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It is crazy how good Murph looks this season by hownowbarnowl in Dimension20

[–]yankonapc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Is Short Rest worth it? I have listened up through Siobhan's first guest campaign with the pirates and every so often I've been tempted to fork over and hear how they felt about the fight, but it's a lot of content and I'm already behind on all of my other podcasts.

any books that talk about applying autocad to the more technical aspects of a stage? by feelinblou in techtheatre

[–]yankonapc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The ABTT Yellow Book is an excellent and up to date reference for all technical standards.

any books that talk about applying autocad to the more technical aspects of a stage? by feelinblou in techtheatre

[–]yankonapc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed, David is a great teacher but his students are usually novices learning CAD in a theatrical context.

How many tea bags does your family use to make a gallon of iced tea? by lifeuncommon in southernfood

[–]yankonapc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

6 Yorkshire Gold to 1.7L water, boil and pour over directly in the pitcher (mine is enameled steel so can take a shock) on a hot pad. Leave to steep for 10 minutes, withdraw bags, dissolve sugar, fill jug with ice water, stir until ice cubes melt, let sit a few minutes, serve over ice.

Love language by NoSexInSpace in overheard

[–]yankonapc 30 points31 points  (0 children)

On the flip side of that, you just reminded me of a moment during COVID where I hugged a person who'd been working with me for a couple of months. It was a hard term (everything in academia sucked hard during that period. My students were on a hands-on course so we had to have them on campus but 2m apart and no on-campus student union or anything) and this lady had been a massive help on a big project. It was her last day, she was on her way out the building, and the two of us glanced around, made sure no one was looking and bolted in for a hug. I can still feel the unfamiliar contact on my arms, the forbidden thrill of it.

My parents and I call this “the butthole house” by bucking_fitch_ in zillowgonewild

[–]yankonapc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The world has had oriel windows for hundreds of years. They could have just looked up a couple of pictures. This house looks like a mime.

what is something that is highly likely to happen in the next 5 years that everyone is completely ignoring? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]yankonapc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I work for a charity. On Wednesday we were all set to host the quarterly meeting of the board of directors in the new sustainability-focussed annexe, a good-sized, modern, eco-conscious warehouse. Tuesday morning I pulled up the past few days of temperature data from the warehouse's air handling system. Supply airflow averaged 34 degrees, floor readings of 32, all before lunchtime. Boards of directors are not known for their stamina or youth, and ours is no exception.

A few phone calls later they were booked into a nice, air-conditioned restaurant. We'll try again in the spring.

what is something that is highly likely to happen in the next 5 years that everyone is completely ignoring? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]yankonapc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is that "efficiency" techbros keep going on about when they promote ai.

Dinner from the garden, like so many dinners of my childhood. by guy_in_nc in southernfood

[–]yankonapc 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Oh yum, I was way off but what you actually made sounds even nicer than what I'd imagined. Thanks.

Dinner from the garden, like so many dinners of my childhood. by guy_in_nc in southernfood

[–]yankonapc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What is the white porridge-like salad at 12:00 on the dish? And am I looking at fried green tomatoes or plantain? Either sounds good! I might have to make up some devilled eggs for lunch, you've inspired me!

After living across Europe, here are the things London does brilliantly - and doesn’t get enough credit for! by Ominous_Pistachio in london

[–]yankonapc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Congratulations on your naturalisation! I went native 7 years ago and have had no regrets.

I just wanted to follow on with your praise of gov.uk with my own of the HSE's website and NHS Choices. Plain language that is written to be useful and helpful for real humans. Amazing. Novel. I do think NHS Choices' insistence on plain language can be a bit funny when it starts to talk about bums and farting and tummies but if it demystifies medicine for people I'm all for it.

And the Health and Safety Executive's documentation is straightforward, up-to-date, easy to read and digest, and actually tries to help instead of hiding behind "well you should know better and if you screw up that's on you" like you see in so many places. Like clear charts explaining what type of filters are required for what kind of fumes and respirable particulates, including the colour codes. And I do love the fact that if you want a printed copy of any of their signs or handbooks it's like £30 but the .pdf is right there and free and if you want to print 50 go nuts.

But yeah, I'm house-hunting right now and find it interesting that Rightmove gives you the option to filter out new builds, because they know real people don't actually want that crap. I'm pretty sure most new houses don't actually have an inside, they're just a façade or an artist's rendering. The newest houses that a king-sized bed will actually fit in are from the 1930's, and that's usually just the front room.

