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Re: Caterpillar offers phone with built-in FLIR camera

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Post by eimrine » Wed, Dec 07, 2022, 12:39 PM UTC

nils-m-holm wrote: post #229

TeMPOraL wrote: post #222

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Just reading this makes me sweat. Aren't hornets - and wasps, to a lesser degree - extremely territorial? How do you deal with one when it find its way inside you house? Not to mention, aren't hornets and wasps natural enemies? I imagine you didn't have the two set their nests near your terrace simultaneously ? I can intellectually process all the facts you wrote, but in my dealing with wasps and hornets, I find it h…

Yes, wasps are territorial, but this just means that they will defend their nests at all cost. As long as you do not rock their nest (or otherwise cause strong vibration) or stand directly in their flight path, you are safe. Different nests can be as close as a few meters and their inhabitants will mostly ignore each other. The hornets were about 7 or 8 meters away from the yellow jackets, and I have never seen them…

> European hornets are not aggressive at all, they are just big and loud.

Seems like you are talking about bombus, not vespa. The worst thing about hornets is that if one insect has bit you somewhere near their nest than you better run as fast as possible from that place because of pheromone mark.

Re: Caterpillar offers phone with built-in FLIR camera

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Post by pianosaurus » Wed, Dec 07, 2022, 12:58 PM UTC

thexa4 wrote: post #243

tsm wrote: post #225

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Hello, it's me, I have the same coffee problems as your wife. A few things that really helped, used in increasing order of desperation: 1. Buying a temperature-adjustable kettle and making coffee at 185° or so instead of boiling. Bonus: I think the coffee tastes better anyway. I recently moved and couldn't take my fancy kettle with me, so now I pour cold water into the boiling kettle until I guesstimate I'm at 185. I…

Instead of ice cubes you can also use frozen coffee cubes, it prevents dillution.

Or rocks. I have a set of mineral cubes in my freezer. I don't need them for coffee, since I like it scolding, but they are handy for other drinks I don't want to dilute.

Re: Caterpillar offers phone with built-in FLIR camera

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Post by zingplex » Wed, Dec 07, 2022, 1:13 PM UTC

TeMPOraL wrote: post #203

orbital-decay wrote: post #123

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Serious cooking books always focus on reproducibility and actual processes happening at certain temperatures in your food.

Any recommendations? Can't think of any such book owned by anyone I know. I often jest that cooking is just process chemistry, but done without proper tools and without caring about quality of the outcome.

Modernist Cuisine is one I highly recommend.

Re: Caterpillar offers phone with built-in FLIR camera

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Post by nils-m-holm » Wed, Dec 07, 2022, 1:25 PM UTC

eimrine wrote: post #261

nils-m-holm wrote: post #229

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Yes, wasps are territorial, but this just means that they will defend their nests at all cost. As long as you do not rock their nest (or otherwise cause strong vibration) or stand directly in their flight path, you are safe. Different nests can be as close as a few meters and their inhabitants will mostly ignore each other. The hornets were about 7 or 8 meters away from the yellow jackets, and I have never seen them…

> European hornets are not aggressive at all, they are just big and loud. Seems like you are talking about bombus, not vespa. The worst thing about hornets is that if one insect has bit you somewhere near their nest than you better run as fast as possible from that place because of pheromone mark.

I am talking about vespa crabro, the European hornet. All social wasps use pheromones to mark intruders. If you are being stung while close to a nest, yes, do walk away. That being said, I have been stung once (own mistake) while standing 2 meters away from a nest and nothing happened.

Re: Caterpillar offers phone with built-in FLIR camera

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Post by nils-m-holm » Wed, Dec 07, 2022, 1:30 PM UTC

winReInstall wrote: post #242

nils-m-holm wrote: post #229

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Yes, wasps are territorial, but this just means that they will defend their nests at all cost. As long as you do not rock their nest (or otherwise cause strong vibration) or stand directly in their flight path, you are safe. Different nests can be as close as a few meters and their inhabitants will mostly ignore each other. The hornets were about 7 or 8 meters away from the yellow jackets, and I have never seen them…

Nonsense, hornets eat yellow jackets as snacks.

Larger wasps prey on smaller wasps, but they can still coexist in close proximity. They do not spend the entire day with hunting.

