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  • How to get good at tying knots/ropes as a beginner? Should I buy a book, watch youtube videos, or join some type of outdoorsman club?

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  • I've never had use for it personally. It's good for securing the corner (and only the corner) of a tarp with a blown grommet. I can't think of much in the way of other uses. Makes for a super cool social media video though - I'm itching to try it out.

  • The Telepathy Tapes issued a copyright strike against Dave Farina (AKA Professor Dave Explains) debunking the podcast's claims about autistic children.

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  • Grifters gonna grift.

  • For those of you with a living room or multiple rooms; do you have a TV in your bedroom? Why or why not?

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  • My partner and I don't have ANY tv's.

    Neither of us are super into TV or film in a way that builds creativity or community (we don't critique the technical or artistic merits of pieces, and we aren't into anime or other genres where there's potential to build a community around a shared passion). When we turn on the TV, it's to turn off our brains. We decided to not build a shrine to turning off our brains.

    We have a laptop with a good screen and speakers that we use when we want to watch something together.

  • Circles less circle-y

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  • I checked belts, they're good.

    I'm wondering if there is enough of a weight difference between the old and new extruder to have fouled the configuration.

  • Circles less circle-y

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  • No, checked that and the period of the undulations is speed dependent

  • 3DPrinting @lemmy.world
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    Circles less circle-y

  • cats @lemmy.world
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    Stop annoying me - I'm trying to nap

  • Are you a principled person?

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  • We should be friends.

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  • I'm 90% sure this is a troll. Don't feed trolls.

  • How to get good at tying knots/ropes as a beginner? Should I buy a book, watch youtube videos, or join some type of outdoorsman club?

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  • animatedknots.com - amazing step by step on how to properly tie things. The downside is that there are a lot of knots that are either hyper specific or more decorative than anything. I climb and sail - both are knot-heavy. 95%of the time I use one of five or six knots/hitches. I'd focus on the utilitarian knots personally. These are the knots that can accomplish real stuff - but if you get them wrong, could be fatal in the wrong circumstances.

    • Simple overhand - great for keeping a loose end from flopping around, connecting two ropes (need long tails or a secondary knot to keep it from moving), or joining webbing (known as a water knot in this context)
    • bowline - great for tying around things like if you want to anchor something to a tree
    • figure 8 - the go-to for tying yourself into a rope when climbing. I rarely use it anywhere else as it's bulky and difficult to untie if loaded hard. A bowline can be used in its place for tying in, but the big advantage of the 8 is that it's easy to visually check. Every few years a miss-tied bowline kills a climber.
    • clove hitch - this one is super underrated. It looks like you just wrapped a rope around something but it self tightens thanks to the way the strands lie over each other. It's also super easy to adjust.
    • trucker hitch - it's really just a couple of overhand knots, but this one is my default for lashing down loads because you can get the rope super tight. This is how I tie my canoe down to the roof of the car.
    • fisherman knots - killer for connecting ropes - or making non-load-bearing adjustable loops (bracelets, necklaces), or tidying up loose ends.

    Bonus knots *alpine butterfly - gives you a load bearing loop in the middle of a rope without requiring access to the ends. An overhand on a bight also gives a loop, but the overhand can move when loaded. Alpine butterfly stays where you put it, looks cool, and is fun and easy to tie. *prussic - this hitch can slide along a rope when unloaded and then locks when you apply weight. This let's you move up or down a fixed line. A Texas Prussic involves one prussic attached to your harness and one free but with a foot loop. Hang on the harness prussic, slide the unloaded foot one up the rope. Stand up on the foot one (locks in place) and slide the unweighted harness loop up the rope, sit back down in your harness. Congrats, you just ascended 100mm up a rope. Rinse and repeat until you get to the top or reverse the process to go back down.

  • Suspect with bong built into his car dashboard is arrested for the 98th time after high speed chase

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  • But, but, I need a photo of this performance mod...

  • This chili oil is apparently very Calorie dense

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  • 60g of oil is 540 kcal-ish. The chili pepper is comparatively calorie free, so yea, 440kcal makes total sense.

    Is it the tsp that's throwing you off? I think there's a typo - 4 tbsp would be about 60g. 4tsp I would expect to be about 20g.

