English vs Spanish days of the week comparison is interesting. Day of the sun - Day of the Lord Day of the moon - Day of the moon Day of Týr - Day of Mars Day of Woden - Day of Mercury Day of Thor - Day of Jupiter Day of Freyr - Day of Venus

Apparently Spanish can imply the can/could mode without needing a dedicated modal verb.

After doing a sleep study I have learned that I probably do not have sleep apnea. I just snore loud.

Yo @Alex Gleason something pretty wrong seems to be going on with my threads account, @npub1p7hw...zwh0 It seems to be reposting tons of random posts which I have not reposted myself and have no control over. Maybe a bug.

Any recommendations for websites to help learn Spanish grammar? I’m looking for reference material not guided learning.

Spanish direct object pronoun placement is dubious…

I would love custom algos/feeds that have a scoring threshold that is so high that maybe only 10 posts make it into the feed a day. When I check this hypothetical feed, I would expect to come to the end of it rather quickly.

There are two parts to my strategy to learning Spanish: loading my neural nets with training data and learning grammar models to apply to that material. Sort of a bottom-up + top-down approach.

Another thing I'm gonna need to get straight is the difference between the words 'ser' and 'estar' in Spanish, where in English we only have the word 'to be'. My understanding of this is that 'ser' is for more "permanent" characteristics while 'estar' is for more "temporary" characteristics. Will learning new verbal paradigms allow be to see the world differently?

A review of English verbs... We have three main "tenses" - past: uses -ed ending in simple tense - present: - future: uses 'will' modal verb And four main "aspects" - simple: - perfect: uses 'to have' verb and -ed ending - progressive: uses 'to be' verb and -ing ending - perfect progressive. uses both 'to have' and 'to be' verbs and -ing ending Beyond this, the sugar is in how the 'to have' and 'to be' verbs are inflected. Sadly Spanish is very much not 1:1 with this system.

Going to Honduras in early May. Speedrun to learn Spanish starts now.

Yea.

Music on TIDAL

Calvin Harris & Rag'n'Bone Man - Lovers In A Past Life

Listen to Lovers In A Past Life on TIDAL

Do I have to do something special to squeeze a threads post into nostr? I’ve entered the fediverse beta on threads but only my profile has made it to nostr, no posts.

Is primal vc funded or what’s the deal there?

Snow in March.

Don’t worry, instagram is doing just fine… instagram.com/reel/C4m_9MNIL9Z

Noland Arbaugh, a quadriplegic, on learning to use neurallink: “So there’s a difference between *attempting* to move it [the cursor] versus *imagining* to move it. Attempting, I feel like is kind of cheating. It’s probably not, but when I attempt to move something it does feel like I’m moving it with, say, my hand or my wrist, even though you can’t see it. To me, I can feel things in my arm moving around. Maybe you just can’t understand, I guess. When I first moved it just by thinking it… it blew my mind for like a day. Like I just could not wrap my head around it. It was so cool.” (Starting at 29:55) x.com/ModdedQuad/status/1771298116719002100

Would everyone please stop sha256ing everything?

I started using Bitkey last week and want to share some of my early feedback. (Bitkey is a tool for owning bitcoin which requires you to use any two of a mobile key, hardware key, and server key for transactions. The hardware key and mobile key can be used to recover each other.) 1.) If I choose to make an encrypted backup of my mobile key for "social recovery", how would I know if my "trusted contacts" lose their encryption key or not? It looks like you already got this feedback from some security reviewers here: View quoted note → 2.) The business structure of Bitkey is unclear to me. I can't tell if Bitkey is a simple part of Block, Inc. or a separate child company. 3.) The long-term incentive structure of Bitkey is unclear to me. Currently it appears that there is only hardware revenue. I wonder if service revenue will ever become necessary. Overall, I love it! This is the first self-custodial tool I would recommend to my friends and family. My bitcoin ownership recommendations are now the following: 1.) Bitkey 2.) btc etf 3.) Coinbase cc: @Thomas, @jack

Any freedom of association in the discourse these days?