shem73

“If someone calls you a resource, call them overhead”

It just means one is not improving monotonically. There may be plateaux but the general trend is upwards.

We have been using https://www.domaininfo.com/ for a long time and have been satisfied with them. They are based in Sweden.

I've had a Stokke Duo for 23 years. Varier is a new name for the company and the Duo is a milder version of Varier Gravity Balans [1]. It's been so good that I just recently had it reupholstered. I've tried Gravity and find it excellent as well. With a nudge you can change between four different positions. The positions are quite stable, it's not like a rocking chair.

[1] https://varierchairs.com/product/gravity/

Kitty has a very nice way to search and insert unicode characters (shift+control+u).

I've used IRC since 1988 or so, when all the users were from the University of Oulu, Finland. I hang out in a couple of channels of old pals (in IRCnet) and in a few technical channels in Freenode (#sway, #clojure, occasionally others).

I have a tmuxed session that is always connected, and I attach to it from wherever I happen to be. As others have stated, I too find it a non-intrusive, pleasant way to be in contact with certain groups of people.

Finland has thousands of winter swimmers, just normal people, and Russia at least 10x more. The article makes it sound almost superhuman, whereas in real life it's something that thousands of old ladies do daily. No need to travel to the ends of the world and bring a film crew with you.

In the mid-eighties, you could ask any BITNET machine, anywhere in the world, who was logged on. You could then send any of them a message. I did, and had interesting correspondence thereafter with people thousands of kilometers away.

Anything by PG Wodehouse. Perfect antidote to too much seriousness.

Often in spring I read Dylan Thomas 's Under Milk Wood.

I think this overlooks the fact that mathematics is very specialised, segmented. Enormous talent in one strain of maths does not mean that anybody, following a slightly different course, would recognise the talent.

So, being an arbiter always means disappointing someone.

I suggest several micro-Fields medals, each arbitrated by the cross-cut of the nebulously defined experts of this field.

I run into these all the time in Finland. I have never actuated their buttons. I often have feelings about the quality of the establishment or the experience but they can never be expressed adequately by a 1-5 scale. I suspect the data gathered has a significant bias.

Tampere, Finland. 2.5km. 20-25min walk. A bit less on a bicycle.

I'm using Beyerdynamic DT 797 PV. The sound quality of both the headphones and the mic are excellent. It needs 48V phantom power, so I feed it with a Focusrite Scarlett USB audio interface.