Ask Lemmy

Education: Specifically how to work with and teach people with special needs.

My hometown: History, legends and geography.

Diving: A lot about physiology, gases, underwater species.

Unimportant fun facts: No idea why but I tend to remember all the useless stuff i read

MRP, MPS, and PLM, especially when related to engineer to order products

Ecological restoration of salt marsh and CSS habitats

Ocean kayak touring

Maybe coffee. I actually roasted an interesting batch yesterday that I'm looking forward to tasting 🙂

Maybe guns too. I kinda lost interest in them years ago, so my knowledge/experience is pretty dated. I worked for a gun dealer for many years though. If you're like a technical-brained nerd like me, guns can become a fascinating rabbit hole if you spend enough time around them. I knew almost nothing about them before getting that job.

Also, maybe whisk(e)y. There's so much to learn and explore in the world of whiskies. I used to enjoy touring distilleries when traveling. Some of them have such long, interesting history. And some of the newer distilleries get pretty creative.

Fun fact: There's an heirloom corn species that was saved from extinction by a bourbon distillery. It's a very interesting bourbon! "Jimmy Red," IIRC.

Sadly, my pancreas suddenly decided that I had to stop partaking in one major part of that hobby: tasting. I miss it.

Biochemistry — specifically protein structure. It's so cool.

My favourite protein is Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP). It was first extracted from a jellyfish, and it's super useful in research. The middle bit is the bit responsible for the coloured glow, and the rest of it (the barrel type structure) is basically just to stop the emitted energy from being immediately absorbed by the solvent.

If anyone wants me to nerd out more about proteins, hit me up.

Anything remotely rural. It makes sense that Lemmy would be mostly city-dwellers, but I still manage to be surprised by the gap.

More than the average? Well many things. Home improvement, plumbing, photography, finances, philosophy, mountain biking, evolutionary psychology, woodworking, flashlights ..

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.

Marine life in the area I live ( On an Island, within a nature preserve in Puget Sound). My wife also works for the State Parks. Her office overlooks the Sound & the days it isn’t too cloudy, she can’t see Russia but she can see Canada (Vancouver Island). Have also lived in the PNW for nearly forty years.

Also the history of pro wrestling in the Memphis Mid South territory. Grew up a die hard fan watching live in studio throughout the 70’s & 80’s before relocating to the Seattle area in the mid 80’s.

I feel arrogant enough to make a damn list. But I'll just say cricket today since I'm apparently one of maybe 5 people into the sport lol.

Also just mughal art and history. Thats a specific era.

Sufi music maybe. Theres one other person on Lemmy that ive met who knows Sufi music.

Nike's financial situation and their history of unethical practice's. My thesis.

There's probably much more experienced accountants here but I'm definetely better than average atleast.

Football and chess I've gotta be in the top percentile too. I mean I'm 93rd percentile on chess.com, so probably 97 on Lemmy. Especially the history of laliga in football.

I bet everyone has like 20 things atleast woth how small Lemmy is.

An enormous number of areas. The average

well, median, but assuming a vaguely-symmetric distribution, mean and median are close enough, and OP probably means median anyway

of any group has about half of the population knowing more than the average. This is going to mean that a randomly-chosen user probably has something like a 50% chance of knowing more than the average for any topic you could name.

As of this writing, most people commenting are listing things that they could maybe call themselves subject matter experts in, like, top-sub-0.1% or something like that. That's a much higher bar.

Fandoms here are scarce so I'm gonna go and say I probably know more about Five Nights at Freddy's than the average Lemmy user

Insurance mathematics and Swiss Insurance Regulations, baby (bet you're all jealous now).

Also, learning German as an adult.

I really need some better hobbies

Probably a decent amount of music stuff.

I used to play piano at an ARCT level, and used to be pretty knowledgeable about theory and music history but I’ve forgotten a lot of it now. I haven’t practiced or studied since COVID hit so unfortunately a lot of it is gone now.

