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For the canals in the UK there's https://opencanalmap.uk/

Ah I love a Dutch barge, does yours have functioning leeboards? Very surprised you didn't need a postcode for the address on the birth certificate - although I suppose if it's 'place of birth', it could be anywhere really and that place might not have a postcode.

I've been waiting for the day that HN would have something tangentially related to the English and Welsh canal system so I could gush about it. For those that don't know, we have around 2500 miles of (mostly) navigable canals around the UK. They were built during the industrial revolution prior to the invention of trains such that we could transport coal and other goods relatively quickly and without damage (consider trying to transport pottery, for instance, on the perilous roads of the late 1700s. If the bumpy roads didn't destroy your wares, the highwaymen might).

These days, obviously, all that has passed and instead we have a community of almost entirely leasure boaters - some choosing to own narrowboats [1] purely for pleasure, but a significant amount of us choose to live on them. Some based in marinas but quite a few of us (myself included) preferring a much more nomadic lifestyle - being obliged by law to move every 14 days at a maximum to new areas and consequentially experiencing the richness and beauty of what is, in my mind, a living museum - a testament to our past.

Life aboard a narrowboat is cozy. You never have much space but I don't find myself lacking. It gets cold in winter, but most of us have multifuel stoves which we stuff with coal and (often foraged) wood. Right now I'm sat listening to the wind and rain lashing against the boat (it's almost 4am so I should really get to bed), the boat gently rocking from the weather. And I can honestly say that there is nothing half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrowboat

I went straight into these comments hoping to find another HN (potentially narrow) boater!

What's interesting and somewhat amusing is that this map has determined that the section of the Soar that joins with the Trent just north of Loughborough is apparently unnavigable. This time of year I'd generally agree.

neither of those things use IRC. unless you're just referring to channel-based instant messaging.

Sadly not federated, but Spacehey[1] exists! And it's actually quite popular among certain groups of people (the people that were there in the early-mid 00s that want to relive that world, and the younger group that want to live it for the first time). It's pretty cool.

[1] https://spacehey.com/home

The metrics they're using (2x its height for climbing a wall, 2x its length for crossing a gap) are weird and don't really relate to the same achievements for a traceur. 2x its height is really more like slightly over 1x its usable body for that maneuver (0.4m length, 0.51cm height of the climb). I agree, not extreme but still pretty impressive for a robot. We're not going to see them doing cat leaps any time soon ;)

In the UK recently, there has been a designation of 'smoke-free' areas, specifically as a result of research done on the harm to health caused by PM2.5 particulates. It's become quite popular for middle-class homes to fit multifuel stoves (i.e., wood, coal, whatever) in order to heat the main room of their house. Largely because they look nice but there is some argument to be made that with the cost of living increasing, especially around energy, that it is somewhat economical to do so - particularly if you have access to free/foraged wood. The idea is you can still use these stoves so long as the fuel you are burning is considered 'smokeless', which in reality isn't actually smokeless but refers to wood that has a moisture content between 15-20%, as well as a number of commercially-available fuels you can buy from large hardware stores like B&Q and some supermarkets.

Another development that personally affects me is that local councils are now able to start enforcing this 'smoke-free' thing on owners of narrowboats[1]. For those that don't know, the UK has a 2000 mile network of inland canals on which thousands of us live, in canal barges of about 7ft beam. In the winter, a lot of these boats' primary method of heating our homes is using multifuel stoves. It's an itinerant lifestyle that can be hard at times but incredibly freeing and requires one to live somewhat more in tune with the seasons. A lot of boaters don't have a ton of money and primarily fuel our stoves with foraged wood at varying levels of seasoning (the process of drying wood to reduce moisture content and make it burn better and cleaner). For instance, this year I got a knock on the roof of my boat by a tree surgeon, informing me we needed to move our boat as they had to chop down an ash tree that had succumbed to ash dieback [2]. I asked if I could take some of the wood and he said no problem, saves them a bit of work getting rid of it. And that's now my wood for the winter. We are, of course, aware of the health hazards of groups of boats burning not the best wood, but a large percentage of live-aboard boaters really don't have any other option.

Sorry, not particularly relevant to the article posted but I thought it worth mentioning that there are cases where not burning things to stay warm in winter is not an option for some groups of people.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrowboat

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hymenoscyphus_fraxineus

I eat a lot of chillies - from milder Serrano up to the superhots like bhut jalokia. Jalapenos, in my experience, seem to have the biggest variance in capsaicin per specimen. Sometimes you'll get one that tastes basically like a bell pepper, and sometimes you'll get one that surprises you. Colour doesn't seem to have that much of an impact either. Could be you just got a duff pepper

12VDC is the standard on boats, campervans, RVs, etc because it can be delivered straight from the batteries. In order to deliver 240/120VAC you'd need an inverter to generate the signal, and this obviously introduces loss during conversion. For cable runs through the length of my boat (52ft), the cables aren't particularly thick - the thickest cables are in the engine bay, going from the alternator on the diesel engine to the batts, and again from the Solar controller (MPPT) to the batts.

