Days

• 27 Sep 2022

  Used bycicle German contract

  Fahrrad gebraucht kaufen: Darauf sollten Sie achten | ADAC

• 19 Jun 2022

  Cooling your house

  • TL;DR¹

    • If not humid, wet clothing etc. helps. Any evaporating water
    • Wind: either as ventilator or as draft. Unless it’s too hot
    • “Flush at night” if night air is cooler

  • Let me count the websites:

    • Wind

      • How can residents stay cool at home when they lack air conditioning? | Global Heat Health Information Network - really nice and full of common sense

        • when it is cooler than 35°C (95°F) opening windows on opposite sides of the building, then using an electric fan to pull cool air into the living space and a second fan to blow hot air out. This creates a cross-breeze.

      • Principles of Heating and Cooling | Department of Energy

        • As moisture leaves your skin pores, it carries a lot of heat with it, cooling your body. If a breeze (ventilation) passes over your skin, that moisture will evaporate more quickly, and you’ll be even cooler.

      • Theres’ a threshold, around 25-35C, when wind doesn’t help you anymore

    • Keep Cool Without Air Conditioning - Zero Energy Project:
      • “Flush at night”, if night air is cooler
    • Can you cool a house without air conditioning? - BBC Future
      • Evaporating water
    • 10 Overlooked Low-Tech Ways of Keeping Your Home Cool
      • A ceiling fan keeps you cool but no temperature change

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  1. How can residents stay cool at home when they lack air conditioning? | Global Heat Health Information Network ↩︎

• 07 Apr 2022

  Hummus

  Best Hummus recipe

  Best Hummus Recipe (Plus Tips & Variations) - Cookie and Kate

  Alright hummus recipe without boiling

  Easy Hummus (Better Than Store-Bought)

  Ingredients

  1 (15-ounce) can chickpeas or 1 ½ cups (250 grams) cooked chickpeas

  1/4 cup (60 ml) fresh lemon juice, 1 large lemon

  1/4 cup (60 ml) well-stirred tahini, see our homemade tahini recipe

  1 small garlic clove, minced

  2 tablespoons (30 ml) extra-virgin olive oil, plus more for serving

  1/2 teaspoon ground cumin

  Salt to taste

  2 to 3 tablespoons (30 to 45 ml) water or aquafaba, see notes

  Dash ground paprika or sumac, for serving

  Process

  In the bowl of a food processor, combine the tahini and lemon juice and process for 1 minute, scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl then process for 30 seconds more. This extra time helps “whip” or “cream” the tahini, making the hummus smooth and creamy.

  Add the olive oil, minced garlic, cumin, and a 1/2 teaspoon of salt to the whipped tahini and lemon juice. Process for 30 seconds, scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl then process another 30 seconds or until well blended. Open, drain, and rinse the chickpeas. Add half of the chickpeas to the food processor and process for 1 minute. Scrape sides and bottom of the bowl, then add remaining chickpeas and process until thick and quite smooth; 1 to 2 minutes.

  Most likely the hummus will be too thick or still have tiny bits of chickpea. To fix this, with the food processor turned on, slowly add 2 to 3 tablespoons of water until you reach the perfect consistency.

• 07 Apr 2022

  Чебуреки

  ПП ЧЕБУРЕКИ ЗА 10 МИНУТ

  Выход 2 шт./ 92г. ✅КБЖУ на 1шт.: 111/6.1/5.4/10.4. ✅КБЖУ на 100г.: 242/13.2/11.8/22.7.

  Ингредиенты: ▫️50г говяжьего фарша ▫️10мл воды ▫️зелень ▫️44г лаваша ▫️2г подсолнечного масла ▫️соль, перец.

