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by jonah 3y ago
That could definitely be an issue. However with Project Lifesaver, someone comes by once a month and changes out the button cell for you!
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by jonah 3y ago
https://projectlifesaver.org/ Is the current tech. It's deployed and it works. Would a gps/cel enabled device be easier? Yes, but it'll be bigger and require more power too.
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by jonah 3y ago
Don't have time for a detailed comment but suffice it to say that I've participated in multiple successful finds using this technology. ABOUT PROJECT LIFESAVER Project Lifesaver is the premier search and rescue program operated in
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by jonah 3y ago
Here's the one good historical recording that is widely available (From 1935) https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/peterson-field-guide-to-bi... If you have any interest in birds or bioacustics or ML or such not, learning
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by jonah 3y ago
They do have photos - read the paper - but they're not high-quality enough to positively identify the woodpecker alone.
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by jonah 3y ago
I've very recently become involved with monitoring a threatened bird species on the West coast. After about a dozen visits to areas where they have been positively identified in the past few years and using active measures to attract a
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by jonah 3y ago
The audio recordings they captured are pretty compelling to me as someone with a bit of interest in and experience with id-ing birds by sound.
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‘This is our drug, we have to chase it’: extreme new sport takes root in SF Bay(sfchronicle.com)
3 points by jonah 3y ago|0 comments
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by jonah 4y ago
One time when I swore around my grandfather he said: "vulgarity is the poverty of language." It has stuck with me as a reminder that you should be able to express your thoughts on whatever is going on with wisdom and nuance. (IMHO
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by jonah 4y ago
Here's an article from 2021 about the current state of the place: https://www.petersen.org/blog/cadillac-ranch
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by jonah 4y ago
I realized it was nearby as I was stopping for gas on a 7,500 mile road trip in the summer of 2021 and so stopped by. I spent quite a while there photographing the installation as well as the other people visiting it. Corn was planted in th
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Amazon Smart Air Quality Monitor(amazon.com)
3 points by jonah 4y ago|0 comments
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by jonah 4y ago
I read this series and some of Mahood's other writings just as I was getting into Search and Rescue myself and it was quite inspiring. I've been on a few extended searches and there's a lot of thought and research that goes i
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by jonah 4y ago
I just found out about a mesh wisp in northern California. I don't know anything about their tech stack but they claim to be all open source and might be something worth digging into. https://furtherreach.net http:/&#
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by jonah 4y ago
An Altoids or other metal mint tin would be a small, readily available and, non-flammable alternative.
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by jonah 4y ago
How would this unit be calibrated? It seems that wear an aging on the motors and potentiometers would change their characteristics slightly over time.
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by jonah 4y ago
Some thoughts in the few minutes I have at the moment. From my past 5 years being involved with a specialized volunteer group: * Ensure that your volunteers can see direct positive results of their work. (Throwing your effort into a black h
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by jonah 4y ago
From my experience, volunteering directly helping people has been highly rewarding. Ideally, find somewhere you can volunteer the specific skills or interests you have to help people who otherwise wouldn't benefit from what you can bri
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by jonah 4y ago
Did you know that the actual, original, F.lux works with Philips Hue! https://justgetflux.com/lighting/
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by jonah 4y ago
I just finished a four day (in-person) course entitled Advanced Direction and Control of the Search Function put on by the California Office of Emergency Services (CalOES). It is intended for Search and Rescue team members - both volunteers
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by jonah 4y ago
Google had an app called MyTracks[1] a while ago which was a very nice and simple way to have an offline google map and record your tracks. They deprecated and open-sourced it. Apparently, it's living on as OpenTracks[2]. [1] https:&#
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by jonah 4y ago
Nice! We use CalTopo.com (Works everywhere, not just California) and GaiaGPS.com for offline mapping and track recording. Both allow offline use after downloading map tiles. CalTopo allows you to add lines and markers and polygons to your m
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by jonah 4y ago
Sadly it appears that they are no longer surfacing that statistic. We will never know how many goats an M2 MPB can teleport...
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by jonah 4y ago
I could have possibly milked it for a couple weeks, but that was about it. (And, yes, I wouldn't have felt good about drawing a paycheck when there was no office to show up at or product to work on.)
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by jonah 4y ago
Happened to me to a minor degree. After a couple years at the first company I worked for, a number of very senior folks resigned - decimating a department which was a key part of the co's DNA. I transferred into that department - worki
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by jonah 4y ago
If you look around, you can find photos of them being shown off around Ukraine https://twitter.com/search?q=snipex%20alligator&src=typed_qu...
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by jonah 4y ago
You might also appreciate Smarter Every Day's Supersonic Baseball Cannon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqidD7kVnxY (There are several videos in the series.)
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Snipex Alligator – 14.5 × 114 mm manual-loading repeating antimateriel rifle(snipex.com)
1 points by jonah 4y ago|0 comments
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Ukraine’s Snipex Alligator Sniper Rifle Is a Real Beast(popularmechanics.com)
4 points by jonah 4y ago|0 comments
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by jonah 4y ago
This reminds me about the Ukrainian Snipex Alligator sniper rifle I read about recently. It uses 14.5-millimeter heavy machine gun rounds and it's claimed to be able to penetrate 10mm steel armor at 1,500 meters. https://www

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