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?
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.
Anything remotely rural. It makes sense that Lemmy would be mostly city-dwellers, but I still manage to be surprised by the gap.
Plumbing, since I’ve been a professional plumber in both North America and Europe. Not the most interesting knowledge base but alas, it is what it is. Other than that, Age of Empires II maybe?
Using sex toys anally/anal sex toys
My record is a 9 inch circumference
Have you ever tried a jar
Nope, definitely not safe. Honestly I just stay away from glass toys entirely. Silicone plugs are a lot nicer anyways.
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.
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
honestly, i know a little about many things so i don’t really know. i guess uh, when it comes to skill, i can definitely draw better than the average lemmy user, and i know some theory as well.
A Jack(athie) of all trades. Nice!
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.
Propane and propane-related accessories
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 cat’s thought process. I can tell when she’s getting annoyed or when she wants to randomly barf. It’s like a spidey sense.
Cats, particularly kittens. I do a whole lot of fostering, particularly with very young and/or sick kittens. At this very moment, I have 16 fosters from 4 different litters.
Guitar, maybe. Definitely Pokemon breeding.
Pokémon breeding
Alright then bud, tell me about the genitals of the following Pokémon:
- Magnemite
- Muk
- Haunter
- Ditto
- Porygon
Describe the location, means of genetic exchange and palatation of fluids (if applicable)
Look, you want the trade secrets then you put in the work, you’ve got to earn this kind of information. You come down and put in some work at the ranch and you’ll find your answers.
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
