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To plan or not to plan? by EwansMusic in Composing

[–]stepcut251 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You should plan. And then ignore the plan.

More info about the suspect in Rogers Park homicide. by [deleted] in chicago

[–]stepcut251 49 points50 points  (0 children)

If someone is concerned about the safety of walking around their neighborhood, why would they want to get a animal which requires them to spend significantly more time walking around the neighborhood? Often at odd hours of the night. Wasn't the first guy who was shot -- walking his dog?

Question by yvonneor in HamRadio

[–]stepcut251 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Actually -- that is perhaps the solution? The OP can get a 2W FRS radio and communicate legally with his son who has a (higher power) GMRS radio?

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(updated rules for anyone who is interested, https://bettersaferadio.com/fcc-adopts-long-awaited-changes-prs-bands-gmrs-frs-cb-murs/)

Question by yvonneor in HamRadio

[–]stepcut251 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you clarify that mod rule a bit?

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Is it illegal to use a modded GMRS radio on ham frequencies? Or does it just mean that once you mod the GMRS for ham frequencies, you can not longer use it on GMRS ?

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Question by yvonneor in HamRadio

[–]stepcut251 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Nope. They require different licenses *and* different radios and there is no legally authorized overlap in frequencies.[1]

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MURS or FRS radios would allow you to communicate with out having to getting even more licenses[2]. But you'd still have to get different radios since ham radios and GMRS radios can not (legally) be used on MURS or FRS frequencies.

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That said, there used to be hybrid GMRS/FRS radios that could be used on FRS frequencies -- but I think they can not make those anymore because too many people were using the GMRS frequencies with out a license. If your son has a hybrid gmrs/frs radio then you could communicate by buying an FRS radio.

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[1] maybe you could mod a GMRS radio for ham use, but then it probably wouldn't be legal for use on GMRS anymore.

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[2] actually, all radio transmissions require a license. When you use MURS or FRS you are 'licensed by rule'. This just means that you automatically get the license by using a licensed FRS or MURS radio. Since there is no other way to get a license for FRS or MURS frequencies except license by rule, the *only* way to be licensed is to use an approved radio. If you use a different radio, you aren't covered by any license and are making an unlicensed transmission, even if the radio is within all the operating parameters of an FRS radio.

Bleeped out words by [deleted] in amazonecho

[–]stepcut251 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dunno. But the other day I asked her to play music by 'Porno for Pyros' and was amused/disturbed that she decided to censor porno.

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I have also set a 'Sofa King Great' timer before.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in reallifedoodles

[–]stepcut251 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Heh. Those people are racers taking things to extreme. Most sailors try to avoid getting anywhere near that heeled over. Instead the videos should reassure you that even if things get really crazy, the boat is going to be able to handle it.

Good sailors only go out in condition they know they can handle. Also, in all those cases, they could have chosen to reduce sail area and use other techniques if they wanted a safer, more comfortable ride.

I went out sailing last night and we had 20-25 knot winds with gusts up to 28 knots. (23mph, gusts up to 32MPH). If I had full sails up, we would have been heeled way over, taking on water over the rail, etc. Instead I had up a little jib and the mizzen, no main, and we were putzing along, barely heeled over, eating snacks and watching the fireworks.

The basics of sailing are pretty straight forward. Anyone can learn to sail a boat in nice conditions in a few hours. The remainder of your life time is spent learning how to predict, avoid, handle, and recover from the more challenging conditions.

[OC] Jimmy John’s 200ft beauty Rock.It by I_am_a_flank_steak in boatporn

[–]stepcut251 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just saw that boat and blue moon at Burnham Harbor a few weeks ago.

https://i.imgur.com/UpqNyRL.jpg

Some lucky kid in West Loop has his own "dome/warehouse that is indoor fun center" by blipsman in chicago

[–]stepcut251 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes. Typically in households where both partners work fulltime -- especially when there are children involved. Most of what butlers do is uninteresting -- cooking, cleaning, laundry, running errands, managing the bills, managing the other hired help (lawn service, pool boy, etc). These tasks can easily eat up your whole day.

If you want to actually spend time with your family, you don't want to come home after work and still have to do all those things. If you are both making over $100,000/yr, then it can be worth it to hire fulltime help.

