A space for mostly short form stuff and responses to things I see elsewhere.
Argh! @help I accidentally downloaded the latest micro.blog for OSX but cannot use it because I am stuck on 10.13 and I can't find the old version in the Trash. Is there any way to download a previous version compatible with 10.13?
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@jeremycherfas Tagging @help. Not sure why, but your tag didn't link.
, Jul 15 2021 on micro.blog
@cn Life saver. Thanks.
, Jul 15 2021 on micro.blog
@jean @help All good now, thanks to @cn
, Jul 15 2021 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas Thanks @cn for sharing the download link! I've updated the help page to include a link to that version too so it's easier to find in the future.
, Jul 15 2021 on micro.blog
@help Good move.
, Jul 16 2021 on micro.blog
Wouldn't it be nice if Twitter et al. somehow indicated that a link shared by some well-meaning influencer was behind a paywall. It would save me a lot of clicks.
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@jeremycherfas That would indeed be good. Not easy to do, though. I think some sites (e.g. Medium) will present the same page to some readers as free-to-read and to others as subscriber-only.
, Jul 13 2021 on micro.blog
@artkavanagh I could live with less than 100% accuracy.
, Jul 13 2021 on micro.blog
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Eat This Newsletter 157 is now online with stories from @SejalSukhadwala @SarahTaber_bww @IrishSeedSavers @UniofExeter and others.
Read it at https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/eat-this-newsletter-157-almost-global/ and while you're there, consider subscribing.
Latest Eat This Newsletter is at https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/eat-this-newsletter-155-counterfactual/ with links to good stuff from @serbiaireland, @JaysonLusk, @colin_tudge, @NatureFoodJnl and, most horrifying, https://twitter.com/CeriseFlegal/status/1405939411330629634
As I said in the newsletter: read it and weep.
Every time I read pieces about banking from people who have experienced banking systems outside the US, I marvel that they put up with it at all. I'm constantly amazed at just how easy things are with the online banks I use in Europe. No wonder I'm not tempted by crypto,
Australian journo swaps one set of fibs for another.
"British forests were first subjected to clearing with the Roman conquest of AD 43." Really?
https://www.smh.com.au/environment/sustainability/like-comparing-apples-with-dried-oranges-will-aust...
A pox on both their houses.
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@jeremycherfas smh
, Jun 16 2021 on micro.blog
@artkavanagh Is that a Murdoch rag?
, Jun 16 2021 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas I don’t believe so. My impression was that it’s considered reputable and authoritative but that’s just an impression — I’m not sure where I got it from. I was just trying to make a point about the ambiguity of the abbreviation “smh” which, as well as referring to the Sydney Morning Herald, has also been used for “so much hate” and “shaking my head”. Sometimes it’s not easy to tell from the context which sense was intended.
, Jun 16 2021 on micro.blog
@artkavanagh Ah. I wasn’t aware of that TLA.
, Jun 17 2021 on micro.blog
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Excellent Conversations with Tyler episode talking to David Deutsch (apart from the whole multiverse thing about which I am not competent to judge, and nor do I care).
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@jeremycherfas Thanks, perfectly timed coincidence that you mentioned this. Two days ago I wouldn't have known who David Deutsch was but yesterday I finished Neal Stephensons' "Fall; or Dodge in Hell" and one of the main influences he cites for the book is "The Fabric of Reality" by Deutsch.
, Jun 08 2021 on micro.blog
@MrHenko David and I were at school and college together (but mostly separately).
, Jun 08 2021 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas Wow, you been to more impressive schools than I have. :)
Have you read David's book?
, Jun 08 2021 on micro.blog
@MrHenko I have not. I really do find the multiverse ideas just do not interest me. I might be tempted by some of his other books.
, Jun 08 2021 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas I'm not familiar enough with those ideas to have an opinion, but I did enjoy "Fall" and if Stephenson says it owes some ideas to Deutsch than it's probably worth at least checking out the podcast episode.
, Jun 10 2021 on micro.blog
Made a start on the annual tweakage of the automatic watering system for the terrace, but the main enemy remains lack of pressure. It fluctuates through the day so need to try and find the maximum.
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@jeremycherfas would a header tank help or hinder?
, Jun 07 2021 on micro.blog
@cn I’ve thought about that. But it would need a tank and a pump. And that gets difficult. In my mind, some kind of inline pump is what I imagined, but then I don’t see how the physics would work. It’s small bore stuff, so needs pressure not to dribble.
, Jun 07 2021 on micro.blog
Never having had to deal with prescriptions and refilling them in the same way, I thought I had it bad, needing to send a fax to cancel my account with my internet service provider! This reminds me of a movie where the entire plot hinges on a fax that fell behind the machine and so was never seen. Not that I can remember the movie.
There surely has to be a better way.
@jeremycherfas probably this: s3.amazonaws.com/micro.blo... 2.0 onwards are too new for us
cn, Jul 15 2021 on micro.blog