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They say you can see the stars better out at sea, but it's harder to steady the telescope.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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You also need a name for the boat.
Have you considered Boaty McBoatface?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Used to own a small yacht. Was fine when we lived somewhere you could sail most states of the tide, but when we moved to a harbour where the sea was less accessible it became "1. A hole in the water you pour money into."
Unless you really do plan to either sail/motor on rivers or lakes, and almost every day, just hire as needed: it will save you an absolute fortune.
I reckon that in out last year we made maybe four trips in total, all lasting much less than a day, and each one cost us well over £1000! Never mind all the time spent maintaining and cleaning etc - and that was on a fibre-glass vessel. Much worse if you have any wood (at all).
If you really love boating then fine, but if it has to be fitted in around work etc, just hire!
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Mike Winiberg wrote: if it has to be fitted in around work
That's the best thing, I have 6 months holiday a year, and live in the sun kissed south east Mediterranean, so available time and weather in our favour.
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Good!
If you have the time available then boating can be as uplifting an activity as anything, but if you don't it is just a money sink...
They say that the best two days of owning a boat are the day you buy it and the day you sell it. 8)
That wasn't entirely true for us, but pretty close nevertheless!
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They say you have two great days with boat ownership:
The day you buy it, and the day you sell it!
Joking apart, given your location, why not buy a sailing dinghy and learn to sail? It's reasonably easy to grasp the basics after which it's a skill you can improve at for a lifetime. And keeps you fitter than you might expect (depending on how high performance the boat is)
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BOAT - Bring On Another Thousand.
Lived on a sailboat for 12 years and I can testify that is a true statement.
Fair winds bub.
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For that content, I recommend www.yachtforums.com
There are a number of experts there who can give very good answers to all kinds of questions about Yachts.
One thing I should caution you on, is go small at first. Most people who buy boats end up leaving them at anchor most of the year and that still costs you money in the long run. Learn how to keep your costs down first (while maintaining safety) 
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I believe it was an ex president who said "If it floats, if it flies, if it F^&&cks, rent it.
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cavilling faction captures joint (9)
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Ok we give up 
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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To avoid an "Oi!", I decided to post it a little early. 
I will try to post it at 11:30 BST. I'm almost always up by then and will hold off so that the time is more predictable.
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Very early - it's still only 2021 in Wales ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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We'll be asleep by then
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Greg Utas wrote: Turnabout is fair play!
How many letters?
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It will be 9, so start up your SQL and favourite dictionary dump. 
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So what is the clue ?
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I can see Turnabout is fair play! in one post and nine letters in another it's like a treasure hunt before you even start on the clue
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I try to avoid web work. It's just not my cup of tea. I don't like duck typing. I don't like scripting. I don't really like markup - it's too much typing.
But now I'm faced with the daunting task of shoehorning a "good enough" CSS processor onto an ESP32.
The trouble is, I don't know what constitutes good enough and the internet isn't giving up the goods on that where epubs are concerned.
The trouble is this - EPUB readers are typically running on relatively "fat", android capable devices and use a webkit browser component to display content.
I can't run webkit. I just can't. It's just not going to happen in the RAM and CPU that I have.
So far, I 've gotten away with wedging everything into a 512kB system (with 200kB reserved for the system) by streaming content directly from flash wherever possible rather than using RAM. I have 4MB of NVS flash for program and data, so I lean on it.
Streaming works great when you can do it but CSS presents a challenge.
CSS Selectors Reference - this is my Everest[^]
1. Clearly, I have to load the entire CSS content into some sort of hopefully compact, normalized data structures. I won't be able to stream because of the number of times I'd have to reparse from the beginning to implement the selection.
2. Aside from the selector challenges I have the issue of styles overriding other styles (for example if you have both class and style attributes. That means maybe? a stack of hashtables. I'm not sure if I can afford that?
3. I can't find a working subset of CSS that EPUB routinely expects, I think because everything just uses webkit. That means even if I solve 1 and 2, I have to ... i don't know, somehow figure out what subset of CSS I can reasonably get away with supporting, because supporting it all just isn't going to happen on a device like this.
4. This is where I wish I was a web developer. I don't know what most of these style attributes do. I don't understand the CSS box model. I don't know for example, why you might use padding instead of margins aside from being able to venture a guess. Every single thing I have to support I'm going to have to learn first.
This is daunting. By the time I'm done I suppose if I still have any of my sanity left I could expend it on doing web development for people, because after this I'll be a CSS and HTML expert. 
Real programmers use butterflies
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Margins are the space between elements, padding is the space within an element.
So you might have two label elements with different fonts using a margin to give them some horizontally separation, and vertical padding to, say, shift them vertically because you want them horizontal-center-aligned.
Of course, the nightmare that I always encounter is that not all style attributes work the same for elements, like centering and text alignment I think, which have sometimes, and sometimes not, to be handled by an outer div.
CSS is a nightmare. I doubt you'll have any sanity left. 
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That's why the middle "S" stands for "SNAFU" ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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If I granted your wish, I'd probably be looking for a job in a boys' choir. 
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