Sickle. Pretty much used for the same purpose, but on a much smaller scale.
Source: Grew up on a norwegian farm in the 80's and 90's. We had an ancient one of these hanging on the wall as decoration, presumably used by my ancestors.
I usually sort All by top 12 or 6, depending on how recently I last checked. That's how I keep up with the general chatter. And I refresh my subscriptions by new once in a while to take part in the topics I enjoy as they emerge.
It was far from a life and death situation, as it was a highly controlled activity.
But it was meant to mimic a life and death situation for practice: Anyone who travel by helicopter in the North Sea are required to go through this course which includes an emergency water landing drill. It involves sitting inside this thing that is reasonably close to one of the common helicopter models used in the north sea. Same seats, same belts, and similar windows.
This "simlator" hangs from a crane over a pool. So that you can practice escaping from a ditched helicopter. "Brace brace brace!" dunk
This is done while wearing a survival suit that has a rebreather. Each passenger has a dedicated scuba frogman to make sure you don't panic and drown.
First dunk emulates a successful water landing. Helicopter remains floating for a while, but then goes under. Release window, unclamp, and swim out.
It gradually increases in fuckery, to the poin where it's emulating a helicopter that goes under right away and flips around as it does.
I'm fairly light weight, so this survival suit gives me a lot of buoyancy, and this collar-like thing around my neck tended to catch on the window as I was going through. In the beginning, this was not a problem, but it became a pretty big one on the last test.
The disorientation from being flipped made it hard to compensate for the extra buoyancy, so I got stuck, upside down in the water. I immediately knew what happened, but I remained calm, moved back a little bit. With one hand to keep track of the window, I used my other hand to pretty much pack and squeeze collar as close to my neck as possible, preventing it from catching. There was no panic, but there was a slight worry that the frogman hadn't intervened. Thanks to the rebreather I could stay pretty calm and focus on what needed to be done to get through the window.
When I reached the surface the frogman explained that he saw that I was having some problems, but decided to let me continue, as he saw that I was calm and reasonably in control. In a real scenario such as this, panic would've killed me.
Are CompTIA certifications still a viable way to get back into IT? I left the workforce at the start of 2020 to be a stay at home and I'm wanting to get recertified so I have options if I want to reenter the workforce....
I agree with this. They're good certs to have as documentation of general proficiency, but they're best in combination with something more specific like CCNA.
My pick is Five Finger Death Punch and the obvious answer is Ivan Moody. The guy radiates that alpha-male wannabe energy and it definitely rings through all of the songs he has written and performed with this band. The guy is just a prick and a self-victimizing asshole....
I also think Guns'n Roses have soome fucking awesome riffs and songs, but I find Axl Rose to be an insufferable cunt of a diva. Slash, Izzy, Duff, and Adler should have released Appetite for Destruction with a different vocalist.
I'm thinking that without him, maybe the rest of the band didn't have to be so drugged up to tolerate each other long term, perhaps keeping the original lineup for longer.
From my limited understand8ng of their formation history, GnR was the result of fusing members from LA Guns with some other band named something Hollywood Rose. Axl came from the latter.
The LA Guns vocalist was Tracii Guns who took part in forming GnR as a guitarist, but left shortly after and Slash took his place. I'm curious how things would've turned out if he'd remained as only a singer.
Never heard of the guy, so I don't. After googling him I realized that it's because I practically never consume any media related to sports, let alone American sports, so... 🤷♂️
As much as I like the concept of GDPR, i think it didn't fo far enough. EU tried, but they should've thought it through a few more times. For example I would've loved for the cookie warning to have a mandated "No to everything, get fucked, and never ask about access from this IP again."-button
The internet has made a lot of people armchair experts happy to offer their perspective with a degree of certainty, without doing the work to identify gaps in their knowledge. Often the mark of genuine expertise is knowing the limitations of your knowledge....
