If you mean from the perspective of having to do it/pay for it, you can claim I think it's £6/week for it in the UK if you don't have the option of getting it done at work (but hospitals in general do I believe).
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I personally don't believe an archival storage, at least for personal use.
Data has to be living if it is to be kept alive, so keeping the data within reach, moving it to new media over time and keeping redundant copies seems like the best way to me.
Once things are put away, I fear the chances of recovering that data steadily reduce over time.
> Once things are put away, I fear the chances of recovering that data steadily reduce over time.
I’ve run into this a lot. You store a backup of some device without really thinking of it, then over time the backup gets migrated to another drive but the device it ran on is lost and can’t be replaced. I remember reading a post years ago where someone commented that you don’t need a better storage solution, you need fewer files in simpler formats. I never took his advice, but I think he might have been right.
Cloud, or variants thereof, is fine -- I use rsync.net for backup and archive. But needing to manually run a backup (say, onto a thumb drive) is not sustainable, and even though the author suggests that disks (spinning rust or optical) might actually have a reasonable lifespan, I don't trust myself to be able to recover data from them if I want it.
As the author says, the limiting factor isn't technical. For media, it's economic. For any archival system it's also going to be social. There's a reason that organisations that really need to keep their archives have professional archivists, and it's not because it's easy :).
My first PhD advisor was German, and he introduced me to LAMY pens. Everyone in our lab was given a hardcover notebook and a LAMY pen, and there were plenty of ink cartridges that we could use. I don’t use fountain pens these days, preferring pencil instead, but I remember how nice those pens were.
While I’m on the topic of German stationery, I regularly use my Staedtler eraser and pencil sharpener.
I keep a stable of inked pens. The set is half Japanese, half German all the time. I find Lamy superior for leak resistance and ruggedness, and they're repairable if you manage to damage them also, their tipping is one of the best and fastest polishing/adapting ones if not the best. Japanese ones tend to stay at my desk at home, since they're more delicate writing instruments (except Pilot Metropolitan.That's a tank), but I enjoy them all the same, regardless of their price points and materials.
BTW, if you have not tried Montblanc's Royal Blue give it a chance. That one is "different". Also Scrikss's blue black ink is nice.
The notebook using this paper is called Meteksan Prestige [0]. I don't know if they're exported or not.
Notebook looks good, much less expensive than Rhodia or Yu-Sari for 300 sheets of A5, assuming paper quality is as advertised. Priced in dollars although I’m not sure if they actually ship to to the us.
Yeah I never came across those Japanese products given the available German brands, of which there's also Staedtler, Faber-Castell, Stabilo, and Rotring, in addition to those already mentioned.
If anything, I had thought Japan were known to produce fine markers/felt-tip pens.
Reading Yarvin, I get the impression that he has never seriously investigated and contemplated how both governments and corporations work. His ideas are very feels-oriented. He makes a lot of bizarre and invalid assertions about both regarding operations, inputs, and outputs. He seems to live in an ironically academic affluenza bubble that's quite divorced from reality.
He is a fairly deplorable contributor to political theory and an uninspiring writer who hasn't done anything useful in any of his endeavours as far as I an tell. Has Urbit ever done anything useful? How much money has gone into it, and how much of it was his? Wait, sorry Curtis; tell me again about the efficiency of private corporations.
I think this should be taken care of by the employer.