The dopamine hit is a real thing!
I've barely touched songs as my comprehension is even worse, but this is an interesting approach. I'll definitely try it. I don't think I've ever tried an audiobook in Japanese of a story I know. Both seem like a good idea.
Yeah, and I also have been supplementing my reading with recorded audio whenever possible, too. My listening skill keeps lagging behind, though.
I wish dedicated listening didn't frustrate me so much.
That's more or less where I sit on it. I think there's a way to create a personal shopping assistant that would save people time, but the problem is I don't make enough money to have a comfortable enough margin for the error rate it would certainly have, to speak nothing of whether it would find the prices I'd be satisfied with. I don't know how many people are in affordable enough living situations where using this to save time would even be responsible.
And that's assuming the agent is working in the best interests of the user, which we all know won't be how this works. In general, I don't know if I'll ever be comfortable with agentic AI spending my money without it being codified into law that AI agents must have a provable fiduciary duty to end users. As far as I know, no one's even talking about that.
He's kind of a JRPG traditionalist, so I'm not surprised he wasn't big on the game.
Bit of a confidence drop this week as I struggled with the newest chapter in my textbook. Unusually difficult for recent pace. I'm still making progress though, which is the important thing.
Growing concern over my listening comprehension problem. My new cards in Anki are solidly i+1, but I'm not getting there on audio with them (and even occasionally on repeats). Audio for the passages in the textbook without reading along? Forget it. As I've continued to incorporate more listening materials in general, I don't know that it's simply a "listen more" problem, which was the mindset. I think I'm going to find an ADHD community or two and ask some questions about active listening struggles in adult education, particularly for language learning. See if I can find an adaptation or two. I'm still new to the diagnosis and have a lot to learn.
I was already planning on pausing after this chapter of the text is done and doing a dedicated grammar review on forms I've logged as giving me trouble the past couple months. Since I'm a little more than halfway through, it's a good time for a "midterm"-type review. Maybe it would be good to pair that with some listening drills with a new method.
Just finished the story demo. Really impressed with it, both gameplay and story.
It took me forever too. Doesn't help that I insist on playing these games turn-based.
Yeah, I'm planning on leap-frogging this time for this very reason. I tend to get GPU-bottlenecked more often than not, so hopefully whatever GPU I pick up next year will extend my system long enough for a little more sanity to return.
Someone just needs to clone him so he can actually finish the new game.
If you know how to replace a CMOS battery, you know how to disable a fan. And even if you don't, it's not gonna bite your finger off 😂
It's 100% cultural, a combination of generational trauma ("I did it so you have to") and pressure from upper management leading to performative effort. We now know from productivity research that overtime periods in game dev get diminishing--and even negative--returns pretty quickly.
I'm not musically inclined at all but seeing as how you're the second one to mention music I'm definitely going to try it. I've tried so many other things to help with my listening that a totally different mode might be just the thing.
So, podcasts have been my primary vector for attacking this and it's been brutal. It's possible I've been overthinking it and maybe I should just struggle through as you say, use speed controls, pause frequently. I was doing the following:
Supposedly language learning research backs up this method, but maybe it was just overkill and now that I've done a few more months of adding vocab and grammar practice, I should just try bulk input again to build up input automaticity and simply pause/rewind where necessary.