Re: Caterpillar offers phone with built-in FLIR camera

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Post by MerelyMortal » Wed, Dec 07, 2022, 1:30 PM UTC

marginalia_nu wrote: post #190

shp0ngle wrote: post #137

I want to warn people that Cat phones are not “good phones” They are cheapo Chinese Android phones, with a gimmick. The gimmick can work for some people, sure. Didn’t work for me.

Depends what you want out of them I guess. I buy these because I want a phone that doesn't break easily. And CAT phones don't. It's slow, the camera is crap, the speaker is worse; but what sucks more is replacing the screen every couple of months because it breaks from a stiff breeze. I will drop my phone. It'll fall out of my pocket. I will sit on it. Sometimes it will land on a hard surface. It'll get wet. It'll ge…

I drop my phone a lot, but only the 9H glass screen protector has ever cracked, not the smartphone glass itself. I highly recommend just buying a 3 pack of screen protectors for $9 once a year.

Re: Caterpillar offers phone with built-in FLIR camera

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Post by mustyoshi » Wed, Dec 07, 2022, 1:33 PM UTC

throwaway85858 wrote: post #231

hnbad wrote: post #139

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Fun fact: in most of Germany this would have been a crime with a penalty of up to tens of thousands in EUR depending on the exact species.

This is not true. "in the last 5 years in NordRhein-Westfalen only once was someone fined 45 euros for destroying a wasps nest" https://correctiv.org/faktencheck/2018/07/24/nein-wer-eine-e... The fines for thousands of euros are the maximum possible fines, which massively differs to how fines are handed out in practice.

So they have a law on the books that isn't really enforced?

That's almost worse imo.

Re: Caterpillar offers phone with built-in FLIR camera

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Post by rascul » Wed, Dec 07, 2022, 1:38 PM UTC

nils-m-holm wrote: post #229

TeMPOraL wrote: post #222

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just reading this makes me sweat. Aren't hornets - and wasps, to a lesser degree - extremely territorial? How do you deal with one when it find its way inside you house? Not to mention, aren't hornets and wasps natural enemies? I imagine you didn't have the two set their nests near your terrace simultaneously ? I can intellectually process all the facts you wrote, but in my dealing with wasps and hornets, I find it h…

Yes, wasps are territorial, but this just means that they will defend their nests at all cost. As long as you do not rock their nest (or otherwise cause strong vibration) or stand directly in their flight path, you are safe. Different nests can be as close as a few meters and their inhabitants will mostly ignore each other. The hornets were about 7 or 8 meters away from the yellow jackets, and I have never seen them…

> Another fun fact: wasps will not spend much time around their nests. They usually leave the nest at high speed (do not stand there!) and then roam an area of multiple square kilometers. When they come back they immediately go back into the nest. Sometimes a single animal may inspect the closer area, but this is rare.

Not the wasps here. There's always a few wasps flying around the nests when I find them.

It also doesn't take much to aggravate them.

Re: Caterpillar offers phone with built-in FLIR camera

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Post by jonas-w » Wed, Dec 07, 2022, 1:47 PM UTC

Gatsky wrote: post #197

kejaed wrote: post #12

You can also consider buying a FLIR ONE accessory for your Android or iOS device https://www.flir.ca/flir-one/

How much do these go for?

The prices are on that page, from CAD$305 to CAD$689 depending on the model you want/need.

Re: Caterpillar offers phone with built-in FLIR camera

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Post by nils-m-holm » Wed, Dec 07, 2022, 1:48 PM UTC

rascul wrote: post #268

nils-m-holm wrote: post #229

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, wasps are territorial, but this just means that they will defend their nests at all cost. As long as you do not rock their nest (or otherwise cause strong vibration) or stand directly in their flight path, you are safe. Different nests can be as close as a few meters and their inhabitants will mostly ignore each other. The hornets were about 7 or 8 meters away from the yellow jackets, and I have never seen them…

> Another fun fact: wasps will not spend much time around their nests. They usually leave the nest at high speed (do not stand there!) and then roam an area of multiple square kilometers. When they come back they immediately go back into the nest. Sometimes a single animal may inspect the closer area, but this is rare. Not the wasps here. There's always a few wasps flying around the nests when I find them. It also do…

If you mean directly in front of the entrance, yes, there will always be a bunch of wasps waiting for their turn to get in. And, yes, do not get too close to that spot unless you know what you are doing. In particular: know their flight paths and do not stand there.