This is a common misconception. I’m quite happy not being social and have absolutely no need to be needed.
I FIREd 3 years ago and don’t miss working one bit.
I think leaving work becomes more difficult for those who do need to feel valued and especially if they don’t have interests outside of it. There are many people like that.
How do you decide what to immerse yourself in? Do you just search for things independently or do you have a way of selecting content based on your level?
I prefer to start immersion at ~B1 level. I know some people want to do comprehensive input right from the start, but I prefer to build foundations.
I start with popular books that I have already read before - The Little Prince, Harry Potter, etc. Then I take books that are interesting for me and work through them.
There are graded readers, but the stories are usually very boring. I prefer to read what I like.
The philosophy resonates with me. I even built a spaced repetition app myself while in Brasil a couple of years ago. I started with lists based on things like kitchen stuff etc. you’ve inspired me to resurrect it.
By the way, it’s a bit slow - maybe you’re getting increased traffic from the HN post.
The submit button needs to deactivate after being pressed the first time otherwise you end up pressing it multiple times and it’s like that scene from Toy Story with all the Martians in the machine.
It is misleading in so far that XSLT is an independent standard [1] and isn't owned by Google, so they cannot "kill it", or rather they'd have to ask W3C to mark it as deprecated.
What they can do is remove support for XSLT in Chrome and thus basically kill XSLT for websites. Which until now I didn't even know was supported and used.
XSLT can be used in many other areas as well, e.g. for XSL-FO [2]
I don't think XSLT was invented for the purpose of rendering XML into HTML in the first place. Perhaps it never should have been introduced in browsers to begin with?
XSLT was invented to transform one XML document to another XML document.
Browser can render XHTML which is also a valid XML.
So it's pretty natural to use XSLT to convert XML into XHTML which is rendered by browser. Of course you can do it on the server side, but client side support enables some interesting use-cases.
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