Yes. Because none of my coworkers want to openly admit that they're just as geeky and autistic about the company IP schema and the routing tables as I.
"Is that NTP server we installed on that ship in Galveston last year available via VPN?".
"Yup, 172.20.72.21 and its backup is on 172.20.72.22"
Yeah, I've found that the best thing to do when you (accidentally or intentionally) kick the tankie-hive is to block the ones who don't realize that not everything needs to be debunked or even commented, and then move on and forget about it.
I've been wondering for a bit why during the time the Democrats controlled the legislature, executive, and judicial branches during Obama's first term in 2008 more wasn't accomplished. Shouldn't that have been the opportunity to make Row V Way law and fix the electoral college? I understand the recession was going on but outside...
Because back then the democratic party didn't really tow the party line as well as republicans. They've gotten better at it, but still behind. When the R voted NO in unison on most things championed by Obama, D couldn't be relied upon to counter with enough YES votes. The party was too fractured, and while they still kind of are, they at least present a somewhat unified front nowadays.
I got in on an earlier flight, and arrived at 6 it was a pain in the ass.. I literally had to walk around for like 4 hours until things opened, and I was so tired and weary all day.
Normal checkout is around noon, after which housekeeping will do their magic. While they generally don't need a whole lot of time per room, they usually have A LOT of rooms to cover, so this can take a few hours. So checkin at 6 is reasonable.
However, there is some leeway there. Returning customers can usually request a later check out. I do this often so I don't have to haul my luggage around at the final day of my business trips. On top of that, I usually phone ahead and ask if it's possible to check in early if I arrive relatively early in the day. Otherwise I'll just take my luggage with me to work and check in later.
This depends on whether they have available rooms. If they're fully booked, there won't be any rooms ready until housekeeping has done their thing. In the same way, late checkout can mean that the room won't be cleaned until next day, unless housekeeping can schedule it for last on their round, so they would need an extra room for that.
It basically boils down to the fact that if they have the capacity, then asking nicely will usually get you a long way.
Basic blender went bad (motor ran but spindle wasn't rotating). I wanted to disassemble to see if it could be repaired. Three of the four screws were Phillips head. I had to cut the casing open in order to discover why I couldn't unscrew the fourth. It was a slotted spanner.
The bit set and tool set from IFixIt has those. I'm not sponsored by them in any way, but I will shamelessly recommend their tools when I can because they're objectively good for this kind of stuff.
What I mean is: some boolean flags are perfect for the real world phenomenon they are representing e.g. is_light_on makes you understand perfectly that when it is true the light is on and when it is false the light is off....
Fun fact: My employer paid for my plane ticket and hotel stay that evening. It "just so happened" that I had something to do at the head office at the same time my two favorite artists were performing nearby.. sure, I had something work-related to do, but my timing was no accident.
UPDATE: Looks like Dream Theater will be in the area again in November. Sounds like it's time for a department-wide meeting, don't you think?
I'm not a big fan of political assassinations, or attempts thereof, but I'm going to have to admit that I don't feel sorry for him. It's a reasonable balancing act against those who are permissive of right wing shitheads at the threat of violence. Political voilence (or preferably, lack of such) should be more bipartisan and politically evened out.
I'm not going to shed any tears if someone in a certain country south of Slovakia draws inspiration from this either.
I wish him a lengthy and painful recovery.
EDIT for clarification: I hope he survives with no lasting harm. I don't wish that kind of loss on his friends and family.
I accepted my current position early 2020, with the understanding that I would move to The Big City eventually. Then covid came. Yeah, that aint happening. As much as I enjoy cities, I prefer to live somewhat in the middle of nowhere where my mortgage is less than 10% of my monthly income
I will start using "cisformer" in place of "wire" from now on, in a similar manner to how we at work sometimes refer to "power aspect negation cycle" for pulling the plug on something and reconnect it.
Also, I guess a cisistor would be just a regular switch or potentiometer.