There's a plethora of stuff you can use with 12VDC to the extent that the only things I run off 240VAC is the vacuum cleaner and the TV (12VDC TVs are available but the cost vs quality payoff isn't really worth it).

Lister engines also sound fantastic, in my opinion. Due to where I live, I often hear them going past me and it's wonderful to hear them throttle up as they potter on by.

They've launched the 'sandbox' which is the federated/decentralised dev/staging environment. So yes, you can run your own PDS (server) and have it federate with others, but it's still very much in development and 'here be dragons'

https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds/blob/main/SANDBOX.md

'what's a server?'

Debian package management doesn't have to rely on an internet connection. You could have the source of the security updates be a cd or USB stick or something with no problems

Disclaimer: I don't know world global finance, I don't know much about economics, I hold several cryptocurrencies. I am fantastically unqualified to actually make this post.

I was curious about this comment, because I know FOREX is a massive market. According to [1] the daily volume of FOREX in USD is $6.1 trillion. According to [2], the average 'consumer unit' (ugh... I guess that means 'person'?) in the US spends about $63k per year. Let me know if my maths or methodology here is wrong because, and I cannot stress this enough, I am a moron acting in good faith but a moron nonetheless... (63 000 / 365) * 330 000 000 (the US population) = 56958904109.6, or $57bn. That's a lot but it's only (conveniently) about 1% of the volume of the FOREX market. Which means what, the vast majority of USD changing hands is in the form of 'converted to/from other currencies to make profits based on speculation'?

Again, please let me know if my methodology is broken, my sources are shit, whatever.

[1] https://www.compareforexbrokers.com/forex-trading/statistics... [2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/247407/average-annual-co...

I think 'body' also includes shoulders. Basically any part of the body that you can legally play the ball with.

Don't worry mate, you can break the law to earn your boss another porsche if you want

>So if I had to choose an alternate path, what would such a path look like that could eventually approach the build quality of an Apple Macbook Pro? That product doesn't have to exist yet, it just has to be on the path.

Thinkpad X1 Extreme Gen 2 is what I use and I'm very happy with it. My requirements were a moderately high-performance laptop, hybrid/discrete graphics, not excessively bulky and good Linux support. I can't fault my choice. The only issue I had with hardware compatibility under Linux was due to me receiving it a couple days after launch and the drivers for the wifi card not yet being in the kernel used by Debian or Ubuntu (no longer an issue iirc). Happy to answer any specific questions you have.

The tourist visa is good for 10 years IIRC

Love DMT, me

I sort of get the argument for not having the rule based on intent - the game's faster than it's ever been, and even with VAR reviewing it, it's nigh impossible to determine intent. At least this gives some clarity to the refs and players. I see it as similar in a way to players going down like a sack of bricks with a light (But legitimate) foul - it's a way to clearly signal to the ref that contact was made (as well as, you know, get a pen) in a game with such tiny margins at the highest level of play.

Jamie Vardy, also mentioned in the article, just hoofs it in most of the time. In fact, I'm pretty sure that's how he scored the 2 pens against man city in the article.

Yeah haha multi-billion dollar companies are never involved in spurious lawsuits out of the blue.

This approach is something I actually use across a wide variety of things. Particularly (so long as there's not a super-tight deadline), not finishing a task at work before the end of the day - no 'oh I'll just get this one thing finished'. If I've got a task I'm already well into, then coming back to it the next day and jumping write in gets you back into that zone.

You only need to pay tax back to the US on your earnings > $100k/year

Your experience very closely mirrors mine but then I was also born in 89 and lived in the Midlands.

>effectively denies my biological masculinity

How does it do that? All they are doing is no longer using perceived masculinity as a metric for determining whether you might be male or female.

>I'll not bother making a fuss

And yet here we are

I use JuiceSSH to connect to a tmux session running irssi. I understand this isn't necessarily for everyone, but it works great.

Here in Germany, it's common to weigh goods that are priced by weight and then have a sticker printed out to stick on them for the cashier. I don't see printing a QR code or whatever weird mechanism Amazon uses to price items being much more complex

In my country, you return glass bottles for re-use for about 15 euro cents. We don't see a lot of shattered glass bottles lying around...