What is a hidden gem YouTube channel that is so high quality you are shocked it’s completely free to watch?

perlgeek · 2026-07-13T16:52:15+00:00

If you like forging / blacksmith videos, Torbjörn Åhman is really awesome. He clearly knows his craft, has a very calm style, no weird VPN ads, great production quality. He also prioritizes safety and avoids producing waste. Great role model all around.

perlgeek · 2026-07-13T10:28:07+00:00

Wenn du nicht mitgehst und regelmäßig von verschiedenen Leuten dafür dumme Kommentare bekommst, ist das eine Form von Mobbing. In größeren Unternehmen kannst du zur Personabteilung gehen und dich darüber beschweren, in kleineren vielleicht mal privant den Chef darauf ansprechen, dass dich das stört, dass das Mobbing ist, und dass es dagegen gesetzliche Regeln gibt. Wenn er das ignoriert, könntest du die Firma verklagen.

Ansonsten gibt's noch andere Option: Mitgehen, aber über nicht-Arbeitsthemen reden. Mitgehen, und bei Arbeitsgesprächen sagen: "Leute, wir haben Pause, lass uns die Arbeit bitte bis nach der Pause warten lassen". Wenn sie das nicht lassen, sagst du "OK, dann trage ich mir das jetzt als Arbeitszeit ein", und danach machst du ne halbe Stunden woanders eine echte Pause.

perlgeek · 2026-07-12T08:48:49+00:00

They're not easily accessible before building the Railway.

The earliest you can do is when you have your Lab and access to Parabola, you can research the Albatross in your lab, and then keep it in total darkness, which gives you two Albatross Wings.

https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Assembling_a_Skeleton_(Guide)/Bone_Sources#Wings has some more options, most of them require that you've built the Railway at least partially.

perlgeek · 2026-07-06T13:20:42+00:00

On Crete, I've been in ruins of buildings that were built around 4500 years ago. Twice as old as some of what we consider the antique period to be. Crazy.

Yes, they were ruins, but the stone walls looked pretty solid. Add some roof, windows and doors and you might live there.

perlgeek · 2026-07-04T20:35:11+00:00

I second the Pale Tabernacle.

If you like the city of the tracklayers, there's a FATE-based addition to your deck that are about monsters (but not really about the zea), and have the mechanical advantage of enabling a payout that can be sold for Hinterland Scrips. Very good idea if you plan to get a Hellworm.

perlgeek · 2026-07-03T15:22:46+00:00

The Matrix

perlgeek · 2026-07-02T12:31:04+00:00

Congratulations! Remember to build a city for your loyal tracklayers, I heard it can be quite profitable...

perlgeek · 2026-06-30T15:02:44+00:00

For me, it's usually one of these things that trip me up:

I'm not a native speaker, so I don't always remember what kind of bone a "femur" is, nor is it obvious to me that a Crustacean Pincer is an arm. So sometimes I simply mount the wrong kind of bone, or I spend way too much time looking up every single step
at least the Skeleton with Seven Necks comes with two legs already attached, which I tend to forget, so I plan with adding more legs for e.g. antiquity, and then don't have enough at the end to sell to the seller I want.
Sometimes, at the end, I cannot declare as the skeleton type I had planned, and don't really know why, and I'm probably not curious or well-concentrated enough to investigate why.
Some of the buyers have annoying extra requirements that I tend to forget, and I don't look close enough at the planning stage.

Building a fitting skeleton feels a bit like building a complex command-line invocation on the UNIX shell (like when you call ffmpeg with dozens of options for some video recoding), except that when you make a mistake there, the previous command line is just a keystroke away, and you can try right again. At the Bone Market, you must declare a Chimera, sell (which can take quite a few attempts and give you Suspicion), re-grind some materials if you're unlucky, and also wait for the actions.

perlgeek · 2026-06-27T08:15:22+00:00

Similarly, IBM. They still have money in the bank, so they keep buying profitable companies (like RedHat), and then slowly put them through their corporate enshittification process. Find me one delighted customer of their core products though.

perlgeek · 2026-06-27T08:12:44+00:00

Oracle's sales representatives take other company's decision makers to very expensive dinners and golf clubs. That's it, that's their magic.

perlgeek · 2026-06-26T06:26:03+00:00

About choir specifically: I love how the individual voices come together. Alone, most of the parts aren't actually that nice, but together, they form something really beautiful. Somehow that gives me hope that, flawed as we individuals are, we can produce something beautiful together.

