What's a subject you (think) you know more about than the average Lemmy user?
For me it's probably speech therapy and everything pertaining to that. I'm yet to encounter someone on here who is one apart from me (in training).
What about you?
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Bad day to be into computers
I once installed linux...
where's the rest of the limerick, OP?
Um probably most people here know more about their work subject than the average Lemmy user
For me it's beekeeping and honey processing
PS my other half did her degrees in speech/language therapy and psychology
Work: Chemical engineering, activated carbon (especially production), membrane filtration and high pressure boiler systems (shoutout @[email protected]).
Non-work: Moonshine making, Festival organizing (quit two years ago), plumbing, carpentry and general home improvement.
very interesting areas of expertise! Any interesting stories you have? Organizing a festival is such a huge undertaking.
Festival organizing is obviously a lot of work, even for smaller festivals like we did (think a big tent with 1500 guests and a few artists and dj's). Since most of the work is done beforehand, we usually had it quite chill on the festival days. So we always took our times, hung out backstage with the artists and always had a buffet going there. Most artists loved being with us, because usually they would just get an assigned dressing room and a stage time. We loved doing this, because we got to hang out with the artists. So, amateur tip; if you organize a festival, hire bar personnel for the festival day and have a good time.
Sounds fun! Well deserved for all the effort that goes into it.
I dunno the inner workings of Walmart? Been here for over a decade and I've held a few positions of authority within.
My deepest condolences.
Like an American Walmart? Like in the US?
So: Do they really sell guns or is that a meme? Or is that a red state thing? Because I don't think I saw any in the walmarts around me.
They used to. Most Walmarts now only sell a limited selection of shells, like 12 gauge, and some rifle cartridges meant mainly for hunting.
Afaik, no store in the company sells actual firearms anymore. We have a selection of airsoft guns though.
My Walmart sells guns. The one closest to my kid's in Arkansas does too.
Is that why it's named AR-Kansas?
It's the same as Kansas but they sell AR's in walmart.
LOL, I highly doubt that. Shopped guns in AR Walmarts. They only sell hunting-style kinda stuff. No pistols, nothing "scary".
(I'm probably missing the joke. 🙄)
Depends on the community I guess. It's not a red state thing as I'm in one and it's hit or miss whether you'll see guns in Walmart.
I was a citizen of the internet before the www started.
Same. Internet was for usenet, e-mail and irc.
Telecommunications network operation
You and me both mate.
Picture related
Wireless telecoms is no better. Out installation on the right, the competitions on the left.
We live in a tiny house in the forest.
my niche would probably be blue jay, chipmunk,and squirrel, behaviour. I spend a lot of time with a lot of forest animals. But those three consume about 80% of that time.
How is "average lemmy user" defined? I probably know more about eg. tea than the typical/median user. But there may be a true tea expert here that pushes the average up by a lot.
You do not define such things. You just listen to your own built-in average-o-meter.
It's a good question. You probably know more about tea than the average Lemmy user and most Lemmy users. The fact that there may be one or two people who know more than you do does not disqualify either claim. But OP's post description is basically about knowing more than any other Lemmy user — and that's hard to say.
I don't think you could be better than any one other person at most things on, say, Reddit, but Lemmy is much smaller, and much more focused on certain areas. If you fall outside those areas, you likely have a few advantages in expertise. Tea being one of them as social media in general leans more toward coffee.
How to know when stats is taking over your life ☝️
more of a pedant
My old man was a boilermaker/steam engineer for 50 years
Maxfield Parrish's use of color theory and it's application in his glazed paintings made using most often (esp. for commercial works made for print) cyan, magenta, hansa yellow and lamp black pigments in a translucent medium.
That's really specific
:O I'd follow you into battle.
Thata specific enough for you to be the best with no goddamn doubts in anyone's mind.
If you ever get a chance to see any of his works in a gallery or museum.. do it! The colors glow like nothing you've seen.
When I was little, I had an aunt that had one of the prints called Ecstasy - from 1929 - in her home.
Faded and of course stained (even though it was under glass) from the chain smoking she did.
It was one of her most cherished things, so I learned everything she knew about Parrish - she had an encyclopedic book on his technique which I read from cover to cover and as I got older, I tried my hand at glazing - a fierce technique of layering transparent and translucent color onto panel or canvas.
Each color separated by a clear coat so you look into the image, like stained glass, layers deep.
Years later, there was a comprehensive show of his pieces that came to the Currier Museum in New Hampshire (early 90's IIRC) and I got tickets for myself and auntie..
I got to his most famous image - Daybreak - and the colors in it are beyond anything that any online photos show.
Not even the NY Lithographic Society that initially had rights to the image come close.
Pinks and magentas in the trees that frame the image that take your breath away. I stood in front of that painting for a good 15 minutes and have the colors burned into my mind.
At some point, if I can find a good enough high-res copy, I'm going to try my hand at doing a CMYK color separation of the image (with Photoshop or GIMP) and readjust to what it actually looks like. No one's gotten it right. I've always been a bit of a colorist and zoom in on tint, tone and shade, so this challenge is one that hits my artistic monkeybone, big time.
I won't even get into the landscapes of the New Hampshire winters and the evening light he recreated in those images. You can fall into them.
Definitely, again, if you ever get a chance to see a real Parrish.. do it. It's absolute magic.
