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  • You will need a barrel, a rope and a pulley on a pole. Oh and something to make holes in a barrel with.

    To compile:

    • rope the barrel and lay the rest of the rope over the pulley
    • drive the pole into the ground next to your desired source of water
    • optionally, keep the barrel’s lid openable
    • make holes in the barrel in a convenient position, such that the holes will face downwards when you eventually mast the barrel

    To charge:

    • Set the barrel in the water source and wait until the barrel is full of water (optionally open the lid at this point)
    • If you optionally opened the lid before, then mandatorily close the lid, now
    • Pull the rope from the other side of the pulley such that the barrel goes up
    • Let the water pour from the barrel and have fun with the shower





  • For anyone whose magnet related memories are not filled with various line illustrations of the forces, that’s probably it.

    And even though my head is full of those illustrations, I don’t seem to understand how the iron fillings and ferrofluids make the shapes they do instead of just sticking to the magnet. And I am too lazy to do the maths to make myself understand.





  • Not really.

    They are just getting rid of any and every liberty that any reasonable society would provide.

    Not the rights though. We never had such rights. We just didn’t realise those were needed to be written down because others didn’t violate those expectations.


    Even in an anarchy, without any written rights, we would have those liberties, given a reasonable society. Just not here.







  • Yeah, one big problem of man I found was the severe lack of explanation of what the command is mainly intended to do. It’s as if the user is expected to run the man after knowing what purpose a specific program exists for, which, I guess is what it is intended for. I tend to rely on the package manager’s information and other similar sources for that information and man mainly for determining the exact usage.

    I don’t at all expect man to be useful for someone who can just follow written instructions.
    The reason being than man is just supposed to tell the user, what typy stuff needs to be done for specific functionality. And most programs tend to be doing some small thingy and not fulfilling the user’s whole requirement in one go.
    Meaning, to be happy with just man, one needs to be able to create a solution for themselves by properly fitting little parts and that is already more than half way to being able to do programming.

    Your man -a intro example and what followed, made me more confused than before of what you were trying to say, so I am just trying to go with the feel of it for now.

    Maybe knowing that you can use / and then whatever string of text to find something in the man page (because it uses less to paginate the output) would be useful for some of what you said. So you can do /-a and press Enter to start searching for “-a”. And the reason for it being so far is because it is in the “OPTIONS” section.

    I now feel like someone who reads a lot of legal documents would be fine with man pages. Was this format made by someone in that field?