What single book/text would you recommend for people and what skill can it help them learn?
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    RoadieRich
    4w ago 100%

    How to keep house while drowning by KC Davis: how it's not morally wrong to have a messy living space, and how to keep it livable even when you feel like you're overwhelmed.

    I have ADHD and depression, this book was pivotal in helping me get out of the stereotypical "depression apartment" situation.

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  • Mast ideas and recommendations
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    RoadieRich
    4mo ago 100%

    How are you hanging your antenna? Dipoles for 20m and lower are typically set up in an Inverted V configuration, which should work fine with the 10m mast you already have.

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  • 'Don't parse markup languages with Regex' is an annoying trollpost and it should die... right?
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    RoadieRich
    7mo ago 100%

    The things is, if you try to parse html with a regex, you will always be able to construct valid html that will break it, no matter how complex your regex becomes.

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  • How did you meet your significant other?
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    RoadieRich
    1y ago 100%

    We met on OkCupid. We were on opposite sides of the Atlantic, but she had a friend on this side, and they were comparing the "weird" profiles they were each finding. OkCupid has a "if you liked this person, you might like these more" section, and I appeared in there. She wasn't really looking to date anyone, but she clicked, messaged me, and we clicked. I moved to the US to be with her after a two-year long distance relationship, and we'll be celebrating our ten year wedding anniversary next year.

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  • Sounds great in theory
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    RoadieRich
    1y ago 85%

    It's definitely great in theory until you inherit a codebase with no tests, poor documentation, and numerous reported bugs already live in production. Even better if it was written by people hired because they could do other things better than they could code - which looking at some of the unlabeled wiring messes we were left, isn't saying a lot.

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  • recommendations for indoor (museum/arena) comms
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    RoadieRich
    1y ago 100%

    The problem you're going to encounter is that any radio system capable of covering your entire area is going to need some sort of license, either individual or group. You probably can't require your volunteers to pay the FCC $35 for a GMRS license, and ham radio requires an exam, so that's probably out, too.

    That pretty much only leaves business licenses. Yes, there is MURS, which is license free, and might work better than what I am assuming are Walmart FRS radios, but still runs the risk of communication failing when you need it.

    If I was in charge of a convention, I'd talk to the company that supplies your AV equipment about who to rent business radios from. They probably have recommendations. If you don't have an AV company, you can Google for "radio rentals West Virginia", there's a few options. They can help you with all the licensing, and will provide all the radio hardware. This is not going to be cheap, but will probably end up being less expensive than trying to set up your own repeater, and all the associated licensing headaches.

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  • Why do so many Lemmy.ml communities not have banners?
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    RoadieRich
    1y ago 100%

    I tried uploading a banner for a community I mod and was met by a JSON parser error message, so that's not happening there until there have been a few more updates.

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  • It's so fluffy!
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    RoadieRich
    1y ago 100%

    You mean you groom the heck out of it, right? That sort of coat probably matts if you look at it too hard.

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    Technology RoadieRich 1y ago 100%
    Amateur Radio's Field Day is this weekend
    http://arrl.org/field-day

    Field Day is, more or less, amateur radio's yearly open house. Clubs around the country will be setting up in parks to demonstrate their ability to make contacts in "less than ideal" conditions (which basically means "outside, without mains power"). If you're at all curious about radio communication, you should [find your nearest site](http://www.arrl.org/field-day-locator) and drop in.

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