Ah ha, my moment to brag about it:
90% of Lemmy are Westerners, I probably know about Chinese Languages than most here. (Except a few users like @[email protected], they probably know it better)
I can speak Cantonese and Mandarin and kinda understand Taishanese (台山話）(Taishan not Taiwan)
I can read basic Chinese characters, type Pinyin and Jyutping. Can't write on paper tho, idk how to recall it from memory, but I can recognize it if someone else wrote it down.
(But don't ask me to teach you lol, I only went to grade 2, not exactly a pro at it, I lack the vocabulary)
Btw: I watched some youtube videos about foreign visitors to China, and um... their tones are kinda off, like waayyy off. Even people who've been there for like 10 yeats still have the tones being kinda wrong. (Its very hard, probably impossible if you didn't grow up used to the difference in tones.)
Good brag👍
Hum, I'd say probably drawing technique. Since it feels like the majority of the lemmy denizens are still tech people, my skills are enough to be above average. Our artist community is growing, so I'm happy for that, and hoppefully it fills the fediverse with more OC! :)
Always appreciate your artistic contributions - can't stress it enough :)
Are you self-taught or did you go to art school or something similar?
Thank you very much, dear mod. ( ꈍᴗꈍ) I did both sort of, I studied graphic design, and we had some traditional art training there. after I graduated I studied in the university of youtube haha I actually honed in my skills there.
That's so cool! I wish there were more artistic jobs people can express themselves in.
It's a skill to know how to teach yourself, I feel like. :) It's obviously good to get an official education but to know what you need in addition to that is a skill in itself
It is a good skill and has served me well! Hey, and since you are still a student, I wanted to thank you for mantaining our very small, niche community here on lemmy :D ,you must be very busy with school and still you make space for it. I appreciate it.
That's so nice of you, thank you - doing my best :) I'm in my last year of school, so I'll only be having less and less time to post content, but I'll still try my best.
I have 2h of commuting everyday - that's when I usually post stuff if I'm not at home :D
The end of my studies is in sight, fortunately ✨
Ship systems such as radios, echosounders, transponders, etc. (AMA, I guess, if you so wish)
favorite obscure ship system?
HF Telex
Do you like Huey Lewis and the News?
Their early work was a little too new wave for my taste. But when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humour.
I started to listen to them like a year or two ago when i leard that Ray Parker jr. Basically vopied their homework for the Ghostbusters theme, so i put a new drug into my playlist and went from there.
My very specific niche in programming.
If you ask me about some very common things, I have no clue. JavaScript? More like JavaShit amirite? But if someone can explain OCI layers, describe the boot process of a RISC-V device as it leads U-boot and a Linux kernel, and talk about performance optimisations in modern Python... Well, my team is looking for more developers and this combination of skills seems impossible to find.
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Playing the skin flute.
Doubtful
There is always someone better
Domestic abuse.
Edit: I'm a DA outreach worker and I've researched the field a lot
I'm sorry to hear that - I hope you've had the chance to heal from your experiences 💜
Thanks mate I'm a DA outreach worker I've studied it a lot and can bore people to tears for hours with it
It's a very important subject to talk about and it's awesome that you've dedicated yourself to doing that
That's really nice of you thanks so much! Here is a fact for free... DA perps of course use coercive control to trap the victim. Cult leaders, terrorist cells, organised crime groups etc also use it but on a bigger, better resourced scale.
Skydiving
~4500 jumps that included; night jumps, competition 4-way and 8-way, a couple of record jumps (I was on the a team that set state records in 3 different states back in the day) , Demos into various stadiums, air shows and a couple of NASCAR races.
I might know a thing or two that the average Lemmy user has no idea about.
Neat - paraglider here, but I know zero things about skydiving. It does seem to be common though, from talking to PG instructors, that skydivers learning PG tend to be very heavy handed with the controls. Just remember smooth and light if you ever try it out. :)
Depending on the size of the canopy, there can be a fair amount of pressure required to pull a toggle. Tandem rigs, which have 500ft^2 mains are somewhat difficult to guide by one person. Most TM's that I know require their passenger to help out. Not that they cannot be flown by one person, just that doing that 10 times a day wears a person out.
My personal mains: PD Spectre 150 and 135, and Sharp Chuter (used for demo jumping) all had very different toggle pressures. The Sharp Chuter being the heaviest. It was also 90ft^2 larger (240ft^2) than my Spectre 150. My 135 had almost negligible toggle pressure. The smallest canopy I've ever jumped was a Velocity 103 and that thing has almost no toggle pressure what so ever. Plus with such high wing loading made it down right twitchy. Personally I was never one for ultra high wing loadings. Having 40mph approach speeds to landing was never appealing even when I was young.
Also skydiving canopies are a LOT more square than a paraglider. While I could not explain the physics there, it seems to me that a thin wing would have lighter toggle pressures. Canopies that I've jumped that were more tapered seemed to have a lighter toggle pressure of equally sized non-tapered canopies. A paraglider canopy is extremely tapered compared to a skydiving chute.
Also, don't you folks have 6 risers? While there have been 6 riser skydiving rigs, they are very uncommon. So each riser requires a lot more pressure to pull... I'm assuming paraglides do riser turns and other maneuvers with them.
There is a Paragliding club here where I live. Even met one when he landed at a local park when I was out walking. I currently have one kid in college and another going to be there in a couple of years, so it's not going to be anytime soon, but I would love to try it out. I'd love to get back into the air. Skydiving is pretty much out, as I have a back injury that could be made really bad with a hard opening.