As one of the most average dudes in the world, I can't help but feel threatened and marginalized, which of course means that the gay agenda is to blame for everthing that has gone wrong in my life.
Just to be on the safe side: That was sarcasm.
My gender: You can safely make assumptions based on appearance.
Orientation: Straight and boringly sprinkle-free
Favorite dinosaur: Triceratops
Opinion on this: Fuck Elon. Let people be people, for fucks sake. If he feels threatened by increasing specificity in language, he must have some real identity issues boiling underneath.
My refined interpretation: He's desperate to be liked, and as long as his Xitter-circle cheers him on, he'll continue to be a Xithead shithead. He doesn't have a circle of friends to keep him grounded in reality.
Nickleback - Silver Side Up is a pretty decent album. Sure, that song is annoying and extremely overplayed, but I quite like the rest of the album.
I must admit that beyond that particular album I don't know much about them, so if you claim that the rest of their discography is garbage, I'll take your word for it.
Had a chat with a coworker about this. I'm not a big fan of the genre as a whole, but something happened to the genre around 20ish years ago. The country twang went from being a natural signature sound of some artists to being something everyone emulated while singing their bird cage bottom piece of shit piece about their truck.
Satriani is a great guitarist (among the best), but a mediocre song writer. He suffers from what I like to call The Solo Syndrome (not a reference to guitar solos). A song tends to be better when multiple musicians have had input, otherwise there's too much focus on only one instrument. A lot of solo musicians' music suffers from this.
Take for example Satrianis "Made of Tears". How much better wouldn't the song have been if an actual basist had written a cool bass riff to go along with it?
Or another example from Satriani: "Searching". Excelent guitar hook in the beginning and the end, but I would've loved it more if there were other bandmembers who could tell him that the middle section is long and boring and would be better spent playing WITH other instruments instead of TO other instruments.
I find that Steve Vai is a better (and comparable) songwriter (although a lot of his songs aren't to my taste)
Sounds like a flute combined with a lot of EQ, leaving only the mids with no attack. This is accompanied with the occasional string pluck of what seems like a guitar. Same EQ, which makes the two instruments blend together in an etherial kind of way. Slap some spring reverb on top.
EDIT: The strings sounds like the overtones of a half acoustic guitar. I think the vibrato is artificially applied. It's kind of possible to make that effect by slapping the whammy bar, but not in a way that'd make it fade in like that. Maybe if you lightly touch the already vibrating string in the right spot you could achieve something like that, but I'm unsure if it'd work, or if it'd create an overtone on an overtone.
UPDATE: Yup, I just tested it. Those are definitely overtones of a guitar. I couldn't replicate the vibrato, so I'm pretty such that's been applied in post.
As a tangent, I watched all of House from start to finish when each episode was released by EZTV. As a result, I only ever heard the american intro despite being European. I didn't even know other intro songs existed until now. I guess they didn't have international distribution rights to Teardrop.
Controversial hot take, I know... but in certain cases, normalcy and routine is the desired state. After a long weekend of family events, too many kids (of which most are my own), too many pets (of which roughly half are my own), and the house being drafty with the entire in-law clan and then some for the past few days, things...
Arch users are like the car guys who spend all day tuning the engine and adjust the seats on namometer scale. I myself drive an ancient volvo that looks like shit but works great no matter the abuse I put it through. And I use LMDS for the same reason - it does what I need it to do, with no need for manually adjusting compression ratios.
Hallingdal - Gerhard Munthe (1890)🇳🇴 ( upload.wikimedia.org )
I'm finally moving over to Lemmy! What are your favorite active communities on the platform?
Map of Drug Cartels in Mexico 2024 ( lemmy.world )
Tesla drops Steam gaming support inside its vehicles ( electrek.co )
Golden retriever are the Volvo of dogs
What's the best wax-on-wax-off-style advice you've heard that you can attest as being helpful in certain situations?
