sacredbirdman

Carry ice picks (more like ice awls) with you when you travel on ice. If you fall through ice turn back to the direction you came from and start breaking the ice with your elbows (no use trying to get up as long as the ice is so brittle you can easily break it), then drag yourself up and start rolling away from the hole and trace your steps back. Also, try to get rid of the wet clothes as soon as you can.

How to dress for -30C weather. How to get out if you fall through ice into water.

People challenging the seriousness of the climate change are saying “we will adapt and survive like we always have”… Yeah, our “adapt and survive” could look like that.

It looks a bit rough but it’s very good. Had to quit it though because it took over my life.

I’ve been developing stuff with .NET and F#. For the most part the experience with the compiler, libraries and IDEs + tools has been good. Haven’t had to touch visual studio or windows. Most devs run Linux or MacOS and the end product is deployed on servers running Linux and open source dotnet. I’m about as far as you can be from a Microsoft fanboy but you might want to get up to date with the ecosystem. Is it my favourite tech stack? No, but I’ve experienced much worse.

How do you vote for a non-existent option with your wallet?

Umm, in Finland there are sleeping cabins for 1-3 people and you need to reserve the whole cabin. No randos.

I’ll be that guy… 56% of normal

Where in the news do you see this extreme left represented?

Depends a lot on the budget and needs… If I was starting over again the first lens I’d get would be Olympus 12-40 f2.8. It’s really versatile. It goes from pretty wide to moderate tele, it’s decently bright at f2.8 for the whole zoom range, it’s sharp and even focuses close you get a pseudo-macro as well (good enough for flowers and bigger insects). Then, if I needed more range I’d get 40-150 f2.8 or if I needed a portrait lens I’d get 45mm f1.8 or 75mm f1.8, if I needed a macro I’d get 60mm f2.8.

I’m a long time Linux user and a programmer. What I love about it (besides privacy, non-pushiness etc.) is that I can pull pretty much whatever program or tool I need from package manager and that command-line lets me integrate many command line tools with graphical apps.

Just yesterday I made a little script that pulls weather data from a “non-official” weather station that is closer to me and stores it in a csv-file, then I could bind a key combination to fire another script that plots and shows me that data. It’s just a few command line tools mashed together. A few days ago I wrote little scripts that control lighting in my house and I can bind keys to those as well… maybe that’s “tinkering” too but they’re small things that make my life a little bit better :) Is that impossible to do in Windows? No, but Linux has much less friction.

Siistiä! Menestystä opintoihisi! (Google will translate the latter to ‘good luck with your studies’ which isn’t exactly right. We do not wish luck as much as English-speaking people do, menestys = success)

Yeah, guessed they might be Finnish because of the username but that didn’t turn out to be the case =)

Guessed based on the username but sometimes it misses =) Anyway, glad you got here :)

Tervetuloa :)

She’s Emily now and seems to still work there.

Well, when I get thirsty i am flirting…with migraine. I don’t have a schedule I just habitually drink a lot of water… but to be able to drink regularly I need to carry it with me.

Someone pretending to be pro communist and also pro Russia and China is indeed pretty sad. I think we mostly agree.

I’m just saying that the iPhone “argument” is so lame. Everybody here uses electronics that use cobalt mined by child slaves in Africa. We still can, and should, point out the atrocities caused by the current system and fight for a better future.

People are also pretending to oppose slavery from their shiny new iPhones.