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by djtango 1y ago
Sugar is very difficult to unplug from if you don't cook for yourself. Here in Singapore almost every restaurant and hawker is obsessed with jacking their food up with sugar. Worse though is that if they don't the local Singaporea
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by djtango 1y ago
Funny - eye contact is my "secret" to crossing the road in places like south east asia
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by djtango 1y ago
After covid I suffered from intermittent brain fog for years and also felt like my heart was maybe struggling more than usual when I was training at the gym. Never enough to warrant going to a doctor unless I was being super paranoid (and s
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by djtango 1y ago
Kyoto is one of my favourite places in the world. Besides the obvious "Kyoto" being on your doorstep, you only need to jump on a train for 15 minutes to arrive at Lake Biwa. Amazing to think that so much beautiful nature is a ston
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by djtango 1y ago
Love your keyboard. I use the UK version and it seems like the Trackpoint II keyboard is discontinued last I checked. Don't know what Lenovo are doing I think it's one of the best keyboards I've ever used when also factoring
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by djtango 1y ago
I mean it doesn't help that a bunch of Harvard scientists were literally caught accepting money to shape the discussion around fat vs sugar which did irreparable damage to a generation of people.
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by djtango 1y ago
Gy has a mass component to it. Is 3Gy on just your joint different to 3Gy of your whole body?
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by djtango 1y ago
The thing is that when I listen to things like the Goldberg variations and Preludes and Fugues I'm quickly saturated. But if I sit down and play them, and study them their acclaim and brilliance becomes apparent. So the problem isn&#x2
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by djtango 1y ago
Like it or not, Google has wormed their way into the fabric of modern life. Chrome and Google Search are still the gateway to the internet outside China. Android has over 75% market share of all mobile(!). YouTube is somewhat uniquely the v
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by djtango 1y ago
As someone who listens to a lot of "Classical" music (more late Classical, early Romantic if we're being specific) I've never really understood the modern universal appeal of Bach. I find so much of his music quite impen
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by djtango 1y ago
The composers went in and out of fashion after their deaths. My understanding is that both Mozart and Schubert started to fall out of fashion in the early to mid 1900s for being "lightweight" and just stepping stones to Beethoven.
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Both Mozart and Chopin were known to hand copy out the preludes and fugues and always keep a copy of them on hand
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Also take a look at CD Review / Building a Library by the BBC
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Despite all that I still find myself so drawn to interpretations by Rubinstein and Perahia that prize themselves on their restraint. Although Argerich is my goddess so who knows
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by djtango 1y ago
Here are the official languages of my country: - English - Mandarin - Malay - Tamil Did you provide translations for all of those? If we expand to the immediate vicinity you can also throw in Thai and Vietnamese as well. Plenty of Japanese
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by djtango 1y ago
If you want to experience the frustration of text not being text, take a look at one of the main train ticket booking websites in China https://www.12306.cn/index/ Plain old text that can be selected is always going to
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by djtango 1y ago
I personally like to click text absent mindedly when I'm reading a bit like holding your finger while reading Also if you're a non native speaker you want to be able to select the text so you can translate it
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by djtango 1y ago
> Then this spring they changed the terms to every single user without telling us or sending a new contract, and then ignored our outreach and delayed us and told us to ignore the bill and not to pay as late as Aug 29 Then, suddenly, the
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by djtango 1y ago
Slack is a giant company at this stage. Is it so impossible to see that countless billing disputes both valid, invalid and injust happen multiple times a day without ever reaching senior teams because they have entire departments for that.
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by djtango 1y ago
The same library or playlist is good - I used that trick for time tracking when I was training for the marathon. Had a eclectic playlist where I would start with some quite chill Mozart because I would always start too fast and needed to pa
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by djtango 1y ago
Not to take away from your meta comment but there's something to be said about the mind originating content from a place of wandering versus having content blasted at you from an external source.
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by djtango 1y ago
This is how some even older people feel about smartphones :p Some of this is the lack of a killer app and some of this will be generational. At some point the 10-30yos will be more used to being permanently plugged in than not. (we're
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by djtango 1y ago
My boxing coach once described fighting as a conversation. I am inclined to agree. In boxing you don't have the luxury of taking your time to think otherwise you get punched in the face. Improving at conversation is like boxing - it ca
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by djtango 1y ago
Does TikTok have the long form content that YT is also associated with? Otherwise I would say "disrupted" is a generous term Long form YT is a gold mine of - documentaries (hobbyist and professional) - informative content (literal
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by djtango 1y ago
I carry two phones on me and if I run with just my SE it is comfortable enough to run with But its not about optimisation it's about freedom. I don't enjoy having to baby around a lumbering 6 inch phone. I want my phone to optimis
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by djtango 1y ago
Hilariously phones are so big they don't fit in some women's bags - clutches or multi compartment bags for example
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I'm glad other people have chimed in. It drives me insane that no one thought to make one-hand mode not change the width as well or be a total aspect change. Just make it configurable yknow
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Occasionally I reach around the other side to press buttons as if I am using a guitar/violin grip but I don't do this enough to not be awkward
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But apparently they don't engineer for smaller hands, one hand usage or fits comfortably in a pocket when you're running
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My SE is so hilariously slippery it falls off of flat surfaces

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