Czech has this special Ř sound, which is somewhere between a rolling R and the S in vision (/ˈvɪʒən/). I’m learning Czech as a fifth language, so while I can pronounce it standalone or at the start of a word it takes all my focus to manage mid-word.
Your SK’s ham radio club can come do inventory of all the amplifiers, tuners, radios and antennas that cover every inch of the attic. They’ll even auction it off and hand you the profits.
Technically, “the Holy Spirit” isn’t a proper noun.
That’s the spirit.
I bought a house ten years ago. I’ve locked the mortgage payments at ~$1000. I’ve since moved countries and been renting it out for the last four years. The current tenants pay ~$2200 and their own utilities. Seven more years and my mortgage is no more.
I spent some more time thinking about this. Me and a group of friends spent way too many years playing a MUD game back in the 90s. Some would jot down maps of areas.
I didn’t find maps particularly helpful, but I guess I felt like the rooms had a direction and would navigate by that. I could probably still find my way around there. I’d describe it like a vector database.
People do seem to get upset when you remind them about all the Christian terrorists that set fire (or similar) to abortion clinics.
Yes. I have a good spatial thinking and memory. I know where I’ve seen my glasses last, I just can’t visualise it.
I delivered packages for the postal service one summer during studies. It took me two weeks to memorize all the streets of the town I had moved to two years prior.
I prefer to do my 3D modelling in OpenSCAD because 2D visualizations are harder to work with than math & code.
I’ve heard they shut down domains for no reason and without appeal process.
There’s plenty of BBSes still being hosted on hardware like this. Like fria bad.
Most of them do require a proper PETSCII terminal, to keep the lamers out.
I can agree with most of the points in the thread. Especially the forced use of AI where it makes no sense.
I’m a software engineer going on my second decade in developing media streaming technologies.
LLMs are useful in my day-to-day work. They speed up development a lot, but I do realise that I am getting disassociated with my codebase. I know that the individual commits are on a level that I would’ve written myself, often even better. But I don’t know the codebase as intimately as if I actually wrote it myself. The cognitive load of reviewing two other people’s AI-assisted code is also very taxing.
But, we can hate it as much as we want. Pandora is out of her box, and it’s better to get ahead with it than be left behind.
No, it needs a lot more babysitting than 4.5 does. 3.5 was on the same level of mistakes, at least on the quants I have to use.
Running qwen3.6 27b through llama.cpp.
It’s about as capable as sonnet 3.5.
I use it for light scripting, but real coding is done by cloud models.
I’m also using it as the brain for my Hermes agent. It sends me digests of news, subreddits, chats that I’d like to read but don’t have time for. It does a great job researching things on the web for me, too.
Also hepatitis A.
Yeah, I mean apocalypse scenario is not my main goal. But it’s nice to have a contingency plan if shit would hit the fan.
This is my second season with the caravan, I had an apocalypse sailboat before that. I put 2x100W on it for the first season, added another 2x100W this season while going from 160Ah lead-acid to 300Ah Lithium. It’s a night and day difference there already.
I’m plugged in most of the time, either for air conditioning or heating - the Mrs wants her comfort. There’s a three-way absorption fridge (220V, 12V or gas) that draws like 110W. I can still be unplugged for three nights or so with that running; which makes long distances or overnight ferries possible without ruining food.
And if we want to stay somewhere without shore power we can flip the absorption fridge to gas and be cooking with gas as well. The compressor fridge chest that sips 30W usually sits in under the awning in front anyway.
You’re right.
Well, still enough juice to pump all the water we need and heat our meals.
We’ll just have to limit hot showers to once a fortnight. Needs about 800Wh to heat the hot water tank.
I don’t power all of it at once, and not direcly off of solar. I could maybe fit another 200W worth of panel on that roof, but for 4000W I’d need seven caravan roofs. That battery is the buffer and it’s a beast. At 300Ah I have 4kWh to pull at 1C.
The fridge sips a nice 30W. Panels put in ~2kWh on a sunny day. So thats a 1.7kWh surplus for running heavy loads - enough to max out that inverter for an hour a day. That’s plenty for microwaving or pumping water.
If power is down for good, then getting water is the main priority. If the pumpa don’t run the water tower is losing pressure fast. I have 40 litres jugged up in the basement at all times for the first few days.
When that dries out my neighbour has a well that we’ve hooked up to five properties. Mostly for gardening, but it is potable. The pump needs power, though, so I’d pull an extension cord over to my caravan.
My caravan has 400W of solar, 300Ah LiFePO4 and a 1.5kW inverter. Also a meshtastic node with an antenna on the roof. That’ll keep the food cold, and laptops charged. It can run a microwave or hotplate, too. I’ve got 20kg of propane if I need to conserve power.
I aim similarly. I have a CMF phone 1 by nothing.
I just want a phone that a) has minimal bloat b) long security updates 3) cheap enough that I can afford to lose it
Android One used to be a good deal while that program was running.
This.
However, there are plenty of residential proxy services to purchase. People are willing to sell their liability for perks, and others are willing to buy. I’m sure there’s a whole dark economy around this. It’s what OP is asking for without the extra steps.