't easily do eastern european diacritics for names (like ț)
on Windows I can type Hindi and Marathi phonetically with a dictionary. The pinyin Traditional input is a setting in the "Simplified" language pack so I can't do both without toggling settings.
A thing I've come to appreciate about self-driven learning processes is that it's completely devoid of a particular kind of frustration where you're learning something you don't see the point of, or don't really *want* to
This mostly only works if your goal is learning for fun and not "learning to use it for something" but I think this is something super important that folks don't realize as much.
I'm almost completely an autodidact in programming. There is not an aspect of the field I have learned that I hated learning. Usually there's always a topic that an individual will go "yeah I HATED learning that" but I don't have those.
a recent conversation amongst friends reminded me of my thoughts on expertise, magic, and mental models, and while this probably should be a blog post I'm lazy so I might as well thread it
the context of this was advanced borrow checking in rust, but most of the thoughts are more general and apply to a lot of learning paths, at least in programming
for example, with lifetime elision / explicit lifetimes in rust, i've heard the learning process described as:
1. Beginners: Rely on the "magic" (elision), and use it exclusively. They're lost the moment they need to step out of it, until they learn the underlying workings.
a thing i've said a couple times now is that the marginal benefit of someone getting their vaccine a bit earlier is nothing compared to the huge benefit of us reaching herd immunity
yes, you getting the vaccine now may make someone you feel "deserves it more" get it a little later. that's fine, overall everyone rushing to use up available vaccines as fast as possible moves us significantly closer to herd immunity.
Folks have the same attitudes around vaccines as they did around masks a year ago
masks are not usually a scarce resource, they were temporarily scarce, and that remedied itself
Trying to figure something out about some words in Mandarin
Mandarin speakers: mind saying 这么, 什么, 怎么样 in a natural way (fit it in a sentence?) to yourself, and then answering the questions in the next tweets? Don't look at the questions before saying the words
Was there an "n" sound between the characters in 这么?
(feel free to reply with specifics)
Was there an "n" between the characters in 什么? How would you transcribe it?