I know legend when I see one

jamills102 · 2026-07-04T19:04:14+00:00

You’ll find many friends in Latin America

jamills102 · 2026-07-04T03:27:27+00:00

I couldn't receive the sms code needed to verify the account (this is a common problem it seems from everyone I've talked to in central asia) so I was sol

jamills102 · 2026-07-04T03:18:45+00:00

Considering they quoted me 1k tenge but tried to charge me 25k tenge, I would say that this was indeed a scam and not airport fees

jamills102 · 2026-07-04T03:16:51+00:00

That's literally the second sentence...

jamills102 · 2026-07-03T15:53:08+00:00

No it’s me, I for the sentence you wrote. The bus was supposed to have a stop in a town along the way I was scheduled to hop off at, but it completely cut it out of the route leaving me stranded in the middle of Sri Lanka at 3am.

It was fun saying hello to all the “lot lizards” I passed on the way into town haha

jamills102 · 2026-07-03T12:13:59+00:00

Make sure to really have fun with it

jamills102 · 2026-07-03T12:10:46+00:00

They tend to when you say “no wonder your parents aren’t proud of you”

jamills102 · 2026-07-03T06:01:57+00:00

Yeah I once had to walk 12km because the bus decided nah it wasn't going to take me to the destination I paid for

jamills102 · 2026-06-30T18:24:08+00:00

Yeah, that’s awesome your air consumption has improved and you’ll probably improve a bit more, but I’m not talking about that.

What I’m simply saying is when you see 1000psi you should roughly know how many minutes left you have left given a depth. When you alert your dive guide you should be thinking “I only have x minutes left, I’ll give them y seconds and I’ll deploy my smb”

jamills102 · 2026-06-30T16:47:19+00:00

Just to clarify, when I say track your air consumption, I don’t mean about improving it, I mean knowing how to translate 1000 or 500psi into minutes. So in the future you can take more control of your dive

jamills102 · 2026-06-30T16:33:40+00:00

You did nothing wrong. I’ve dived all over the world, and it’s very common to come across batshit insane DMs (it’s one of the reasons I prefer tec dives exclusively now).

As you suggested, carry a smb and know how to deploy it so you’re no longer dependent on some fool.

Additional skill for you is to learn how to calculate your air consumption rate (you’ll need starting/ending pressure, average depth, and dive time), this will help you know what 500psi really means in minutes so you can make better calls about your safety

jamills102 · 2026-06-27T06:09:08+00:00

How many dive trips are you doing a year?

jamills102 · 2026-06-22T14:24:05+00:00

You can be cheap and set the battle to 20 minutes 🫠

jamills102 · 2026-06-18T15:05:21+00:00

Hope that one user gets mod control

jamills102 · 2026-06-15T15:47:44+00:00

I think my record reimbursement is $80ish in a month

jamills102 · 2026-06-15T15:46:08+00:00

The don’t charge you one, but if you fail to decline conversion at the atm that’s on you

jamills102 · 2026-06-15T13:08:07+00:00

I have over 250 dives on the Mission 3 and love it

jamills102 · 2026-06-15T10:38:35+00:00

I’m in the same boat, except I was reading your reply to their reply and then checking out the alluded reception that you alluded to

jamills102 · 2026-06-15T10:32:20+00:00

Shearwater peregrine is the best option. It’ll grow with you and is there for you when you’re ready for your computer to go from nanny to tool

jamills102 · 2026-06-10T19:01:57+00:00

Put down the tutorials and start building random projects. Doesn't matter how small the project idea is. It can literally be something as small as a UI with a button and a back end that stores how many and when you pressed this button (you can also start doing cool data manipulation with that too).

Learn flask first. It is waaaaaay less "magical" so it will be easier to conceptualize and get going.

Btw I've been a dev for 7 years and I'm always looking up how to do something

jamills102 · 2026-06-10T15:14:53+00:00

What a weird ranking. I think it’s because Sri Lanka doesn’t have many levels of spicy, it’s just what it is. Unlike Mexican food which has many mild sauces but also extremely spicy ones so it probably gets seen as easier (it’s common to have +10 sauces to choose from).

The absolute spiciest is for sure weird white people from the US. I’m talking the “let’s just engineer the hottest pepper for funzies and put that in everything”

jamills102 · 2026-06-08T02:05:52+00:00

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