For length, for an average male one meter is about one large step with extended legs (useful for distances), or the distance between e.g. the left side of your torso to the end of the extended right hand (useful for estimating the length of rope or smth).

For weight, it might be useful that 1 liter (that’s 1 dm3 but noone uses that except sometimes in scientific literature) is almost exactly 1 kg, and a typical cup fits 0.25 liter. A shot of alcohol is either 20 or 40 milliliters (0.02 or 0.04 liter) depending on where you are and what you order.

For conversions you just need to remember the base unit (e.g. meter and grams/kilograms) and the decimal prefixes. But you really only need milli (1/1000), centi (1/100) and kilo (1000) in day to day life. Then you simply shift the decimal.

I didn’t think of that - also for nvim you typically pull plugins from git repositories

have you tried the eurokey layout? At least for German it has all the relevant characters easily reachable.

Most organic things will get converted to biomass/CO2/NH3/… in the end. Inorganics will probably be sediment at some point.

diwkp

I find it really interesting that almost all of the recent comments on the YouTube video are 95% the same and praising “how great all this transparency” is, completely drowning out all other comments. They’re also worded very very similarly.

Paywalled subs existed for ages already. If you had Premium or whatever it was called you could access them. It was mostly uninteresting stuff going on there.

Do you happen to use a VPN?

That’s all very interesting. I might even consider re-learning the d (and the b for that matter).

I’m writing notes for myself and I can read them. When I’m writing for someone else (which rarely happens for handwritten notes) I take the time and effort to write nicer.

Also, I specifically didn’t write the example carefully because the use case for me would specifically be handwritten notes I made for myself.

Also if you’re not writing in cursive? I just checked some templates for kids to learn the letters, and at least the ones I’ve found do a circle first and then strike down. For example here. In cursive the materials I’ve found go halfway clockwise, then anticlockwise to complete the circle, up and down again like this.

I wonder whether this is something cultural.

How else do you write them? Worth mentioning that I learned cursive in school and we had to write in cursive until like middle school when I then mostly transitioned to a happy mix of cursive and non-cursive

Well, I haven’t had any issues at exams with my handwriting. But if I write something for myself, and fast then it’ll look somewhat like this. If I’d take my time it’ll be better but that’s not the point.

I like dotted paper, the dots are less distracting than grids, lined paper sucks for sketches/etc. and with plain paper I’m missing guides. But I agree that on this particular one, the dots are a bit too prominent.

That’s perfect. Now I’m just wondering why chatGPT is apparently much better in OCR than a dedicated OCR model like EasyOCR or Tesseract.

Btw, Deepseek did a good job but not perfect. I also fed chatGPT a full page of notes and the transcription to markdown worked quite well, although not perfect. However, if I supply the same note as part of a larger pdf, it will refuse to transcribe it, stating that it’s unreadable.

Jokes aside, over here in Europe a dozen large eggs cost between 5.16 and 7.80 € (for cheap barn eggs and pricey organic eggs respectively. Cage eggs have been outlawed for quite some years already)

maybe if we just stop testing for avian flu it will go away

/s just to be sure

Driving ambulance cars and doing first aid, helping in kindergarten, retirement homes, homeless shelters, institutions for people with disabilities,…

The ambulance is probably the most popular position, you can also choose what you want to do to a certain extent.

This exists in Austria. Males have to choose between 6 months of military or 9 months of public service. Interestingly enough the existence of the public service option has been a strong reason why people voted against removing the mandatory service some years ago.

+1 for mediawiki

Although you really need to consider the peer group you are working with, and make the contribution as little work as possible. In my experience, as soon as the course is over people won’t want to do any extra work like change the formatting or integrating with existing materials. And requiring to use a specific format (even if it’s something dead simple as markdown) might already be too much friction.

In my experience shared cloud storage (GDrive, Dropbox,…) works quite well, even if the feature set is very limited. Being able to simply plonk your .docx/.pdf/.whatever into there is very easy and low friction.

A different solution I saw that worked was a forum where you could also upload files that could be categorized into the different courses and were then accessible by others. If you were to self-host this, you’d really want to make sure somehow that it’s not exploited to spread malware or worse.

Anyways, I wouldn’t think too much about how well the material can be represented, but rather how you can get your peers to continuously contribute to it. The best representation is useless without the data going with it.