To make a short story long... Yeah, I can see a skydiver being ham fisted with a paraglider. A jumper with a lot of experience with very high wing loading (over 2.0 to 1) might not, but me? Yeah, I'd probably ham it up for the first few hours. It would be interesting to learn just how much skydiving canopy experience would translate. I'm sure some would, but definitely not all.
Cool - thanks for the details about your gear. Fun to learn about the other adjacent disciplines.
Me.
Also, my cat.
Hong Kong. I live there. There are a few of us here and there, but outside of the c/hongkong I've seen like 2.
Hey, I have very vague memories of being there. There are some photos of me being there, but honestly I can't even recognize the kid in the photo that is supposedly me lol. I have an uncle from HK, he's in the US now, just as with most of my relatives on the paternal side are also in the US. Me on the other hand was from mainland China. I still have relatives on the maternal side in mainland China, they've been on the US immigration waitlist for a decade now, and honestly, with current politics, they might never get approved lol. (And I'm not sure they want to come, they have better jobs than my parents ever did when they left... well see when the time comes. My cousins would probably exceed age 21 by then, so they can't come with the aunts and uncles.)
The most I remember about HK is the 纜車 and 輕鐵. Also HK TV Shows are like 10x better than anything of the mainland stuff lol.
Roller skating. In that community my skill level is nothing special. But it's not a common hobby to have at all these days (at least where I am) for the average person.
I used to roller skate a lot in my younger days. Took my son to the roller rink a few a times and found out I could still do it pretty well.
Nice. When I am teaching students in our intro class that everyone takes it once regardless of skill, I can always tell when someone has skated as a kid (or done other sports like skiing) even if it's been decades for them - it's just much easier to return to than to start from scratch like I did.
Intro class? Shit, my intro class was strapping on skates with metal wheels and being let loose on my neighbors driveway. My younger sister had non-metal wheels probably because that what was found used. We didn't have a lot of money at that time.
Sound design, mixing, and mastering audio.
Please prove me wrong, I'm so lonely.
How about mixing and mastering on tape? 👀
I hate working in the box
Never had the opportunity, but I love me some nice, warm, tape saturation
Bringing friends and community together? I see an awful lot of Lemmings talk about disliking people, being introverted, etc.
I think if there's one main thing people will remember about me, it's how I bring people together. I get all my depressed friends off their ass and make them hang out with me, fun stuff :)
Considering the general conversations that are posted and popular here I expect I know more about Europe in general and some countries in it in particular that the average Lemmy user.
I've not seen anything about 3d printing getting traction here nor snowboarding so I'll add those two to the list.
I most probably don't know more about Linux than the average user here.
Propane and propane-related accessories
korea since that's where i live. only seen like two other users here
Computer programming.
Joking! There's no way in hell that's true around here. I'm pretty sure some of you guys could code The Matrix.
My specialist subject would probably be 90s UK Indie bands.
Cardiac conditions that involve diagnostic and interventional cardiology procedures and treatments.
I’m dumber than everyone here.
Wrong, I'm better than you at dummery
Whateva eyem way dummera thin yo
Locks especially high security ones like Medeco. I am the most knowledge person about them at the locksmith company I work at which easily puts me above the average Lemmy user.
I got a lockpicking set but I'm not that good. Every time I take a break, I can't pick a lock anymore
Definitely a skill that decays quickly if you don't practice it. I don't do lockout calls so I always find I'm super rusty whenever I actually need to pick things for customers.
I'm very sure I know more about flying an airplane than the average Lemming. I have been a pilot for 20 years and an instructor for 15. I'm not the only pilot on Lemmy but there's not a lot of aviators among us.
Historical sword-making, modern metallurgy, practical stats and experimental design. How to structure a business in a not-dumb way that treats employees as people.
vaginas for sure
Username may or may not check out.
i know about vagina and balls
Insects and arachnids, although I’ve noticed I know more about those than the average person in general.
I’ve loved them ever since I can remember. My mom said I used to watch aphids as a toddler and she bought me a magnifying glass because she was afraid I would hurt my eyes. I’ve posted pictures of my green lynx spider friend living in my garden and folks online and off didn’t know they can grow their legs back or that non black widows eat their mates. I’ve also used terms like pedipalps, cephalothorax, or mentioned how to tell the difference between male and female spiders or mantises when casually talking about both, then I always have someone ask me to explain what I’m talking about.
My partner knew I liked insects and arachnids when we first got together, but I don’t think he realized how much until I built a raised bed garden and started taking lots of pictures of all the critters that show up. I have SO MANY pics of my green lynx spider friend.
Could you post a few? I'd love to see them!
These are the 3 posts I’ve made about my green lynx spider friend. I first saw her as a tiny little thing missing 2 legs, then watched her grow and catch bees and earwigs. Now she’s significantly larger with her egg sac all fat and happy. She even changed color recently to match the plant she’s on.
https://lemmy.world/post/34022565
https://lemmy.world/post/35299852
https://lemmy.world/post/37484077
Lovely! Subscribed to the comm. I'm an arachnid enjoyer as well, I can proudly say that I can sex a tarantula exuviae XD
That’s awesome! I love tarantulas, they are big cute fuzzballs.
Oh wow! Yeah, that's a gorgeous animal!
Thank you for sharing those beautiful pictures!
You’re very welcome! I’m just waiting on the eggs to hatch and see all the little babies 😍
Get pictures when they arrive!
