or it could be literally satan calling the shots from hell. the ancient greeks called it "cronus" and the place "tartarus".
reminds me, this has been on my mind, the whole 'why does god let us suffer' thing and i just remembered now, thanks for reminding me.
since starting the milk diet i really notice the stuff that is inside my mouth, basically because there is far less stuff stuck to my teeth and in the crannies with milk. lactose is the only sugar that doesn't feed bacteria that eat holes in enamel.
it's well past the point now where i am at any risk of tooth pain at all. literally, the milk seems to have helped my teeth regain their protection from chemicals in my mouth. idk how, i presume that it's just the higher pH, and i am pretty sure that there is natural processes and friendly critters in there that actually rebuild enamel, cos the pain i was in 3 months ago with this wisdom tooth would have been extraction for sure and i have survived, and not just survived, by accident discovered that i can also have better health by avoiding the things that were making not just my teeth hurt but a whole constellation of problems, including vision problems and so on.
but yes, today i am on a fast. i had a little cacao and coffee this morning, tiny smidgin of coffee, and a regular spoon of cacao. i had a mild hypertension develop in the hours after that, and that made me decide, er, no, i'm gonna skip all foods.
well, back to the subject. so, i'm not having a problem with gingko tea. just had some stuff with echinacea and hibiscus, and suddenly my mouth is alive with funny flavours like some sort of microbial activity was triggered by something in this tea. i mean, it's like milky, like i drank milk...
so i guess it must be the acid eating away the protection from pain that the milk was giving me.
probably i best avoid this hibiscus/rosehip sorta thing. now i am writing about it, i'm even getting a little tweakage of the ol chipped edges.
milk really is a thing with me right now.
what has made me choose to do a fast though, was a period of bad digestion.
and i am now becoming even more confirmed - that i have to stick to the pasture fed.
and not only that, that not all pasture fed really is, at least, based on the wonky reaction.
the Terra Nostra brand of milk (from the azores, both are) seems to be good, and causes me less or nearly no gut problems.
the Nova Azores brand says pasture fed, but it doesn't seem to be as good.
Out of the non-pasture fed brands, Pingo Doce seems to be one of the worst. I've unfortunately got like 8L of it sitting in the shelf, and i gotta drink it, but - well ,fingers crossed, maybe if i manage to get to 72 hours no food, hell, i'm kinda keen to try and push it to 6 days, yeah, since it's a nice round 144 hours... i'm going to get out and do some exercise, and not just pissy exercise, i'm gonna do a big walk with a heavy weight.
pingo doce machico is really disappointing me every time i go in there. the only thing that's sorta worth buying is the Mimosa brand milk, but it's kinda marginal. everywhere i go, not just Pingo, i see the same pattern - whole milk is really hard to find. the big Continente beside the runway usually i can manage to walk away with, if i could carry it, 18L, but it's always a bit hit and miss, there is the Agros brand, which is also quite good, and they almost always have Mimosa and sometimes i can get the Terra Nostra.
i really should try to just order a shitload of the stuff i know is good in one go.
Here's something that is in the #otherstuff part of the name of the nostr refers to, that i'm doing a little part of.
maybe you need to up the loading, not enough calories burned, not enough damage to the muscles, etc. definitely won't have this problem if you go hard.
i much prefer to celebrate Martin Luther's 95 theses and Satoshi's White Paper as the thing for that date.
halloween, samhain, yule... these are all stupid rituals about the weather. a bit like the smug inducing electric car fad of late.
lol @ the arm-fatigue-inducing user interface image on the preview.
it's hilarious that anyone still thinks that interacting with computers using so many watts of power is gonna be comfortable.
just the configuration system will have you tearing your hair out. one of the first things i did when I built https://github.com/p9c/p9 out of it was rip out the entire config and cli args parsing system.
it doesn't work. at all. changing things in configuration file, doesn't work. i just made a little patch the other day to use go 1.16 embed library to put the default configuration file in there so it writes it, and lo and behold, it writes it every time, and i spent 3 hours still not being able to figure out which code was calling the rewrite. i gave up on it.
i have several pending PRs on both btcd and lnd that i juts gave up on in disgust because i kept on having to merge back new changes into it and they still never did anything.
the behaviour of the project devs is really weird, idk wtf is going on out there, but it seems off.
i've basically moved towards taking pieces of it apart that will never get changed, probably, and i use them in my own code because the btcsuite/lightningnetwork codebases vomit on you if you touch anything.
i started one this morning... made the mistake of having some cacao and a smidgin of coffee. gonna see if i can ride out 72 hours at least. just feel like it's time to let the engine do a self-clean cycle.
the way that the black console reflects around the rest of the walls makes it very tentacle anime looking, with a kinda Aperture Science feel.
i know that codebase, and the associated btcd codebase very intimately.
it is like being in the room where the shit is hitting the fan trying to do anything with it. i mean literally, it will raise your blood pressure.
i wish i could clean it up because whoever is paying for its maintenance clearly is being ripped off, or not paying enough.
also, taproot is basically just a mechanism for addressing contract addresses. you have the root, which is a regular segwit address, and then you can tap into that with basically infinite sub-addresses.
some of the terminology and design and explanations of the things really leave something to be desired.
as i got older my face is best summed up in a mashup of 'wtf' and 'gfy'.
middle kingdom in mandarin is that chong gwor word.
pinyin is the system of accents on latin vowel characters to represent the 5 different modulations used in chinese for each vowel.
chinese language is like a compressed code. some other languages use a bit of these 25 vowel sounds but chinese uses all of them. this is also why you often hear a similar sound between chinese, turkish and hungarian, three that for me i hear a lot of similar vowels. the umlaut in german words is also related, with a modulation between vowels and usually the eh sound. the bulgarians also have one, which they call 'er maluk' which is a short vowel that sorta sounds like 'uh' or 'eh'.
and... unfortunately this disk, or the usb interface on my laptop crap out randomly and the copy never finished, in fact, it looks like it is having some kind of hardware failure at this point. or at least i'm waiting for a filesystem repair.
i wish i could make this into a neat script, my attempt at writing a bash script for this mangles the result and places the whole path prefix into the output in the script, but on the CLI it works;
tar c Downloads|pv -s `du -d0 --total -b Downloads|grep total|cut -f1`|tar x -C /run/media/me/seagate1tb/
this tars up the Downloads folder, keeping track of how big it will be and how long it will take, and dropping it back out in the destination location.
i'm all on board with the unix philosophy of making small, pluggable things and attaching them together as pipes but this is such a frequently needed operation it really should have its own variant. it would be 'not posixly correct' to add it to cp, probably, damned prime real estate those unix shell command names.
if i had all the time in the world i'd make a much nicer set of tools for these jobs. but then i'd forget how to use them if i didn't keep them precious on my system so i don't have to revert back to the baseline every time.
it's amazing how many ways europeans mangle the name of china. sino. kina, china. and yet the actual word they are importing is 'chong gwor' (shut up about the pinyin already).
i'm curious to see how nutty this can get depth-wise