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by jonah 6y ago
Where I grew up, the rural mail carriers drove their own vehicles. Ours drove his (Subaru wagon I think) from the middle of the bench seat - gas and brake with the left foot. Some others in the area imported RHD vehicles.
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by jonah 6y ago
I recently discovered Ronnie Dahl's YouTube channel. He covers offroading / overlanding / adventure vehicles from a variety of perspectives. Relevant to this, he has multiple videos about how to and not to upgrade a vehicle f
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Tandis (تندیس), a game about mathematical transformations by the maker of Engare(twitter.com)
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by jonah 6y ago
I just skimmed the article, but it doesn't seem to mention how chemicals commonly found in our lived environment act as endocrine disruptors and which studies are showing lead to obesity. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F
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by jonah 6y ago
Picture a Canadian who's spent his career doing technical (equipment repair) work in mining and other heavy industry. He has a pretty deep knowledge of many things though.
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by jonah 6y ago
Speaking of useful reviews, I'm a fan of AvE's BOLTRs[1]. Takes tools apart and analyses materials, construction, and estimated failure points. (Beware some NSFW language though.) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?l
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by jonah 6y ago
I've always liked Catholic writer G.K. Chesterton's take: “Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. Never drink when you are wretched without it, or you will be like the grey-faced gin-drinker in the slum;
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Kens: IBM “technology sample kit” from 1986(twitter.com)
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by jonah 6y ago
I've been using LunaSolCal for many years. It's a quite extensive ephemera. (iOS, Android, and Windows) https://www.vvse.com/products/en/lunasolcal.html
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by jonah 6y ago
The company is Santa Barbara Focalplane. They're right around the corner from FLIR and Seek Thermal is right down the street. Lots of amazing tech in this little town.
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by jonah 6y ago
We see this fairly often with our Search and Rescue "subjects". It's a combination of target fixation and that hope that this is just a rough patch and the trail will open up again "just around the corner". Just a c
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by jonah 6y ago
This is surprisingly common - a combination of target fixation and that hope that things will get better "just around the corner". People seem to be wired to push ahead instead of turn back and look for an easier route. I suppose
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The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans(otherhand.org)
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by jonah 6y ago
As a tale of people in over their heads, over reliance on maps, taking the wrong road and not knowing when to quit and turn back in the American Southwest (which then turns into an international situation and doesn't have closure for 1
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Shortwave radio in high frequency trading. (2018)(sniperinmahwah.wordpress.com)
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by jonah 6y ago
Utah has some good resources and is actively pushing preparedness to its citizens. http://bereadyutah.gov https://twitter.com/BeReadyUtah I wonder how much the focus preparedness in that state is due to the Morm
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by jonah 6y ago
Our local monitoring system consists of ADS-B receivers (Antenna > filters > SDR dongle > Raspberry Pi) on five mountain tops feeding into a local instance of Virtual Radar Server[1] which aggregates the data and provides a web fro
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by jonah 6y ago
A non-profit org I'm involved with expanded their facility and I got to plan and install a bunch of stuff before they closed up the walls. * Rack in a specially built wall recess. * PoE switch. * Cat 6 everywhere for network and IP pho
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by jonah 6y ago
A couple old photos I dug up off my social media accounts: https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/67766_15300271... https://scontent-lax3-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/e15/
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by jonah 6y ago
What a great man and what great storytelling. Thank you for sharing. I happen to have an Eisentraut ‘Limited’ of similar vintage. I bought it off of a retired aerospace engineer a decade ago. It's equipped with the same classic Campagn
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by jonah 6y ago
Sending you hugs
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by jonah 6y ago
Fantastic aesthetic for all their projects. Mil-industrial-retro-future.
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by jonah 6y ago
Have you looked into or tried any of the mineral-based sunscreens with zinc oxide or titanium dioxide?
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by jonah 6y ago
Aahh, yes, the German Tank Problem[1]. Also more complex than it would initially seem. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem
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by jonah 6y ago
Super rad. Anything to help people go places they otherwise wouldn't be able to. That being said, I'm kinda more partial to the adaptive mountain bikes like the Sport-ONs[1]. Two wheels in front, one powered wheel in back, and a m
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Get updates on Starlink news and service availability in your area(starlink.com)
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by jonah 6y ago
Here's a live AIS map of all the tankers off the port of Long Beach CA. https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/embed/zoom:14/centery:3...
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by jonah 6y ago
Yes. Or even disconnect them at the splitter near the ingress and terminate the splitter.
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by jonah 7y ago
There seem to be a few: https://austin.craigslist.org/search/fua?query=steelcase+lea... and https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/austin/search/?query=st... Look at other local sources as
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by jonah 7y ago
Steelcase Leap. I've had mine for maybe 17 years and it still works perfectly and looks good. I find it far more comfortable that those mesh chars like the Aeron (its main competitor back when I bought it). They also have fantastic war

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