If you want a fun and easy way to contribute to OSM I recommend StreetComplete. You get a bunch of game-like quest icons for things like "what is the surface of this path?", and "does this road have a cycle path?", then you walk around and fill them in.

Very satisfying and feels like you're doing something actually useful. Also nudges you to visit parts of your neighborhood you might never have been to before.

Loooking forward to their kotlin multiplatform release

Imagine instead the post was about people who want to make music but don't listen to it.

I literally cannot imagine being a musician who doesn't listen to music.

This isn't a real counterexample, but an interesting case is Bobby McFerrin, who wrote "Don't Worry, Be Happy". He avoided listening to singers for 1-2 years in order to develop his own voice/sound:

"First was the vision, then the technique of working it out. I wanted to find my own way of singing by knowing myself. I knew that if I started listening to other singers, it would take me years to develop. So I shut myself off from other singers for along time."

from page 25 of https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/R%26B-Re...

That makes sense to me. If I was about to write a doom metal record I'd probably avoid listening to doom metal for a while.

The difference here, as you point out, is that Bobby already had a lifetime of listening to music and appreciating other singers.

There are many game devs who don't play games. A lot of artists would rather be working on movies, and a lot of programmers who just love to program.

The best game devs all do though.

But are these game devs designing the gameplay loop? Or are they working on backend, like the engine?

I could imagine a (solo) game dev not self-describe as a gamer, but they must have some intuition about what makes (video/board) games fun and engaging.

I can't imagine you can obtain that without ever playing games yourself?

They make well-engineered keyboards, have excellent customer service and made a very usable web front-end to QMK for configuration.

One thing that might help is setting the backlight colours to mark out different groups of keys.

According to this calculator [1] it would take 11.274 times the mass of the earth to create a black hole with a radius of 10cm.

[1] https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/schwarzschild-radius

0.0001 km, or 10 cm would take 0.00003385 suns, or 6.72857 × 10²⁵ kg

Obviously that's not possible by today's physics.

But lets say it was possible, by placing it some where space, how would one make it ?

I'm less ambitious and I just want a 1 cm blackhole for display purposes, cool thing to show off to my guests.

Imagine my disappointment at finding out that I'm gonna need about 10^47 chonky house cats to make a 1cm blackhole! Where could I find that!

If you make it 0.887cm you get a nice round one-earth-mass :D

It's ok, the kids learning this stuff these days are on YouTube and Discord.

It's pretty sad that they had to shift to a non-interactive medium to avoid getting smashed. Sad place the world is now in that respect :-(

It's an old meme

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-accidentally

Thanks. I missed that meme

Seems to be MacOS only.

Consider phrasal verbs like "shut up", "get lost" or "kick off". Knowing what the parts mean doesn't let you understand the whole.

In your native tongue you take these for granted, but in a second language you have to learn that the sum is more (or different) than the parts.

Phrasal verbs are listed under the main verb. I never ever had a problem with that. As a native speaker sometimes I still have to search for some in some strange context.

These are called idiomatic phrases, and many (all natural?) languages have them, and, yes, they are pitfalls for language learners.

These particular examples are figures of speech, so "shut" in "shut up" still means the same thing it would mean in "shut the door." And "up" is used the same way as "cover up."

So the issue is just that this is figurative language, and you have to know that a kickoff is the beginning of certain sports, for example. It's more of a cultural issue than something a dictionary needs to fix.

I think this is exactly it. I started getting RSI, spent a little time researching, bought a zsa moonlander and it cured me.

I haven't turned it into a hobby, it's just a tool that solves a problem.