For what it's worth, I sail and the average other sailboat I meet is sailed solo by an older guy. A small to medium coastal cruiser/overnighter type seems to be the sweet spot, can be easier to single-hand than many kinds of dinghy, cheaper and with easier boat handling than big cruisers and less to go wrong. So it may not be Atlantic crossing but I hope you get some sailing in.
Sorry, can't think of any more funny ones right now. 4KSB is a Sailing Anarchy-ism; the same kind of boat is for some reason a MAB in the UK - a Manky Auld Boat. I take exception to that one.
At risk of personally identifying information... I guess I did volunteer this one.
I knew not many people pick a day in mid December to go sailing. I didn't know I'd be the only one out, the day they were doing a massive drugs bust. They clearly thought no real pleasure sailor would be there. Fortunately I am obviously a harmless WAFI* and the appearance of my kid's cheery grin in the companionway was enough to convince them. (Bringing them up hardy, you see)
They probably also realised that with their hundreds of horsepower it's not like my beloved 4KSB* is a credible getaway vehicle.
I'm assuming you mean American Civil War... and I wouldn't rush to call it done, some of those sieges involved a lot of big ammunition and there might be more out there. Impressive it was dry enough to go up, though, gunpowder soaks up moisture fairly enthusiastically.
Ever been to Sheerness? they reckon it'll do two million pounds worth...
...of improvements.
Seriously though, they more than know and check, it's carefully marked with large conspicuous buoys as well as constantly monitored in case someone fiddles with it and there are some pretty big, fast police RIBs round there. (had a nice friendly chat with them when they wondered if I was a drug smuggler.) Apparently they're cutting off the rusting masts (above water) sometime soon to reduce risk further. But there is not much that sensibly can be done to actually remove it, and there may not be much of it left that can actually go up.
Buried bombs that nobody knows are there are far more worrying... and the Germans have that problem rather worse than Britain does.
I dunno. I'm pretty sure the lack of barriers to entry, inconvenient and costly certification, and safety nannying helped windsurfing get ahead there too. That and dinghy clubs inevitably devolve into race clubs that revolve inexorably around the race safety boat, and if you just want to noodle about or explore you're out of luck unless you are geographically lucky or you can afford a yacht. (which is great. But it's an uncommon privilege)
It's not "gone" as if evaporated; it has been murdered by the certification requirements.
The odds of a random stranger dying from a light aircraft falling on them are trivial, several orders of magnitude less than the odds of their being hit by a car or being killed by inactivity; the pilot is free to refuse to take off, so risk appraisal really is on them; it's time to dump safety bureaucrats into your nearest woodchipper and CHANGE. THE. LAW. if you want ANY interesting activities or skills to survive.
I know the stuff. I wasn't clear, and was asking, quite what the parent poster is mentioning people getting here as it didn't sound quite like the forms of this service I'm aware of - I'm not sure there is something like it everywhere. Setups I've seen with full "straight onto your plotter, live" stuff have only been satellite.
...you don't need a (relatively) expensive single sideband set and radio-nerd tendencies to pick up weather data offshore where you live? That is pretty great if so. Would that there were more of it.
Why is it a bad thing for him to die where he has chosen to live and die? (assuming he actually has, which is really not something I'd bet too hard on, on the strength of one video). Why do you suggest it's a bad thing if nobody knows when he has died there?
Gosh. I used to have pretty good night vision and recognise what you mean about "see based on the noise floor" - but I never had an experience like seeing the stovetop heat. Remarkable. I wonder how much variation there is between people? Unfortunately mine's faded with age so I don't think it's worth my trying to see if I can see that myself now...
The way it's constructed is very impressive but it doesn't (to the best of my knowledge and understanding) have the concept of "this is correct and this is incorrect" that you have - or any kind of analogy to it whatsoever. (NB this does not mean it has no internal analogy to a concept or to correctness. It's just under no obligation to be like yours if it does.)
There seem to be a fair number of humans of whom I could say the same. As with the humans, the question is "which jobs am I happy to see this one doing and which ones worry me".
As GPT has endless ability to produce flowing words and precisely zero concept-comparable-to-will to verify them, unfortunately, the job for which it is most apt is probably politics. That I must admit worries me a little because of all the gpt-like humans we tolerate and encourage.
Thanks! So - midi velocity translates to PWM and hence solenoid force? Cool. You can always add some kind of mapping function if lower velocities are too low force. Nice work.
(old pre-electronics player pianos could do dynamics but most relied heavily on input from the operator to do so - with various limitations - it's probably a good plan to avoid directly imitating them :-)
wow, if that is all true then vertical farming is even less relevant to this scenario than I thought. I'm not sure I'm qualified to check your figures and I suspect some of your assumptions are more pessimistic than mine, but the fundamentals pass a reality check vs. amount of energy delivered by the sun (lots).
(Just to preempt some likely replies from other people: I'm sure there is a big difference between "Americans consume" (including livestock grazing, which can't be magic-ed into anything else) and "You can get by on" (measured in hypothetical perfect-acres) - it would take esoteric casuistry to make these really comparable anyway. Nevertheless the gap is so large that AngryData's fundamental point is extremely robust: growlamp-ing everyone's basic needs is fantasy-land. I thought that, but didn't realise the case against it was as strong as I now suspect it might be)
Entirely agree. To be honest, I think it rather marvellous that people were able to imagine, then reason about, so much precision so long before any physical representation of it was possible. The Babylonians could calculate to a ten thousandth of an inch, but no human could measure the physical equivalent until Henry Maudslay. In a way the whole Industrial Revolution rested on people realising that the five-thousand-year-old mathematical view of abstract truth of "shape" could be rendered as physical reality with the right techniques... but coming up with those abstractions in a world where the roundest thing came off a potter's wheel and the basic unit of length was some fellow's forearm was an even more impressive achievement. We should not take it for granted just because it was so long ago.
It's undeniably shitty behaviour from the Goo but I'm increasingly getting the message that the only sane attitude is detachment from anything I posted in some past , more naive age. Scribe on vellum or linen rag that which is for the ages, and ignore the rest. If it's on a server I don't even mourn it, I killed it already by putting it there.
I'm making an amused speculation rather than trying to represent someone else as having said it, and while I'm not seriously advocating it I wouldn't mind giving it a try. So no, not the straw man fallacy.
We should really be encouraging wolves in areas with too many bureaucrats, rather than areas with ponies. I appreciate most of these areas are urban but foxes do fine there, so why not wolf packs?
wow, I never contemplated before whether that kind of language design could be evil, but you make me think it might be. Maybe not in the ordinary course of sensible use, but in some horrible "I didn't think of that". Then I feel a bit hypocritical because I'm sure I've relied on a hundred more problematic abstractions without worrying about it.
I'm finding this hard to relate to. Our circumstances and experiences must be pretty different. But I'm afraid to me that sentence reads a bit like "I have a lathe so I don't need a bicycle". You or I might not do bicycle jobs, or lathe jobs, but it's a bit of a stretch to imply one renders the other irrelevant.
I find it interesting that you characterise static typing as about safety. I think it's more about communication. (for me this includes "communication to myself when I wrote this seven years ago and didn't think about it since", which I appreciate may be a bit of an edge case). Tests are also a great medium of communication, but a different one - in which case the metaphor becomes swap a sonnet for a sonata? I'd like both please, but maybe not always at the same time :-D