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  • Sichuan pepper provides a numbing effect. It’s usually combined with spicy chili to make the Chinese “mala” taste.

    The numbing effect was the most memorable part of my experience of trying tantanmen when I was in Japan a long time ago; I hadn’t encountered Sichuan pepper before that, so it was quite surprising!

    If you’re getting the numbing effect then there’s some mixed into one of the ingredients you used. If not, you’re missing out on an interesting ingredient that you can use in the dish.








  • I’ve worked for a university before and it was very common for staff to remote into their systems from home – usually with SSH for CS types or Remote Desktop/Team Viewer/etc. for less computer-focused folks. (The former usually didn’t have much issue – the folks using the latter mechanisms got compromised a number of times… -.-) There was also a campus provided VPN that was required to access certain systems with instructions to students and staff on how to use it, but other systems just got public IP addresses.

    If what you’re doing is related to your work and campus IT doesn’t object, you’re probably fine to do it. I’ve run various kinds of websites and web apps for colleagues to collaborate on research projects. Being able to do things like that is kind of the point of the internet.

    Having seen a number of students, uh, push the limits and find the boundaries of acceptability the hard way though… I’d strongly advise you not to install cryptominers, run TOR exit nodes, or torrent TV shows/movies/etc. That kind of thing tends to get your systems in hot water with IT or other parts of the bureaucracy…







  • I’ve tried setting up projects that used hard links like that and there are some pros and cons to this. On the plus side, you can delete from one location and the file is still available in the other without having to manage a separate repository structure. On the down side, most software cannot copy the structure correctly to a different file system (even one that supports hard links), which can make backups and migrations annoying to deal with – generally you end up with multiple actual copies, ballooning disk space usage and sometimes causing weird issues if the two files linking to the same data (rather than just having copies of the same data) actually matters…

    I’d recommend sticking with the “primary repository of real files” and “multiple views filled with symlinks” structure over hardlinks unless you’re really sure you know what you’re getting yourself into.