I remember thinking last summer it was a good thing we still had some N95s in the closet. I wore them when I was riding around on my bike and they did help.
This could be a variation on the traditional Japanese bath. The way that works is you fill up a tub and use this big ladle thing to pour water over yourself and wash up outside the bath. (The whole bathroom floor is tiled and has a drain in the middle.) Then, once clean, you can climb into the bath and warm up.
I remember thinking when I was in Japan that you could replace the ladle with some sort of pump that draws water out of the tub and runs it through a shower head. Then you can take a short regular shower before climbing into the bath. But now, if you cleaned up and then stepped into the bath with the shower head dumping into the tub, you would effectively have "shower thoughts mode" right?
Wouldn't 3k Euro be essentially the luxury sedan of ebikes? My first was a class 1 aimed at tourist rentals that cost around $1.5k CAD ($1k Euro). I considered that entry level at the time, though there are cheaper ones out there now. My current one is a $2.5k CAD ($1.7k Euro) class 2. It is pretty much everything I could want in a bike. I can't see myself spending more. Well, maybe a cargo model would cost more?
I get what you're saying about theft though. I am lucky in that I have indoor parking both at home and work. A coworker of mine lives in a condo where he can't park a bike indoors. So while it was thankfully never stolen, he was sufficiently nervous about it that he eventually sold his and replaced it with an escooter.
The bow is also on the wrong side of the bridge. Though now that I think of it, that might produce an even higher sound like you would expect of a microscopic violin?
Personally, I would get an external SSD and try it on there first. At least it's new enough to have USB3 ports. If you're comfortable enough with it under the circumstances, you can put it on your main drive. But you may find you need to upgrade the RAM or that it's just too much of a resource hog in the end? But even if you back away from 14, it's always nice to have an external SSD kicking around. :)
When anti-lock braking systems (ABS) were first introduced in premium cars, accidents increased initially for that sector owing to driver over-confidence. The same effect is again being seen with modern driving assist systems. Since large vehicles are especially safe for their occupants at low speeds, this has a pernicious effect on driver attention, consequently increasing casualty figures for other road users. Every year there are fewer victims of car accidents – but not among pedestrians, cyclists and other light vehicle users.
My driving instructor years ago: "The plain fact of the matter is if you replaced airbags with spring-loaded spikes that shoot out of the steering column, the streets would be far safer."
Yeah you nailed it! It's generally not a problem at the primary colour level. For example, I have no trouble distinguishing the red and green of a traffic light. But there are, like you say, a lot of ways to mix colours and that's where we get into trouble.
There is a type of colourblindness that affects your perception of yellow, but the red-green types are far more common in the population. It is also much more common in men than women. This is because the trait is carried by X chromosomes, and for a woman to exhibit it, she must have the gene on both X's. Men only have one X and one Y, so if you have it on your X, you're doomed! lol
One thing you may or may not have noticed is colourblind people tend to be more sensitive to subtle differences in shade. This is a compensation the brain works out, similar to how fully blind people develop a sharper sense of hearing. The military even noted that this can help in spotting camouflage on an air photo, and it's one of these rare cases where colourblind individuals were specifically sought out. It usually goes the other way, though. Like we are steered away from careers as electricians, pharmacists, etc. and I totally get that. It's not discriminatory. It's just common sense! :)
My favourite colour is yellow mainly because I have red-green colourblindness but yellow never steers me wrong. It's always honest with me.
I don't generally go out of my way to have everything yellow, though when work moved into a new location and offered me a choice of paint for my office, I did choose it, which raised some eyebrows. But it was north-facing and I'm in Canada where winters can dark fast. I wanted something to counterbalance that and the offices next to mine where people chose neutral grey and blue looked kind of dingy and cave-like to my eye at least. I think yellow was a win!
The commands within the parentheses run in a temporarily created subshell with its own environment. So you can change the working directory within it and it won't effect your main shell's working directory.
Let's say you're in the home directory that's called /home/joe. You could go something like:
> (cd bin && pwd) && pwd
/home/joe/bin
/home/joe
If find had something equivalent to tar -C, you wouldn't need to do this, but I don't think it does?
Ok, I actually tried something like this at a terminal. You do still need the -C ./testar if you use the subshell since tar won't know where to look otherwise.
