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  • Don't bother with course materials I would say. Just speak Spanish with them as much as you can. Maybe watch a few Spanish-language tv shows, especially some intended for kids (Sesame Street?) since those usually have clear pronunciation.

    Really the first important thing in a new language is to train your ear to break down the sounds of continuous speech, so it sounds like words instead of mush. That takes some tens of hours to get traction at all. So do lots of passive listening with your coworkers. Stuff like grammar and vocabulary come next and can be gradual. Course materials can help with grammatical subtleties but basic speaking and listening come first.

    Also, try to quit speaking English quite early if your coworkers will put up with it. Speak Spanish and use a dictionary if you don't know a word. Don't bother with flash cards. You'll forget stuff and have to look it up again and that's fine. After a few repetitions it will stick.

    Try to make your pronunciation very accurate. That will help in all areas. We think of phonetics, vocabulary (lexicon), and grammar as separate things, but they are all interrelated and mutually reinforcing.

    You will find yourself thinking in Spanish instead of English pretty quickly. You are basically reformatting your brain so just roll with it.

    Be aware that your English can actually get worse from this process. At least mine did. Decide if you are ok with that.

  • 15 minute video, I've watched about half, will finish it later, it's interesting. Basically the money was transferred from free software to the now trendier area of AI.

  • A hosted services ad on c/selfhosted, maybe not the right thing, but I'll defer to others.

  • just want some old junker (6/7/8th gen Intel)

    You probably have to go back further than that for a 3.5" sff pc. Look on woot though, they have such refurbs all the time. Or scrounge a mini tower.

  • It doesn't appear for everyone to see.

    Every user of the extension then, which is apparently a lot of users, enough to affect the site culture, if the other guy's report reflects reality.

  • If the label appears on your profile for everyone to see without further info then it's truth value is thrown away. IDK how big a problem it really is on bsky now though. The other guy says it is, you seem to think the opposite, I don't care enough to look into it further.

    If Twitter went Nazi post-Musk while it's software stayed about the same, that shows that management really does shoulder blame.

  • Oh sweet child. What has Apple done to people? A removable battery looks like this:

    https://www.ifixit.com/products/lenovo-thinkpad-x220-x220i-x230i-replacement-battery

    You just snap it onto the computer. No disassembly. No tools. No screws. All laptops and cell phones except Apple used to have them. You could carry several charged batteries with you and swap them as needed. Some laptops even used two, so you could hot swap with no power interruption.

    And we walked to school barefoot, in the snow, uphill both ways. :)

  • If you have to ask this question you should probably be using a garbage collected language. Manual memory management is quite tedious and it's easy to make mistakes. Rust's novel contribution is reliably catching the mistakes at compile time so once you have fixed all the compile time error messages you have a safe program. But it doesn't ease the tedium that much.

    GC does it automatically and is way more convenient, but inflicts a cost in runtime performance. That's almost always fine on today's computers, thus Python's popularity. Rust is best for systems work where you need more precise control of machine resources. It is probably used more than necessary right now, because it's new and exciting and programmers like that.

    The safest language is probably Ada but it is less flexible than Rust. They are working on extending it to be comparable. Right now Ada isn't well suited for programs that do lots of runtime allocation.

  • Where is the removable battery? Did ANY Apple laptops have that?

  • No I don't think the distinction matters. Twitter sucks because it's full of Nazis. It's irrelevant that Twitter doesn't supply the Nazis itself. The culture that a platform fosters is part of the platform.

    As for the visibility of the labelling on bsky, idk, I guess I'll take your word for it. It had sounded like a built in feature that was visible to everyone, but ok, maybe not.

  • If there's a widely used mod that makes the game worse, that's a good reason to not play the game. It doesn't matter who made the mod. Using the mod (e.g. an aim bot in a shooter game) is toxic user behavior and if the game ops tolerate it, they deserve blame too.

  • The implementation details matter less than how it affects the culture.

  • Person is doing worthwhile things but has way too much confidence in the fediverse. Welcome to Lemmy though, if the author makes it here.

  • Tech has advanced technically (for lack of a better word) but yeah, it's being used against us more than to our benefit a lot of the time.