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Most of us only wish we could tell stories like that as a result of the technical work we do.
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Sorry buddy, you might be SOL
They mean the Roman god personifying the sun, FYI.
As you can see, this is long: https://suanto.com/2024/06/06/the-time-I-built-an-ROV-02/ https://suanto.com/2024/06/06/the-time-I-built-an-ROV-03/ https://suanto.com/2024/06/06/the-time-I-built-an-ROV-04/ https://suanto.com/2024/06/06/the-time-I-built-an-ROV-05/ https://suanto.com/2024/06/06/the-time-I-built-an-ROV-06/ https://suanto.com/2024/06/06/the-time-I-built-an-ROV-07/ https://suanto.com/2024/06/06/the-time-I-b…
Would be great to be able to read all of these as a single article! (I'm intrigued, but I'm not saving 13 blog posts to my read-it-later app. Even stitched together, it wouldn't be the longest in my list by a long shot.)
> So where was he going? I saw two possibilities: either to Tikkakoski to visit his ex-girlfrind he was on the phone with or; just to drive around with a new powerful car, to shake off the heated phone call. I don't understand how suicide isn't at the top of the list here. He was obviously very upset emotionally. He didn't care for his belongs other than his phone. He didn't care to steal someone's car or answer for…
I think very few people commit suicide by driving a car into a river.
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Is there a fitness test for SAR? Do you train to stay fit enough for it?
Yes. It varies from team to team. Ours is a 4.1 mile hike (with 2,500+ ft. Elevation gain) carrying a 25 lb pack in under 2 and 1/2 hours. I'm also a volunteer firefighter and the "pack test" level of Work Capacity Test for wildland firefighters is 3 mi on flat ground carrying a 45 lb pack in 45 minutes. It is pretty important to be in shape as you are often carrying a lot of gear and don't want to bonk and cause an…
I would suggest defining any acronyms in the title of an article in the introduction section of the article. Had to get to PART 6 to answer my first question: What is an "ROV"? "The solution was to use an ROV, Remote Operated Vehicle "
It is my futile mission in life to help people understand that initials, acronyms, and abbreviations are real barriers to communication.
EDIT: also https://gist.github.com/klaaspieter/12cd68f54bb71a3940eae5cd...
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Yes. It varies from team to team. Ours is a 4.1 mile hike (with 2,500+ ft. Elevation gain) carrying a 25 lb pack in under 2 and 1/2 hours. I'm also a volunteer firefighter and the "pack test" level of Work Capacity Test for wildland firefighters is 3 mi on flat ground carrying a 45 lb pack in 45 minutes. It is pretty important to be in shape as you are often carrying a lot of gear and don't want to bonk and cause an…
Thanks for this info. This is something I've been thinking about doing in a few years (once the kids are further along). Seems like a very cool thing to do.
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It is my futile mission in life to help people understand that initials, acronyms, and abbreviations are real barriers to communication.
Funny, because I'd say that jargon is a facilitator of communication between knowledgeable people. It can always be looked up by those with the interest but not the knowledge. I end up doing this all the time, and appreciating reading dumps of domain knowledge and perspective. Meanwhile, writing everything for a lowest common denominator audience creates real barriers to communication - both destroying communications…
Your argument is that lots of experts on remotely operated vehicles would scoff at the article because it didn't use their "inside" jargon? First off, how many people would that be, compared to the number of people who love a good mystery and a good gadget, but have no idea what an ROV is?
As to bandwidth, you only have to spell it out once. Simple practice: I built a remotely-operated vehicle (ROV) and solved some cold missing person cases.
The author of this piece doesn't strike me as someone who relishes communicating in cryptic acronyms, so my guess is that it was just thoughtless. He hadn't yet seen my screed on the subject. :-)
I'm sure there are those who love communicating in cryptic code. They tend to congregate in like-minded cliques that don't much care about communicating outside their tightly-defined world. So be it. But if you want to be read and understood by a wide audience, spell it out.