For me it’s probably speech therapy and everything pertaining to that. I’m yet to encounter someone on here who is one apart from me (in training).
What about you?
Bad day to be into computers
I once installed linux…
where’s the rest of the limerick, OP?
I once installed the OS of Linux,
But speedy, it definitely wasn’t.
The year '94, a 56k net install,
Mom please hang up the phone this instant.
Um probably most people here know more about their work subject than the average Lemmy user
For me it’s beekeeping and honey processing
PS my other half did her degrees in speech/language therapy and psychology
Work: Chemical engineering, activated carbon (especially production), membrane filtration and high pressure boiler systems (shoutout @[email protected]).
Non-work: Moonshine making, Festival organizing (quit two years ago), plumbing, carpentry and general home improvement.
The few, the proud, the usually seated, the stationary engineering people.
The internet before the www started.
Same. Internet was for usenet, e-mail and irc.
I dunno the inner workings of Walmart? Been here for over a decade and I’ve held a few positions of authority within.
Been here for over a decade
My deepest condolences.
Like an American Walmart? Like in the US?
So: Do they really sell guns or is that a meme? Or is that a red state thing? Because I don’t think I saw any in the walmarts around me.
They used to. Most Walmarts now only sell a limited selection of shells, like 12 gauge, and some rifle cartridges meant mainly for hunting.
Afaik, no store in the company sells actual firearms anymore. We have a selection of airsoft guns though.
My Walmart sells guns. The one closest to my kid’s in Arkansas does too.
Is that why it’s named AR-Kansas?
It’s the same as Kansas but they sell AR’s in walmart.LOL, I highly doubt that. Shopped guns in AR Walmarts. They only sell hunting-style kinda stuff. No pistols, nothing “scary”.
(I’m probably missing the joke. 🙄)
Depends on the community I guess. It’s not a red state thing as I’m in one and it’s hit or miss whether you’ll see guns in Walmart.
How is “average lemmy user” defined? I probably know more about eg. tea than the typical/median user. But there may be a true tea expert here that pushes the average up by a lot.
How is “average lemmy user” defined?
You do not define such things. You just listen to your own average-o-meter.
It’s a good question. You probably know more about tea than the average Lemmy user and most Lemmy users. The fact that there may be one or two people who know more than you do does not disqualify either claim. But OP’s post description is basically about knowing more than any other Lemmy user — and that’s hard to say.
I don’t think you could be better than any one other person at most things on, say, Reddit, but Lemmy is much smaller, and much more focused on certain areas. If you fall outside those areas, you likely have a few advantages in expertise. Tea being one of them as social media in general leans more toward coffee.
How to know when stats is taking over your life ☝️
more of a pedant
Do you like Huey Lewis and the News? Their early work was a little too new wave for my taste. But when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He’s been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humour.
High pressure boiler systems.
My old man was a boilermaker/steam engineer for 50 years
Yeah I’m a mechanical/stationary engineer. I can do most of the hands on stuff too. I’m sure he could teach me a ton. Probably made a great living in those 50 years.
Telecommunications network operation
You and me both mate.
Picture related
Wireless telecoms is no better. Out installation on the right, the competitions on the left.
Playing the skin flute.
Doubtful
Hong Kong. I live there. There are a few of us here and there, but outside of the c/hongkong I’ve seen like 2.
Hey, I have very vague memories of being there. There are some photos of me being there, but honestly I can’t even recognize the kid in the photo that is supposedly me lol. I have an uncle from HK, he’s in the US now, just as with most of my relatives on the paternal side are also in the US. Me on the other hand was from mainland China. I still have relatives on the maternal side in mainland China, they’ve been on the US immigration waitlist for a decade now, and honestly, with current politics, they might never get approved lol. (And I’m not sure they want to come, they have better jobs than my parents ever did when they left… well see when the time comes. My cousins would probably exceed age 21 by then, so they can’t come with the aunts and uncles.)
The most I remember about HK is the 纜車 and 輕鐵. Also HK TV Shows are like 10x better than anything of the mainland stuff lol.
Me.
Also, my cat.
Maxfield Parrish’s use of color theory and it’s application in his glazed paintings made using most often (esp. for commercial works made for print) cyan, magenta, hansa yellow and lamp black pigments in a translucent medium.
That’s really specific
:O I’d follow you into battle.
Thata specific enough for you to be the best with no goddamn doubts in anyone’s mind.
If you ever get a chance to see any of his works in a gallery or museum… do it! The colors glow like nothing you’ve seen.
When I was little, I had an aunt that had one of the prints called Ecstasy - from 1929 - in her home.
Faded and of course stained (even though it was under glass) from the chain smoking she did.
It was one of her most cherished things, so I learned everything she knew about Parrish - she had an encyclopedic book on his technique which I read from cover to cover and as I got older, I tried my hand at glazing - a fierce technique of layering transparent and translucent color onto panel or canvas.
Each color separated by a clear coat so you look into the image, like stained glass, layers deep.
Years later, there was a comprehensive show of his pieces that came to the Currier Museum in New Hampshire (early 90’s IIRC) and I got tickets for myself and auntie…
I got to his most famous image - Daybreak - and the colors in it are beyond anything that any online photos show.
Not even the NY Lithographic Society that initially had rights to the image come close.
Pinks and magentas in the trees that frame the image that take your breath away. I stood in front of that painting for a good 15 minutes and have the colors burned into my mind.
At some point, if I can find a good enough high-res copy, I’m going to try my hand at doing a CMYK color separation of the image (with Photoshop or GIMP) and readjust to what it actually looks like. No one’s gotten it right. I’ve always been a bit of a colorist and zoom in on tint, tone and shade, so this challenge is one that hits my artistic monkeybone, big time.
I won’t even get into the landscapes of the New Hampshire winters and the evening light he recreated in those images. You can fall into them.
Definitely, again, if you ever get a chance to see a real Parrish… do it. It’s absolute magic.
Ah ha, my moment to brag about it:
90% of Lemmy are Westerners, I probably know about Chinese Languages than most here. (Except a few users like @[email protected], they probably know it better)
I can speak Cantonese and Mandarin and kinda understand Taishanese (台山話）(Taishan not Taiwan)
I can read basic Chinese characters, type Pinyin and Jyutping. Can’t write on paper tho, idk how to recall it from memory, but I can recognize it if someone else wrote it down.
(But don’t ask me to teach you lol, I only went to grade 2, not exactly a pro at it, I lack the vocabulary)
Btw: I watched some youtube videos about foreign visitors to China, and um… their tones are kinda off, like waayyy off. Even people who’ve been there for like 10 yeats still have the tones being kinda wrong. (Its very hard, probably impossible if you didn’t grow up used to the difference in tones.)
Ship systems such as radios, echosounders, transponders, etc
