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
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 @Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world).
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.
Sounds fun! Well deserved for all the effort that goes into it.
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.
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.
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.
That’s so cool! I wish there were more artistic jobs people can express themselves in.
It’s a skill to know how to teach yourself, I feel like. :) It’s obviously good to get an official education but to know what you need in addition to that is a skill in itself
It is a good skill and has served me well! Hey, and since you are still a student, I wanted to thank you for mantaining our very small, niche community here on lemmy :D ,you must be very busy with school and still you make space for it. I appreciate it.
That’s so nice of you, thank you - doing my best :) I’m in my last year of school, so I’ll only be having less and less time to post content, but I’ll still try my best.
I have 2h of commuting everyday - that’s when I usually post stuff if I’m not at home :D
The end of my studies is in sight, fortunately ✨
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.
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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.
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.
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 @NorthWestWind@lemmy.world, 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.)
Good brag👍
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.
Ship systems such as radios, echosounders, transponders, etc. (AMA, I guess, if you so wish)
favorite obscure ship system?
HF Telex
Propane and propane-related accessories
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.
