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I plainly stated that society should not bow to my needs and that those who contribute to society and are a part of society are more important than me, what more do you want?

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 jurisdicti…

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 whe…

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 fo…

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, …

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…

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.

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 …

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 sailbo…

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…

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…

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.

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 …

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.

American Swiss cheese developed from Emmental cheese.

Baby Swiss and Lacey Swiss are small hole varieties.

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 …

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 …

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 th…

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/…

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 sam…

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 per…

Got to start somewhere or you will never get anywhere.

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 …

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 …

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…

Starting at the bottom of the blackboard would be backwards from how it prints in the terminal when you cat /proc/<pid>/maps.

You can and most do but some people go other routes for one reason or another. https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Typing_glyphs …