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Comment · 11 days ago
>The issue with is, as far as my personal anecdote is concerned, that competence doesn't translate across all activities. Me being good with figuring out Legos, video games, or programming doesn't translate to me being good with cooking, socializing, music, etc

You are correct. Competence in one field does not translate. However, the idea of 'try, try, try again' is something that should work across all fields

Comment · 11 days ago
I'm a bit further on the same path (4 year old). Here's what I've come up with:

competence is what I try to teach. Try, try and try again until he'll get it. Small things at first, but (hopefully) he gets the principle. Legos are great at this.

Additionally I try to teach that it's not wrong to defend yourself.

Comment · 19 days ago
Sometimes only words don't work. That's why we have police, guards and armies.

The guiding idea should be "minimum necessary force used". Sometimes the this includes physical force.

Comment · 4 months ago
I wonder how they define 'social media'. Is comments section social media? Stack overflow? Any comment section?
Comment · 7 months ago
There are plenty of good advice what to do. On the other hand don't do:

* Doomscroll on your phone, reddit, whatever. Social media is not your friend.

* Self medicate. Some commercial drugs are bad enough. This includes overeating.

* Get stuck binge watching.

Try things (if you can). You never know what you happen to like.

Comment · 7 months ago
To be fair, this document says that they updated TOS and by continuing to use the app, you agree. (End of page 3)
Comment · 11 months ago
Once the data is clean and neatly in standard format this becomes a matter of preference.

Work experience says that 90% of work is gathering, cleaning and transforming data from different sources. In this capacity Python has more options available.

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More of a work-culture thing, but really useful:

First you fix the problem then you look for the culprit and administer punishment if it's needed at that point.

Comment · 1 year ago
Sure, but "Do not deprive people the joy of discovery." -Someone, not me.
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Actually yes. Good things are good regardless who does them.
Comment · 1 year ago
Can't we just be happy that the astronauts made it safely back? (+ ignore the political spin from all factions.)

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