This is a definite enhancement over my existing “big pile o scripts” directory. I plan to dig in later and find out if different scripts can run in different pyenv virtualenvs.
Garden is a multi-repo powertool for running custom commands and mashing random shell scripts and loosely-coupled repos into a version-controllable config file. If you're weird like me you might like it.
I mean, how else would you distinguish that restaurant from "Food was sublime, service ranged from movie-star charm to invisibly dealing with my every need, payment was waived in favour of a small donation to my favourite cat charity. 5 stars"
In my view scores are relative to expectations, usually tied to price. A restaurant with a $50 meal and a 3 star score will likely have better food than one with a $5 meal and 5 stars on an absolute scale, but the people who got their $5 meal were happy with it and the ones with the $50 meal were disappointed.
Mine too! I was drawing the comparison between the two schools of thought using an example. I imagine, but don’t have any evidence, that the absolute scale dominates culturally in Japan, and the relative scale in the west.
In his books, Heisig recommends learning all the joyo kanji before anything else. It's what his books are for, so it isn't a surprise, but perhaps that's where the idea that it's useful to do so came from.
Yes, that's his point of view but he's a bit alone on that. It probably works if you're not using Japanese at all while learning the Kanji, but if you do need to use Japanese (i.e. freshly arrived in Japan) it doesn't really make sense to spend 1 year on kanji before learning the language.
For most people kanji is better learned with vocabulary.
You definitely need to learn hiragana first, and not use romaji at all, but that can be done in 2 weeks.
The idea is somewhat persistent amongst beginners though, whether sources agree or not. I guess that’s a problem of community-lead learning, instead of instructor-lead.
I LOVED Jet Grind Radio (Jet Set Radio here in the UK). That combo gameplay of doing cool tricks while completing the course was seriously addictive. Trickstyle did a vaguely similar thing - still doing cool tricks, but replace graffiti with racing.
I would have classified it as a "simulation". Which is what the author calls it, but then tries to find other things to call it too. Simulation is fine.
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