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by bergie 3y ago
Depends on the tablet navigation software you use. Orca has a very decent night mode.
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by bergie 3y ago
We did that a lot as well. Night trains are the closest mankind has to teleportation. Hop on a train in Berlin, have a beer, sleep, wake up in the centre Paris or Rome with a coffee and a croissant.
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by bergie 3y ago
Tax info is more or less public in many Nordic countries. It helps to create a more equal society.
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by bergie 3y ago
Sure, just like I’m really happy having for instance AIS for collision avoidance on the boat. I never got to fly with all the modern automations, though. Fuel prices shot up drastically around the time I got my license, and so I let it expi
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by bergie 3y ago
Apart from some minor electronics improvements (like easier radios), that all sounds remarkably similar to my experience learning to fly twenty years ago. Still all paper charts, compass, time, VORs. Was definitely rewarding to get the navi
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I worked exclusively in Vision Pro for a week(arstechnica.com)
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2023 in social media: the case for the Fediverse(theverge.com)
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by bergie 3y ago
Wow, that’s remarkably close to what I’ve been thinking we’d need on our cruising sailboat. We have intermittent connectivity, especially when offshore, and so couple of additional things would make this an exact match: * Being able to say
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by bergie 3y ago
My work on Flow-Based Programming ( https://noflojs.org/ ) got me a job about ten years ago. The startup founder had seen a talk I gave about it and got in touch. NoFlo ended up being used extensively in that company.
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by bergie 3y ago
We have a website documenting our boat, including systems and checklists for common operations. When we get sailing guests, it is easy to send them a link. https://handbook.lille-oe.de/ That said, there are some good additi
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by bergie 3y ago
> The version with "rowmen" is dominant though The Finnic Venäjä / Venemaa also has boating implications (vene = boat). Maybe the land you go to by boat?
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by bergie 3y ago
I generally don’t use apps for things that have a decent website. Reddit was still in that category. But after they started doing stupid stuff I also moved to Lemmy, and haven’t looked back.
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by bergie 3y ago
As far as I've understood it, the pirates don't buy their own equipment. Instead there is a "Venture Capitalist" somewhere like UAE funding the trip. A colleague of mine was on a navy ship that captured a boat full of pi
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280M e-bikes are slashing oil demand far more than electric vehicles(arstechnica.com)
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by bergie 3y ago
Just finished “Heavy weather sailing” by Martin Thomas and Peter Bruce. Grim but good stuff. Now following up with Fatty Goodlander’s “Creative anchoring”. On the fiction side, read Arkady Martine’s “A memory called empire” recently, and ab
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by bergie 3y ago
> Falcon 9 is extremely successful and Starship is the main project that's been in the making doing good strides once in a while We shall see. There might be some https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_ef
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by bergie 3y ago
> Even with that blip, they're still incredibly cheap Indeed. In the last (boat) solar installations I’ve done, the panels generally have been the cheapest component. The brackets to hold them, and the charge controllers tend to be
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Musk shut off Starlink to prevent Ukraine attack on Russian ships(arstechnica.com)
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by bergie 3y ago
We saw an electric motorboat this summer, made out of an old archipelago fisher boat. Cabin top and bimini full of solar. Owner estimated that on a sunny day you can motor at 3kt without depleting batteries.
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by bergie 3y ago
Chaos Communication Congress often features the “Silk Road” network of pneumatic tubes, powered by regular vacuum cleaners. People obviously send a lot of viagra spam, but I’ve even seen vodka shots delivered through it. You build your own
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by bergie 3y ago
Running for a thousand years longer might have something to do with it
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by bergie 3y ago
https://bergie.iki.fi/
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by bergie 3y ago
That is a long distance to make on a Honda Monkey! We did only a slightly longer trip, from Helsinki to Gibraltar back in the 00s: http://web.archive.org/web/20110310093031/http://www.deathmo...
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Tech Erosion(stilldrinking.org)
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by bergie 3y ago
We used to do this in a startup I worked at. Was a lot cheaper to book a big AirBnB for the meet-ups than to have a fixed office space. And we could pick interesting meet-up locations.
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by bergie 3y ago
They said that you can pair it with Bluetooth mice, keyboards, and game controllers.
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by bergie 3y ago
Istanbul is a big city, but is not the capital. It was the capital of the Ottoman Empire, and before that the East Roman Empire, though.
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by bergie 3y ago
Yep. When I was working with a very geographically distributed team, I loved being able to file a bug in the end of the workday, and have a fix ready for deployment by the time I opened my laptop next morning.
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by bergie 3y ago
Android has supported keyboards and mice pretty much forever, I think.
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by bergie 3y ago
Freighters have right of way in constrained waters, but offshore they still need to make way for sailboats. (Yes, I know colregs is a bit more nuanced than that, but I think this is a decent approximation)

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