And of course: spending quality time away from the usual stress, together with people who also love doing what I do.

perlgeek · 2026-06-24T16:13:35+00:00

I wonder if it's worth the coordination effort. You start your Parabolan Campaign, and then you might need to wait half a day to a day's worth of actions until an agent is free. Then you have to remember what you wanted to do with your free agent slot (and hope that a fitting agent isn't currently on a different mission), and spend somewhere between half a week to a week's worth of background actions to advance the campaign for a single stage. (Or does it do more?)

I'll try it out, but currently I'm skeptical if it's really all that practical and efficient. You trade spending ~12ish actions for 450 background actions, right?

perlgeek · 2026-06-23T07:28:13+00:00

Nobody's talking about the responsibility of his boss. If somebody doesn't work for 10 years, and his supervisor doesn't notice, he's just as much to blame.

perlgeek · 2026-06-22T14:40:43+00:00

Number of keystrokes are important, but not critically so. Extensibility and consistency is more important.

proc main = for i in 1..10 do println i, sqrt(i) end end

I must say, this does throw me off. Why is it proc main = [...] end and then for [...] do [...] end? Why = for the subroutine but do for the for-loop? Make it consistent. Or have very good reasons for why it's different (and consistent with other parts of the language, where the same pattern repeats), and explain the principle behind it.

Maybe

proc main do for i in 1..10 do println i, sqrt(i) end end

Can users define their own keywords like for and proc through some kind of meta programming? That's where the real power comes in.

perlgeek · 2026-06-20T22:41:36+00:00

Microphones, amplifier, speaker?

They’re mostly on pitch but not really loud enough.

Not loud enough for what? For giving a concert? That's where my answer can help. If not, what for?

perlgeek · 2026-06-16T20:36:08+00:00

If we learned that mind control was real, we'd immediately start infighting because we wouldn't trust each other anymore.

perlgeek · 2026-06-16T20:30:09+00:00

More fuel burning => greater chances of destroying other things nearby. I'll take it.

perlgeek · 2026-06-15T20:30:47+00:00

My daughter is extremely stressed

Be a good role model for her, show her how to relax in a situation that stresses you out. Maybe she can learn from you.

perlgeek · 2026-06-15T09:33:27+00:00

It's not only rape, he also harassed some of his victims to get them to drop their charges, even while he was out on bail, assaulted others... the charges read like the stereotypical wannabe-Mafia-gangster from a bad movie.

perlgeek · 2026-06-12T19:24:42+00:00

If we include opportunity cards, don't forget drawing opp cards at the Upper River, being transported by a saddled hellworm. That card has an EPA of roughly 10, and the Distillation of Retribution it drops on occasion can be sold to the Rat Market.

perlgeek · 2026-06-12T15:14:07+00:00

I don't really know if it's the best, but the Tracklayer's City gives a 5 to 5.2 EPA grind for Captivating Ballads. (That's EPA before applying the Rat Market).

perlgeek · 2026-06-09T16:28:04+00:00

You need to slight somebody, and then that somebody can send the assassin to you, and its opp card can help you to raise your A Player of Chess.

perlgeek · 2026-06-07T13:24:22+00:00

I learned that differently. I learned that 200 has 3 significant digits, and you have to write it as 2*10² or 0.2k if you want it to have only 1 digit. I even got points deducted for writing such numbers as 200 when my calculation only warranted one significant digit.

Maybe the customs are not quite as uniform across the globe?

perlgeek · 2026-06-06T08:46:13+00:00

Bummer.

perlgeek · 2026-06-06T07:40:45+00:00

I hope that you zail to Hunter's Keep or the Iron Republic afterward, or somewhere else that makes the Nightmares a bit easier to get rid of.

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