It's so refreshing when you remember something you tried to learn some 10 years ago and didn't understand a bit, and now you take random course notes and you follow along easily, even if you've never really been adjacent to this topic or field.
Monkey brain is get gooder?
@lisyarus two different things come to mind.
In year 4 of university, I spent 4-6 months thinking about my bachelor thesis. Only 5-6 years later did I actually internalize the meaning of all words in the title of the thesis.
Ten years ago I wanted to make screensavers for my (now ancient) ebook. I really wanted to use ImageMagick, but it wasn't producing compatible BMP files. I had to use Paint.NET for it. Two years ago I tried ImageMagick again, and voilà ! https://superuser.com/a/1778509/133421
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