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  • Thanks, yes, I love to drive out into the middle of nowhere myself actually.

    In my job before last I invested in a a good amount of backwoods camping gear such as a good quality hatchet, ground mat, tarp, saw, hiking bag, maps, camp stove, and a few other things.

    I was able to go out for an overnighter shortly after I had purchased these things to test them, but then I was laid off from my job.

    I finally found work again and have not been able to go since, but some time in the near future when the weather is just a bit nicer, I intend to go where there are no other people and just spend about a week out there by myself. This is my type of escape.

    As far as actual roadtrips go, at some point I kind of want to do what no one I know has wanted to do, and actually drive north until I hit the arctic ocean. I don’t know why exactly, except that everyone always goes south or east or west. I think it would just be interesting because no one I have ever met has done it haha.



  • I am interested and am listening. If you want to speak to this more, I would be very glad to hear it. Feel free to answer as much or as little as you care to of course.

    Questions I have include:

    How do you live day to day, spend the hours, get food, hygiene, etc?

    What country are you in?

    What problems have you faced and what solutions have you found?

    Are there problems you face for which you do not know a good solution?

    What is a digital nomad in your definition?

    How much money did you have when you started this and how much do you have now?

    What is the best thing about it, and the worst thing about it?

    What mode of transportation do you use?

    Do you think it is sustainable?












  • An oil company which had an MS access DB and a form configured for it with no checks for formatting that would insert the fields of the form directly into the database, and then if they wanted to make a change, they would export the entire database as csv, open it in excel, make changes and use that to overwrite the entire database.

    This had been going on since some time in the 1990’s. They finally wanted to move to a modernized databasing/operations solution which is what my company does.

    I successfully cleaned 75% of that data, however it took 37 regular expressions and a script that was about 800 lines to account for every possible mis-entry, incorrect format, and merging fields if they were empty from newest records to oldest records until the fields were no longer empty where possible (essentially collapsing the records together to get as much data on each unique object which may have had N records over time through the database).

    It is UN-BELIEVABLE what actual businesses get away with.



  • They will pick whatever group they think will suddenly put as many idiots as possible under their control when they say “GROUP A IS BAD”.

    Most of them don’t care they are trans, they only care that they can take advantage of the oppression of a minority group in order to consolidate control over people so that they can oppress more people.

    When everyone alive and dead is either oppressed or under your control, you become god. This is the goal, but they don’t care about the process to get there.


  • They have called the internet a series of tubes which is true to a degree.

    Pneumatic tubes are still used in some places to send documents over a distance quickly.

    There are a few things that are core to sending and receiving data and it would pay to read up on some computer networking protocols, particularly those that are a part of the TCP/IP Suite of protocols.

    You want the data to be sent fast. A higher throughput means that more data can move in a shorter amount of time.

    Depending on the type of data, you may or may not want the data to be received in its entirety. TCP was designed for a post-nuclear war scenario in which the lines that carry the data might be spotty, so it insures that all data sent is eventually received even if every other packet of data is lost on the way.

    For real-time data, think live streams or video or voice call data, you dont necessarily care if one or two frames of a video get dropped on the way over because it is still good enough to understand what was sent. UDP works this way, basically firing the data down a line fast but not checking if each packet was received.

    You want the data to be sent securely. SSL/TLS makes it so that no one can spy on your packets of data when they are in transit.

    You want to make each packet of data dense with information. There are many ways this can be achieved, but a comparison would be something like making use of the back of a piece of paper as well as the front when writing a letter. In history, people would sometimes write letters normally, then if they needed more room, they would turn the paper 90 degrees and continue writing in that direction. The words are still readable even though they cross over other words on the page and it doubles the capacity of the data the piece of paper can hold. If you used the front and back of a page and used this method, you have multiplied the amount of data that you can store on the paper by 4.

    I might have further ideas for you that might be helpful, and if I think of more I will edit this comment, but because this is a world-building type of topic, I would invite you to post this question to a community I moderate, as I am sure some people there have thought this over.

    https://lemmy.ml/c/worldbuilding