Although I have no formal education in the field and my profession has nothing to do with Cooperatives (aka democratic enterprises), I've been heavily invested in reading literature and participating in any local event I can find about the subject, so I probably know more than the average
Since I'm on this topic, if anyone speaks Portuguese and wants to learn more about it feel free to join us at [email protected]. If you don't speak Portuguese, you have other communities
Hah ! Speech therapy was what I thought! I used to be an SLT, but you probably know more than me about a bunch of things, because it's been a while...
That's so cool! Did you have to go to university for that or was it an apprenticeship too? And US I assume? And what did you specialise in?
I'm super interested in neurology and voice therapy so I could see myself working in a clinic with dysphagia and aphasia patients, maybe also dysarthrophonia or Parkinson's voice therapy (Lee Silverman Voice Treatment, but I'm a little sceptical). The former wasn't really a focus of mine and a little scary given that you can literally kill a patient if you do your therapy wrong, but my last internetship at a clinic showed me how interesting the field is and how much quality of life is to be regained once you've treated the dysphagia. Didn't really expect that. We just got a new class about laryngectomy which is also super interesting.
It was a university degree in the UK , and then I worked for the NHS for a number of years (until I moved to France and a much more relaxing job teaching at a university). I mostly specialised in pediatrics, particularly ASD and other developmental conditions. If I'd stayed with adults I would have focused on Aphasia and acquired language disorders. I found neurology very fun, and the way that damage could reveal the maaany faculties required for effective communication was super intresting to me.
LSVT is certainly well-evidenced and I've seen it be very effective. But it's quite repetitive, so colleagues who did a lot of it sometimes complained of not getting a chance to be creative in their approaches, just having to stick to the protocol.
Dysphagia is a bit scary, but it makes such an incredible difference. Even many years after working with stroke survivors, every time I'm incredibly thirsty I think about the poor folks who were 'nil by mouth' and so desperately wanted a mouthful of water. Having a nurse swab your mouth is really not the same. Doing a swallowing check with them and giving the nurses permission to give them some fluids (even if they had to be weird and thick) completely transformed their day.
Good luck with your studies! It's a very rewarding career!
Ah, that's interesting. A common problem of studying logopedics in Germany that I've heard of is that you don't get enough time for practical applications of the theory you learn about, hence an apprenticeship is preferred to a university degree. How was it with your course of studies?
I'm also interested in ASD, specifically coupled with late-talking children. I don't think ASD is a separate subject in school but rather something a therapist needs to be interested in intrinsically and needs to learn about in additional trainings, but it's just fascinating how differently it manifests in people and what effect it has on their speech development and interactions with peers.
But I'm not sure if I really want to work with children in general. I'd rather focus on conveying specific logopedic goals to adults who come to therapy out of their own volition and interest in their own betterment instead of constantly having to think about how to motivate children, how to put a therapy goal into a certain game that interests them etc etc. It's obviously also challenging and difficult since you need a good feel for how to interact with children, but it's just not for me. Currently trying my best with two patients I have (one has DVD, the other has a couple phonological language development disorders mixed in with some problems with speech motorics), but it's just so much more challenging for me compared to the voice therapy I'm giving. Adults - that's where it's at for me.
Yea, LSVT is quite rigid, I feel like. It also goes against everything we've learned about physiological vocalisation which feels weird. I also don't like that they're kind of "cult-like" when it comes to advertising the effectiveness of their method in addition to the secrecy of the therapy itself. At least give a bit of an outline about what your method is about? Plus the costs... Sure, the course's costs would probably be covered by the practise or clinic I'm working at, but the fact you have pay for knowledge in the first place is just so annoying. I get that people need to be reimbursed for their work and need to earn money to live, but it's just so much money. But I guess it's worth it if you have a lot of patients with Parkinson's.
I hear you about dysphagia. I've had that same realisation in my last internship at a clinic. Probably around 95% of patients I've seen there had some form of dysphagia with varying degrees of severity, and it's awesome to see how much the work we do helps them. To me it feels like it's not a lot that we do outside teaching patients a couple swallowing maneuvers, stimulating their nerves with citric acid or spice, or adjusting their meal plan to something easier to process, but it's so much more to them.
Thank you! I'm in last year of studies, so it'll be quite stressful and challenging for the next half year or so, but I'm hopeful and happy to have found a profession that's so multi-faceted.
What are your opinions on 'social stories' and how can they be utilized effectively?
Social stories can be really helpful for all sorts of things. But it really depends the individual and what their strengths and needs are. I've worked with children with ASD and they've been great readers, but struggled with verbal communication and understanding social expectations. For them having a short focused 'story' that explained how to ask a question in class, or how to share with a friend, can be really helpful.
I've also seen them be effective with adults with learning difficulties. But often that's more because it trains the carers and family members around them. Not only does it fix the language so that the same thing is explained the same way everytime, and in appropriate language, but the process of writing the story and trying to articulate a piece of advice into concrete simple language can help 'normal' people realise how complex the 'simple rule' they want to communicate actually is. "don't talk to strangers" is the sort of advice people give, but what's a stranger, how does someone become 'known', what about a police officer? Or even a waiter?
More than the average Lemming? Probably spiders. I'm far from an expert but I know more than your average person.
Should we ask you spider facts, Vig?
If it was general public I'd say D&D or Linux, for sure. On Lemmy, I guess I would say Pathfinder 2e and Kubernetes.
This is actually a pretty good one cause lemmy is pretty technical. I would say its flashlights for me and electrical engineering.
