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Do snakes prefer to drink warm or cool water? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I'm not claiming it's for sure an evolved trait, but most people do prefer cold water (and hot water) over lukewarm water. Here's a paper if your curious: https://www.jstor.org/stable/41266787

Do snakes prefer to drink warm or cool water? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (7 children)

I think the reason we evolved to prefer cold water is because warm water is more likely to be stagnant and contain dangerous pathogens. The cold water of lakes, streams and springs was much safer for our ancestors.

Checking in in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

I hope you like indecipherable plots: 1000092287

How do I setup a "portable proxy" using a Raspberry Pi? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah, I think tailscale is the way to go. You can also self-host the coordination server if you don't want to use any third party services.

Claim Now! in c/[email protected]
What were you wrong about for a long time? How did you realize you were wrong? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

TIL Tetrachromacy exists in humans.

What are the scariest games you've played? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Darkwood. Incredible 2d survival horror game.

Nice in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago

Nice

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Year-round solar water temperature sensor (imgur.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/488623

A small solar power system to run a LoRa water temperature sensor year round. Here's some pretty graphs of the data:

https://www.kaedon.net/mitigomish/watertemp

This is a project that's been running for almost 2 years now. Everything is still working with very little down time! The solar power system is way overpowered for what it's doing, but I wanted to make sure it works through the dark winters.

The temperature sensor is at the bottom of a bucket in the ground, because the water level gets pretty low in the winter and I didn't want the ice to destroy the temperature sensor when it drifts.

Any thoughts or suggestions for improvements are welcome!

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Year-round Solar Water Temperature Sensor (imgur.com)
 

A small solar power system to run a LoRa water temperature sensor year round. Here's some pretty graphs of the data:

https://www.kaedon.net/mitigomish/watertemp

This is a project that's been running for almost 2 years now. Everything is still working with very little down time! The solar power system is way overpowered for what it's doing, but I wanted to make sure it works through the dark winters.

The temperature sensor is at the bottom of a bucket in the ground, because the water level gets pretty low in the winter and I didn't want the ice to destroy the temperature sensor when it drifts.

Any thoughts or suggestions for improvements are welcome!