The music that I listen to, I have basically an encyclopedic knowledge of. I know when they were born or when the band formed, when each of their albums came out, and generally know a lot of trivia about them.

I collect records and have been learning a lot about record players and audio equipment over the last couple years. Not as good as an audio engineer but better than the average lemming I’d say.

I used to do classical music composition pre-COVID. Again, probably not as good at it anymore, but I got quite good for a while. My music instructor at the time said I was the most impressive composer he ever taught. I’m still sorta riding that high from 2019. Very unfortunately, I had all that stored offline on a hard drive with no backup, and I’m sure you can guess what happened next. Since then I’ve been dissuaded from composing.

I used to help teach and tutor music courses when I was in school. I was basically the music teacher’s pet, and this was at a music school. The music teacher in question happened to be the head of music at that school too (there were several music teachers at that school).

A friend of mine, who was also into music and knew a lot of music students, once told me I was the only person he’s ever met that should’ve absolutely done a degree in music. This was at a time where he had a strong opinion that you should only go to school for a “real” degree that pays well afterwards. He’s since changed his opinion, but it was a big deal for him to say that to me at the time.

The worst part of all this is my severe AuDHD meant that as soon as COVID hit and I paused music courses and lessons, I couldn’t get myself to continue. Now I live in a place too small for a piano so I can’t practice unless I visit my parents or in-laws, and I have different hyper-focuses now, instead of theory. I wish I could change my brain sometimes.

Making video games. The shit people write here about game dev is ridiculous, they will even argue with you when they are completely wrong. In general people on the internet are way out of their lane when they talk about game dev.

1. People.
2. Abrahamic monotheism.
3. Divinity Original Sin 2: Definitive Edition w/ Epic Encounters

Maybe audio engineering but idk

I'm not a speech therapist but I did train myself out of a lisp in grade 6. Does that count?

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?

All of my skills and knowledge focus on the things that draw most lemmy users here and the ones who stand out from the norm have frequently proven themselves to be smarter than I in various ways, so ... Not much.

Animal Crossing.

I've only been playing the newest one for about a year (New Horizons, on the Switch), but since I've come to Lemmy a couple months ago, I've followed all of the AC communities I could find. None of them are active. Therefore, I can surmise that no one on Lemmy cares enough about AC to talk about it, so it's a fair guess at least, that I know more about the game and its inner workings than the average Lemmy user.

I could say that about any number of fandoms I've been in that do not have a home on Lemmy. The band ONE OK ROCK for instance. Or the anime series Sword Art Online. Sure, there may be a few Lemmy users who know a thing or two, maybe more than I do, but people aren't coming together to talk about these things. Their interests lie elsewhere.

Martial arts, probably not Linux.

Probably volleyball. I'm not an expert, but I did play and I feel like most of you don't know anything about it. I'm sure there are exceptions.

Maths. There are at least a few of us though.

Bread baking might also be a contender, based on recent data.

So cool meeting someone in the CSD field! I did my undergrad in CSD, but went for audiology. I have my AuD and am finishing up a PhD (I also did a MS in neuro, but that was because the classes mostly lined up with the PhD and the tuition was free). I swear, finding people outside of tech on lemmy is rare. Finding someone inside of CSD is even more rare. Now I'm curious if I am going to find any other audiology people...

TCP congestion control

Fire doors, I watched deviant ollams crash course video on it. Highly reccomend, but most people dont know much about them.

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.

Team Fortress classic.

Hepatitis B. Microbiology and virology in general but Hepatitis B was a really significant interest of mine.

Guns for sure. I'm a very amateur gunsmith and love ordering crappy used guns online and fixing them up. Stretches the limits of my mechanical, restoration and craft abilities.

Lithium ion batteries. Especially when they catch fire and how to put them out.

Broadcast tv, radio, the technical side of video restoration. Audio engineering , Acoustics, and music as a whole industry.

IT security in general. I have a very broad knowledge and am specifically knowledgeable in a few of the specialty fields. Have been doing nothing else for 15 years. Linux about 20 years. Been a dad of three for about 10 years now.