Another moth! What's your favorite light? For me it's the FW3A
My favourite is probably the convoy t series. Kinda the spiritual successor of the fwaa line for me. You can get them pretty cheap, they have nice options and performance and are moddable. Also i really like aa/14500 lights. They are just so neat. If its about "full size" anf not "fun size" lights then probably one of hanks 21700 lights would be my pick. They are still comfortable to carry and also provide pretty nice sustainable performance and some gimmicks as well.
My Lumintop EDC05 probably gets the most use, but I'm still a sucker for the Emisar D4
You see Hank is putting out a KR1AA later this month?
Haha no but I'll have to check it out. My next flashlight will probably be LEP.
Check out the NlightD ones. Good bang for buck
Education: Specifically how to work with and teach people with special needs.
My hometown: History, legends and geography.
Diving: A lot about physiology, gases, underwater species.
Unimportant fun facts: No idea why but I tend to remember all the useless stuff i read
Marine life in the area I live ( On an Island, within a nature preserve in Puget Sound). My wife also works for the State Parks. Her office overlooks the Sound & the days it isn’t too cloudy, she can’t see Russia but she can see Canada (Vancouver Island). Have also lived in the PNW for nearly forty years.
Also the history of pro wrestling in the Memphis Mid South territory. Grew up a die hard fan watching live in studio throughout the 70’s & 80’s before relocating to the Seattle area in the mid 80’s.
That 1st one is a bit mean 👀😂
Where on the "knowing people" is understanding people can be too similar. Like Two Queen Bees arguing in a group is a classic but imo it happens to varying degrees in other personality types/facets like, ""Hey you guys both like guitar you'll get along..." Awkward silence after 20 mins because some people put everything into their hobbies.
Want a feel if that is above or below water on the iceberg
Fandoms here are scarce so I'm gonna go and say I probably know more about Five Nights at Freddy's than the average Lemmy user
I feel arrogant enough to make a damn list. But I'll just say cricket today since I'm apparently one of maybe 5 people into the sport lol.
Also just mughal art and history. Thats a specific era.
Sufi music maybe. Theres one other person on Lemmy that ive met who knows Sufi music.
Nike's financial situation and their history of unethical practice's. My thesis.
There's probably much more experienced accountants here but I'm definetely better than average atleast.
Football and chess I've gotta be in the top percentile too. I mean I'm 93rd percentile on chess.com, so probably 97 on Lemmy. Especially the history of laliga in football.
I bet everyone has like 20 things atleast woth how small Lemmy is.
More than the average? Well many things. Home improvement, plumbing, photography, finances, philosophy, mountain biking, evolutionary psychology, woodworking, flashlights ..
MRP, MPS, and PLM, especially when related to engineer to order products
Ecological restoration of salt marsh and CSS habitats
Ocean kayak touring
Anything remotely rural. It makes sense that Lemmy would be mostly city-dwellers, but I still manage to be surprised by the gap.
An enormous number of areas. The average --- well, median, but assuming a vaguely-symmetric distribution, mean and median are close enough, and OP probably means median anyway --- of any group has about half of the population knowing more than the average. This is going to mean that a randomly-chosen user probably has something like a 50% chance of knowing more than the average for any topic you could name.
As of this writing, most people commenting are listing things that they could maybe call themselves subject matter experts in, like, top-sub-0.1% or something like that. That's a much higher bar.
I am above average at identifying things that I enjoy doing.
Biochemistry — specifically protein structure. It's so cool.
My favourite protein is Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP). It was first extracted from a jellyfish, and it's super useful in research. The middle bit is the bit responsible for the coloured glow, and the rest of it (the barrel type structure) is basically just to stop the emitted energy from being immediately absorbed by the solvent.
If anyone wants me to nerd out more about proteins, hit me up.
Maybe coffee. I actually roasted an interesting batch yesterday that I'm looking forward to tasting 🙂
Maybe guns too. I kinda lost interest in them years ago, so my knowledge/experience is pretty dated. I worked for a gun dealer for many years though. If you're like a technical-brained nerd like me, guns can become a fascinating rabbit hole if you spend enough time around them. I knew almost nothing about them before getting that job.
Also, maybe whisk(e)y. There's so much to learn and explore in the world of whiskies. I used to enjoy touring distilleries when traveling. Some of them have such long, interesting history. And some of the newer distilleries get pretty creative.
Fun fact: There's an heirloom corn species that was saved from extinction by a bourbon distillery. It's a very interesting bourbon! "Jimmy Red," IIRC.
Sadly, my pancreas suddenly decided that I had to stop partaking in one major part of that hobby: tasting. I miss it.
What can you tell me about an H&K USP in .45?
Personally, it never interested me very much, so I couldn't tell you much about it on a technical level. I remember thinking the decocker is kinda cool though lol.
From the perspective of an FFL employee though: Those pretty much sold themselves. They're one of those guns that people usually already know about when they show up to buy one. They've done their research, maybe already tried shooting one, and they're excited to finally buy one of their own. IIRC, a decent portion of them tend to have military or police background.
Those were among my favorite kinds of customers. I was usually able to learn some interesting things from them about the particular gun they're buying.
I wish I could recall more about the USP aside from the neat decocker, but I've been out of the business for like 7 years.
Edit: I also remember that the .45 is an extra chonky boi.
Yo homie
Is that my briefcase?
My cat's thought process. I can tell when she's getting annoyed or when she wants to randomly barf. It's like a spidey sense.
Probably volleyball. I'm not an expert, but I did play and I feel like most of you don't know anything about it. I'm sure there are exceptions.
That is true, but I didn't mean to make it so obvious.
