It's of course a matter of taste, but I don't think I will ever want to put such glasses between me and the world around me. It feels unnecessary, distracting, cumbersome, and slightly headache-inducing.
I made a bet 10 years ago with a friend that VR headsets would never gain wide adoption among the general public (back when Facebook bought Oculus), and I think it's fair to say I've won this bet. With these glasses, I'm not so sure, but if I had to, I would bet against them as well. Time will tell...
I’d rather wear 5th or 6th gen glasses than 2nd or 3rd gen cybernetics implants when those come. I’m going to be very late to that game, because getting hacked could have pretty dire consequences. You can just take the glasses off.
> In many cases, the responses are actually written by a member of the creator’s extended team – remember, many of these creators are now multi-million dollar enterprises, and its obviously impossible for creators such as Bhad Bhabie to engage in detailed and personalized conversations with their scores of VIP subscribers – though this alleged subterfuge has resulted in some legal action.
i don't see why it would be impossible to engage in detailed and personalized conversations with scores of subscribers? a one-on-one detailed and personalized conversation might require half an hour, and if you're an extraverted person you can probably spend ten hours a day doing this, which is a score of people every day. in a 28-day month you could then engage in detailed and personalized conversations with 560 subscribers, which boosts the number from 'scores' to 'hundreds'
if you're talking to them in some kind of textual instant messenger, rather than over the phone or video chat, you can probably maintain two to four detailed and personalized conversations at a time, which would boost that number into the low thousands
you're just conversing with people, not fucking them, and there are in fact real-life prostitutes who serve scores of clients per month
still i'd probably agree if ball had said 'thousands'. but 'scores' sounds easy
Indeed. Some researchers have proposed quintessence, a time-varying form of dark energy [0].
> A group of researchers argued in 2021 that observations of the Hubble tension may imply that only quintessence models with a nonzero coupling constant are viable.
> The other thing this taught me is the danger of an up-front paid model for apps that depend on ongoing access to third-party services. If users were continually paying for the app, paying for Yelp’s APIs would not be as much of an issue. And I wouldn’t feel as guilty about the app being discontinued since if the fees were charged on a monthly basis, they would just end at the same time the app ceased to exist instead of facing an expectation upon purchase of “forever access.” On the other hand, how would you charge a monthly fee for an app that people are only willing to spend less than $5 for upfront?
There are apps that I like and would like to purchase, but paying e.g. 24 euros per year feels like too much. So I stick with the free version...
I love how one competitor completely disparages his mouse:
- Can it be considered intelligent?
- No, it's absolutely dim. It will solve, I hope, a particular problem. Outside of this environment, it's useless. He's only following a set of instructions that I told him to do.
I bet that these days, that person would be a lot more enthusiastic: it's artificial intelligence!
Who will buy those fresh shares, knowing that they could be "wiped out" by the discretion of ? the government? at any time? for actions that people they don't know committed?
I distinctly remember the first time I was exposed to it (before learning it), it sounded like water gently flowing down a creek. Then I learnt the basics, and my brain started to catch on to patterns.
However, I had to go through the written form to learn properly. I found it hard to parse and remember words when I was only hearing them. Unlike young children, obviously.
I think this is a common misconception. Children also find it difficult, but they have a decade to figure it out while adults usually only give themselves a few years. Even at the end of that decade, many children still have problems reading and writing well into adulthood.
As adults, we can learn so much faster than kids precisely because we already know how to read and write conceptually. If you can read effortlessly in your native language, you will not be satisfied with your progress in another language until you can read at the same level. What often holds adults back is embarrassment and how that affects our ego. If we could let go and just engage without overthinking it, adults absolutely could pick up languages much faster than kids.
Children also have no choice than to be immersed around the clock. And they have very patient teachers who are elated about every new word they master and who will stubbornly correct them if they get something wrong.
Most adult learners can't do full immersion or underestimate its importance and don't commit even if they get the opportunity.
My impression is mostly the same, but to add to the point about embarassment, native speakers will often not correct adults making mistakes in their language (and avoid showing that a mistake was made) while the same person would correct a mistake for a child.
Children also get exposed to much simpler language and get to learn a language more bottom up.
Also somehow my impression is that pronunciation/accent really is harder to adopt as an adult than as a child.
If we truly listen to the pronunciation of small children they often substitute easier sounds for difficult ones for many years. We just expect that from children so it seems normal.
