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Post by essentialfloss »

ljf wrote: post #289
jstrong wrote: post #129

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I love stories about smiting wasps

I dislike wasps - BUT the good thing if you find a nest, is the knowledge that they will never return to a nest the following year - so the next actually becomes something that will help prevent future wasp infestations. When we bought our last house I changed a light fitting and live wasps poured out - I was freaked out, and put the fitting straight back. A few days later I went into the attic to put some boxes up t…

There has been a wasp nest inside a tree in my yard for 5 years.

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Post by nl »

fijiaarone wrote: post #106
rippercushions wrote: post #76

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No, it really isn't, and it's mildly obnoxious to people living in the southern hemisphere (or the tropics, for that matter) when people assume spring = Q2. Mildly because we're used to it, but it's not hard to avoid. And for better or worse, the Gregorian calendar is the universal civil system now, even in the countries like Saudi Arabia that notionally use other calendars. Even Korean Juche years, Japanese imperial…

All the people who live in the southern hemisphere live in the tropics or subtropics. Spring has no more meaning in Melbourne than it does in Mexico City.

This is only correct if you round to the nearest billion people.

Around 250 million people live south of the Tropic of Capricorn: https://www.quora.com/What-proportion-of-the-worlds-populati...

That would be roughly the 5th most populous country in the world.

If we are making generalisations that big we might as well say that no one lives in the United States (population 330M, but rounded to the nearest billion it is zero right?)

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Post by hnbad »

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 what I said is true. "Up to" does not say anything about the typical amount.

Your fact check article is also only partially relevant as it addresses the sensationalist claim that these fines apply to killing a wasp but the conversation was about a wasps nest.

The article also states that these maximum fines exist but that even the very low fines that have been handed out only happen very rarely. In other words: the laws exist but they're applied so rarely as to be effectively meaningless (which is true not just for wasps but for animal cruelty in general). That doesn't disagree with what I said though.

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Post by JakobH »

biztos wrote: post #165
romanovcode wrote: post #145

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Why are wasps protected in Germany? I understand bees, but what good are wasps for?

Without the wasps crawling into the sugar dispensers at every single outdoor café in Germany all summer long, people would eat the sugar and create a diabetes epidemic. At least that was my impression in Berlin; wasps got all the sugar, Berliners stayed pretty thin for the most part.

Sounds like i need more wasps in my house!

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Post by merry_flame »

wlll wrote: post #286
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…

> directly in their flight path My experience of sitting outside in the summer (modulo NW England) is that their flight path covers getting close to 100% of the airspace in my garden. Though I'm sure there are other varieties I've only ever seen one type of wasp in the UK, and that's this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowjacket , and my experience of them is that they are irritating and aggressive bastards. I…

Is there perhaps something related to smell or movement? The only time I got stung by a yellowjacket is when I pulled a Miyamato Musashi and caught one with some chopsticks. I got two deserved stings out of the experience, but yellowjackets have treated me well since. I've observed that though yellowjackets might want to land on people and investigate a while, they're soon gone as long as there's no beer involved. I just semi-freeze for a few seconds and let them do their thing. Obviously a bit uncomfortable when they land on the face or neck, but the only people I know who seem to have been stung as adults are those that are clearly panicky around wasps. I'd go so far as to qualify them as placid. Horseflies are aggressive and another beast altogether...

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Post by LWIRVoltage »

SpelingBeeChamp wrote: post #317
LWIRVoltage wrote: post #55

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You can't take it out of country without an export license- Someone else will have to comment on the process of doing that so they can take their camera on vacation or something I've had to navigate that and make use of listed exemptions to that, for sending thermal cameras i bought from israel- BACK to israel for repair- because of ITAR. Other than that, you can do what you want in-country with a high quality therma…

I brought a 640 x 480 ThermApp Pro with me on vacation to Buenos Aires recently. This might come as a surprise to you, but no one asked me about my camera's frame rate :P Hey, wait... are you the person on the EEV Blog Forum who wrote about your saga of trying to figure out how to legally ship your camera to Israel for repair? That was also a ThermApp, no?

Yes, that was me -i did successfully send it to the manufacturer for repair , also!

Didn't think that was too notable, but i guess i'm the only person ever who did the process so it stands out when someone talks about it, huh? lol

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Post by ProZsolt »

unwind wrote: post #206
KronisLV wrote: post #172

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> Phone batteries do not do this - they are designed to fit in a certain (few) phones, and market change on phone sizes mean there is no standard size. It would be nice if that wasn't the case. I've seen power tools from certain companies adopt the same battery type across multiple of their tools, so that they are interchangeable. I can imagine something like that happening industry-wide with a bit more lawmaking, li…

Have you seen AMPShare Alliance [1]? It's a common 18-volt battery tool platform with many partners. Mostly industrial/professional tools so far but I hope it will continue to grow. Yes, I have Bosch stuff. :) [1]: https://www.ampshare.com/ng/en/

There is also the Cordless Alliance System[1]. The problem they are all small players except Bosch. Once two of the big players (Bosch, Makita, Milwaukee, Dewalt, etc.) start sharing batteries hen it will make a difference. Bosch don't even share batteries between their blue and green lineup.

[1]: https://www.cordless-alliance-system.com/

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Post by rasz »

ProZsolt wrote: post #337
unwind wrote: post #206

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Have you seen AMPShare Alliance [1]? It's a common 18-volt battery tool platform with many partners. Mostly industrial/professional tools so far but I hope it will continue to grow. Yes, I have Bosch stuff. :) [1]: https://www.ampshare.com/ng/en/

There is also the Cordless Alliance System[1]. The problem they are all small players except Bosch. Once two of the big players (Bosch, Makita, Milwaukee, Dewalt, etc.) start sharing batteries hen it will make a difference. Bosch don't even share batteries between their blue and green lineup. [1]: https://www.cordless-alliance-system.com/

haha, TTI doesnt even share batteries between its own brands, and you expect manufacturers to adopt same standard? :D

https://www.protoolreviews.com/power-tool-manufacturers-who-...

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Post by jamal-kumar »

qwezxcrty wrote: post #247
CamperBob2 wrote: post #87

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Note that that's not a Raman spectrometer, just a conventional grating or prism-based instrument. 3 nm resolution isn't too bad, though. Could be good for evaluating aquarium/houseplant lighting and things like that. A Raman spectrometer is still a fairly exotic piece of hardware, requiring a laser, a notch filter for the laser's wavelength, and a very good conventional spectrophotometer to look for low-level sideban…

Raman is inherently difficult as it's so weak compared to normal scattering, so careful optimization of SNR is required. Another DIY Raman setup (on a breadboard so expect few kg): https://www.thepulsar.be/article/openraman-starter-edition/

Yeah it's incredible what people are doing in their homes

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Post by wlll »

merry_flame wrote: post #335
wlll wrote: post #286

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> directly in their flight path My experience of sitting outside in the summer (modulo NW England) is that their flight path covers getting close to 100% of the airspace in my garden. Though I'm sure there are other varieties I've only ever seen one type of wasp in the UK, and that's this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowjacket , and my experience of them is that they are irritating and aggressive bastards. I…

Is there perhaps something related to smell or movement? The only time I got stung by a yellowjacket is when I pulled a Miyamato Musashi and caught one with some chopsticks. I got two deserved stings out of the experience, but yellowjackets have treated me well since. I've observed that though yellowjackets might want to land on people and investigate a while, they're soon gone as long as there's no beer involved. I…

As far as I know they're attracted to things they can use as a food source, but that's a guess.
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