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by ofalkaed 11mo ago
What makes you think the USCG has any bearing on my life? Even if I am an American I stated that my dream was to be blown about the oceans, which strongly implies that I will be out of USCG jurisdiction the majority of the time. You are rig
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by ofalkaed 11mo ago
A large ship is very unlikely to just instantly destroy and sink a small sailboat, bow wave pushes it aside and destroys the rigging leaving the boat adrift, crew either abandons it or scuttles it when rescued unless they are near land and
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by ofalkaed 11mo ago
I didn't say that I am entitled or that it was an imposition, just that it was complex and I have mixed feelings about it, literally said that I don't think society should make allowances for me.
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by ofalkaed 11mo ago
I admitted or strongly implied everything you used as rebuttal with the exception of your final point, I don't believe using more energy improves ones life. Also, this is not a retirement dream, this is going to happen in the next year
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by ofalkaed 11mo ago
Not even in theory. Sure I may loose my boat but they will be liable for it and will not even question being liable, the cost is tiny to them and I would get a new boat if they ran me down. Things are more complex when that freighter is als
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by ofalkaed 11mo ago
In a bay, sure, but in a busy bay this is not much of an issue, the solo sailor is not going to be asleep in their berth when sailing about the bay.
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by ofalkaed 11mo ago
Maybe? I don't think this is beyond societies, but it does require society to expect it. The idea of reducing had an effect on society back in the 80s and into the 90s, people did reduce, but it didn't last. This is not "de-g
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by ofalkaed 11mo ago
As someone whose goal in life is to be blown about the oceans by the wind, I have mixed feelings about this. With the "traditional" freighter I would have the right of way, my being a sailboat under the wisdom of the wind, they ha
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by ofalkaed 11mo ago
My X13G3 does not have such a setting in EFI setup but the fancy power management setups that come with most (if not all DEs) does not seem to play well with it, it seems to wait for some processes to finish before sleeping even though thos
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by ofalkaed 11mo ago
J mostly looks good but [) looks almost like a fancy capital D which can be distracting and =# run together at smaller font sizes which is a little weird. Those are the only things that jump out at me but I did not look hard, overall I woul
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
I have spent a fair amount of time over the past couple years browsing this list and the People Lost at Sea category. I visit them and the page for Fatal Familial Insomnia every couple months.
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
Being the weirdo frees you from a great many time consuming pleasantries. Making friends might secure a permanent place but it also means a few minutes from every break will be lost to small talk and sometimes the entire break; you see a se
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
Lenovo Duet 3/5 might be of interest, Chrome tablet with detachable keyboard. I have been working in gforth longhand lately and it is great fun.
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
American Swiss cheese developed from Emmental cheese.
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
Baby Swiss and Lacey Swiss are small hole varieties.
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William Gass and John Gardner: A Debate on Fiction (1979)(medium.com)
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
Developers are taught to document code, not programs, very different skills. Only a small part of the FOSS world has the resources required for hiring someone to write documentation, the rest of FOSS has to rely on the community and hope so
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
Went out into the garage and dug it out, it is a Telechron Mechanical Occlusion Display, here are a couple videos. First does a good job of showing how it looks when time changes, second is a 12 hour stream for the diehard. https:/&#x
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
The brightness of the clock was about the same as a tired old VFD that has consumed most of its phosphor but this was something much simpler and something anyone could figure out how it worked once they saw the insides. The general look was
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
The article bringing up flip-flop clocks reminded me of another mechanical digital clock that I can not quite remember the name of. It was from roughly the same time period as the flip-flop alarm/radio clocks but the numbers were wire
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
Back around 2015 when this first came out I started drawing up plans for a befunge computer, it seemed like a good use for the massive amount of CMOS and TTL that had fallen into my lap around the same time. It was a fun idea but would have
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
I just use a plain old notebook or my tablet which I pretty much only use as a notebook. While there may be a great deal of information to consume, only a tiny portion will be of use to any single person.
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
Got to start somewhere or you will never get anywhere.
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
In the past year or two they have also added a quick periodic flash of white light for when visibility is low; like a camera flash that happens every few seconds. I think it was added this spring but don't quite remember.
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
I also have the dream of running a hot dog cart but I am not a people person so it remains a dream. Not sure how I ended up with this dream but I consider it at least once a year and have for 20 some years. Probably has something to do with
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
To the critics of parent, the reason we add dates and people make such posts is so HN users can know if it is something they read or something new or just something new to them. So when OP forgets the date, we make a post with the date so O
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
Starting at the bottom of the blackboard would be backwards from how it prints in the terminal when you cat /proc/<pid>/maps.
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
You can and most do but some people go other routes for one reason or another. https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Typing_glyphs
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
It looks to be the standard Dyalog APL keyset, which will be just fine for GnuAPL and most if not all APLs but not all languages of the APL family.
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
Lots of people use the end result in some other hobby like jewelry or other crafts. The stores here that cater to tourists are filled with things made from/with local tumbled stones, mostly agate. I considered getting one for a mancala

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