I frequently tripped on my robe and my beard. I believe I was not an asset to my team.
Plumbing, since I've been a professional plumber in both North America and Europe. Not the most interesting knowledge base but alas, it is what it is. Other than that, Age of Empires II maybe?
Martial arts, probably not Linux.
Sure :D you probably subconsciously used techniques we'd use
I can imagine. You essentially need to reprogram your brain and the motorical execution of how you produce the s-sounds which takes a lot of time and effort. In some cases, there are even external factors that could even prevent you from learning the "correct" pronunciation, like the way your teeth have grown, the way your upper and lower jaw bones are set in relation to one another, and more. You'd need to go to an orthodontist first to achieve results in the speech therapy.
Do you remember what kind of lisp it was and why you had it? Did your tongue protrude between your front teeth when producing s-sounds, for example, or was the tip of your tongue right at your upper front teeth?
That's exactly what you'd have learned in therapy, so kudos to you! Pretty awesome that you thought of using your mother as a mirror for yourself. And you being made fun of, even though rude, explains why you were motivated enough to work on it yourself even.
I just realised something. In my previous comments, I put "correct" into quotation marks because in Germany there is no /th/ (voice or voiceless), so working on a lisp is more of an aesthetics kind of question because there would be no misunderstandings in German if a speaker used a /th/ instead of an /s/. Assuming you're from an English-speaking country, it's also great that you worked on it since your lisp likely led to misunderstandings, right?
And so cool that you're a voice actor now. Funny how things work out! Good thing you worked on the lisp, then, since it likely would have prevented your being able to pursue a speaking career.
Animal Crossing.
I've only been playing the newest one for about a year (New Horizons, on the Switch), but since I've come to Lemmy a couple months ago, I've followed all of the AC communities I could find. None of them are active. Therefore, I can surmise that no one on Lemmy cares enough about AC to talk about it, so it's a fair guess at least, that I know more about the game and its inner workings than the average Lemmy user.
I could say that about any number of fandoms I've been in that do not have a home on Lemmy. The band ONE OK ROCK for instance. Or the anime series Sword Art Online. Sure, there may be a few Lemmy users who know a thing or two, maybe more than I do, but people aren't coming together to talk about these things. Their interests lie elsewhere.
honestly, i know a little about many things so i don't really know. i guess uh, when it comes to skill, i can definitely draw better than the average lemmy user, and i know some theory as well.
A Jack(athie) of all trades. Nice!
Probably a decent amount of music stuff.
I used to play piano at an ARCT level, and used to be pretty knowledgeable about theory and music history but I’ve forgotten a lot of it now. I haven’t practiced or studied since COVID hit so unfortunately a lot of it is gone now.
The music that I listen to, I have basically an encyclopedic knowledge of. I know when they were born or when the band formed, when each of their albums came out, and generally know a lot of trivia about them.
I collect records and have been learning a lot about record players and audio equipment over the last couple years. Not as good as an audio engineer but better than the average lemming I’d say.
I used to do classical music composition pre-COVID. Again, probably not as good at it anymore, but I got quite good for a while. My music instructor at the time said I was the most impressive composer he ever taught. I’m still sorta riding that high from 2019. Very unfortunately, I had all that stored offline on a hard drive with no backup, and I’m sure you can guess what happened next. Since then I’ve been dissuaded from composing.
I used to help teach and tutor music courses when I was in school. I was basically the music teacher’s pet, and this was at a music school. The music teacher in question happened to be the head of music at that school too (there were several music teachers at that school).
A friend of mine, who was also into music and knew a lot of music students, once told me I was the only person he’s ever met that should’ve absolutely done a degree in music. This was at a time where he had a strong opinion that you should only go to school for a “real” degree that pays well afterwards. He’s since changed his opinion, but it was a big deal for him to say that to me at the time.
The worst part of all this is my severe AuDHD meant that as soon as COVID hit and I paused music courses and lessons, I couldn’t get myself to continue. Now I live in a place too small for a piano so I can’t practice unless I visit my parents or in-laws, and I have different hyper-focuses now, instead of theory. I wish I could change my brain sometimes.
Making video games. The shit people write here about game dev is ridiculous, they will even argue with you when they are completely wrong. In general people on the internet are way out of their lane when they talk about game dev.
I sometimes get a feeling that the average person (that actually “made” a video game of any sort) and throws some semi-coherent but completely off the mark argument probably amounts to somebody who threw a few things together on rpgmaker or similar programs but never coded anything from scratch.
Kind of like framework programmers trying to identify or explain any low level complexities that they are just barely aware of, if at all.
So cool meeting someone in the CSD field! I did my undergrad in CSD, but went for audiology. I have my AuD and am finishing up a PhD (I also did a MS in neuro, but that was because the classes mostly lined up with the PhD and the tuition was free). I swear, finding people outside of tech on lemmy is rare. Finding someone inside of CSD is even more rare. Now I'm curious if I am going to find any other audiology people...
Actually so big brained. The audio physics is so confusing for me
Haha, I love audio. I used to be an audio engineer. It didn't pay well so I went back to school with my GI bill and went for audiology. The dual doctorates actually helped bring the cost down at the expense of staying in school longer. As long as you are in the PhD program your tuition is waved and you get paid a stipend for being a TA/RA. So I planned for my GI bill to run out after my first year, then have been on PhD funding since. The only time I have paid tuition for my doctorates has been when I was on my externship. Then for the masters, it is called a "masters along the way" with no thesis required because I am in a PhD program doing a dissertation. And because neuroscience is in the same college as audiology, most of the classes overlap. I only had to take 5 more classes total. So I stacked 2 during covid (plus mt Aud/PhD classes) when everything was online and did 1 extra a semester for 3 semesters after that. Again, the only downfall of the free tuition is I am spending more time in school not making a my salary potential, but at least I have far less debt than my classmates.