  Приготовление: ▫️Из лаваша вырезать 2 круга. Я вырезала с помощью большого блюдца - приложила к лавашу, обвела ножом и выстригла ножницами. ▫️Смешать фарш, воду, зелень, соль и перец - получится начинка. ▫️Налить воды в тарелочку, намочить круг лаваша с каждой стороны и выложить на досочку. ▫️Выложить на правую половину начинку (половинку), оставив 1-2 см до края, накрыть второй половиной, прижать края - они хорошо слипнутся. Второй чебурек также) ▫️Далее очень хорошо разогреваем сковороду, смазываем маслом, жарим на огне чуть ниже среднего 8 минут, переворачиваем каждые 2 минуты.

• 15 Mar 2022

  Cough types metodichka

  Вопросы диагностики и терапии непродуктивного кашля | Медичний часопис

  сухой, громкий, отрывистый (лающий) — при заболеваниях гортани, трахеи; резкий кашель — при остром трахеобронхите, плеврите; мелкое, частое покашливание характерно для раздражения плевры; конвульсивный (судорожный) кашель с быстро следующими друг за другом толчками, прерывающимися шумным выдохом, приводящий к рвоте — при коклюше; битональный кашель — при туморозном бронхоадените у детей; сухой рефлекторный кашель при раздражении рефлексогенных зон вне дыхательных путей: например при заболеваниях наружного слухового прохода («ушной кашель»). упорный кашель при диссеминированных и фиброзирующих процессах в легких (туберкулез, саркоидоз, пневмокониозы, коллагенозы и др.); надсадный сухой или малопродуктивный кашель — при патологических процессах в окружности бронхов (сдавление опухолью, лимфатическими узлами, аневризмой аорты и др.); на фоне свистящего дыхания при бронхиальной астме; ночной «сердечный» кашель — при сердечной недостаточности; регулярно повторяющийся во время или же сразу после еды кашель — при грыже пищеводного отверстия диафрагмы, дивертикулах пищевода, трахеопищеводном свище, неврогенных расстройствах; кашель, связанный с изменением положения тела — при гастроэзофагеальной рефлюксной болезни, синдроме постназального затекания (цит. по: Синопальников А.И., Клячкина И.Л., 2004).

• 15 Feb 2022

  Запеканка с мясом и овощами

  

  • Лук пожарить перед фаршем
  • Сыра немного
  • Почистить кабачки и помидоры
• 01 Feb 2022

  German Bindestrich VS Minus

  German and typography and dashes is fascinating, especially how they’re named according to their function.

  • Halbgeviertstrich is a (half-length) long dash. Used as:
    • Gedankenstrich (like parentheses, “beat"s, etc.)
    • Bis-strich - “steht für das gesprochene Wort ‘Bis’”: (“A-Z”)
    • Gegenstrich (“Roma-Napoli”)
  • Kurzstrich AKA Viertelgeviertstrich AKA “minus”
    • Bindestrich (“H-Milch”)
    • Ergänzungstrich (“Haupt- und Nebeneingang”)

  Related is the English-language Wikipedia page about the 4 kinds of dashes.

• 24 Jan 2022

  List of good things

  Partly in the spirit of posts like What are objects that have made your life better? and Things you’re allowed to do¹, partly - if something “just works” for years you have no reason to remember it, then it ‘floats away’ next time you move, isn’t immediately missed because you have other stuff going on, end you end up using a short USB charger for months…

  Tech hardware

  • LONG USB-C charger wires with a texture (nylon, braided, any other names?..): easy to find by touch only (in the dark, in the backpack, among 50 other black wires…)
  • Phone:
    • BRIGHT ORANGE to find it on any background (and pink headphones for the same reason)
    • A lot of disk space and a really good battery
  • Chargers:
    • Additional laptop chargers (one at work / in the backpack, one on the couch etc.)
    • Matching chargers for different devices at home
  • Bluetooth remotes/buttons for my phone!² (Added on 2022-12-22)
    • Use-case: you’re in bed, listening to podcasts/audiobooks/… through headphones when falling asleep, and need to skip an ad/episode or change volume.
    • Now you can just click a button on the remote without opening your eyes! Previously, that would have involved opening your eyes, finding the phone itself, looking at the screen and using the touchpad, waking up in the process.
    • Key Mapper³ mappings make this even better:
      • central “play” button: once for play/pause, twice for “30 seconds forward”
      • “forward” button: once for “30 seconds forward”, twice for “go to next episode”
      • “backward” button: same as above but backward

