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  • I see it ALL the time, across MANY domains.

    Language, music, golf, programming, driving, competitive gaming, etc etc.

    It’s not necessarily a bad thing; it’s WAY more effort to push for improvement. Once you’ve gotten to the point where your skills are serving your needs, is that what you want to invest your finite energy into? Maybe not. God knows I’m not actively trying to improve on every skill I have. Very few. Most of my things (music, games, sport) are just to have fun. If you’re having fun you’re probably not really improving, and that’s ok.

    But when people lament that they’ve hit a wall on a skill, in my experience it’s this effect, MUCH more than any other.

    I think if OP reflected on their already MASSIVE achievement of becoming functional in another language, they’d likely conclude that their skills rapidly increased up until the point that they had a functional level of the skill, and then hit a plateau once they subconsciously began expending less active effort on improvement.




  • Gonna pull out my hair splitting razors for a moment…

    OP didn’t say more intelligent, they said smarter.

    Can one get smarter? Does “smart” conceptually include the quanity of acquired information? Does the quality of thought impact the ability to acquire new information? Does smart include the concept applying knowledge appropriately? Is the ability to do that informed by the quality of thought?

    We might have different definitions for a lot of these words, but I think I gotta say “yes” to all of them.

    I’m not this guy so I can only guess their experience, but the more time they’re able to spend in a mental state that maximizes the quality of their thought processes, I would expect it would help them learn new things and more effectively apply that knowledge. I’m contented to say that counts as smart.

    So ya: More think good make more smarter that guy.





  • Directly from my ass, it’s my assumption that the primary maintainers just don’t have an incentivize the cost of supporting older devices and the disparate hardware configurations.

    Like, planned obscellesance or not, smartphone churn is going to happen anyways. People lose them, smash them, fall into a pool with them, decide they NEED the newer camera soldered into them, etc…

    It’s not like there are old phones in a closet somewhere propping up business critical infrastructure like with computers.

    The cost vs utility of maintaining forward features and security patches for a massive catalog of hardware configurations just isn’t there.












  • It’s beyond that, the context even matters. If I’m in my garage, and my car is parked in the driveway:

    -If someone asks where the car is (implication my wife could be out getting groceries, it could be at the shop, etc…) the answer is “here” (on the premises) as opposed to “there” (the grocery store, the shop, etc)

    -If I want to change the oil in my garage, I could as someone to bring it “here” (being the garage) because it’s currently “there” (the driveway).

    In both cases, my location and the vehicles location is the exact same. “For what purpose?” Informs if something is “here” or “there”.