Audiology 💀 We have an audiologist/phoniatrician that used to be our school's medical "lead", so to speak, that is super knowledgeable when it comes to her field and did a lot of scientific work and research for FEES, but she is such a terrible teacher. Every class she's taught are traumatised by her teaching, which is such a shame because she knows so much.
We've got a couple graduates who work with her - they seem to be able to ignore her ways of being a terrible human being :D
Guns for sure. I'm a very amateur gunsmith and love ordering crappy used guns online and fixing them up. Stretches the limits of my mechanical, restoration and craft abilities.
Maybe audio engineering but idk
Why does my 5.1 surround sound sometimes sound like shit?
Well first off you need to stop playing videos of people shitting
Insurance mathematics and Swiss Insurance Regulations, baby (bet you're all jealous now).
Also, learning German as an adult.
I really need some better hobbies
Learning german as an adult sounds like a nightmare to me. I found some old school books of mine and some stuff in there sounded absolutely made up. I remember knowing what plusquamperfekt is, but if someone put a gun on my head right now and i had to explain it, i might as well pull the trigger myself
Fire doors, I watched deviant ollams crash course video on it. Highly reccomend, but most people dont know much about them.
Maths. There are at least a few of us though.
Bread baking might also be a contender, based on recent data.
What's your favourite bread recipe if you have one?
By far lion house rolls.
Hello, what branch of math are you specialized at? Algebra, Analysis, or Geometry?
Combinatorics! Especially algorithmic stuff.
Oh, is algorithmic complexity part of combinatorics, or am I missing the mark? I would love to hear more about the kind of combo you do!
Sometimes! Counting is combinatorics, occasionally counting the steps can be a quite interesting, combinatorial task. Other times combinatorics is about playing a game, like a rubix cube, and trying to find clever ways to win.
So, for me, lots of playing with abstract systems. Some code, some proofs, and a surprising amount of linear algebra.
Ohh, playing with abstract systems, sounds nice! Also who can forget linear algebra in any math >.>
I always liked making bread when I was younger, but I hadn't made any in about 10 years and tried a bread maker recently that someone gave us.
Why do I feel like it's so much harder to make in a bread maker. Just throwing it on a pan seems so much easier for me.
New things are hard? And not all bread makers are well designed imo (my biggest personal complaint was with one that wanted to be too compact).
Though take this with a grain of yeast, I have limited mechanized bread maker exposure as well.
TCP congestion control
All of my skills and knowledge focus on the things that draw most lemmy users here and the ones who stand out from the norm have frequently proven themselves to be smarter than I in various ways, so ... Not much.
Humbleness I see
Typewriter repair.
How did you come across this knowledge?
Arcane lore.
Cell Biology and molecularbiology (but i didn't finish my degree), PC Games (i've been playing PC Games since the late 80's), Piracy(see the answer before lol) and PC building (I've never bought a pc as a whole in my whole life except Laptops). Probably 56k Modems too, since i worked in costumer support for multiple ISPs - i still remember a lot of init strings for those and for different manufacturers, which is completely useless today lol
Team Fortress classic.
Hepatitis B. Microbiology and virology in general but Hepatitis B was a really significant interest of mine.
I'm starting to feel a bit confident in my lotr knowledge these days, but I'm well aware I'm no scholar on the topic.
Mine are sheet metal manufacturing, insurance agency commissions, and power query.
IT security in general. I have a very broad knowledge and am specifically knowledgeable in a few of the specialty fields. Have been doing nothing else for 15 years. Linux about 20 years. Been a dad of three for about 10 years now.
Using sex toys anally/anal sex toys
My record is a 9 inch circumference
Have you ever tried a jar
Nope, definitely not safe. Honestly I just stay away from glass toys entirely. Silicone plugs are a lot nicer anyways.
Cats, particularly kittens. I do a whole lot of fostering, particularly with very young and/or sick kittens. At this very moment, I have 16 fosters from 4 different litters.
Ancient Rome.
Broadcast tv, radio, the technical side of video restoration. Audio engineering , Acoustics, and music as a whole industry.
There’s two of us!
Lithium ion batteries. Especially when they catch fire and how to put them out.
What charging pattern is best for the batteries?
Is keeping the charge between 20% and 80% a good idea? Does it make sense to charge to 100% and to discharge completely from time to time?
As close to 50% is best for longevity/cycle life, so the 20-80 rule is a good one. That said, devices Like smart phones with smarter battery management systems (BMS) benefit from relearning the battery voltage curve, so discharging/charging from 0-100 can be beneficial for accurate state of charge measurement.
What’s the best way to dispose of a spicy pillow in USA?
Someone else's trash can. Alternatively, a hammer and nail typically work pretty well.
More seriously, discharge slowly to as low as you can and dispose of per local regulations. I have disposal centers near me that take them.
I just recycled some really big and spicy pillows at my recycling center. I used them for my drones, and they were pretty busted. (I kept them in a fireproof container outside) They wanted me to throw it in a barrel with other really messed up exposed wire pillows. It made me pretty nervous.
