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
My very specific niche in programming.
If you ask me about some very common things, I have no clue. JavaScript? More like JavaShit amirite? But if someone can explain OCI layers, describe the boot process of a RISC-V device as it leads U-boot and a Linux kernel, and talk about performance optimisations in modern Python… Well, my team is looking for more developers and this combination of skills seems impossible to find.
Skydiving
~4500 jumps that included; night jumps, competition 4-way and 8-way, a couple of record jumps (I was on the a team that set state records in 3 different states back in the day) , Demos into various stadiums, air shows and a couple of NASCAR races.
I might know a thing or two that the average Lemmy user has no idea about.
Neat - paraglider here, but I know zero things about skydiving. It does seem to be common though, from talking to PG instructors, that skydivers learning PG tend to be very heavy handed with the controls. Just remember smooth and light if you ever try it out. :)
Depending on the size of the canopy, there can be a fair amount of pressure required to pull a toggle. Tandem rigs, which have 500ft^2 mains are somewhat difficult to guide by one person. Most TM’s that I know require their passenger to help out. Not that they cannot be flown by one person, just that doing that 10 times a day wears a person out.
My personal mains: PD Spectre 150 and 135, and Sharp Chuter (used for demo jumping) all had very different toggle pressures. The Sharp Chuter being the heaviest. It was also 90ft^2 larger (240ft^2) than my Spectre 150. My 135 had almost negligible toggle pressure. The smallest canopy I’ve ever jumped was a Velocity 103 and that thing has almost no toggle pressure what so ever. Plus with such high wing loading made it down right twitchy. Personally I was never one for ultra high wing loadings. Having 40mph approach speeds to landing was never appealing even when I was young.
Also skydiving canopies are a LOT more square than a paraglider. While I could not explain the physics there, it seems to me that a thin wing would have lighter toggle pressures. Canopies that I’ve jumped that were more tapered seemed to have a lighter toggle pressure of equally sized non-tapered canopies. A paraglider canopy is extremely tapered compared to a skydiving chute.
Also, don’t you folks have 6 risers? While there have been 6 riser skydiving rigs, they are very uncommon. So each riser requires a lot more pressure to pull… I’m assuming paraglides do riser turns and other maneuvers with them.
There is a Paragliding club here where I live. Even met one when he landed at a local park when I was out walking. I currently have one kid in college and another going to be there in a couple of years, so it’s not going to be anytime soon, but I would love to try it out. I’d love to get back into the air. Skydiving is pretty much out, as I have a back injury that could be made really bad with a hard opening.
To make a short story long… Yeah, I can see a skydiver being ham fisted with a paraglider. A jumper with a lot of experience with very high wing loading (over 2.0 to 1) might not, but me? Yeah, I’d probably ham it up for the first few hours. It would be interesting to learn just how much skydiving canopy experience would translate. I’m sure some would, but definitely not all.
Cool - thanks for the details about your gear. Fun to learn about the other adjacent disciplines.
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Domestic abuse.
Edit: I’m a DA outreach worker and I’ve researched the field a lot
I’m sorry to hear that - I hope you’ve had the chance to heal from your experiences 💜
Thanks mate I’m a DA outreach worker I’ve studied it a lot and can bore people to tears for hours with it
It’s a very important subject to talk about and it’s awesome that you’ve dedicated yourself to doing that
That’s really nice of you thanks so much! Here is a fact for free… DA perps of course use coercive control to trap the victim. Cult leaders, terrorist cells, organised crime groups etc also use it but on a bigger, better resourced scale.
Sound design, mixing, and mastering audio.
Please prove me wrong, I’m so lonely.
How about mixing and mastering on tape? 👀
I hate working in the box
Never had the opportunity, but I love me some nice, warm, tape saturation
Computer programming.
Joking! There’s no way in hell that’s true around here. I’m pretty sure some of you guys could code The Matrix.
My specialist subject would probably be 90s UK Indie bands.
Propane and propane-related accessories
Locks especially high security ones like Medeco. I am the most knowledge person about them at the locksmith company I work at which easily puts me above the average Lemmy user.
I got a lockpicking set but I’m not that good. Every time I take a break, I can’t pick a lock anymore
Definitely a skill that decays quickly if you don’t practice it. I don’t do lockout calls so I always find I’m super rusty whenever I actually need to pick things for customers.
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.
very interesting areas of expertise! Any interesting stories you have? Organizing a festival is such a huge undertaking.
Festival organizing is obviously a lot of work, even for smaller festivals like we did (think a big tent with 1500 guests and a few artists and dj’s). Since most of the work is done beforehand, we usually had it quite chill on the festival days. So we always took our times, hung out backstage with the artists and always had a buffet going there. Most artists loved being with us, because usually they would just get an assigned dressing room and a stage time. We loved doing this, because we got to hang out with the artists. So, amateur tip; if you organize a festival, hire bar personnel for the festival day and have a good time.
We live in a tiny house in the forest.
my niche would probably be blue jay, chipmunk,and squirrel, behaviour. I spend a lot of time with a lot of forest animals. But those three consume about 80% of that time.
This is actually a pretty good one cause lemmy is pretty technical. I would say its flashlights for me and electrical engineering.
Another moth! What’s your favorite light? For me it’s the FW3A
My favourite is probably the convoy t series. Kinda the spiritual successor of the fwaa line for me. You can get them pretty cheap, they have nice options and performance and are moddable. Also i really like aa/14500 lights. They are just so neat. If its about “full size” anf not “fun size” lights then probably one of hanks 21700 lights would be my pick. They are still comfortable to carry and also provide pretty nice sustainable performance and some gimmicks as well.
My Lumintop EDC05 probably gets the most use, but I’m still a sucker for the Emisar D4
You see Hank is putting out a KR1AA later this month?
Haha no but I’ll have to check it out. My next flashlight will probably be LEP.
Check out the NlightD ones. Good bang for buck
I’m dumber than everyone here.
Wrong, I’m better than you at dummery
Whateva eyem way dummera thin yo
Hum, I’d say probably drawing technique. Since it feels like the majority of the lemmy denizens are still tech people, my skills are enough to be above average. Our artist community is growing, so I’m happy for that, and hoppefully it fills the fediverse with more OC! :)
Always appreciate your artistic contributions - can’t stress it enough :)
Are you self-taught or did you go to art school or something similar?
Thank you very much, dear mod. ( ꈍᴗꈍ) I did both sort of, I studied graphic design, and we had some traditional art training there. after I graduated I studied in the university of youtube haha I actually honed in my skills there.
