There’s a bit of a counterpoint to that: spaced/distributed learning contributes to long term memory encoding. Revisit something a week or two later and a year down the line you’ll remember it more than if you did it the next day.

So depends on your goals a bit. That said, if you can, don’t leave stuff last minute because stress is definitely not good for memory if nothing else.

I’m seeing this post a bit late, but I feel like I have to weigh in slightly, though it’s not my research area.

Note that my information extends more to academic studying, don’t know if it’s quite as true for learning more physical skills.

The main concept for learning is deeper learning. Which basically just means actually using your brain to think about the material. Things like connecting it to other ideas, pondering different implications, that sort of thing.

The reason flashcards work is because you think about what questions you could ask about the material. The reason you write by hand vs type is because it’s slower and you have to think about what’s more important or how you’d summarise the information.

I believe reading aloud typically works because it forces you to be slower and more deliberate, giving you time to actually process what you’re reading.

That said what you’ve written is helpful and mostly correct, I’m just not so certain about the framing. It could mislead some people into just rewriting notes while reading them out, for example, which is inefficient and not very helpful for learning.

A very easy-to-read source with practical tips:

• Optimizing Learning in College by Putnam et al. (2016) (Look it up on Google scholar for a free pdf)

Also as a final tip, my favourite exam prep technique: do a past paper without having looked at any notes or done any prep. Answer as much as you can just thinking about what you remember. Then go through with notes. It primes your brain for processing and storing the information.

I find it funny that we see:

Two supernaturally resilient and strong murderous humans (Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees)

Two non/metaphysical entities (Freddy Krueger and Pennywise)

… and Ghostface who is a normal human, regardless of which version.

Ah yes, the £166k out of £320m for road upgrades is the issue. Nah, fuck you. If we “have to” displace wildlife we might as well take some fucking responsibility. I can see a Reform member might not understand that concept.

And let’s not pretend they’d actually spend it on social care, education, or whatever else they want to point towards.

Not sure why this is worth entertaining with a news article.

You know, I played a lot of lance and never realised that. I guess it’s because it’s right trigger to block?

I guess canonically that probably means hunters are ambidextrous.

Been a while since I played, but I didn’t even reach 1k hours and was trading stuff much earlier than that. In 850h I think I bought plat once, and made it to 21 (iirc) mastery total, with a dozen or two frames and weapons in store. The only thing I spent plat on is either intermediate currency for trading, or more slots (which you still get plenty of for free from events and such).

The game involves a lot of grinding to begin with, but you can easily farm a bit to find something to sell for plat.

Also Reddit misled you a bit. The game throws 50 and 75% off plat fairly regularly at you.

Especially about the competitive thing though: I’ve never had that thought. I’ve never seen it as competitive to begin with, even in a friendly way. And afaict, there’s nothing you could do with money that would give you too much of an advantage. Maybe skip a bit of the grind, but a lot comes from mastery levels, build synergies, and knowing how to play your frame right… And even then outside of Steel Path and other endgame-ish content you can easily nuke an entire level with minimal effort.

All that said: yeah, it’s a free to play game and it has a few features that will make you want to spend money. You can absolutely not spend a single cent and achieve whatever you want though, which is why people praise it. It just means playing the game more, so the question really becomes whether you enjoy the gameplay loop to begin with and how much time you’re willing to spend.

Awful. Especially the stats about GPs not providing proper care, and trans people not wanting to go to A&E out of fear of discrimination.

And to be fair I do know people who have/are coming to terms with being trans but not willing to approach their GP.

Recently seeing a (very feminine) trans woman having to use the men’s bathroom was also just an upsetting reminder of the legal and political state of things. It’s very understandable that they’re worried.

The lack of empathy towards trans people is staggering. Honestly, towards people in general too.

We’re at the point where Labour is using ads I’d expect to see in countries like Hungary or from Reform or the GOP?

I know I might not consume the most balanced news nowadays (I try to keep my despair and doom levels low) but damn, Labour does seem to sink lower on the regular in ways I don’t expect.

I think this is the second article from Novara that I’ve seen on the most recent YouGov poll. I wish they linked to the source. It’s not difficult to find, but it just seems like a basic thing they’re missing.

More on topic though: I do hope this keeps up and they actually overtake Reform overall. It’s a breath of fresh air to see a party actually on the left/progressive side gaining popularity. And right now I actually think they’ll do at least some of what they promise.

Yeah, mine runs at 95°C. Afaik, AMD tested the components, found no damage there and set it as the temp. It’s been a long-standing part of AMD that their CPUs run hotter by design, without issues.

It’s right there in the article, first paragraph:

Being overweight or obese causes hormonal changes, which accelerate children’s development. Obese children grow faster, so they tend to be taller than their healthy-weight peers. But obese children have a greater risk of disease in later life, including diabetes and heart disease.

Without further research on my end what this means to me is “poor children are more likely to be obese and reach their, presumably shorter, adult height earlier in their childhood”.

Mmm… Churro.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting said: "Weight loss drugs can be a real game changer for those who need them. I’m determined that access should be based on need, not ability to pay.

