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by jim-jim-jim 2y ago
I was similarly surprised recently when I found out you can legally purchase many ancient artifacts, like lamps, seals, and burial items. They're by no means cheap, but they aren't priceless treasures either. We've always mas
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by jim-jim-jim 2y ago
fwiw I studied Japanese, but I believe most of this still applies. It's divide and conquer. When you are reading the book, you are indeed just learning the characters. It's a significant ~2-3 month investment that maybe doesn&#x27
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by jim-jim-jim 2y ago
The Heisig method, which recursively breaks down Chinese characters into patterns with arbitrary meanings, can help you sidestep this problem. You're never dealing with shapes anymore, but rather reconstructing stories from these strok
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by jim-jim-jim 2y ago
In person ideally. I had a lot of good finds in Shimokitazawa, but any Hard Off or 2nd Street in a tier 2/3 city will have some remarkably quality material for reasonable prices. buyee.jp will let you shop online, but the shipping is n
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by jim-jim-jim 2y ago
> Different grades perform differently, making it tricky for consumers to live by hard-and-fast shopping rules like “no polyester.” I still prefer to avoid it entirely, mostly for health reasons, but also because it's never felt goo
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by jim-jim-jim 2y ago
This is also a good lead, but I've already chased it. I only use hippie detergent and toothpaste. I do wonder about this while eating out, but hopefully once a week isn't enough to make a difference.
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by jim-jim-jim 2y ago
I always looked down on them while living there, but the US is fortunate to have so many mid-sized cities. In Australia, and likely many other less populous countries, people are being corralled into the sprawl of Sydney, Melbourne, or Bris
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by jim-jim-jim 2y ago
This is good general advice, but for as long as I've been an independent adult, I've cooked three fresh meals a day. Even with breakfast I usually do fish and rice instead of something quicker and easier. Like the individual in th
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by jim-jim-jim 2y ago
Sorry, I didn't want to turn my original post into an essay, but I've already done low FODMAP and various other restricted diets for diagnostic purposes, without any noticeable shift in symptoms. Only bread and sugar seem to be co
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by jim-jim-jim 2y ago
I've been looking for relief from abdominal pain, bloating, poorly formed movements, and breathing problems for well over a year now. It started right after a round of antibiotics, which strikes me as a very clear cause-and-effect situ
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by jim-jim-jim 2y ago
Every yuppy feels compelled to remind you they go to the gym, expecting a pat on the head for being a responsible citizen, when it's really a sign of a dysfunctional lifestyle. Cordoning off a discrete slice of time to "be healthy
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by jim-jim-jim 2y ago
That clears it up a bit, thank you. To simulate 440hz and 220hz playing simultaneously, would the phase of the latter have to be offset?
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by jim-jim-jim 2y ago
From the comments: > Say, we switch our signal at a rate of 440 Hz. Or any rate, as a matter of fact. One would assume that the signal is on for half of the time, and off the other half of the time (which is what’s known as a square wave
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by jim-jim-jim 2y ago
> everything was so lazy and dull I'm really glad they got dismissed. The McMansion Hell lady introduced me to the idea of "PR-chitecture." You'll see it everywhere once you're familiar with it, including many ot
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Kalash People(en.wikipedia.org)
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by jim-jim-jim 2y ago
I have 14 years of personal journals and 7 years of programming/math/music notes. I can usually find old entries right away because it's much easier to remember where I was when I wrote it, and why. Part of it is the muscle m
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by jim-jim-jim 2y ago
Cute. I love music made with machines like this: Suicide, Tuxedomoon, Young Marble Giants, etc. The preset reminds me of a somewhat obscure single by an act called Perfect Jewish Couple, which features similarly hissy percussion. I lit up w
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by jim-jim-jim 2y ago
I take it you were dealing with The Breed of Peace?
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by jim-jim-jim 2y ago
I already said that I don't particularly like the sound, and hard drives, CDs, and records alike can all be lost in a house fire. Of those three media, one fails less arbitrarily and catastrophically.
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by jim-jim-jim 2y ago
This was my rationale for switching over to vinyl around 2007. Its audio fidelity is worse but its failure state is more acceptable to me.
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by jim-jim-jim 2y ago
The opening ceremony is a fashion show. It's fun to judge all the teams' costumes. Hard to do that when they're shoulder to shoulder, leaning on the rails of a distant barge, seen through a rain-soaked lens. And then there wa
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by jim-jim-jim 2y ago
sox
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by jim-jim-jim 2y ago
The Albini-produced Whitehouse albums seem to be underloved because they're a weird transitional period between the group's more famous "wasps fighting" and "broken African robot" sounds, but they're some
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by jim-jim-jim 2y ago
The Australian Guardian has been seething nonstop about this stabbing video. It's so weird to see the media class simultaneously so worried about "misinformation" but so adamant that the public not be allowed to view objectiv
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by jim-jim-jim 3y ago
You're framing unrepentant neoconservatism as some underrepresented moderate alternative that a disaffected middle America is secretly clamoring for. I have not met any normal people who think the way French and Stephens do.
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by jim-jim-jim 3y ago
Those guys (and Brooks, Stephens) represent a moribund strain of conservatism with zero organic support. They speak for spooks and think tanks, nobody else. They provide diversity in the same way that the Washington Generals play basketball
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by jim-jim-jim 3y ago
> we'll be wet Waxed cotton works well enough for me. Have also heard good things about boiled wool, but don't own anything like this.
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by jim-jim-jim 3y ago
Burroughs is the most visual author I know, but neither he nor the reader are fully in control of what's painted. He has the process. I think he works for people with a rich inner monologue, which is leveraged against you. Dredge up so
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by jim-jim-jim 3y ago
Back in the day I was fond of ion3, which was a tiling wm that also let you tab windows together. Dunno why it never caught on. I also recall another unpopular wm from around the same time that was a zoomable canvas. Implemented in Python I
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by jim-jim-jim 3y ago
If you ever want to Britmaxx it's probably cheaper to book a flight and hit up Shimokitazawa. So much Burberry, Barbour, Barracuda, Mackintosh etc for stupidly low prices.

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