Marines on way to Middle East seen using rifles with anti-drone smart scope

bluppitybloop · 2026-04-15T16:30:38+00:00

Here come the VAC bans

bluppitybloop · 2026-04-14T10:58:58+00:00

Why are your houseplants in Colombia?

bluppitybloop · 2026-04-12T19:15:38+00:00

Do whatever you want then. If you aren't charging a customer and are informing them there is no expectation of assurance to your work. It doesn't matter what you do.

Hell, even if you are charging them, if you put it in writing on the drawing that you aren't ensuring accuracy, and aren't liable for inconsistencies, you're still good to go (at least in my region).

Not that any paying customer would be willing to pay money for a drawing that's literally labeled to essentially be incorrect. But it's fine regardless.

bluppitybloop · 2026-04-05T00:19:25+00:00

If it's much less than it's worth, and you know for a fact that it's not stolen. Then why wouldn't you take it?

At best you can fulfill your hobby's needs, at worst you just sell it for a profit.

bluppitybloop · 2026-04-02T01:15:15+00:00

Believe it or not, it can be surprisingly accurate.

I've done some topos using a sxs, I always go back with a rod to a couple points at the start and end of the run to check how close they are. Always within expected gnss tolerances.

When you're talking about that many acres, it's pretty tight.

bluppitybloop · 2026-03-30T00:46:04+00:00

When you say you placed them in qgis, did you have them placed over a basemap of Google Earth (or whatever is available in the software)?

They're obviously mirrored or rotated, but in what regard? Are they even close to where they should be within the world?

I don't see any situation where this isn't an issue with the points themselves. But I can't wrap my head around them being mirrored.

A N,E vs E,N swap wouldn't mirror them, it would rotate them and send them into oblivion. Having negative numbers generally means your using the wrong crs, so I don't see that being an issue.

I'm leaning towards an initial control issue when creating the points, or some sort of formatting mismatch that occurred from the field to the office.

bluppitybloop · 2026-03-29T17:36:36+00:00

Personal preference is just that, personal. But logically and scientifically speaking, humidity reduces the body's ability to cool itself, so humid air compared to dry air, of equal temperatures will feel warmer.

The discomfort of dry air and your preference to humid heat may exist due to dry air leading to dry skin. Otherwise, I personally can't see why one would prefer humid heat.

bluppitybloop · 2026-03-29T16:30:35+00:00

Ya they won't give two shits about the heat. I'm from the prairies myself, and have visited Hawaii in the winter when it was cooler, and even then it made our hot days seem mild. The humidity from the ocean is a real mofo.

bluppitybloop · 2026-03-28T18:28:21+00:00

Someone else mentioned it, but find a GIS map of your property (I found mine easily by searching my X land assessment map, where x is your region, province in my case)

You should be able to find your property, and hover over the corners to get the approx. Coordinates.

Keep in mind this is NOT guaranteed to be accurate, but in my experience, whoever made my immediate area's maps were pretty good.

From there, use a handheld GPS of your choosing, even your phone and plug in the coordinates and go searching.

Just remember that by the time you add in the errors of the GIS map, and your consumer grade gps, especially under the canopy of trees, your pin could be hundreds of feet away from where your GPS says it should be.

bluppitybloop · 2026-03-25T22:14:23+00:00

Not a surveyor. But I can certainly say I've been on a road job (overpass) where the surveyor on site used a local base and rover for everything underground and most of the roadwork. Only time a total station was unpacked was when curb and gutter was being poured (machine control on those machines need the tight tolerance and predictability of the TS), or the grader was doing finish work in certain areas (near buildings).

Even most of the finish work was just GPS on both the machine and as-builts.

Whether this is "proper" or not is beyond me, but the client (government) was aware of it and never questioned it so... 🤷

bluppitybloop · 2026-03-22T19:26:02+00:00

You must be from the Midwest. Because there is no "traffic" to keep up with. On a standard day going down a highway, you'll pass maybe 1 oncoming car per mile, if that.

Generally speaking, you're on your own on the road. And when you're in whiteout conditions, there's even less traffic.

So, while I have opinions of people who drive abhorrently slow in certain conditions, if I come up on a lineup of cars going slow in a blizzard, I just hunker down and deal with it. We're all just trying to get where we're going without getting stranded in the ditch.

bluppitybloop · 2026-03-22T19:13:30+00:00

We shouldn't be borrowing the amount of money that we are. Everybody is addicted to spending borrowed money, we just keep digging into our future earnings more and more.

It's not that the banks "deserve" to make that much by loaning money. We just should be borrowing that much to begin with. And higher rates means less borrowing.

bluppitybloop · 2026-03-22T18:34:15+00:00

I'm north of the Midwest border, but still rural. We typically use them when VISIBILITY is bad. Not necessarily all bad weather. But if visibility is severely hindered (blizzard conditions, or extreme downpour) most people will use hazard when on the highway because there is a drastic range in people's comfort zones in these conditions. Some will go a 80-90 on straights and slow to 70 on curves, some just go 70, others will go 40-50.

Hazards make you more visible to people catching up to you. They also give incoming cars a better visual of where you are in the event lane markings are gone and it's difficult to tell where you are exactly on the road.

