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by bmelton 3y ago
Genuinely curious which shows are guaranteed to be great
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by bmelton 3y ago
lmao -- we checked on him the next morning. He didn't answer my call, but that made sense as his phone had died, so we drove by where it had been stranded and it wasn't there so he'd moved. Felt guilty that we couldn't g
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by bmelton 3y ago
Yeah. I've spent a lot of time learning charts and a terribly small amount of time actually using them. In this case, we didn't have the right ones anyway.
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by bmelton 3y ago
It was an old race boat, we had ample wind, and the owner casually bragged that he'd replaced the sails with ones that were "about 30% too big for the boat." We were sailing like demons. One of my biggest regrets of the trip
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by bmelton 3y ago
Yeah. We mostly just picked out a set of stars and kept them roughly to position. Every so often we'd try to illuminate the fixed compass with a phone to ensure that we hadn't wildly drifted from our expected bearing (also, stars
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by bmelton 3y ago
It would have been a delightful addition and honestly would have kept us much safer. It was fairly easy to keep Orion's belt just port of the mast, but occasionally cloud cover or weather would make that more difficult.
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by bmelton 3y ago
Thank you. I also am. Honestly glad my wife was aboard as it lowered my risk threshold enough to get me to want to abort.
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by bmelton 3y ago
Mostly all that's right. We had three phones and a few battery packs (tho we'd exhausted them more quickly than expected and lost one to rain) because the paper charts aboard were from the late 80s when the boat was built and were
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by bmelton 3y ago
Thank you
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by bmelton 3y ago
Offered to help the owner (a friend of a friend of a friend) of an older racing sailboat move his boat from Florida to Maryland. It was planned to be us and 4-5 other crew, but (red flag the first) ended up being only me, my wife, and the o
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by bmelton 3y ago
AHA! Yes, thank you. Other than the compass (which was only visible in the day time) the EPIRB was the only piece of equipment we assumed to work on the aforementioned voyage. We of course didn't test it as we were able to make it back
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by bmelton 3y ago
> you can call emergency services to your precise location. I guess this is the first time it's occurred to me that hikers and backpackers and such carry them too, which is odd because I hike and backpack. I picked up the InReach af
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by bmelton 3y ago
I was going to guess "minimum wage" which is $18.07 in San Francisco, but I decided to actually do a job search for "Warehouse Clerk" and found a nice opening for Disney that includes health insurance and requires no exp
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by bmelton 3y ago
I think everything in it is fairly subtle (relative to modern television at least) and there are a lot of them. It'd be reductive for me to refer to it as a coming of age story, but I often do that despite knowing it's wrong, but
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by bmelton 3y ago
Considering it took 4.9 years from her first application to even hearing back, I'd wager that blindly guessing at it having been a straightforward process probably isn't as effective as it seems
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by bmelton 3y ago
For me, it was after they invited a new batch of reviewers who ended up bumping Citizen Kane from RT's "best movie all time" down a bunch of slots to such an extent that it was outranked by Paddington 2 I still use the rating
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by bmelton 3y ago
Good list. As someone who sails, I'd add either a Magnus hitch or a rolling hitch to that list (preference, really -- both will get you there, but a Magnus is easier depending on where the load is how breakable you want the knot to be)
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by bmelton 3y ago
Breakover and departure angles for work vehicles are practical considerations when taking vehicles off of pavement even if you aren't trying to cross the rubicon, and those angles are determined by heights relative to lengths so as one
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by bmelton 3y ago
> they're scaled up to look cool and own libs Somewhat ironically, they're as big as they are because of the libs ... or at least because of Obama's modifications to the standards regulating vehicles through the use of t
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by bmelton 3y ago
People think of Python as ubiquitous now, but forget how common it used to be for there to be articles titled things like "How to Convince Your Boss that Python is Good For Your Business" on HN and Slashdot back in the day
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by bmelton 3y ago
I was thinking it was extremely familiar before realizing I was remembering the fictional Star Labs wherein Barry Allen got his Flash powers from.
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by bmelton 3y ago
One should also expect it to take time. Perhaps the best analogy I've heard is that trust is a glass jar -- it can be slowly diminished or emptied out all at once (or the jar could indeed shatter), but absent extreme circumstances, the
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by bmelton 3y ago
> intent has a lot to do with it I don't really see how we can expect that to scale from policies inherited by adversaries. We quietly do this kind of censorship all the time -- the government sends fines to public broadcasting chan
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by bmelton 3y ago
I generally agree with the argument, but haven't we just swapped the institutional preference? A library curating its inventory is effectively a ban to everyone downstream of that curation who no longer has the book available. The gove
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by bmelton 3y ago
If that's the point yoi thought I was making, i encourage you to reread my comment and its parent
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by bmelton 3y ago
Assume you have a product (x) that you are considering building. If you can get to market quickly, you can maybe grow revenues or whatever. X will take 48 person-months to complete 48 person months is 48 months with 1 persons 48 person mont
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by bmelton 3y ago
Well I haven't seen anyone mention Flet, which is pleasant (if maybe not all that complete) if you have Dart/Flutter experience, so increment your counter at least one. :-) https://flet.dev/
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by bmelton 3y ago
Worth noting that CPM revenues on Facebook are down about 53% in that same timeframe, so it is possible that "most advertisers have returned" and that "Twitter ad revenues are down 59%" are both true statements.
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This is only a tenable position to hold if you _also_ accept educational requirements to exercise other rights. E.g., the right to vote. The Supreme Court has held that such requirements to exercise a fundamental right are inherently uncons
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by bmelton 3y ago
> The Brits don't think much of the war at all. I've never studied history, and especially have never studied it abroad, but I think I've just always assumed that nations who've lost wars don't generally spend a

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