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by Tor3 6mo ago
As someone with access to both Japanese ofuro and sauna, they are quite different in some respects. And similar in others. One thing which a sauna could do for me when the ofuro could not, was to fix a problem I had with coughing. Somethin
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by Tor3 6mo ago
Saunas are common in Norway, even if not to the same degree as in Finland. The reason Finland has had a lower life expectancy than Norway is believed to be due to the difference in diet (cardivascular issues). Note that the diet in Finland
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by Tor3 6mo ago
Don't "tough it out" in a sauna. Stay until it feels uncomfortable, or, if you're not sure, keep track of your heart rate and get out if it increases too much. You'll get used to the sauna after frequenting it for
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by Tor3 6mo ago
At which temperature?
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by Tor3 6mo ago
Yep. A problem with public saunas (outside Finland, at least) is that they lower the temperature (to, say below 80) in the misguided belief that this will make it easier for more people to stay longer inside.. which is the wrong way to use
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by Tor3 6mo ago
Right, it's just that a sauna at 60 degrees is not warm, it's cold. Take a shower, go into the sauna at 60 degrees C, and it'll feel cold. Nothing happens in a sauna until you're getting near 80, and it's much bette
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by Tor3 6mo ago
From the article: "..promotes sweating and therefore the elimination of toxins,.." That false statement really makes me unsure about the quality of the article. And I'm saying this as someone who uses sauna daily, when possib
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by Tor3 6mo ago
I didn't feel a thing a bit south of Nagoya. Almost strange that there was nothing here, when you got shaking in Tokyo.
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by Tor3 6mo ago
Indeed - though the article doesn't really state the boats weren't in existence before the Vikings, it's about ship burials which apparently weren't supposed to exist in Scandinavia until the practice was imported from E
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by Tor3 6mo ago
Just where did you get that from? Certainly not from the paper.
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by Tor3 6mo ago
What I want to get rid of is all the "Mix" videos. I never look at them, I have zero interest in watching a stream of stuff chained together by an algorithm or whatever. But, unlike single videos, under the three dots there's
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by Tor3 6mo ago
I assume they had a kind of pool for files, and a system linking files (or should I say "blobs" to each client's directory layout. Kind of like if I have a disk with different subdirectories, I could run a tool (which do exis
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by Tor3 6mo ago
I like that book too, I bought it many decades ago and learned enough to write a transpiler for converting Fortran source code to Turbo Pascal.
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by Tor3 6mo ago
A friend (who has unfortunately passed away) owned, together with his father, just about every opera CD ever made (his father worked in RAI (Radiotelevisione Italiana) and was also an opera fanatic). So, in order to get more opera he used t
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by Tor3 6mo ago
There was a Swizz cloud backup system existing until some years ago.. can't recall the name but it started with a 'V'. They also encrypted the files on the client side before transmission, but the files were encrypted with t
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by Tor3 6mo ago
>File changes within .git directories occur far too often[..] That's a crazy statement. The cloud backup system I use can be configured to how often it should bother even looking for new files, and for the section where I have my .
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by Tor3 6mo ago
Professional? We indeed use git at the company where I work, but there we have a dedicated backup system used by professionals. No BB involved. I, on the other hand, as a private consumer, use git for all my hobby projects and note-taking.
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by Tor3 6mo ago
That's new to me, and something I have to check. Wow. I assume this must be new, I'm 100% certain my (Japanese) wife hasn't heard about anything like that.
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by Tor3 6mo ago
Aah, I had totally forgotten about that X11 feature, I did use it for something very many years ago. I have only used the default setup (which is presumably Wayland) on the Pi, looks good but I don't actually use display features much.
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by Tor3 6mo ago
Same - on one of my computers (Linux, btw) the only directories in the list of directories to back up are .git directories. That's what I'm concerned with, so that's what I back up. And it works just fine, with my provider.
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by Tor3 6mo ago
I've used them for mostly dedicated tasks, at least the RPi3 and older. I've used the RPi3 as CUPS servers at a couple of sites, for a few printers. Been running for many years now 24/7 with no issues. As I could buy those S
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by Tor3 6mo ago
But maintained and extended today by e.g. JR Eeast.
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by Tor3 6mo ago
At my native home my bicycles are insured, now through my home insurance (part of the furniture, kind of), but at one point one of my electric bicycles was too expensive for that and required additional insurance. As soon as the price dropp
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by Tor3 6mo ago
I don't think it's expensive, but then again I'm comparing it to train prices in Northern Europe, which is just painful. There, I'm used to pay for the ticket through gritted teeth. In Japan I can pay for a ticket + lim
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by Tor3 6mo ago
>Are there not a lot of toll roads in Japan as well? There are, but at least wherever I've been driving or been a passenger, there are alternative roads which are just fine. In general slower, but every so often the toll roads are c
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by Tor3 6mo ago
I'm in a 20 year old two-storey apartment right now (while we're building a new house), and the sound-proofing isn't non-existing but not as bad as some other apartments I'm aware of (where you can't make a sound wi
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by Tor3 6mo ago
I believe the Japanese private rail companies also own the lines where their traffic is. This would explain a lot. There are other countries (including my native one) where the trains are run by one company and the lines are owned by anothe
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by Tor3 6mo ago
The nearest crossings where I live indeed stop the chimes when the barriers have been lowered. This doesn't actually make much of a difference really, because the train arrives only a few seconds after, and, because it's a local l
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by Tor3 6mo ago
As the sister comment said - the houses are just strong enough not to fall over in a "normal", all-the-time earthquake. Our house sways a lot under typhoons and far-away earthquakes (far away = long wavelengths). It's only re
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by Tor3 6mo ago
"The Japanese love cars, but they take trains because they have the best railway system in the world" That's exactly it. It's not because of some cultural bias or whatever. I'm in Japan. I use trains because it&#x27

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