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If you are into Japanese lacquer x technology mashups, check out the 10th anniversary HHKB (happy hacking keyboard) by PFU Fujitsu[0] [0] https://hhkb.io/models/HHKB_Professional_HG/
Took me some time to search. This is a limited Edition and only 650 unit will be produce and sold worldwide. Pricing at 99,000 JPY, or about $630 USD I saw it and I thought this looks really nice and I could buy one and have it for life. Was expecting to spend up to $300 for it already, but $630 and limited edition means I will probably never be able to have one. Another question, does anyone know of a website where…
Tools and Toys, or Uncrate, might have started out like this but seem to be more platforms for “brand stories” and just fresh new luxury gadgets. If you start a blog like this to fill in the gap, I’ll follow!
If anything one of my dreams / idea is to actually open an online store and only sell these gadgets.
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"buy twice" is one of those live advices I heard and adhere to since. It's basically the optimistic interpretation of "buy cheap, buy twice": When I consider getting into something I buy cheap first, the idea being that that is enough to get a feel ... ... then you buy the second time and don't cheap out. But this purchase is more informed and you really get to appreciate it more because you know the step up from the…
As opposed to the old mechanics koan "Buy once cry once" But sure, in general if you don't know what you are doing start cheap and treat it like a learning opportunity. The real danger is in when you use shitty tools and think that because of that you are bad at something, so give up. My personal story on this was when I hosed a laptop(don't disable usb when there are only usb devices) All the normal ways to fix it w…
If you are learning a meaningfully new domain, you are bad at it.
If that causes you to give up, you are giving up on learning.
And in the case of your repair, the fact that the broken system sat on the bench for a year while you learned more meant that you did not give up.
Meaningful adult learning of new domains takes years. If something doesn't it either is not a new domain or the standard of performance is not an adult standard.
Finally, you could have bought the more expensive programmer first, but you might not have had the skill and knowledge and relevant experience to use it properly a year earlier...or to put it another way, you didn't have the direct experience to recognize the value of the post on which tool to use until after you had direct experience.
Buying tools twice or three or four times is just "the cost of doing business." You can't make an informed decision until you have experience.
If you are into Japanese lacquer x technology mashups, check out the 10th anniversary HHKB (happy hacking keyboard) by PFU Fujitsu[0] [0] https://hhkb.io/models/HHKB_Professional_HG/
thanks for linking to my page and reminding me how badly i need to do a round of updates -_-
Knowing about Japanese Lacquer (aka Urushi) will change the way that you see the world. Urushi is the sap of a tree that is related to poison oak and posion ivy. You can learn to use it by wearing a biohazard suit or by suffering through until you develop an immunity to the urushiol. To call it "the itch" does not do it justice. You do not really know the full depths of being a human until you decide, with full knowl…
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That did change me profoundly. I saw the world not as something to watch but to be in. That I could suffer (and ouch did I suffer) and survive and do something that I had no idea I could do. So how I see myself changed as well, but the profound thing that changed was meworld. How I and world relate to each other.
I seek out things like this. Not for thrills but because of the transformation. Some times this does not work out well. I kick myself because in my quest of transformation I find that I can utterly and completely fail. But again, there is a transformation there. I can utterly and completely fail and go on.
This is not marketing, this is me urging you to attempt to do something that is important enough to you that if you do it, your relationship to life, the world and yourself will be changed in good ways.
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The point is not everyone agrees with you, that's why one shouldn't try to dictate what others do with their money.
To be clear, I am claiming that it is objectively better to spend a vast amount of money on charity rather than on a suit. I am not "dictating" anything, I am stating an opinion.
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To be clear, I am claiming that it is objectively better to spend a vast amount of money on charity rather than on a suit. I am not "dictating" anything, I am stating an opinion.
Many people disagree with that opinion of yours stating that it's an objective fact.