  Day to day life

  • Glasses with self-tinting lenses
  • BIG Mil-Tec / M-Tac assault backpack⁴
    • The MOLLE system is nice and you can attach carabins with stuff to it, like grocery bags etc
    • The straps can make it visually smaller, nice for carry-on luggage!
    • Zips around all of it - so it can open fully, the whole 180 degrees
    • Water-proof
  • Keys on a chain attached to the pants with a carabin (or two, to make disconnecting easier). The chain should be:
    • long enough, so that I can open any doors without detaching the chain
    • Double (= a circle), so that it can be hung anywhere
  • Electronic toothbrush!
  • KITCHEN PLIERS!!!
  • молочник вместо заварника - мыть легче и использовать тоже
  • Gloves with touchscreen-friendly fingers
  • BRIGHT LUGGAGE is nice to see in a sea of black and dark blue ones
    • And traveling wearing polos with a pocket: can be used for things needed often and close, such as documents (passport, boarding pass) but also headphones
  • Rug in the bathroom near bath/shower: feels nice and less likely to slip
  • Emergency money (and masks!) hidden in places that you can forget about and always count on :)
  • Thermoflasche, my Tramp 0.9l survived more abuse than I thought possible

  Software

  • noise cancelling (noisetorch) if the microphone picks up my typing
  • documents backed-up in git and accessible from the phone⁵
  • git repos with multiple remotes (github, gitlab, my VPS) for redundancy.
  • On my VPS:
    • FreshRSS and easyRSS on mobile
    • Password manager / bitwarden
    • wallabag
    • nextcloud for android sync
  • Fastmail with calendar/contacts synchronised with DAVx
  • Obsidian for notes
  • Android:
    • Podcasts: PodcastAddict, with volume keys mapped to “skip 15 seconds” though Key Mapper and Precise Volume to make it quieter
    • NewPipe for YouTube!
    • Sentien Launcher for distraction-free screen
    • RedReader and other Reddit clients

  Stuff you can do

  • Checklists!
  • Listen to podcasts at 2x the speed!
  • Donate to or buy apps and programs that make your life better
  • Write postcards and letters to people; plan video calls and phone calls instead of texting
  • Sabbath and meditation
  • Go outside to read books on the grass
  • Organize stuff!

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  1. Especially see the “Related, probably better lists” part there ↩︎

  2. I’m really happy with this one: Steering Wheel Remote Control Bluetooth, Bluetooth Remote Control Button Bluetooth Remote Control Car Vehicle Bluetooth Equipment Car Bluetooth Receiver Bluetooth Media 5.0 Remote Control : Amazon.de: Electronics & Photo / Drahtlose Bluetooth Lenkrad Fernbedienung Auto Radio Audio Knöpfe Smartphone Steuerung für Media MP3 Player für Android IOS|Fernbedienungen| - AliExpress ↩︎

  3. Key Mapper | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository ↩︎

  4. This kind: Mil-Tec US Assault Pack Backpack : Amazon.de: Sport & Freizeit ↩︎

  5. never “need to find my passport to start online check in” anymore ↩︎

• 21 Jan 2022

  From an Intermezzo-3 post that was never written

  Main realization from summer 2021, the one I spent home being on vacation, not doing home office, adding it here since I’m never starting that blog post:

  I stopped believing my usual “You are what you do” bit, replacing it with this one:

  “You are what you do when you are not tired”

  Corollary: to learn more about yourself, get yourself in a situation when you’re not tired¹, “don’t should on yourself”, leave alone any expectations and preconceptions about what you should do during your vacation, do whatever makes you happy and observe.