Yes, this is also true. I have some strategies when I speak with others in trying to repeat their answer back to them, but with the correct grammar/vocabulary and then answer their question and I'm pretty sure I picked this up from volunteers at a language meetup who did it to me. It not only provides feedback to the learner, it also helps to confirm that you're both on the same page with the information that was spoken.
Generally, this works well for kids and adults without being demeaning but it's also important that everyone understands their role in the situation beforehand if possible.
Regarding accent, I think it really is a matter of practice and will. I agree that it's harder as an adult, but we shouldn't allow people to use that as an excuse if they want their accent to improve. By no means is that a requirement, but it is something you should ask your adult friends if they are learning your native language. Though, I would argue this is probably not even worth it unless they are at a B1-B2 level. If they come from a similar language family (germanic, latin, etc) as you, then perhaps working on their accent at the beginning will prove fruitful, but otherwise, it's probably a lot of new sounds that they need to learn how to even say "correctly" before they can start adjusting how their mouth moves. For me, I've found that mouth training a little easier when I'm not spending 10 seconds formulating a reply in my head.
That's my intention too. As soon as we're done moving houses, I will buy the latest print edition of the French Encyclopædia Universalis, from 2012.
A childhood memory I have is that my friends who had one at home had a much easier time doing their homework. I had to go to the library, and was never sure to find information on the topic I was looking for, whereas they had everything at their fingertips.
(Thinking back, I'm not sure why the library did not have an encyclopedia...)
> Thinking back, I'm not sure why the library did not have an encyclopedia...
Different libraries often have very different collections, depending on the community they're serving.
A university library might have 10 copies of the same undergraduate introductory physics textbook, a copy of a few dozen other undergraduate introductory physics textbooks, and a load of more advanced texts in the same area.
A community library might have a large selection of children's books and romance novels, crime novels, mystery novels, some popular science, audio books, travel guides, local history, but no college-level physics books.
A high school library might have plenty of young-adult novels and high-school-level textbooks, but no children's books or advanced physics texts.
Perhaps you were in a community library and they didn't get many kids doing homework?
(Of course, libraries can almost always get any book you ask for on inter-library loan so that community or high-school library could get an advanced physics textbook if someone asked for one)
USA is deeply different. Looks like antigeneralizationism.
I live in Spain and I lived in Limerick and libraries are mostly similar, both university and municipal ones.
Do your municipal libraries carry journals? I can't imagine how that works.
In Canada, neighborhood libraries are a tiny fraction of the size of university research libraries, so they can't possibly carry anything remotely approximating the content of a university research library.
We do have a central public library, with perhaps a million odd books, but is not a replacement for research library in any sense, and isn't intended to be one. Compare that to the library in my alma mater university which contained about 2.5 million books.
For what it's worth, for most of my life, I've had the option of visiting my local university library so that I could crawl through the shelves looking for particular journal articles, or searching through the 3 feet of shelves on other side of a relevant book that I found in the card stacks. Sadly, that's no longer the case. The vast majority of content in modern university libraries is now available only in digital form, accessible through terminals that are not usable by members of the public, which provide access to otherwise-paywalled journals. And the last time I visited my local university library, they no longer allowed members of the general public to enter. For most of the my lifetime, one of the conditions of government funding for university libraries was that they had to provide at least limited access to the general public. I'm not sure what happened.
Thankfully, there are now other ways to access research material. Pre-prints are often available, and open-access journals are increasingly prevalent. And for those that are desperate, there are, of course, various dubiously legal sources.
That is very strange. Local libraries subscribe to Elsevier journals, for example? What would be the point in that? If not, then they are not similar, since that’s the main purpose of a university library
Maybe they wanted you to search for the purpose of learning how to search for information. To be honest, this would make sense, but I suspect the real answer is something stupid that doesn't make sense
Not to mention that 2 out of 5 Space Shuttles suffered catastrophic loss, one of them (Columbia) almost certainly because it was being reused and the heat shield failed.
Columbia didn't fail because of heat shield reuse. It failed because a chunk of foam crashed into a important part of the heat shield at high speed and created a big hole.
I made a bet 10 years ago with a friend that VR headsets would never gain wide adoption among the general public (back when Facebook bought Oculus), and I think it's fair to say I've won this bet. With these glasses, I'm not so sure, but if I had to, I would bet against them as well. Time will tell...
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