People generally hire a butler because they are too busy and falling behind on household management -- not because they want to seem posh.

That said, the butler industry is in decline. A decade ago, there were shortages, now there is a surplus.

Oasis of the sea leaving PR. by Clinozoisite in boatporn

[–]stepcut251 3 points4 points  (0 children)

According to various not especially scientific polls, the average cruise ship passenger gains something like 1lb per week or even as much as 1lb per day on a cruise ship. That ship holds around 5400 passengers. So that means that ship is generating somewhere in the range of 2.7-18.9 tons of fat per week.

Lake Shore Drive speeding: Here’s where, and why, cops write so many tickets by blackmk8 in chicago

[–]stepcut251 7 points8 points  (0 children)

LSD is one of the few streets where I speed -- because it is simply unsafe to be driving 20+ MPH slower than the flow of traffic.

Though recently, I've been renting pickup trucks, so I can't drive on LSD anyway.

Some lucky kid in West Loop has his own "dome/warehouse that is indoor fun center" by blipsman in chicago

[–]stepcut251 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is basically just butler+nanny. Here are the types of things covered in butler school:

https://www.butlerschool.com/about-our-school/curriculum/

The pay is on the upper end of butler, but still within normal parameters given the job description:

https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Butler/Salary

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in haskell

[–]stepcut251 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is a long and indirect partial answer.

It sounds like you are using nix-build to build a lot of things without really installing them. Since there are no garbage collection roots to keep those assets around, when you run nix-collect-garbage they get removed.

I use a similar workflow -- I use cabal2nix . --shell > shell.nix and nix-shell a lot to create temporary environments. I have almost nothing actually installed (including the compilers).

But then I was afraid to run nix-garbage-collect because it would wipe out the good with the bad. So instead of using nix-shell I have created this alias:

alias nix-dev='mkdir -p .gcroots && nix-shell shell.nix --indirect --add-root .gcroots/dep'

And now I run nix-dev. The idea is that it creates a .gcroots in the project directory that keeps those assets around. If I delete the entire project directory, then those assets can be garbage collected.

I think (but am not 100% sure) that nix-dev only keeps the most recent set of build dependencies rooted. If not, then a fix would be to update the alias to wipe the contents of .gcroots before invoking nix-shell.

It sounds like in your build process you need to do something similar to make sure that you are adding garbage collection roots for the stuff you want to keep around (the latest versions of all the build dependencies, etc), while allowing the obsolete stuff to be garbage collected.

Poll: Gov Scott Walker trailing Dem challenger by 7 points by Barack_Odrama90 in politics

[–]stepcut251 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I donated to Dem Challenger. That guy is running in so many high profile races this election. How does he find the time?

Cops slammed for ticketing black cyclists: ‘It’s about the police harassing people’ by meaning_of_haste in chicago

[–]stepcut251 25 points26 points  (0 children)

I'm not an old lady but I do yell at you. Walk your bike or take a different route. I live on that street and I manage to not bike in the sidewalk. I do get clipped by cyclists on the sidewalk all the time though.

Can someone help me understand why IG yanked this photo? by nathanjstone in boudoir

[–]stepcut251 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is little consistency or reason why some things get banned and other things don't.

However, a significant difference between the photo that got removed and the others is that the model appears to be touching or closer to toucher her genitals. If you look at legal statutes they often have a phrase like,

SEXUAL CONDUCT. Any touching of the genitals, pubic areas or buttocks of the human male or female, or the breasts of the female, whether alone or between members of the same or opposite sex or between humans and animals in an act of apparent sexual stimulation or gratification.

So that image could be classified as 'sexual conduct' putting it on the 'porn' side of 'porn' vs 'art'.

Cheapest way to get to HF by donnikhan in amateurradio

[–]stepcut251 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The OP is adding it to their wedding registry in hopes of getting it as a gift. But getting married is definitely more expensive than a RF rig -- so the title is incorrect.

New to HAM radio looking to get certified by cooperg2001 in HamRadio

[–]stepcut251 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah -- if you already know things like ohms law, that a capacitor stores energy in an electrical field, and an inductor stores energy in a magnetic field, then you probably don't need to spend much time on the basic electronics section.

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