The things is, if you try to parse html with a regex, you will always be able to construct valid html that will break it, no matter how complex your regex becomes.

I'm a big fan of amateur radio, specifically portable operation, and Parks on the Air.

I'll take my radio out to a remote location, throw an antenna up into some trees, and talk to people all over the US.

Currently I need mains power, but I'm looking to buy a battery soon, and I already have some solar panels gifted from a club member.

I live in Michigan, and last time I was out, my most distant contacts were in Dallas, Texas, around 1100 miles away, while I was sitting at a picnic table at my local state park campground.

Hahaha, I had no clue about the shells.

He doesn't know how to use the three seashells!

How to keep house while drowning by KC Davis: how it's not morally wrong to have a messy living space, and how to keep it livable even when you feel like you're overwhelmed.

I have ADHD and depression, this book was pivotal in helping me get out of the stereotypical "depression apartment" situation.

As someone who used to troubleshoot an extremely complex system for my day job, I can say I've worked my way across the entire bell curve.

We met on OkCupid. We were on opposite sides of the Atlantic, but she had a friend on this side, and they were comparing the "weird" profiles they were each finding. OkCupid has a "if you liked this person, you might like these more" section, and I appeared in there. She wasn't really looking to date anyone, but she clicked, messaged me, and we clicked. I moved to the US to be with her after a two-year long distance relationship, and we'll be celebrating our ten year wedding anniversary next year.

Did anyone else read that to "The Distance" by Cake?

You can check out any time you like
But you can never leave

On the internet, no one can tell you're a duck.

Python or Perl. IIRC, I've seen systems with a Perl install by default, but not Python.

I was going to suggest The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, after all, they will already have a towel.

It reduces the turbulence at the trailing edge, reducing noise. Bernouli's principle dictates that part of the force on the blade is due to the airflow on each side moving at different speeds, if the crashed into each other all at once, you'd get a lot of turbulence, and hence noise. The serrations ensure that the two flows meet over a longer distance, reducing said turbulence.

Putting the punctuation outside the quotes (or parentheses) when the quote is only part of a sentence. I.e. He said "I need to go now".

I'm currently in a production support role in the US, and I'd never consider it: I work too closely with production operatives that they'd smell it on me. My last couple of role involved programming automated forklifts, so it was strictly forbidden.

Ten years ago I was doing an internship an engineering firm in the UK, and a few times we went out for a beer with lunch. It wasn't exactly common, but it did happen.

Brian May would be a good bet with his PhD in Astrophysics.

Did you know that XLR is also something of a standard for interchangeable sex machine attachments?

I have UK and US dual citizenship (I was born in the UK and married an American, naturalized about a year ago).

Advantages:

• Easier entry into both countries, and countries with appropriate treaties with one or the other. This is somewhat important to me under the current US administration.
• Will allow my wife to get UK citizenship more easily should she want to.
• I can vote in elections in both countries. Also important with the current US administration.

Disadvantages:

• US citizens have to file/pay taxes no matter where in the world they live. I believe the US is the only country that does that - although this does apply to all American citizens, regardless of dual citizenship; I only mention it because dual citizens can more easily move out of the US.
• I need to keep track of two passports, especially when traveling, although I only need to show one at a time.

It's definitely great in theory until you inherit a codebase with no tests, poor documentation, and numerous reported bugs already live in production. Even better if it was written by people hired because they could do other things better than they could code - which looking at some of the unlabeled wiring messes we were left, isn't saying a lot.

There's also !amateur_radio@lemmy.radio which is reasonably active.