Rovine(QOTO) @Rovine@qoto.org

@johnlitt York is a beautiful heritage city. Lots of open mic events if you're into that. The old architecture alone is worth the visit.

@johnlitt I'm currently on a working holiday in UK being an unemployed bum. Doing a course in game dev and programming. Want to work towards front end dev and game dev.

@Dee
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@MOTT
If you say that as a meme I'd laugh. No different from mngrif's meme.
@freemo @mngrif

@Absinthe I started Unity module of my course today, with learning the editor's UI being my current priority.

Something like that, where I'm learning a tool, requires me to actually use the tool to learn about it. That means looking at a flashcard of, say, a hotkey shortcut to zoom in scene window, doesn't mean much when I pull out the mobile flashcard in the toilet, or queuing up in Greggs. I gotta actually be there at my laptop and use the zoom tool.

I remembered that the way I learned to play Dwarf Fortress was pretty much playing it alongside the wiki. DF menu itself is also structured like a cheatsheet of hotkeys.

I think scenarios where you're learning a tool, flashcards won't contribute as much, but scenarios where you're learning knowledge are where flashcards shine.

@libreture Heck I'm up for slow living as well.

Breakfast thought: sometimes cheatsheets are better than flashcards.

@hkz@mastodon.technology
I experimented with many speed reading techniques myself and I agree they are all complete bogus. Comprehension actually gives the illusion of speed instead.

One with a background in entrepreneurship can go through 4 Hour Work Week pretty quick, but the same person without classical literature experience will need a whole month to finish something by James Joyce.

On the other hand with the viable methods listed in the article, visual reading is an interesting one - if I can imagine a scene from a book in my head, that section goes by pretty quickly, and at the same time I retain a lot because I turned them into movie scenes in my head.

In the end of the day speed shouldn't be a judgement factor for reading. Comprehension is individual. Everyone will approach different books at different speeds.

Idea from my friend: microSD-to-SATA connector.

@david
It's a constant battle for me rather than a condition with a one-off cure, but the journey of recovery, relapse and recover again does kind of make life interesting.