CompTIA certifications
Are CompTIA certifications still a viable way to get back into IT? I left the workforce at the start of 2020 to be a stay at home and I'm wanting to get recertified so I have options if I want to reenter the workforce....
What band or music group would you not have minded if they didn't have a certain band member? ( kbin.social )
My pick is Five Finger Death Punch and the obvious answer is Ivan Moody. The guy radiates that alpha-male wannabe energy and it definitely rings through all of the songs he has written and performed with this band. The guy is just a prick and a self-victimizing asshole....
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sues Meta, citing chatbot’s reply as evidence of shadowban ( arstechnica.com )
What do you think of Stephen A Smith ?
It could soon be illegal to publicly wear a mask for health reasons in North Carolina ( arstechnica.com )
Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead" ( www.eff.org )
House passes GOP bill rebuking Biden's Israel weapons pause ( www.politico.com )
Texas governor pardons ex-Army sergeant convicted of killing Black Lives Matter protester ( apnews.com )
Qualified experts of Lemmy, do people believe you when you answer questions in your field?
The internet has made a lot of people armchair experts happy to offer their perspective with a degree of certainty, without doing the work to identify gaps in their knowledge. Often the mark of genuine expertise is knowing the limitations of your knowledge....
Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code to enable collaborative development of its legendary player for Windows. ( about.winamp.com )
Would be funny if Winamp gets a second life ~20 later.
Why Didn't Democrats Do More When They Controlled Both Houses of Legislature, The White House, and The Supreme Court During Obama's First Term?
I've been wondering for a bit why during the time the Democrats controlled the legislature, executive, and judicial branches during Obama's first term in 2008 more wasn't accomplished. Shouldn't that have been the opportunity to make Row V Way law and fix the electoral college? I understand the recession was going on but outside...
How come hotel check-in time is always 3-4?
I got in on an earlier flight, and arrived at 6 it was a pain in the ass.. I literally had to walk around for like 4 hours until things opened, and I was so tired and weary all day.
Do you like olives?
I need to settle an argument I started. My argument: olives are gross....
When should you in fact: Ask to speak to a manager?
Obscure screw added so appliance cannot be disassembled ( lemmy.world )
Basic blender went bad (motor ran but spindle wasn't rotating). I wanted to disassemble to see if it could be repaired. Three of the four screws were Phillips head. I had to cut the casing open in order to discover why I couldn't unscrew the fourth. It was a slotted spanner.
I know that naming variables is one of the biggest unsolved problems of Computer Science but how would you name a boolean flag to be self explanatory?
What I mean is: some boolean flags are perfect for the real world phenomenon they are representing e.g. is_light_on makes you understand perfectly that when it is true the light is on and when it is false the light is off....
The Offspring, The Beastie Boys, Van Halen w/DLR, and the B52s. Are there other bands that rock, but are often silly/goofy and funny?
Slovakia PM shooting live: Robert Fico in hospital after being shot - BBC News ( www.bbc.co.uk )
archive.org link
What good/positive habits have you taken away from your time in Covid lockdown and kept up since then?
For example, I have kept the habit of washing my hands with soap, first thing when I come home.
X now treats the term cisgender as a slur ( www.engadget.com )
What's your most unpopular opinion about music ?
For me : Trippie Redd's "!" Is actually a great album
Bacon brings peace to the Middle East. ( lemmy.world )
Thanks to all the educators ( lemmy.zip )
What is that sound effect in the House M.D theme music?
Yes it's old, I know....
TGIM
Controversial hot take, I know... but in certain cases, normalcy and routine is the desired state. After a long weekend of family events, too many kids (of which most are my own), too many pets (of which roughly half are my own), and the house being drafty with the entire in-law clan and then some for the past few days, things...
Using Ubuntu may give off hipster vibes to the average PC user, but within the Linux community its has the opposite effect.
hot take?...