We've recently been without water in the UK for 5 days (water company failings). I've come to appreciate mains water and how its utility is hard felt by omission for toilets, washing & cleaning. Immensely grateful to have it back now.
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"I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question." - Harun Yahya
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#123I found git worktree today.
If you haven't yet, find `git rerere` as well
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#124I have started exploring Seneca/stoicism again. Prompted partly by a recent submission here, partly by personal reasons. Instead of consuming other peoples interpretation of stoicism I decided to go as close to the source as feasible for me. I have read Letters from a stoic a number of times before and my copy is filled with highlights, but this time I think I will try to limit myself to one or two letters a day and…
Based on some reading in a study group using both the Hays and Waterfield translations, I'd definitely recommend Waterfield over Hays.
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#125I've explored various VPN settings/configurations/protocols to see what works best with my ISP that tends to throttle traffic to my work VPN.
Some things work OK, but still not as good as commercial VPN providers.
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#126I have started exploring Seneca/stoicism again. Prompted partly by a recent submission here, partly by personal reasons. Instead of consuming other peoples interpretation of stoicism I decided to go as close to the source as feasible for me. I have read Letters from a stoic a number of times before and my copy is filled with highlights, but this time I think I will try to limit myself to one or two letters a day and…
Good read thanks. I totally can relate to the choices problem. It's rather easy with physical books (or was, as we have little room left for even more books ;-0) but ebooks are "dangerous" too.
Regarding cameras, it's harder (and more expensive) to wrangle with gear acquisition syndrome (GAS) but after switching from Canon EOS to Fuji, because the Canon stuff was too heavy when hiking, I managed to restrain myself most of the time. Because the question always is whether my images would become better with different gear or with more trial and error.
I opted for trial and error and eagerly watch a selected number of YouTube channels who almost always show me that I should and can improve myself and not my gear.
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"I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question." - Harun Yahya
This was always a flawed quote because even before such a realization, people still did novel things (and literally flew to new places), much the same as birds. And the answer is still the same for birds and humans, the constraint of resources. If you have enough then by all means, fly.
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Good question, if it is such. We keep a rabbit indoors, free roaming in the house, now for 7 years, I expect he will do 10+ Would you prefer to live freely for 6 months or have a hopefully comfortable life for ten times more. Before anyone jumping to say “freedom!” why don’t you do it already? Why are you keeping your body prisoner indoors?
> Why are you keeping your body prisoner indoors?
What does this even mean in the context of humans? People do go outside.
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It does strike me as cruel too, to be denied freedom like that.
It also seems like the sibling comments are misunderstanding your last sentence, it's not about the "you" in that sentence having self imposed limitations, it's you being literally imprisoned by an external source without any way to get out. So asking "why are you a prisoner inside" doesn't make any sense.
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#130I went on a tour of a miso factory today and learned about how it's made! What surprised me the most was that shiro (white) miso and aka (red) miso are both the same mix of soybeans, salt, and rice malt but fermented for different periods of time. As the miso ferments for longer, its color becomes darker while its flavor becomes milder and more complex. Beyond 3 years of fermentation, you get diminishing returns as i…
Same as white, green, yellow, black, pu erh tea, and all of their different varieties within those categories, it's all the same leaves, just different processes.