Hungarian here: that is a remarkably close approximation. Almost perfect, except the vowel in "me" is longer than our short "i" which sounds just like the vowel in the word "in".
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Not too concerned about durability yet (way too happy with the fact of having water!), but time will tell. The previous pump we used was the same and it handled about a decade or two of abuse and sandy wells (though not in a short lived fashion as you say).
The buffer tank is a good solution but we were actually advised by professionals to go with this slightly more compact and cheaper option. I suspect you are right though.
I haven't researched them because I found the price a bit ridiculous. Where I live sewage is not regulated at all so $4k sounds like an overkill. If it's mobile and durable and you like the idea, heck why not?
> I’ve had good success with an ~40L pot of water on the wood-stove/gas-stove
That's a pretty cool one. We went against wood because it's messy (it's enough hassle the heat the house with it) and a gas one is basically the water heater we have in a less compact version I guess.
- Electricity: Modern solar tech is suprisingly powerful. We have a tiny 1.6kw system with 3kw batteries plus a Chinese inverter which works amazingly. While it is small, it only cost about $2k altogether, including fittings. We installed it ourselves for the miniscule cost of risking our lives on a roof that's ~30 feet high :)).
- Water: Next problem was water. We already had a 42m deep well, we just bought new pumps and some tech which controls water flow, so when you open the taps and pressure decreases, the pump starts. Works beautifully. Overall cost is a few hundred dollars for parts + installation, which we also paid a few hundred dollars for (we don't always have time to do things ourselves).
- Heated water: once you have water you quickly realize 10C is not always pleasant to shower in. So for $150 we bought a water heater that heats water by 25+ C as it flows through. It works with a gas cannister since our small electric system is not powerful enough to heat water.
- Sewage: we currently only have a compost toilet (ie. a hole dug into ground with a shed around it). We are moments away from having a proper English toilet and a septic tank (? another hole dug into the ground, but this time connecting the toilet inside the house to the pit with pipes)
- Heating, cooking: we have massive masonry heaters and stoves all over the property. I think we heat the house in around -10 C for $3-$5 worths of wood per day.
All in all modern solar enables off grid houses at a scale we could not imagine even a decade ago imho. 10/10 would do it again.
For the first 100 or 1000 or 5000 times it's OK. Then you start showing physical symptoms. Little anxiety. Headache. Light sweats.
Once this starts (showing physical symptoms) you can never binge again without them showing up. And each time they get worse. Progresses to morning shakes, seizures, even death in extreme cases. All from binges you happily came out of as a teenager.
If you, like most professionals, consume alcohol for social clout and for fun, this is extremely crucial.
Once you develop kindling (sneaks up on you), even a few beers can trigger almost life threatening withdrawals, so your option is to not drink any, or drink yourself to death. There is no middle way.
For those interested, check out the cripplingalcoholism subreddit on reddit. Tons of first hand experience there. You have been warned. Kindling is a pandoras box of all kind of regrets and there is no way to reverse it apart from abstaining from alcohol for 10+ years.
None of them show physical symptoms yet, all highly functioning people, but I suspect that is mostly due to their youth (20-40).
I personally went teetotaler about a year ago. Drinking is loads of fun and I miss it, but I appreciate a steady mood now way more than the ups and downs of alcohol induced euphoria, then potential anxiety etc.
I have tied to check them over the years and found some to be indeed true, but a good number of them evaded my google fu. Perhaps not that valuable sources, nevertheless:
https://magyarmegmaradasert.hu/in-english/our-language/1632-...
Just a toy hunch I like to think about from time to time. I wish I could see English with its original alphabet before being forced into the confines of the latin one. Apparently many sounds are misrepresented due to that.
I believe there are a couple of factors at play here.
First of all, most (perhaps all) of those people are Hungarian Jews, and Jewish people (imho) are both very intelligent and their culture values education a lot. Hungary had a very large Jewish population at the time, so no wonder we produced so many great scientists!
Second is the Hungarian language. Ede Teller specifically said his scientific achievements are thanks to the Hungarian language, and without it he could only be a high school teacher. I can find a few sources if you want, and the ones I know about might not be accurate, but for example Cardinal Giuseppe Mezzofanti, who spoke 58 languages himself, said of our language: “Do you know which language, because of its constructive ability and the harmony of its rhythm, comes before all the others? The Hungarian! It seems as if the Hungarians themselves do not know the treasure of their language…”.
Third Hungary at that point was a rather developed country, unlike now. Budapest metro opened after the London one, as the worlds' second.
Edit: Fourth, not related to the previous 3 as not unique to Hungary, but there were probably "network effects" at play. Science does not happen in a vacuum, as Paul Erdos said for him maths is a social activity (as witnessed by his vagabond tendency to move in with his peers and work on problems while living at their house). So probably having all these great minds in related fields was a kind of a feedback loop.
> As digital computing approaches the limit of Moore's Law, analog computing offers a strategy to diversity today's digital monoculture.
s/diversity/diversify ?
s/today/in today ?
> Type safety is worse for http calls because you literlly have no idea at compile time what the data will be.
We promise we will return data as per API spec ;)
> The data is actually very small
For this particular example, I guess you are right.
Our vision is that all APIs will have uniform clients, docs etc, so in aggregate it will provide a very convenient workflow. So instead of downloading a.json and b.xml and c.yaml (if possible at all due to size) and defining data structures yourself, just import our library and you are good to go.
But as I said, YMMV. If it's not your cup of tea, I understand that too.
- type safe clients provided by M3o
- reducing app/webapp/binary space by relying on APIs to get a subset of the content you need
- a web interface to query the data
There are probably a few more, YMMV
Disclaimer: I am one of the contributors of the site.
0.2*9 + 7*4 + 3*4 = 41.8kcal
Not going to make you fat but not too shabby either, especially the protein content. Seems you run into protein toxicity issues pretty fast around 1000kcal, but if you enter ketosis it might be a good way to protein so your muscles don't waste.
People are much more likely to trust you with any kind of work.
Admittedly the "library as a service" ones are more for niche use cases, like how I go to a website sometimes to get the current Unix timestamp.
If you want an example $X_FORMAT id, paying 1/100 cent for it is no big deal.
What I do not see mentioned, that experts of propaganda clearly know that more educated people are more susceptible to propaganda.
For those who want sources for this, please refer to Jacques Ellul: Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes.
This is my own wording (and like a poor one): for propaganda to work, the population must be educated. There is little room to inject your machinations to the simple and straightforward thought processes of less educated men.
Those who deal with more abstract and complex thought, the more educated, are easier to lead astray with minutiae.
For a contemporary example, just look at MMT and the mother of all bubbles forming right now. A simple man might say if you print more money, money will be worth less. He would be at a high level quite right. Even if he gets many details wrong. The more educated mind might be more inclined to try to understand QE, money velocity, money supply etc, to the point where in the end he is probably less wise than the simple man.
"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
In fact that accusation is what made notice this disappearance, but now thinking about it it must come from the community as you say and not from mods.
I guess that answers my question with a no, there is no censorship on HN but bias of the community on certain topics.
Thanks
PS: thanks for the showdead tip, will look it up.
Now they only show the internals.
The dev tier is free, which is a capped environment with much laxer SLAs than the production tear. Prod tier is paid.