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Drones can help these days

Can drones sniff explosives? I think that would be very expensive, they can have metal detectors, and mark suspicious sites for someone (or something, like a different digging drone) else to check.

But rats can sniff explosives and do so succesfully.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magawa


The flying ones can use thermal cameras. The mines and surrounding areas change temperature differently.

Then the ground ones do the actual demining.


But this only works for mines not or only lightly covered by earth I assume?

There has been lots of rain falling from the sky, moving earth, since the mines were laid.


> He spent a number of weeks mentoring 20 newly-recruited rats

How does that work for a rat? Sounds interesting.


I don't know how it works for rats, but I assume it is like with dogs. If you have already a trained dog, you make the same exercises with the trained and the untrained dog, so the untrained dog can just watch what the trained dog does and imitate it.

That's not how you would typically train a working dog.

I imagine it depends on the work?

I am not an expert here, but am a bit familiar with how rescue dogs are trained and this is a method in use.


I see this on Ryanair flights all the time in Europe.


There's a joke in there somewhere about an extra fee on your ticket if you want your plane to have a second (or even a first, for Ryanair) pilot.


What is it with people who get all nitpicky about Ryanair charging on a per use basis? Maybe they should have a kind of all inclusive, flat rate, where you pay for food, drink, signed seating, extra luggage, etc. whether you use them or not?

What am I missing? You’re also clearly free to not fly with them. All I hear is bitching.


> What is it with people who get all nitpicky about Ryanair charging on a per use basis?

People book with Ryanair expecting the advertised price, then get caught out by added fees for what typically comes standard.

> Maybe they should have a kind of all inclusive, flat rate, where you pay for food, drink, signed seating, extra luggage, etc. whether you use them or not?

They could keep the same pricing model and just flip the UX - show initial base price including standard amenities, then give discounts/refunds for opting out so it's a pleasant rather than unpleasant surprise. But they won't, because they rely on drawing people in with the low price and then sunken cost/escalation of commitment taking over.

> What am I missing? You’re also clearly free to not fly with them. All I hear is bitching.

Customers complaining is part of how that choice works. People have a bad experience (large unexpected fees at check-in, too late to change plans), make the bad experience known, and that drives decisions of future customers.


Until the next...mice age.


It looks like Bender.


Damn you nailed it. Now I can’t unsee it.


I came here to write the same thing. It absolutely does.


ACID can help with Rust too.


People will put up with a lot of bullshit if they think the bulshitter is wealthy and they may benefit.


Literally big tech explained with just one proverb.


sdf.org run a fun Plan9 boot camp periodically: https://sdf.org/plan9/


Are you familiar with OpenBSD tarpitting?


Not specifically openBSD but the concept yes, I've played with it also

https://nyman.re/super-simple-ssh-tarpit/


Are you a doctor?


to my parents' major disappointment - no :-(


I first read that as "to my patients' major disappointment, no" and chuckled :-)


or she


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