    I way prefer dealing in mass for cooking and baking personally...

  • I made a cute open-source App for learning Japanese, and it somehow won in Vercel's OSS Sponsorship Program

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  • Agreed

  • I made a cute open-source App for learning Japanese, and it somehow won in Vercel's OSS Sponsorship Program

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  • I literally just got back to Canada after a two week vacation in Japan and was looking for a good way to start learning Japanese - I'm stoked to give this a try!

  • For those who tried to enter the dating pool, how did it go?

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  • Went through a nasty breakup, hit the dating apps, had a few terrible dates and then started spending more time pursuing hobbies. Made friends through hobby groups (skiing and mountaineering in my case) and one of those friends has now been my partner for over a decade.

    Shared interest groups are the way to go IMO.

  • What artist have you recently started really listening to?

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  • Bob Vylan - like early Rage Against the Machine. Found out about them when they got banned from entry to the US - which is how I'm discovering most of my music these days.

  • Replacing Wooden Edges

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  • It's more expensive than SPF, but I spring for cedar - I built my planter boxes, garden beds, and patio furniture out of it. No staining required, zilch upkeep. I built a 3m x 1M raised bed planter several years ago and it's required zero upkeep so far. Ditto my patio set built five years ago.

  • Replacing Wooden Edges

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  • I way prefer the wood for what it's worth. I love weathered wood - it ages beautifully, lasts for years and years, and the environmental impact of cedar (assuming that's what it is) is far lower than concrete too.

    Concrete is the plastic of things that aren't plastic. Produced mostly with fossil fuels, huge GHG associated with production, and will sit as a lump of trash forever-ish once the next person decides they prefer a different look.

    Make your own decisions obviously - I'm aware that I'm particularly carbon footprint averse.

  • YSK that apart from not having a car and voting, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat.

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  • Perfect is the enemy of good only if you WAIT for perfect. I eat minimal meat, get my veggies from a local farm share, have solar panels, an EV that charges only off excess solar production, a heatpump, have re-insulated the attic, ditched the gas range for induction that runs off solar, etc. My footprint is less than anyone around me, but probably still way higher than your average individual living in the global south.

    I'm trying to hit net zero and once I hit it, I'll keep going because Canada (where I live) is rich and I want to continue to reduce my footprint (the dream is net negative in my life) because I'm privileged and have the resources to push harder. I make it a game - figure out what's my best opportunity to reduce my footprint, do it, move on to looking for the next thing I can do.

    Giving up (most) red meat and patting yourself on the back is severely minimizing what you COULD be doing. I'm a long, long way from perfect, and am exceedingly lucky to have the resources to play this game - but carbon reduction is a way of life, not a checkbox IMO.

  • Vibe coding in a nutshell

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  • But seriously, what IS vibe coding?

  • (Technology Connections) Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind [33:46]

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  • Legitimately one of my favourite YouTube channels. Tech deep dives (generally on extremely esoteric topics), sarcasm, and interesting insights.

  • Android @lemmy.world
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    ONE UI 7 - No audio on Android Auto after update

  • Games @lemmy.world
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    Steamdeck or....

  • cute dogs, cats, and other animals @lemmy.ml
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    The grueling life of a guide dog in training

  • aww @lemmy.world
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    The tough life of a guide dog in training

  • Buy Canadian @lemmy.ca
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    What can't you find a Made in Canada version of?

  • Watches @lemmy.ml
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    First from scratch build

  • Thunder App @lemmy.world
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    Send and respond to DM's?

  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    The US may be able to remotely disable F-35 aircraft

    www.defensemirror.com /news/39017/Germany_May_Refuse_F_35_Purchase_over____Emergency_Switch_____Consider_Eurofighter_Instead
  • cats @lemmy.world
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    Vet thinks my tiny terror has FIP

  • Do It Yourself @beehaw.org
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    Absurdly proud of terrible stitching

  • cats @lemmy.world
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    My partner's childhood chair has become a hot commodity...

  • aww @lemmy.world
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    Five weeks old and feeling fine AF

  • aww @lemmy.world
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    Six kittens and one tired mom

  • 3DPrinting @lemmy.world
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    Weird diagonal lines and ringing on Ankermake M5