What a novel idea. I wonder if this could be applied to other drugs and treatments. I don’t know, something else that maybe has to do with not being in the right body for you. Or maybe mental health conditions.

This currently benefitting one company also really doesn’t help me not be cynical.

Just to nerd out a bit: I think this is justified. He has nanomachines, son. His eyesight is probably perfect, but he adopts a different persona most of the time. He’s a puppeteer and a politician most of the time.

This is when he gets his actual boss theme lyrics too and he finally treats you as an actual fight. No more metal gear, no more speeches. You get the treatment of an equal rival.

Or: Rising Revengeance might like symbolism, but it prefers the subtlety of a giant boulder and memes, and him taking off his glasses just fits the rule of cool.

I’ll add my own anecdote since I installed CachyOS a few weeks ago and have used it daily since. Have some experience with Linux Mint from before, but in the past few years I’ve almost exclusively used Windows.

For me, everything worked with default settings out the box, but I did see the wiki specifically mention “use btrfs if it works, if not, use…”. I even got my *arr stack and Jellyfin up and running relatively painlessly. And some games and programs not made for Arch/Linux.

The thing is I say relatively painlessly, but some of them involved a day of tinkering, diving into the Cachy and Arch wiki pages, etc. I’m fine with that, I find it fun. It’s the price you pay for wanting the benefits of the distro (performance, customisability, etc). And I was very clearly warned going into it, which TBF almost made me not go with an Arch-based distro.

So yeah, they are made a bit painful to use on purpose. Or rather, it’s a side effect of the core philosophies. It’s not for everyone, but it does cater to specific groups, and I think that is good. Kinda like how not every fediverse instance is for everyone (see also: Mastodon vs Lemmy vs Piefed)

I would still without a doubt recommend Linux Mint if someone wants an easy and painless experience after Windows. Heck, because of apt it’s even easier than Windows a lot of the time. And for the stuff that doesn’t work, it’ll happen if Linux gets more traction. Sadly we’re just not there yet.

(Though apparently the main thing out of everything I use in work and outside of it, it’s damned Xbox controllers that I have yet to get around to making function)

As someone originally from Hungary: as a kid I was taught I should walk on the left (if there is no pavement), so I could see the cars I’d be sharing the side of the road with. So technically it should all be reversed everywhere.

Also there is no consistent walking side tendency anywhere, and just walking to/through the shops you’d know that. Brits might do a queue but see if you can predict which side they’ll be walking on, and it’s no different elsewhere.

Not OP, but I’ll answer from my own perspective. Note that Discord terminology can be a bit weird, since a server is just a unique shared group space, but hopefully makes sense.

So you can:

• Have private chats with one or multiple individuals.
• Start audio or video calls through those chats, and screen share/stream in them.
• I’ll also mention the ability to send not just text, but images, videos, embedded GIFs, files, so on.
• in servers you get the same thing, broken into text and voice channels (the latter allowing the full range of audio, video, and screen share).
• in servers each user can be given roles to determine which channels they can see and use, or edit, among various other permissions.
• Pinned messages, @ mentions for roles.
• Though I don’t use it much anymore, the option to effectively subscribe to a channel on another server to have messages from there propagate over (e.g.: a uni club server announces an event and you see it on another server in an events channel)
• also servers don’t have any upper limits on members, at least not one I’ve ever seen hit
• Bot integration via API.
• oh, also it all works on desktop or mobile (because it’s mostly just a web app, but still)

And key thing is: all very easy to get started with, whether you’re just wanting to join a server, or start an entire community.

Big deal for my uses currently is voice chat and screen share in one place, while still being able to organise stuff into separate channels, pin messages in them, etc.

I think right now if I had to replace it, assuming I could get the people I interact with off (which is either 20 or 1500 people, depending on how much I’d want to carry with me), it’d have to be a mix of Matrix/Stoat and probably Steam’s built-in features. Maybe a classic forum. That is, if I wanted to have all the features I use. I could do with less, but it’s frustrating.

I think the alternatives will get there eventually, self-hosted even, but self-hosting also has a hardware cost.

That said, I really don’t know why software stuff was ever moved on discord. My uses are gaming and university community-related.

It sounds like they asked about specific parties being banned. 16% even said Labour…

Without seeing the full survey it’s hard to gauge, but seems like it might’ve been odd phrasing.

Disregarding that, I think I agree with the majority here. Reform are, sadly, a legitimate political party in the UK, who even have seats in Parliament. I don’t feel we should be targeting individual political parties with freedom of speech restrictions, at least not on a national level. Students and staff getting their universities to bar them would be fine. Perhaps an odd distinction, but I think it’s an important one.

Unfortunately it seems very much a mixed bag. For some the more recent patches did a lot, for others they broke things.

(Sadly on Windows) The same happened to me. Decent performance around release, later updates messed it all up. That said I think the latest update did make it run better than ever on my machine, but obviously YMMV.

I do think they’re working on it, they just seem to be lost? It should be a big deal for Capcom if Monster Hunter loses popularity due to performance.