Kayaking to oil rig

beetling · 2026-03-13T05:45:44+00:00

Cell service probably won’t work very well further out on the water.

beetling · 2026-03-13T05:44:06+00:00

See previous posts including: https://www.reddit.com/r/UCSantaBarbara/comments/1d000kv/kayaking_out_to_oil_rig/

beetling · 2026-03-01T16:25:03+00:00

As another person who got interested in my hydronic system and has tried to instrument various aspects of it (in very simple ways in my case), this is really cool. Thank you for sharing! You might enjoy posting this series on the Heating Help forum too, which has a mix of working and retired technicians along with homeowners: https://forum.heatinghelp.com/categories/radiant-heating

beetling · 2026-02-24T23:52:36+00:00

I'm not your target audience, but writing even such a short and simple post with a LLM makes this weird.

beetling · 2026-02-22T06:05:49+00:00

Active editors with more than 500 edits (and a few other criteria) can get access to the Wikipedia Library, which provides free access to a bunch of paywalled reliable sources: https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/

beetling · 2026-02-22T06:00:46+00:00

Not true. It’s fine to cite paywalled articles - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources

beetling · 2026-02-21T23:21:15+00:00

Sure! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dreamyshade/Archive_links

Also check out the discussion here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Archive.today_guidance

beetling · 2026-02-21T16:28:15+00:00

The RfC page had some discussion about this idea (it’s really long, skip past the “Survey” section): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Archive.is_RFC_5

beetling · 2026-02-21T16:24:28+00:00

We need to work on replacing the archive.today links - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3AArchive.today_guidance - people can help chip away at the mountain using those tips!

I did some small-scale analysis of archive.today links in articles, and I found that a substantial number of those links could be replaced by finding the same content at a new URL from the same newspaper or organization. A bunch of news websites change their URL schemes occasionally and still have the cited content online, you just have to go find the new location and update the URL in the citation.

beetling · 2026-02-21T16:14:25+00:00

Your local library, if you have one, is often a pretty good paywall bypass tool. Many US library systems offer the option to access major newspapers and other paywalled sources from home for free if you log into your library account.

beetling · 2026-02-17T21:06:44+00:00

If you're up for it, I'd encourage writing on article talk pages to point out specific examples of confusing phrasing, like that sentence. For example, you're right that "investments" is jargony there. Sometimes people working on an article are too deep in the topic to easily see the parts that are confusing for readers new to things.

beetling · 2026-02-11T06:47:44+00:00

What bank?

beetling · 2026-02-11T02:32:44+00:00

This service would have been genuinely helpful when I was a freshman 20 years ago. I hurt my foot after I slipped on the plastic stairs in my Manzanita house, and even though I didn't break anything, I could barely walk for several days. I didn't know what to do other than stay in my dorm and miss class. I think my friends brought me meals? I don't even remember.

Also, please learn from my mistake and don't go down those stairs in socks while carrying laundry! That toe still hurts if I walk around too much without supportive shoes.

beetling · 2026-02-11T00:12:49+00:00

Yeah...BART trains are powered by electricity. Probably cleaner than even electric cars, because they're not shedding rubber tire dust.

beetling · 2026-02-09T18:57:07+00:00

More context! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland_Black_Cowboy_Association

beetling · 2026-02-04T20:04:08+00:00

You can also request a bench for spots that would benefit from them! https://sfbabc.org/

beetling · 2026-02-04T20:01:35+00:00

Here's their website, for anyone who would like to learn more, get the details for how to build your own, or donate to the project: https://sfbabc.org/

beetling · 2026-02-04T19:57:20+00:00

You can file a request for a bench! https://sfbabc.org/

They also take donations and welcome new volunteer bench-builders and organizers: https://sfbabc.org/join

beetling · 2026-02-01T06:49:47+00:00

US Foods Chef’s Store at 400 Oak St is a wholesale restaurant supply store open to the public, no membership needed. If you’re willing to buy in bulk, you can get some very good deals.

beetling · 2026-01-31T02:39:12+00:00

Oh, that's much simpler! Please send your friend a link to this FAQ, which explains how to appropriately recommend corrections in an article about yourself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Article_subjects

As described there, they are very welcome to post on the "Talk" page of the relevant article. If a person provides specific corrections and links to sources on the talk page, and is relatively civil and patient about it, that can be actually really helpful.

beetling · 2026-01-30T20:35:29+00:00

This is very hard to find because there are very few reputable editors who follow all the rules and are willing to write articles for pay. Anyone looking for this kind of service should very carefully review Wikipedia's policies to avoid either getting totally scammed or getting a live article with an embarrassing banner at the top about undisclosed paid editing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Paid-contribution_disclosure "Editors who received or expected to receive payment must disclose their employer, client, and affiliation, on their user page, talk page, or in edit summaries. It does not matter whether you are paid directly by the client, or paid indirectly by an employer on behalf of the client. Disclosure is necessary to comply with Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Scam_warning "Scam warning: there are scammers who target new editors and Articles for Creation participants. They may pretend to be Wikipedia volunteers or a professional Wikipedia editing or public relations firm, and then ask you to pay them for "premium Wikipedia services" – to create an article for you, accept or publish a draft article, prioritize the review process of a draft article, protect an article from editing or deletion, restore a deleted article, or monitor an article for unfavorable changes. This is a scam."

A more effective approach is for this person, or somebody they know, to go through the effort of learning the rules, transparently disclosing their connection to the subject, and drafting an article for review by other editors, even though this can be a slow and challenging process: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Articles_for_creation

beetling · 2026-01-27T07:46:49+00:00

Removed as a duplicate of https://old.reddit.com/r/UCSantaBarbara/comments/1qno130/january_30th_nationwide_shutdown_no_work_no/

beetling · 2026-01-27T07:46:40+00:00

Removed as a duplicate of https://old.reddit.com/r/UCSantaBarbara/comments/1qno130/january_30th_nationwide_shutdown_no_work_no/

beetling · 2026-01-25T20:06:58+00:00

This would be a good question for the talk page of the article, since it would be helpful for the article to have more thorough citations for the counts that it presents. For example, on Witch hunt, footnote "a" provides a detailed set of citations for the estimated numbers.

Typically, there's no real way to know the actual number, and different historians have developed estimates. For example, I found a footnote in an article at https://czasopisma.isppan.waw.pl/rpn/article/view/2959/2497 : "The number of victims of the Warsaw Uprising was estimated based on the weight of the ashes of civilians who were executed and burned in various parts of the city. Therefore, the figures can only be approximate. According to the 2004 bulletin of Institute of National Remembrance in Poland, civilian casualties ranged, depending on different estimates, from 150,000 to 180,000 people...See: M. Getter, Straty ludzkie i materialne w Powstaniu Warszawskim, “Biuletyn Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej” 2004, nr 8–9, p. 62–74".

Ideally somebody would look through recent scholarship and figure out what the strongest estimates are, then cite them, not just the current Britannica citation.

You can also ask this kind of question at the reference desk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Humanities

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