🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

I managed to learn a lot today without accomplishing anything. Things I've done:

- Setting up Grav as a custom webapp only to realise that the latest Grav requires PHP 7.3.8 which isn't Yunohost's PHP version, as Yunohost follows Debian stretch;

- Setting up Jekyll in Gitlab with a theme I want, but Gitlab CI confused me mid-way;

- Pico CMS as custom webapp in Yunohost was the closest to getting working, but a lot of plugins and themes are outdated;

- Dotclear2 authentication doesn't like Yunohost's LDAP;

I'm really trying not to use WordPress here but I have wasted all day on the above.

I'm also seriously considering ditching Yunohost with how restricted they are with my host.

But for now I've accumulated too much frustration and have to call it a day.

@freemo Nice. Not that I'll block either - I'm just in favour of techniques like this that give users more control over what content they want to see. Played a big role in me choosing this instance in the first place.

I need to select a functional queue datastructure but I have no idea whether to select a... banker's queue? Physicist's queue? Or...?

What kind of job should the thing that schedules my jobs have? :P https://docs.racket-lang.org/functional-data-structures/Queues.html

Extreme weather conditions could lead to disruption in regional food supplies, says an IPCC report published in August 2018.

> It is projected that for every degree of global warming, the world's yield of wheat will fall six per cent, corn by 7.4 per cent, and rice and soybeans both by a little more than three per cent each. Together those four crops account for two-thirds of the calories consumed by people, and with the population growing by 80 million people each year on average, the world needs to produce more food, not less.

"Canadian food supplies at risk if climate change not slowed: UN report" | Mia Rabson (The Canadian Press) | Aug. 8, 2019 at https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/canadian-food-supplies-at-risk-if-climate-change-not-slowed-un-report-1.4540890

> Cynthia Rosenzweig, a senior research scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City and one of the coordinating lead authors of the IPCC report, said much of the world relies on trade to access food, which increases global vulnerability if food production is affected across several regions at the same time.

"Climate change could trigger a global food crisis, new U.N. report says" | Denise Chow | Aug. 8, 2019 | NBC News at https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/news/climate-change-could-trigger-global-food-crisis-new-u-n-ncna1040236

"Climate Change and Land: an IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems" | Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change | August 2019 at http://www.ipcc.ch/report/srccl/

Also my goodness the increased character limit is satisfying. Thanks @freemo

Thanks for hosting @freemo.

I'm going to use this account for keeping track of my learning, to complement the theme of qoto.org. Hopefully with that usage it might even be my Mastodon main.

Gonna start my first post with this article I came across on Quora, despite my slight distaste of the monetisation the platform has tread towards:

https://medium.com/better-marketing/how-to-actually-learn-a-skill-from-a-book-e72261fcae70

The article is suggesting the use of handwriting a particular lesson 100 times, before experimenting and learning from it.

I was born and raised in Hong Kong until 15. The way we learn Chinese (a language evolved from pictures, so instead of memorising 26 alphabets that you string together, you memorise >1k different shapes) was largely rote learning - recite a chapter until you can do it from memory, handwrite a chapter 100 times. If you were naughty at school, handwrite a chapter 100 times more.

Sounds daunting and ineffective in Western standards, and I didn't like it, but it did have its merit. Even more so if you care about what you are learning.

The article used copywriting as an example of the learning subject. Since I'm learning programming, I wonder how I'm gonna do this - handwrite code 100 times? Handwrite explanation of algorithms 100 times? I do love handwriting so any excuse to get my pen flowing is a good excuse.

#introduction #learning

@freemo
I might sign up an alt as my technology learner persona. Thanks for maintaining this awesome instance.

@freemo and due to groups like south silly where if you did not 100% agree with the group think we are here. All of the facebook groups i am in are now private or secret for this same reason. There would not be a need for a new platform if there was no toxic culture on the others. we are smart enough to not engage anymore . imagine being a broken young person trying to navigate that?

@freemo its such a bad environment if your mental health isnt up to snuff. its also an easy slide into one of many extremist groups on both the left and the right. hurt people hurt people

Working on the gerrymanding game for #summerslowjams. Here's a first draft of Delaware.

@freemo thanks bud. Im looking foreward to well thought out conversations ! this is exciting

@Liberty4Masses The biggest threat America faces is extremism & a lack of respectful discourse. Both act together to prevent us from solving the problems we all face. As important as gun rights are, being able to have respectful dialog again as a nation is far far more critical.

Showing off Cooper & Korra on this here #InternationalCatDay