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- flurdy parentOr now at https://gauge.team Seems appropriate URL.
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- It is so often dismissed how important the second part is. Many think that just moving to a country is enough, and you will pick up the language. Maybe the basics, but not if you don't speak and think it 24/7, however uncomfortable that is at the start.
You see this clearly with the people who move with their family vs the single person. The family person will speak English or whatever their native language is at home every day, will never really speak fluently, whilst the single guy/girl will often become fluent very fast.
Though this also depends on who their new friends are, so if they only hang out with people from their home country or just groups of international friends who all speak English with each other, then that learning journey will take a lot longer.
This is hard, though. But when I moved to the UK I decided not to try to find the student groups from my home country, and mostly had English only friends and I got an local English accent super quickly. On the other side years later when my GF and me moved back to Norway for a few years she struggled to get non-international friends and didn't loose the accent.
- 1 point
- Reminds me of this great house/greenhouse in Norway with a small "power station" in the stream outside. https://youtu.be/irp_HPzfxbQ?si=ZR3PAXvUyjsSSZx5&t=1658
- It is part of why people argue that Chess is a sport.
When grandmasters battle it out for hours in classic chess, thinking ahead of so many branches of moves that I would find unfathomable, they do burn through a lot of energy.
For what is quite a sedentary career choice, I rarely see overweight grandmasters. Though that is probably more correlation of other facts than causation...
- I do too. Though it does get awkward when dealing with a human related to that site. E.g. a small time hotel phoning about a booking or a local events organiser, they all seem weirded out that I have their name in my email address... :) I often rely on Fastmail's email masking these days instead, which at least reduces that human interaction awkwardness.
- I have quite a few personal catch-all domain names, and two of the main ones are used for the per website alias as you do, so over a decade and longer later, I would never be able to manually enter each address. Or remember them.
And yes, the subscribe restrictions for domain searches are annoying.
But Troy and family also need to eat, so I understand the need for a payment part, especially for companies.
We just ended up in the grey zone in between. I wish there were some more nuances, but then again, HIBP can't cater for every edge case unless they want to hire lots of devs and customer services.
I ended up signing up for a subscription, checked my domains, and then cancelled the subscription. It felt a little cumbersome, but ok. A non-recurring 2-day access would have worked for me...
- You can just bring or buy some pop-up travel blackout blinds made for babies. We used those with great effect when visiting my parents' summer house in Northern Norway in the summers when the kids were young.
Bonus, they now work as great blackouts in my home office for video calls when I do not want sunshine and clouds to change my green-screen effects etc.
- I am very very happy with Fastmail. I know they have some presence in the US but I think they scaled that down and are entirely an Australian company.
Their integration with 1password and masking email aliases is also very useful [0].
If however you want to host your own emails, I did once write an extensive guide [1].
- And flux https://fluxcd.io/ and flux https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/flux
- That is why I have those for keys I rarely use, such as 'esc' and 'del'. Relatively rare - as they are obviously used frequently enough but not really when typing.
And then I hit them with my middle finger instead, or rather smash them as it requires the whole hand to move slightly.
So in my case does not affect speed or comfort (not a frequent VIM user etc)
But if I only had two thumb buttons I would be ok.
- Yeah, not in the EU makes it more expensive (customs), warranties, and more bureaucratic for a small market.
I am sure they will eventually, but quicker and less friction to expand to EU countries and later maybe to other EEA countries.
It will not be a hardware issues. All costs, red tape and priorities.
- Not Mac, but I like a little cat in my Gnome task bar https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/2986/runcat/
- I just buy a bunch of these biodegradable PLA straws instead. They work well https://amzn.eu/d/dKIyKxE.
Not missed the old plastic straws apart from when at a burger joint that gives you the useless paper ones. The bagasse and PLA straws do not disintegrate as quickly and work as well as the old ones.
Whether they are actually more environmentally friendly is another discussion.