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gsruffon Waverley, the last seagoing paddle steamer

This is a great video about the Waverley: https://youtu.be/wuBbnIdwOHA?si=cw9P7wQQ7jf0krmf

gsruffon Wine bricks saved the U.S. wine industry during Prohibition (2015)

I would recommend avoiding glass carboys for fermenting. They are heavy, especially when filled, difficult to clean with their narrow mouths, and quite dangerous if they shatter when you accidentally drop them. (They're easy to drop while you're cleaning them and they're wet and slippery.) There are numerous accounts on home brewing forums of trips to the emergency room because a glass carboy broke and injured someone.

PET plastic fermenters (Better Bottle, FermZilla, Fermonster, etc.) are much nicer to work with.

gsruffon New Zealand's bid to become a dark sky nation

My experience has been exactly the opposite. My neighborhood went from yellow, sodium lighting to stark white LEDs a few years ago. The result, to my eyes, is that the contrast between what is lit by the street lights and surrounding dark areas is much higher. Perhaps what is needed is better diffusion onto the ground.

gsruffon Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used?

Do you know if this can be purchased in the US?

gsruffon Backblaze Hard Drive Stats

Their systems are fault tolerant... I found more information on their storage architecture here: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/vault-cloud-storage-architect...

[edited to sound less snarky]

gsruffon Ceramics enter a new era with laser-welded joints

Link to the actual paper: https://sci-hub.tw/downloads/2019-08-22/85/10.1126@science.a...

gsruffon Cool but obscure X11 tools

http://ftp6.us.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/ports/distfil...

gsruffon Cool but obscure X11 tools

This reminded me of xjump, a very addictive falling tower game where you must continue to jump to the next highest platform as the lower platforms collapse beneath you.

https://linuxx.info/xjump/

https://github.com/hugomg/xjump

gsruffon Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?

1. I used a Raspberry Pi Zero W to flash Coreboot onto my Lenovo X200.

2. I have a 3 B+ running RetroPie.

3. I use a model 1 with USB Wi-Fi adapter as a wireless print server for an old LaserJet printer.

gsruffon Ask HN: Where can I do a self-study math degree online?

There are quite a few posts about this on HN, including this one 11 days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19811715

gsruffon OpenBSD 6.5

Not sure if this helps, but OpenBSD does have vmm/vmd. Some have reported success running Docker within a Linux guest. https://medium.com/@dave_voutila/docker-on-openbsd-6-1-curre...

gsruffon The NetHack dev team is happy to announce the release of NetHack 3.6.1

This playlist with a new player being led by an experienced player was very helpful for me when I was learning to play. Still haven't ascended, but what an addictive game.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHzN3MktVPzVdFNz7WYwG...