Hahaha yeah general convention used to be just throw them all in a bin like nonrechargeable batteries. Train explosion in Houston a while back showed why that was a bad idea. That said if they're all completely discharged, the hazard is much less because less stored energy AND the cathode is more stable (gives off less oxygen during decomposition). The former reduces internal short hazards/heat; the latter reduces energy and effluent release if they go off.
The fireproof container isn't a bad idea, but be careful of making a bomb. You want it to leak before burst just due to the large volume of effluent produced. Best practices are to reduce how much you store, keep long term batteries at ~25% SOC (less for disposal), and storing away from other flammables including other batteries.
Drones
Could a 5 oz drone carry a 1 lb coconut?
Nope. The material you need be able to lift a pound would be about 10 oz, battery included.
What about an African drone?
optical discs
I don't think the average lemming scuba dives as there's a pretty small scuba community here.
Video game programming, because I've been doing that for more than 20 years.
Graded Modal Dependent Type Theory, but that's mostly because only "dozens of" people know it exists.
What kind of grading do you give there? I guess the modal part is about the contexts for the type theory, but it has been some time I have looked into it.
I think "graded" in the name is there in contrast to "quantitative" type theory, which doesn't have modalities/quantities at the type-level.
The "modal" is borrowed from modal logic. If you pick the correct semiring, you can recover linearity and affine-ity and the other substructural logic pieces.
The quantitative semiring I've been working with is
0, 1, ?, n, +, *, which I think will let me use static analysis to do very precise non-strictness and precise/early resource tracking/release. (But, my progress is so slow, that if this were an academic project, I don't think I'd be getting any more grant funding.)I see, having modalities on type level makes sense as a grading, alike the grading of e.g. polynomial rings.
So you are going along the line of linearity and affine-ity? What kind of stuff are you working out?
https://gitlab.com/bss03/grtt is my published code. But, I have far more intuitions that I need to write code for than finished code.
While evaluating something well-typed under a context, the heap: does not need to contain a value for a binder with modality 0, must contain a single, strict value for a binder with a modality 1, must contain a single, lazy closure for a binder with a modality of ?, must contain multiple references to a shared, strict value for a binder with a modality n, must contain at least a single reference to a strict value for a binder with a modality of +, must contain at least a single reference to a lazy closure for a binder with a modality of *. Since the typing rules propagate the modalities to subterms precisely, we should be able to identify the exact point a closure must be forced to a value (or dropped) before runtime. That's in addition to being able to compile linear functions to heap updates, eliminating at least some allocations.
There's some similarities with both the exact-use-count and relevant-or-erased semirings, but I think some things (e.g. around sums) are hard/awkward/impossible to type and the ?/+/* modalities make some make things easier while still allowing the abstract machine to know exactly when to "optimize the heap" based on a runtime flow that "activates" a particular static analysis.
Of course, it's still MLTT "compatible" -- anything that would type-check in MLTT should type-check in my variation of GRTT by "simply" using the
*modality everywhere -- so you get full proofs-as-programs and a total language.I'm probably a bit off in the weeds, but it still makes my brain buzz to think about and occasionally I'll make progress. I've been a little bit distracted with https://gitlab.com/bss03/nested which should allow me to write the abstract machine as a fold, but as proven to be place I can also put a lot of programming time into (again, with sporadic real progress).
Interesting. Do you have some specific goal in mind? Like, implementing a language/library for the GRTT stuff.
Sure, eventually, I'd like a language with Haskell-ish syntax to compile to Linux x86_64 and webassembly and use the language to make better software. If my language existed today, I'd probably work on writing my own ActivityPub software, and improve/port https://github.com/NARBEHOUSE/Ben-s-Software- because my father might want it soon.
Lighting and game design
I have above average knowledge in a lot of areas due to browsing Wikipedia a lot.
I know more pure maths than most people in the world so there's that too.
How do you have space in your brain for many areas while also delving into pure math? I feel math is soo deep that I cannot learn anything else..
It's all a matter of time and focus. I have broad, shallow knowledge in other areas and narrow, deep knowledge in maths. Maths was my job for several years, so I was putting in a corresponding amount of time.
Bubble tea.
Naval Combat Systems Engineering and history with a smattering of tactics.
I work in Web dev so there's that. But also the roman empire and etymology.
Heavy metal and I actually doubt there's anyone here who's more of a walking encyclopedia
I am sure there are some cryptologists here, soo.. Nothing? Anyway, I know a bit about how RSA is inferior to eliptic-curve based schemes, and how security can be such a diverse and complicated topic than simple two-party communications.
Game development; Addiction.
Chemistry, physics, engineering, safety systems, and AI.
Guitar, maybe. Definitely Pokemon breeding.
Alright then bud, tell me about the genitals of the following Pokémon:
Describe the location, means of genetic exchange and palatation of fluids (if applicable)
Look, you want the trade secrets then you put in the work, you’ve got to earn this kind of information. You come down and put in some work at the ranch and you’ll find your answers.
I undoubtedly know more about fire than the average user here.
I'm a circus performer with a decade of experience with fire performance/tech/safety. I teach other fire performers from beginners to professionals.
That's so cool (heh)! How did you end up in that profession?
I started with fire spinning as a hobby and attending events. Eventually I got to manage a fire venue, received an invite to join a historic circus (Coney Island), and became a fire safety lead for a large fire retreat. The most important pillar for all this has been community.
Unfortunately I had to flee the US (thanks Trump) so I'm taking things slow for the moment, but I have huge plans for the future
Herpetology is my thing
Smart metering solutions