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  1. for a couple of days at least to get rid of the novelty effect and have enough data in a statistical sense ↩︎

• 19 Jan 2022

  Common cold and flu basics

  Am ill have a cold, am suffering, the usual “Can’t easily solve it - learn everything you can about it”.

  Both

  • respiratory illnesses caused by viruses
  • cough
  • may cause
    • ear infection: requires attention if ear symptoms last longer than other symptoms
    • sinus infection

  Flu (грипп, ~influenza)

  • The worse of the two
  • Symptoms
    • “like being hit by a truck” - start suddenly and a lot of them
    • symptoms everywhere, muscle ache, fever
    • may have: cough, stuffy nose
  • Treatments
    • first-line: vaccination is the best and only ¹
    • sometimes antivirals for faster recovery
      • (only if started during the first 48h)
    • no complimentary ones ¹
  • fatigue may last weeks
  • more chances for dangerous complications
    • pneumonia
      • lung infection
      • cough, fever, chills, shortness of breath, chest pain when coughing

  Common cold (~простуда)

  • symptoms
    • stuffy nose
    • more likely to start with a sore throat ALONE for 1-2 days
      • flu would have also tiredness etc
    • fever unlikely except for children
    • peaks during the 2-4 day, lasts 7-10
  • treatment:
    • Usual OTC stuff for symptoms - NSAIDs help for sneezing and pain, but not for respiratory symptoms or total length²
    • complimentary stuff: ¹
      • promising:
        • oral zinc products (esp. lozenges ³)
        • honey
        • meditation is allegedly more effective than sport for prevention of the common cold! ⁴
      • Conflicting: vitamin C (for most people), echinacea, garlic.
  • food that helps:
    • chicken soup, citrus stuff, spicy stuff, ginger (https://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/ss/slideshow-foods-cold)
  • Caused by 200+ different viruses, ergo no vaccination or easy antiviral treatment

  Random/interesting

  • Common cold is a term and studied, no similar term in Russian medical literature
  • paracetamol vs ibuprofen: no consensus from what I read

  Random about colds, all from ⁵

  Простудой принято обозначать ОРВИ лёгкого течения, затрагивающие преимущественно носовые ходы ⁵

  Из-за убеждения о том, что в летнее время невозможно простудиться, некоторые люди даже путают летнюю простуду с аллергией[69]. Ложными оказываются и наиболее распространённые убеждения касательно лечения простуды. А единственный известный на сегодняшний день способ избегания простудных заболеваний — жизнь в полной изоляции от остального человечества[51]. Так, исследователи, посещающие Арктику или Антарктику, на время своего пребывания не болеют простудой, несмотря на мороз и суровые условия

  Не существует доказательств возможности простудиться из-за переохлаждения, перегрева или из-за воздействия холодной или дождливой погоды, а некоторые исследования показывают, что воздействие холода не сказывается на заболеваемости. Тем не менее предполагается, что вдыхаемый холодный воздух снижает местный иммунитет носовых проходов, повышая шансы на заражение ⁵

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  1. https://www.nccih.nih.gov/health/flu-and-colds-in-depth ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎

  2. there’s moderate evidence that NSAIDS:

     • don’t help for respiratory symptoms / cough and length
     • help for sneezing and all kinds of pain (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26387658/#:~:text=Authors'%20conclusions%3A%20NSAIDs%20are%20somewhat,when%20using%20NSAIDs%20for%20colds. / https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD006362.pub4/full)
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  3. • https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5DKqK3hEzzBoGF47C/consider-taking-zinc-every-time-you-travel
     • Not all formulations work though. Best is in lozenge form, unpleasant, at the start of any symptoms prevents multiplication of viruses inside the throat: https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/03/02/coronavirus-links-speculation-open-thread/#comment-859920
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  4. according not to meditation websites, but to the same US NIH ¹ ↩︎

  5. https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%B0 ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎

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