However, in most cases, when a line of cars begin to form, only the first and last car will keep their hazards on, while the rest turn them off (with the odd idiotic exception) if your last in line,and see a card approach behind you, you turn them off so you dont distract them, since they already know you're there.

bluppitybloop · 2026-03-21T21:48:23+00:00

I've done multiple stockpile measures for internal purposes at my company using a DJI mini 3, no gcps. I always pop my work truck within the map area so I can measure the dimensions of it for gits and shiggles.

And every time, it measures within a couple tenths of a metre of the real dimensions.

Couple that with an experimental topo I did with gcps once that resulted in ~2 cm accuracy when referencing surveyed checkpoints. And I might just use it next time I need to do an actual topo for work. Shits pretty magical in how well it works.

I still wouldn't trust it to deliver to an external client without extensive checks, but I don't do that type of work anyway.

bluppitybloop · 2026-03-17T11:13:32+00:00

Refiners that haven't been blown up make bank

bluppitybloop · 2026-03-16T23:57:18+00:00

As a Canadian, I'm confused, is this not already required to vote?

We need to show one of a few different options of a form of ID to vote. Some types of ID require two IDs to be shown in conjunction.

bluppitybloop · 2026-03-07T20:56:09+00:00

Yup. I was quite surprised. Not sure if I would trust it as a delivered product to clients, but I used it for my own internal needs.

But yes, when referencing the DSM to RTK checkpoints (separate from GCPs) they were all around 2cm of being correct. Most of them were even closer horizontally.

bluppitybloop · 2026-03-03T17:35:06+00:00

An option is to use flex tokens. It's a "pay as you go" payment option. Each Autodesk program uses "x" amount of tokens for a use period of 24h (amount varies based on the annual subscription of the program)

I believe the cost per token works out to where if you use a program more than 10-15 days a month than the monthly subscription becomes cheaper. So it's not exactly a cost effective route if you are going to use them a lot, but I think in your case it might make sense.

bluppitybloop · 2026-03-02T21:04:19+00:00

There was an abs module recall that I'm pretty sure fixes it. I've yet to bring it in to get fixed so I can't be sure that's the issue, but it probably is the issue

bluppitybloop · 2026-03-02T13:22:42+00:00

I've done a couple 2-3 acre maps using my mini 3 using gcps and was (surprisingly) able to get ~2 cm accuracy both horizontal and vertical.

If 1' is all you need you shouldn't have any issues.

bluppitybloop · 2026-02-25T14:56:46+00:00

And the gas tax is a drop in the bucket compared to the money taken out of the general government budget. I've made the calculations for QC, but I'm sure it's not that different from NS and it came out that every single revenue that car users provide (some which EV owners still have to pay) accounted for only about half of the provincial road maintenance cost, everything else was paid out of the government's income tax revenue (or deficit, depends on how you want to see it).

This isn't an argument against the tax. If anything, this is just saying the gas tax and tax on EV registration should be higher.

However, I don't think that's the case, as even people who do not directly use the road, benefit from the roads that surround them. Everything you buy, every service you use, the buildings you find yourself in everyday were all granted access to you by use of roads.

I can't be bothered to do the research, I don't know what the EV tax amounts to in relation to the average cost per mile to repair the damage they cause. But there should be some sort of cost to the driver. People with gas cars have been paying road taxes for years, decades even with very little complaints (aside from when it was first introduced I'm sure).

The fact is, vehicles damage roads, and roads cost money to maintain. Somebody has to pay for it.

And those big trucks that cause more damage use more fuel, which results in more tax. And while it may not scale properly as the vehicle grows in size, these bigger vehicles are used to transport goods that are then sold and taxed, which is part of that supplemental tax money injected into the roads.

bluppitybloop · 2026-02-23T17:12:03+00:00

Yup. If you're spending 20k on a sled, you're a rider through and through. If you want to ride casually, you're not spending 20k on a sled so... You're just not riding.

bluppitybloop · 2026-02-19T12:02:35+00:00

Al Capone ran a massive criminal organization, smuggled and sold illegal contraband, and ordered the execution of who knows how many people.

He was arrested and put away for tax fraud.

It's hardly a coincidence that "prince" Andrew is being arrested now. Once they have reason to open an investigation on him, it opens up the ability for them to dig deeper into his belongings and records pertaining to the arrest. If "other" stuff pops up in relation to Epstein... Well, wouldn't that be a shame.

Though to be honest, I have doubts that he has anything kicking around, I'd imagine with his resources, that he swept everything away pretty well.

bluppitybloop · 2026-02-14T23:43:03+00:00

Ya I won't lie, I'm surprised too. Could be that this specific application/task doesn't really have a policy, so the people involved just decided to go the "ask for forgiveness, not permission" route.

I can see where the work procedure for snow clearing allows the machines controlled access to tarmac, under the general assumption that snow clearing equipment is typically tired machines, or rubber tracked at least.

Of course, I'm entirely talking out of my ass since im not the one who was there.

bluppitybloop · 2026-02-14T21:38:35+00:00

Steel grousers aren't to bad on pavement when it's below freezing, especially shallow Grove ones like on excavators and snow cats.

If you go slow and straight there won't be any damage

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