>to feel something

This is a phrase I hear in American discourse a lot. What does it mean?

A big part of this is that the Dutch capitulated to the Nazis in WWII before they got to Amsterdam. Pretty much every other major city in the area was reshaped by the war, but Amsterdam avoided the major conflict.

Compare with Rotterdam (which was destroyed by the Nazis).

Moore’s law is dying. The transistor and clock speed improvements we saw with regular cycles (33 - 66 - 133 - 266 - 433 - 1Ghz!) hasn’t happened in a while, and throughput improvements have happened by architectural cleverness (some of which you might say contributed to spectre/ meltdown et al).

A really really interesting corollary goes like this: - Moore’s law delivers a doubling of compute capacity every 2 yrs

- capacity yields efficiency improvements in compute capacity per human being

- more efficiency per human yields net productivity gains per human

- net productivity gains drive economic growth

- therefore Moore’s law or something like it is a critical driver of economic growth

This is a bit scary of an implication - and why as an industry we’re highly incented to come up with something to keep feeding the masses. If we don’t - a key driver of worldwide economic growth will die.

interesting that the article says they’ll keep delivering on the promise - We have to - but is repaint the picture and say that we’re obligated to do so via more exotic software and hardware architectures, so expect to see more purpose built compute in all arenas

I tried the Beyond Meat patty, version 1 I think. Wondering if anyone else got an absolutely strange type of taste / sensation in their throat when they tried it? It wasn’t at all pleasant and really hard to describe. Kind of like - I don’t know - canola oil mixed with peanut - sort-of? While breathing in a thick gas. Very odd.

I was really hyped up to like it, but found it only somewhat like meat. I was impressed with the texture inside. The outer crust reminded me of warm cardboard. To be fair, I might have burned it so I do want to try it again. Really keen to try an Impossible Burger (anyone know if there’s somewhere in Australia that serves them?).

My whole place smelled sickly sweet after cooking it as well. I’ve seen some people describing it as smelling like cat food, which I’d agree with.

They've actually bust a lot of African dictators and such it was more or less a success. At least in the short term. Crooks will always come up with a way to launder cash though

Did you keep the skills at level 1?

What do you think is holding you back? Is it that you don't know how to form a sentence, are you unsure to come up with the right words, do you think the course didn't contain the words you need?

In my opinion the Duolingo course does contain the necessary words, phrases and grammar for holding a conversation. But it may not be enough to understand native speakers at native speeds. And maybe you need to be more confident!

I would recommend listening to French podcasts or videos even if you don't understand them. With subtitles if available.

I would recommend the Duolingo German from English course instead. It has an app, so you can practice wherever you are, it has grammar, audio, speech recognition, spaced repitition (how ever much you want of that) and gameification. Duolingo courses and exercises are also improved through data-based methods.

I have completed Spanish, Mandarin and Norwegian. The Spanish and Norwegian ones are very comprehensive, the Mandarin tops off at around 1000 words. German also seems to be one of their most polished languages, contrasted with courses in Hawaiian and Navajo.

While there are benefits of learning Haskell as a developer. I am curious about the professional benefits versus the time and effort required to master the language to the extent that you are employable and command a good salary compared to just focusing on mainstream languages where you probably have a lot more competition but also a lot more opportunities.