I learned this year too! Didn’t know how to swim at all and went to the pool almost every other day and did exercises from the book and Udemy course called total immersion swimming and was able to finish a triathlon this year, (very slowly but it was the most relaxing part). Hope it works out!
It's a losing battle. Without going into workplace relationships, the public perception of the Chinese population to their government is overwhelmingly positive. I've experienced it in my own friends and relatives, even those who have gone to university in North America for degrees like law. For an outsider without cultural understanding, it's nearly impossible.
It's hard to change minds when the education system doesn't support free thinking that challenges authority, when identity is caught up with national pride and the us vs them mentality. That's why it's important to use language like CCP instead of China to separate the people from the government.
The most common defense is whataboutism. Talk about Uigher camps in Xingjiang or the Hong Kong protests? "But America has racism, and police beatdowns." The argument against democracy is that the people aren't educated enough to handle voting, for example and bring up covid cases in the US.
I had a conversation a while back with my cousin, who didn't like Morey's (NBA GM) comments about Hong Kong and supported the Rockets ban.
me: "But it's his personal opinions, can't he say what he wants?"
cousin: "No, because he's a known person. It's like Xi saying California isn't a part of the US."
cousin: "That's fine, because everybody knows it's not true. We'll just think he's dumb."
cousin (jokingly): "that's just the cultural difference between east and west"
Unfortunately, it's hard to bring up any real nuanced conversation, and especially hard to change any minds. (i.e. like how none of the HK protestors key demands were to actually separate, something many people in China thought)
The 2015 maxed out model was my first MacBook and it's served very well so far. Lately, it does slows to a crawl when running docker, VSCode, and half a dozen electron apps :(, but after reading about the latest builds I'm honestly not sure whether to upgrade or go back to running ubuntu or elementary.
Awesome work guys! Judging by such an active and enthusiastic community, I could see this having a very sizable market share of knowledge bases like roam / bear / notion in the future. So far I haven't found a good filesystem based note taking app that fit my needs. Quiver came the closest but has not been active in development recently, so I'm switching to this and I'm excited where it goes.
You and Shida have some serious product & programming chops ~ UWaterloo represent!
Having been on a productivity nonfiction binge, i'm convinced all the ideas work, but the bulk of the effort is actually applying the advice. Otherwise, it's too easy to get caught in the cycle of epiphany porn.
The core ideas -- focus on one thing, have clear next actions for each thing, spaced repetition, stop when you're getting good (hemingway), etc, can be summarized in a couple of blog posts but the main benefit from reading is the perceived motivation boost after.
Once you settle on a plan (which itself it the main challenge, and something to think long and hard about), make sure to actually use it and test what works for you!
Agreed. It's my go to for smaller projects and what I recommend for those who don't want to spend more than a day figuring out how to deploy their pet project as it's a logical progression from docker-compose in dev to a production environment.
Hi everyone! I'm the co-founder of Pianoshelf, and we're a team of CS students who built this in our spare time. This is our first time working with frontend MV*, so it was quite a learning curve as most of us were used to static languages taught in school (C++). Some parts are still clunky and need tests and refactoring (controller logic into directives, etc).
The stack is (AngularJs, Django, nginx, Amazon S3). The frontend code at https://github.com/pianoshelf/pianoshelf-frontend if anyone is interested:
The idea came when I was looking for sheetmusic while learning to play the piano and found many websites difficult to use, or didn't have the features I wanted. Most of the content is from imslp.org and are copyright free. Suggestions are greatly appreciated!
