TwoFerMaggie

I'm firmly in the "tone wood doesn't matter" camp. I choose body and neck wood based on looks (if clear finish) and weight.

Funnily enough, it is widely acknowledged in the electric bass community that, once past a certain price point, spending more to buy a "nicer" bass gets you only marginal return in the quality of music you can make with it. The solution to getting a nicer sound is usually not in buying a nicer bass. Yet many still save for boutique and custom made basses that cost north of 5000 dollars.

The difference is though, if you like a bass very much and it is comfortable for you to play, you would spend more time playing and practicing it, which I think is exactly the point of buying a mechanical keyboard (at least for me). It makes working on it more enjoyable.

There are at least two major languages (or dialects, depending on how you define it) in south-east mainland China. Cantonese and Hokkien.

Cantonese is mainly spoken in Guangdong (historically known as Canton), and Hokkien mainly Fujian. They are two very different languages.

There are a lot of people in Taiwan speaking Hokkien.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonese

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokkien

Problem is autocrats don't care about consistency at all, nor do they have to maintain an public image of consistency (maybe not just autocrats, perhaps modern politicians in general).

This "if I apply the same logic to this other thing you did" simply doesn't work other than as a gotcha title for the media in opposition. Stories/opinions will be drown out by misinformation and propaganda.

It's even easier especially for autocrats, because if you ask them "isn't that the same claim Western non-Han China could make about itself?", they can just pretend not hearing the question and let the ministry of truth do the work.

I would argue that it doesn't just depend on which country. Being born into a privileged class in a less developed country is often times better than an average family in, let's say, US.

The inequality is much more severe meaning that you might actually have access to more resource and power.

Yeah you're right. This of course differs from person to person.

I was thinking about this article actually: https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/jul/06/caffeine-coffee...

> In fact, none of the sleep researchers or experts on circadian rhythms I interviewed for this story use caffeine.

> Walker explained that, for most people, the “quarter life” of caffeine is usually about 12 hours, meaning that 25% of the caffeine in a cup of coffee consumed at noon is still circulating in your brain when you go to bed at midnight. That could well be enough to completely wreck your deep sleep.

> I thought of myself as a pretty good sleeper before I met Walker. At lunch he probed me about my sleep habits. I told him I usually get a solid seven hours, fall asleep easily, dream most nights.

> “How many times a night do you wake up?” he asked. I’m up three or four times a night (usually to pee), but I almost always fall right back to sleep.

> He nodded gravely. “That’s really not good, all those interruptions. Sleep quality is just as important as sleep quantity.” The interruptions were undermining the amount of “deep” or “slow wave” sleep I was getting, something above and beyond the REM sleep I had always thought was the measure of a good night’s rest. But it seems that deep sleep is just as important to our health, and the amount we get tends to decline with age.

It seems to argue that at night, the remaining caffeine in your system is not enough to be effective, but enough to hurt your sleep quality.

Was it black coffee or latte?

I can't stand black coffee but find soy latte very pleasant to cosume.

I wonder how much it has to do with sleep. Could it be that people who drinks coffee a lot do that often because they are sleep-deprived?

Also if you drink more than 3 cups of coffee more often than not some of those cups are going to be consumed in the afternoon, which has a much bigger impact on your quality of sleep.

When I was drinking 4 cups of coffee a day I also didn't sleep nearly enough to function through 8 hours of workdays, especially in the afternoon. I have since taken quality of sleep more seriously and the need for coffee falls to about two cups (usually just a double espresso in the morning). It is of course just anecdotal though.

Does 2720 have a Spotify built-in? Last time I checked it doesn't. If Spotify is available then it's 10x more appealing to me

This is great and many thanks!

One question: would it be possible to make the font bigger on mobile (maybe it's possible to do it from user's end)?

> The 2-pot Bialetti I have takes a long while to heat

Do you put cold water in the bottom thingy and heat it up on the stove? When I started using moka pots, I read that you should put pre-boiled hot water in there and then put it on medium to low heat on the stove. Even with that I still find it a bit too quick sometimes.

I think the difference is whether the vibration is expected. Vibrations from being launched are probably accounted for and tested numerous times, while an unintended vibration caused by a "sudden, unplanned release of a clamp band" could cause unforeseen damages to the instrument.

Well last time there was a "successor problem" China went through a decade-long political and economic turmoil that was the Cultural Revolution.

Having experienced that first hand, Deng implemented the term limit, so that there won't be a position of absolute power for the rest of one's life (it's just too much a temptation and thus recipe for chaos every 20-30 years or so).

Now that the term limit is gone, I don't think the transition would be as smooth as the past two decades.