Long pepper would have been another one. Related and similar in taste to black pepper, though perhaps a bit more complex in flavor.
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He has a bunch of talks on YouTube that I came across recently that I highly recommend, one being: https://youtu.be/JEAfHGBQlkc
For those who understand Arabic, this interview is excellent: https://youtu.be/Sl24jUcidN8
His book on astronomy might be well worth reading as well (I've ordered a copy as well): https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/a-history-of-arabic-astronomy-...
If anything, I learned how to appease people to fit in and make them like me at school.
It wasn't until the last 2-3 years (I'm in my thirties now) after on a startup for the past 7 years that I started to better understand, explore and comprehend my personal psychology.
It was until these last couple years that I learned that it’s not job to fix problems between people and that often it just makes things worse.
We home school our 9 year (autistic) child and he's more socialable than I am (I was schooled prep to 12 at a relatively expensive private school).
Just the other we were at a wildlife sanctuary and he ran off in the bird enclosure. I went to check up on him and found with one of the keepers feeding live worms to the birds (one of a number of interactions he had).
Whereever we go, he has a tendency to walk up to workers and start conversations.
I'm not sure how much his autism diagnosis is at play, but he does seem to lack a lot of the inhibition and intimidation in interacting that a lot of other students his age display.
SponsorBlock, ad blocking and playing videos in background were happy surprises that have significantly improved my YouTube experience.
I haven't had any major issue with AltStore. As long as I have the Mail/AltStore server app running on my Mac, it tends to just work. If I forgot to open Mail or AltStore after a restart, the apps stop working and I need to reinstall AltStore from my Mac, but it takes under 2 minutes and might happen a handful of times per year. That's less than the the time I'd waste on YT Shorts in a day.
To most Arab speakers, both Classical Arabic and MSA are simply referred to as Fusha.
There are also many non-speakers of Arabic who understand many verses and can pick up on the gist of many verses in the Qur'an.
No affiliation at all, just a gentler alternative that worked for us.
I understand there may be no one-size-fits-all and each family and child are unique, but from my anecdotal experience, with my wife implementing the above program with our third child, it had a major positive impact on her (my wife's) psyche and anxiety surrounding infant sleep (especially when compared to our first two children). It also helped my sister with her child.
I'm far from an expert on the program as my wife did all the heavy lifting, but at it's core, it revolves around building up sleep pressure during the day so that the child is ready and able to sleep at night. I see some overlap with the stuff Andrew Huberman talks about in his podcast.
If you're interested, here's an overview of the honeypot scam (common with DeFi tokens) and how we're helping alert users to it: https://agentsofinu.medium.com/the-honeypot-scam-what-is-it-...
Just launched a week ago and there's a ways to go yet but we're working on things like honeypot detection, dodgy tax fees, issues & changes of contracts, etc. The amount of scam tokens out there and unscrupulous tactics is outstanding (though unfortunately not surprising).
Guess it comes down to your target audience. If you're market primarily consists of landlords looking to make rental income, ADU seems to fit the bill.
Overall it's done a good job but I still find the build system somewhat esoteric (there are a number of different approaches and it took some effort to figure out the right one for our use case).
I have noticed development has slowed down over the past couple months: https://github.com/ionic-team/stencil/graphs/commit-activity
Hoping it's more a case of it approaching maturity as opposed to it being neglected...
With Angular, it's generally quite simple to figure out where the CSS for a component lives (it's literally right there in its own file alongside the component).
Sharing common values (e.g. colors, borders, paddings, etc) across classes was the biggest issue we faced, so I can see Tailwind being useful there.
In our project, we've somewhat solved it through a mix of sensible base styles and classes ('btn'), custom classes (e.g. `clr-primary--500`), CSS variables (e.g. `--clr-primary-500`) and SASS mixins / functions. It also makes it really to switch out themes dynamically, switching b/w dark and light modes for example, just requires switching up the CSS variables.
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Islam was the catalyst of change in the 7th century, I don't see how that could be denied. Yes, it was predominately Arabs that brought it outside the Peninsula but the scholarly achievements weren't Arab achievements, because, again, many of the scholars weren't Arabs. Heck, the most important book in Sunni Islam after the Qur'an was compiled by al-Bukhari, a non-Arab from Bukhara in modern-day Afghanistan.
If you look into it, Islamic scholarship didn't really kick off until the Abbasid Dynasty was established. Non-Arabs played a large role in allowing the Abbasids to come into power in the first place.
The jizya (tax on non-Muslims) was a higher fee than the zakat (religious tax on Muslims). As more and more non-Arabs started to embrace Islam, the Umayyads were getting less and less tax revenue because the new Muslims were playing zakat instead of jizya.
As such, they stated (against the laws of Islam) that non-Arab converts to Islam still need to pay the same amount as they were paying before they embraced Islam. Naturally, this led to a lot of resentment amongst the new non-Arab Muslims who would later support the Abbasid rebellion against the Umayyads.
The Abbasids would go on to employ many non-Arabs, especially Persians, into high positions in government.