bluGill

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[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 7 minutes ago

What broke? If it was a GNU ism that wouldn't work on *BSD either, than it is your own stupid fault. There are other linux distros that also don't use the gnu core utils that would break things do.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 0 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Note that those are minimums. The pilots I know try to be well above the minimums as a personal rule. Landing without fuel is something they practice in the simulator, not something they ever want to try in real world conditions.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 6 hours ago

And how much power can you even get from a solar panel in a typical outside environment where you'd freeze to death?

Day or night? As a kid we used to heat with wood - every morning I'd wake up and start the first and then take my shower... The fire was out by 9am, but the house was noticeably warmer at 12 than 9am anyway from solar, and we didn't need to light the night fire until 7-8pm (the sun went down around 4pm), and it would burn on low all night.

The coldest days tend to also be clear skies. Cloudy days did not get nearly as much solar heat, they needed less, but we would have to light a fire again at noon to get through the day.

Which is to say you can get more than enough solar to save your life if there is a reasonable amount of insulation in the car if it is daytime - but it wouldn't be enough to get through the night when you need the heat most.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 2 points 7 hours ago

The drinks that major sports teams use are designed to be exactly what is needed for that sport, and only contain sugar if nutritionists (and other real scientists) say it is needed, and then only in the amount needed. Different sports have different needs, and so will get different drinks (if there is enough money in the sport to pay scientists to design it).

The sports drinks you buy in the store share only the name/logo with the above drinks.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 13 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Unions work depending on how 'in it together' you feel.

If you resent the people standing around doing nothing they start to fail. If you resent the people who do worse work than you for the same pay they start to fail. note that on an assembly line the above isn't possible in the first place - which is why they work great there. (Bus drivers and police are also not really measureable like that)

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 6 points 1 day ago

that depends on the pilot. it doesn't apply to bold pilots. There are bold pilots and old pilots - but no old and bold pilots.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 4 points 1 day ago (7 children)

In practice that is zero - you are not allowed to take off unless you have enough fuel to fly for an hour after landing. flying is safe in large part because of hard learned rules like this.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 3 days ago

Ask my wife. I've followed dozens of direction, none work for me - I get the peel and half the egg white off. She manages to get a nice peel every time.

i don't think it is genetic, but whatever it is nothing works.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

From looking at history this seems confined to one generation - in 1950 the "ideal family" was a man going to work 9-5, and the women staying home to cook/clean. For a while it even worked out that way for a lot of people, but over the 1960s there was a culture revolution and women started working, while men learned to help. This process is continuing on.

Look longer over history though you see that in almost all cultures men would regularly get into situations where there were no women around to cook. Hunting, or working in the field all day often meant men and women were separated and so men had to cook for themselves if they were to eat. (women between 15 and 40 were regularly pregnant or nursing a baby - men cannot do these things, and they limit what a woman can do so some activities become men's work.) Not to mention war which typically was mostly men, though "camp followers" did cook for the army in some cases.

Which is to say, maybe your Grandpa didn't cook. However that men in his generation didn't cook was an outlier. Over history men and women both cooked.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Every car at a gas station has an exhaust system with temperatures well over the ignition point of gasoline. If there was a problem we would have to let our cars tool for half an hour a quarter mile away from the pumps before we pushed them there by hand.

fortunately gasoline only burns in a narrow range of mixtures which are impossible to get in open air.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That only sometimes works. Make sure you never go to that station again, and tell your friends. Buycotts work best if a lot of people boycott over a sustained period of time.

i now have an ev, so I can't join anymore.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 8 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Huh? Who doesn't know how to cook? It is easy and very common in mowt circles. I think you need to readjust your life if you think that is rare. eating out is not only expensive it is also unhealy most of the time.

 

My wife is complaining that we have music all over the living room all the time. With a couple kids in music lessons, school bands (regular, jazz), orchestra, and such a practice session often needs 6 books and 5 loose pages of music so I can't blame her for being frustrated. There is no easy way to store all that and find what you need for the current daily practice sessions.

Putting a tablet (suggestions? schools gives the kids an iPad, and I'm looking at pinetab2, or boox for me) on a stand seems easy enough, but then what?

Mobile sheets seems to be what others around me use, so probably what I'd end up doing too, though I'm not locked to anything. Any other software that I should be looking at? I do like the idea that we can synchronize page turning.

The hard part is getting all my music onto my NAS. Do I just scan all my books? Buy again as PDF (only rarely an option). Entry the music into some other program? I have some sheet music I want to put into lilypond - is there anything that would sync my tablets to a rendered version of this.

I already have Jellyfin and I see book options (but have not used it yet). Calibri-web also comes up often for books. Both seem book reading focused and music flows / organization is different. Anything else I might want to put on my servers that might be better?

Any other thoughts? What have others done that works?

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