madaxe_again

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   by madaxe_again 5y ago

   They’re really common here in the north of Portugal - everybody with a cottage garden, which is everybody, has a grove of them. They’re the principal ingredient in caldo verde (a soup that is eaten pretty much daily, by pretty much everyo
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   by madaxe_again 5y ago

   Nope, completely gone. I may as well have started from scratch the next time I looked at it. It was my business. I was the idiot that signed us up for it - it was kinda out of necessity, as it was for the New York marathon, and their develo
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   by madaxe_again 5y ago

   I speak perfectly clearly - in a British accent. If it’s my fault for not being American, then so be it. Also, “is was part”? So much for being clear.
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   by madaxe_again 5y ago

   Yes, but not necessarily your problem . I’m British. I once asked for a glass of water in a restaurant in Virginia, and while I thought the waitress’s response was a little peculiar (no reply, just turned around and walked away), I was ast
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   by madaxe_again 5y ago

   I’ve used it once, for a week-long slog on an impossibly short timescale project - it just made sleep an absolute irrelevance, and I was able to just sit and code from Sunday to the following Tuesday. The delivery was on time, the client co
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   by madaxe_again 5y ago

   Why? You can figure out someone’s SSN if you know where they’re from and what their birthday is. They’re highly predictable - particularly given that you’ll often see the last four digits as the “obfuscated” version in lists etc, and the fi
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   by madaxe_again 5y ago

   Mine picked it up too - in Portugal. Teeny little dip and crest, and I wasn’t sure until the meteorological station in a city 30km tweeted that they’d seen it too, and the times coincided (well, I was about a minute later) very neatly.
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   by madaxe_again 5y ago

   I always preferred k-jofol for its diverse and weirdly shaped skins - well, until someone released a plug-in for XMMS that allowed you to use k-jofol skins for it, some of which were absolutely wild.
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   by madaxe_again 5y ago

   Reminiscent of Galettes in Haiti, which is still common practice. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mud_cookie
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    by madaxe_again 5y ago

    I produce about half of my own food, and hope to get that to 100% within the next five years - but for that I have to wait for trees to grow. I deride nobody - I feel great empathy for those walking the well trodden industrial path, as I to
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    by madaxe_again 5y ago

    Study hard, get a good job, work hard, aspire to own things, buy things, work hard, get a promotion, aspire to more things, buy more things, work hard, buy things, die. It’s absolutely a mill and is absolutely possible to leave - but most w
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    by madaxe_again 5y ago

    I would argue that a majority of humans are in a human mill, blindly following the next person, who follows the next person, ad infinitum, and are blind to it. I say this not scornfully, but rather as an outside observer, who having been fl
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    by madaxe_again 5y ago

    I just use “Beware of Leopard!” as shorthand for this phenomenon.
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    by madaxe_again 5y ago

    Ball valves for us - I’ve used off-the-shelf agricultural valves and a little wooden mount (for now - want to replace them with something more robust) with a solenoid and rod to open and shut them. Means I can also just do it manually if I
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    by madaxe_again 5y ago

    In short? Children, and making stuff as resilient as possible. Re: medical emergency, we’ve already had a few of those - it’s a 30 minute drive to the nearest emergency room/hospital, and we keep a well-stocked first aid cabinet that c
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    by madaxe_again 5y ago

    Portugal, right up in the northeastern corner. We ended up here after doing a few laps of the globe considering different low cost of living countries in which to reside, and with regards Portugal specifically, after looking at Centro and t
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    by madaxe_again 5y ago

    I made friends with the owner of a business in the nearest town - he’s perfectly happy to receive everything from documents to 300kg cast iron stoves in exchange for us using them for all of our insurance, and the occasional gift, and we al
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    by madaxe_again 5y ago

    Oh, yeah, I forgot about the garden :) We had an abandoned olive grove as part of the land - it's superb soil, as the river floods it every second winter or so, so we've interplanted with various fruit trees (it'll be a good
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    by madaxe_again 5y ago

    Nope - I’ve been in full time gulag mode since we got here in 2019, and while I’ve been intending to document this stuff, mostly so my wife can also run it if I fall off a roof or get crushed by a tree, it’s not my top priority - as and whe
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    by madaxe_again 5y ago

    I’ve a 2013 MBP, and I can confirm that 30W is about right for trundling use. About 65W when I make the fans go whee. It’s nothing compared to my desktop running an intensive game - that’ll chew up 600W no problem.
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    by madaxe_again 5y ago

    I live off grid. We started with a stone hut in a deep valley without cell signal, and no infrastructure, and now we’ve all the power we can use, all the water we can use, and 140Mb/s internet. The whole “oh, we only need 3L of water p
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    by madaxe_again 5y ago

    Yeah, but by being on a ward you’re inherently suffering from selection bias - you’re only seeing the people who have a problem of one variety of another. From what I understand cannabis is fairly effective at triggering latent psychosis,
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    by madaxe_again 5y ago

    Plenty of current physics allows for the possibility - even special relativity allows for it. Personally, I think that the “speed of light” is a misleading misnomer. It’s the speed of information propagation in flat space - and even that’s
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    by madaxe_again 5y ago

    I had a similar nudge into going starting my own thing - I’d been at Refco (a now defunct brokerage) in ‘05 when everything went pop, because they’d been hiding half a billion of bad debt - I saw which way the wind was blowing and scurried
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    by madaxe_again 5y ago

    I do have a fully solar powered VPN gateway/LTE router/web server/Wi-Fi relay - in my case, it’s out of necessity, as I live in a deep valley, and the only way I could get internet access here was to stick a mast on top of
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    by madaxe_again 5y ago

    I’m going to stick my neck out and say that Facebook made the right call here. The problem isn’t the content, but rather the audience, and how they react to said content. People generally don’t read articles - particularly lengthy articles,
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    by madaxe_again 5y ago

    We sleep with the window open in the bedroom, and I air the place each morning. Also, it’s almost too well insulated, as it’s easy to accidentally make it 30C in here while it’s -9 outside - so more often than not we have a window cracked o
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    by madaxe_again 5y ago

    Pre-fab, although loosely so - about 1000 me-hours to make it into a functional home. I unfortunately can’t recommend the outfit I bought it from, as they screwed up and shipped only part of the order, sent me defective parts (bad and/
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    by madaxe_again 5y ago

    We’ve purely used rockwool. It’s enclosed within a semipermeable membrane, so no possibility of dust escaping.
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    by madaxe_again 5y ago

    Portugal manage to be even worse. You’ll be stood there in someone’s kitchen wearing a coat and gloves, watching your breath condense, and they’ll be like “oh but we don’t get cold winters like you do in the northern countries”. That’s the