That may have to do with Duolingo optimizing for paying and returning customers instead of for fluency.

Their app has to be "fun" or in flow rather than in that difficult challenging place to actually help you grow.

In learning both German and Old Norse the most helpful thing for me was to translate texts, read them aloud to a fluent speaker and get feedback. Which is hard to scale.

Do you have any more detail to your approach? Do you use graded readers, or do you find that a dictionary and basic grasp on grammar is enough to struggle through pretty much anything?

... Do Old Norse graded readers exist?

I'm fighting this battle right now.

Inches from just emailing the list of CVEs to someone way above my paygrade and letting the chips fall.

Then they can do their job with professionalism and courtesy for those they contact.

Ironically understanding that was the gateway to a zen like state of, "Sure but it'll impact our ability to succeed in next Quarters objectives"

They do think about those bonuses longer than the next quarter.

For most fans of the series this is a feature, not a bug.

There is a lot of desperate demand for the simple acknowledgment that America got a lot of things right, and had a deep commitment to doing better.

The books have some lengthy subplots exploring our nations sins, and dark parts. But the general framing is, "good people with good intent doing their best who fall short, get up and do their best again. And that is AWESOME!"

Only because we have decided to consume 16,000 a year in city service on that same house, and finance the rest with the urban development Ponzi scheme.

I suspect the appetite for suburban living would dry up if we all paid the actual maintenance costs of those streets, water and schools on a land-value basis

I teach intro to CS for a homeschool co-op and love seeing this kind of story!

Children can absolutely learn a lot more than we think they can, provided we take their capabilities seriously and give the appropriate scaffolding.

I feel like the value for you there is to incrementally add a little bit and keep your project fresh in your mind.

this is what i believe. even 10 minutes daily for me can work wonders. it puts me in that headspace even if i don't get any hobby work done.

Fed it to a cow and ate the cow.

That must have been one massive burger!

Skimping on resilience has been done for decades as part of "cost cutting," in large part because even when we had staffing for resilience, we found that people would collect their check and not actually do the maintenance.