(sudo cd ./testar && sudo find . -maxdepth 1 -type d,f) | sudo tar -czvf ./xtractar/tar2/testbackup2.tgz -C ./testar -T -
This will still give you a listing with ./text.tz and so on because find prints ./whatever when you search .. I think this is harmless? But I suppose you could remove them if it bothers you.
I think that since you're piping in the file list from find, the -C ./testar in the tar command is basically irrelevant? You probably need to cd ./testarbefore the find. Maybe you could do that in a subshell so that the cd doesn't affect your tar archive path? So something like:
(sudo cd ./testar && sudo find ./ -maxdepth 1 -type d,f) | sudo tar -czvf ./xtractar/tar2/testbackup2.tgz -T -
Ok sure. The grapevine effect. I'm trying to think of how often I've seen a movie on a friend's recommendation. I guess it happens from time to time?
One thing though is that those same entertainment people love to talk about the opening weekend. Isn't that a bit quick for the friend effect to kick in? I realize that in this day and age of social media, word can spread rapidly. But I for one am not the sort who would just drop everything to go see a movie immediately based on a friend recommending it hours earlier.
I try not to read too much into it. The box office income is obviously important in terms of what sort of films may get produced in the future. If a movie flops, it will be unlikely to get a sequel, but more broadly, the whole industry may pivot towards one genre or another depending on recent successes.
But I often wonder about entertainment columnists who write things like "They really liked this film over in China but not in North America." How good an indicator are box office sales of how much people really enjoyed a film? The reason I ask is based on my own viewing habits. When I feel like going to a movie, I look at what's showing and think ok, that looks pretty interesting. I might read a review or watch a trailer, but at the end of the day, I'm taking a risk that I will like it. I may or I may not. And either way, it is unlikely that I would see it again at the theatre.
So I guess what I'm saying is that for me, at least, a ticket purchase is not an automatic vote of confidence that I think this film is great. But maybe I'm not a typical moviegoer, introvert that I am? Maybe the normal pattern is you see it with a couple friends, and if you like it, you gather more friends and see it again and again? If that's more the way it goes, I can understand why box office sales would truly correlate to a film's worthiness. But if more people are like me, it could just be that the movie was really hyped up and people decided to go see it even if they come out of there going wow, that sucked. But they still paid for the ticket regardless, which reflects well on box office sales.
Several years ago, I considered an EV, got sticker shock, and slowly backed away. I wound up with an ebike instead. What happened with the latter is it turned out I really loved that thing and rode it far more frequently than I would have imagined. It's not a total car replacement, to be fair, but it handles most trips.
Today, EVs are still expensive, though there are more options and a bit more competition on price. But to make them worthwhile, you need to drive a lot so that you get back some of that initial investment in savings with charging vs fuelling. This means I am not really the demographic for EVs anymore, since I don't drive enough. It's so weird… I guess I'll just keep that 2006 ICE around until it dies, which might be awhile yet considering how slowly the mileage is ticking up.
Aw give him a hug for me. We have a rescue cat who had to get all his teeth removed after a severe infection from living on the streets. We fostered him for a bit during his cone-head convalescence, fell in love with him, and wound up adopting him.
I was at church today also, playing music with my wife. I'm not particularly devout to be honest, but I believe in the community which got me settled into a new city and hooked me up with people who helped me live out my dreams. I owe these guys big-time. The priest is an old guy who came out of retirement to say all the stuff he's bottled up for years. He's super-progressive with a great sense of humour and he keeps things short. It's great! Today was his birthday and we all sang to him.
I'm not quite sure what you are after here. If it's about how to motivate other people to learn, those are teaching skills, and I am pretty lacking in that regard.
In terms of self-motivation, I think it is important to take stock once in a while of how far you've come. For example, say you're learning a musical instrument. It's so easy to get frustrated. You can't figure out how to play that new song or master a technique. And then you see some other guy playing the same instrument in a different band and they're killing it.
What I find helps in that situation is to think back to where you were a year ago. You're doing stuff you couldn't before and it shows. Give yourself some credit for putting in the work and getting results. Pat yourself on the back and be proud for once.
I like that end of the day bath too. Must be the Japanese in me. I feel some guilt over the water usage, but then again, I'm soaking in there for half an hour. If I did the same in a shower, I'd probably use even more water right? Also, the more you weigh, the more water you displace, meaning you need less to fill the tub. So it's a rare case of weight gain actually reducing resource consumption. Thank you Archimedes!
I remember thinking last summer it was a good thing we still had some N95s in the closet. I wore them when I was riding around on my bike and they did help.