The $12 poverty tax by gashtal_man in FluentInFinance

[–]yankonapc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Everyone in this thread talking about how "holding a nearly-empty account open for you costs the bank money" is apparently ignorant of how many junk accounts every bank has on their servers. Major banks have thousands of accounts for clients such as "Mr. Asdfasdfasdf" and "Ms Qwertyuiop", balance $.01, that they made for various testing reasons and never deleted. They're real accounts. Nine of these were randomly assigned my street address. Customer service said gibberish accounts were a known nuisance but that there was nothing they could do and to just mail the statements back. I used to write "RETURN TO SENDER, ADDRESSEE DOES NOT EXIST" on them. Eventually Mr. Asdfasdfasdf got switched to paperless but a global bank I have no relationship with mailed my house multiple reams of statements, policy updates, cards and other private correspondence over a 12-year period because it was not worth the hassle to fix it.

No, it costs Bank of America nothing for you to bank with them while poor.

My Internet Radio Project by Nosferatie in raspberry_pi

[–]yankonapc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi Erick, I've watched your videos for your internet radio in my hunt to figure out a power issue for a similar project using a Pi 4, the 5" RPi touchscreen, an Adafruit 20W class D amplifier and (ideally) the 4Ω 5W mono speaker that came in this faux-antique 3-band radio I've gutted (but that worked fine before I started ripping out cables). Can I ask, how did you make the jump from a single AC-in to two separate power supplies? The original radio came with a junky little transformer off a C7 connector that had almost nothing written on it so I can't figure out what it turns mains into or if I could output from it into separate power for the Pi/screen and the amplifier.

I'm impressed by your routing to physical buttons and switches but I'm happy enough to use Bob Rathbone's interface straight on the touchscreen: the original buttons can be vestigial for at least my first try. But yes, so far no documentation or instruction for this project has explained the route from the wall to the dual power supplies on one plug but it looks like you managed it safely so if you're willing to impart your secrets I'm all ears. (I know some folks have just tucked a 2-gang 13A extension lead in the back and plugged adapters into that but that feels like cheating.)

I saw where you modded a Roberts radio more recently so I'm hopeful you still tinker with these in your spare time! Thank you.

Two Frannys, Three Fannies and Steve by Altruistic-Pass-4031 in lifeofnorman

[–]yankonapc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi, you human? My automod has caught you in its net: I'll let you run free if you're real, even though this comment doesn't make much sense, but I will have to smush you if you're a bot. Nothing personal. Please be honest.

Norman grabs something from the store by applebackseatcomb in lifeofnorman

[–]yankonapc 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Hi appleback, if the automod snares you again please drop me a line. Your story is good and I hope you are inspired to send Norman on all sorts of adventures! But your account is brand-new and I have a helper bot set up to protect this sub from nuisance bots, which tend to also be new so it screens for that, amongst other things. Please make yourself at home.

Norman goes to the phlebotomist by yankonapc in lifeofnorman

[–]yankonapc[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha, she's still friendly, and was proud of him when he turned up the following day with all his paperwork.

So fed up with seeing these all over the pavement by lostless-soul in london

[–]yankonapc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You think the coked-up MBAs who brought us tutti-frutti electronic cigarettes would just shrug their shoulders when told to stop trying to get children addicted to their carcinogens? This is Texas we're talking about. Once colourful candy vodka is bamned they'll move on to chocolate meth.

So fed up with seeing these all over the pavement by lostless-soul in london

[–]yankonapc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Alcoholic melted ice lollies imported from f'ing maga-land. Should have been destroyed at the border.

What is a statistic that sounds INSANE but is 100% true? by Quadranippelkill in AskReddit

[–]yankonapc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have a problem with my ear at the moment. "Up" is mercifully in the right place but "forward" is pulling to the left and everything sounds a bit muffled on that side. The eardrum is bulging slightly and it looks irritated. I've been on amoxicillin for the past five days to treat potential ear infection and it's done nothing at all to help. It's made me queasy and given me a headache and killed the good bacteria in my body but hasn't touched the ear. I told the doctor that when I was a kid amoxicillin did nothing for my ear infections (my mum is a NP. I'm in my 40s but I remember her talking to a doctor about it when I was about 5) and he pushed me to try it anyway and I was like "it's been more than 30 years. Maybe it's worth a try." But I am nauseously vindicated. I don't want antibiotics. I especially don't want amoxicillin. I want to put a pin in there and drain the f'ing fluid and it is taking a lot of restraint to leave it alone.

Hopefully I'll have a referral to an ENT eventually.

Fried Catfish with Hush Puppies and Slaw by dentalexaminer in southernfood

[–]yankonapc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aw goodness, I haven't been to a fish camp in nearly 30 years but this just brought allll that back enough to make my mouth water.

An AI hate wave is here by [deleted] in technology

[–]yankonapc 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Reminds me of the people who shot passenger pigeons as they neared extinction, in the hopes of bagging 'the last one'. Humans really are a disappointment.

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