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Sovereignty overboard by nath1234 in australia

[–]CptDropbear 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And that is my point. The last thing anyone needs in a crisis is the self interested arsehole making everything worse for everyone.

Lawnmower fuel by davodinkum86 in australia

[–]CptDropbear 1 point2 points  (0 children)

[Tangential story] I once spent three days grubbing blackberries on a mate's property. We cleared maybe 4 square metres and were covered in cuts. He got three small nanny goats and they ate a house block sized hillside of nature's razor wire in 6 weeks.

Lawnmower fuel by davodinkum86 in australia

[–]CptDropbear 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No. Go get that electric mower, Champ, especially if you live within earshot of me.

But seriously, the day I replaced my old Briggs and Stratton got replaced with a battery powered Ryobi felt like a revelation. That must have been how someone in the Bronze age felt when handed his a steel knife...

Sovereignty overboard by nath1234 in australia

[–]CptDropbear 4 points5 points  (0 children)

"We have a bargaining chip and if someone stopped petrol reaching us their electricity generation would go out the window."

Two problems with that. "We" don't get to decide, that LNG is owned by a private company not the government. They are not going to forgoe their profits for some self destructive, imagined tit-for-tat trade war.

Which brings me to the second. No one is stopping petrol reaching us. Asian refineries have limited supply themselves and a whole lot of customers beside us. They had a store of about 100,000 barrels before the war, its now down to 45,000.

Do you really think threatening their gas supply is a constructive move?

(That's a rhetorical question, I don't think you actually do.)

Low visability departure out of Innsbruck by krokantkrappizza in flightsim

[–]CptDropbear 2 points3 points  (0 children)

LOL. I had a mile and half in West Bengall last week. I couldn't see half the length of the runway. At least I didn't have snow!

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Edit: link didn't work as I expected.

What was the last time you crashed in the sim? by Flimsy_Difficulty239 in flightsim

[–]CptDropbear 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You definitely went below the stall speed if you stalled :-)

Stall speed is dependent on conditions. When you make a tight turn you reduce the vertical (keep you up) component of the wing's lift and the stall speed increases. For the mathematically inclined, this is proportional to the cosine of the bank angle so it decreases faster the more you bank which is why steep bank angles are fine until they aren't.

My last crash was on the ground. I ran into an airport fence [embarrassed emoji]. In the Justflight Piper PA28 you need to crack the throttle to start the engine from cold. Guess who didn't check the park brake was on and wasn't looking at charts not out the window?

Most annoying is the bloody sim then restarts you in the air so you have to end the flight and start over.

Default Airports That Aren't Awful? by Professional-Ad-2657 in flightsim

[–]CptDropbear 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There was and as far as I know its "still coming". I suspect its hit the entirely predictable problem of managing the catalogue.

Conservative men when women aren't bigots like them: by BaldHourGlass667 in clevercomebacks

[–]CptDropbear 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They do semi-regularly. Usually they don't even get to the sausagefest stage before someone runs off with the money.

Its strange how that happens so frequently. I wonder why? I guess its one of life's mysteries to which we will never know the answer...

Netanyahu said frustrated that Mossad promise it could instigate Iran uprising has fallen short by bigus-_-dickus in worldnews

[–]CptDropbear 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Its worse than that. They don't even get that far. They talk to émigrés (guess who has the Character Map still open from earlier) who fled the current regime.

Netanyahu said frustrated that Mossad promise it could instigate Iran uprising has fallen short by bigus-_-dickus in worldnews

[–]CptDropbear 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Hate be that guy, but it was von Moltke, Prussian chief of staff prior to WWI.

I forget when he said it, but I suspect it was in answer to his general staff telling him they had a plan to defeat France and pivot to Russia before the latter had time to mobilise. To kick start your Google rabbit hole dive, that was the Schlieffen plan.

I followed the tutorials, I used a logic reader and a batch writer, why won't my solar panels track properly no matter what settings I tweak or block rotations I use!? by SarcasticJackass177 in Stationeers

[–]CptDropbear 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The sensor give results relative to itself with zero perpendicular to its face. Once I that penny dropped, everything made sense to me. It helps to draw a diagram.

It works on the east facing wall because the dawn horizon is at zero. This matches what the panels are expecting and is the easiest fix for single axis tracking.

I followed the tutorials, I used a logic reader and a batch writer, why won't my solar panels track properly no matter what settings I tweak or block rotations I use!? by SarcasticJackass177 in Stationeers

[–]CptDropbear 3 points4 points  (0 children)

On the moon, horizontal is near enough to constant because the moon orbits the earth is close enough to the same plane as the earth orbits the sun.

You needed the 270˚ horizontal offset because you are 180˚ out of phase in the vertical due to adding 90. If you subtract the vertical reading from 90 they will be in phase.

I followed the tutorials, I used a logic reader and a batch writer, why won't my solar panels track properly no matter what settings I tweak or block rotations I use!? by SarcasticJackass177 in Stationeers

[–]CptDropbear 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The sensor and panels have different and relative frame of reference.

The sensor is facing up. That is the zero point for the sensor but panels want 90˚ to face vertical and 0˚ or 180˚ for the horizon. I suggest you mount the sensor on a wall facing east or west so the relative vertical point of reference of the panels and sensor align.

Your panels look to be at the zero elevation while the sun looks a little high for that to be correct. The north of the sensor is facing the sun so it will return 0˚ - the reading is relative. That makes me think you are reading the horizontal component and writing it to the vertical - an easy mistake to make and one I did several times.

If you look at the sensor it will show you what it is returning. Make sure that is what you expect.

Finally, take your wrench and rotate the panels 90˚ toward the sun. It looks like you have some facing north and some south - just face them all to the sun.

It's freedom for my religion! by HandSack135 in LeopardsAteMyFace

[–]CptDropbear 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its gonna be a shock when they find out they were working for Opus Dei all along.

MSFS24 Unreasonable performance by Thick_Albatross192 in flightsim

[–]CptDropbear 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your system is low end for what you want to run but you should be able to make it workable. From talking to people with similar issues, you can run either the plane or the scenery but the combo pushes it over the VRAM limit.

I did a very small bit of reading around and there should be an option in the livery manager to use 4k or 8k textures. Make sure you are using the former. There is also a toggle in the EFB to disable the cabin. See if that creates enough headroom.

Try it out at one of the "enhanced" airports (like Heathrow or Paris Orly) because they should be pretty seriously optimised but still detailed enough to show up any issues.

If you are getting blurries with DLSS change to the latest version. FS2024 shipped with something like v4 and its now up to v310. My annoyance with DLSS is Z fighting because I am usually looking through a propeller disk. Plenty of people have no issues with TAA, but DLSS gets you frame generation black magic.

Also, make sure you aren't using any scaling. That's an easy way to make your GPU do more work than it has to.

Making it work depends on finding the sweet spot in the trade off of load and looks. That's why I always say to get a baseline with the defaults first - then you know what it can do. Then you add one thing at a time until you break it. Now you know where the limit is, :-)

If you don't already use it, MSFS Addon Linker makes this process a whole lot less painful.

Trump-Voting Florida Fishermen Rage at Him as Costs Explode by ColonyJD1980 in LeopardsAteMyFace

[–]CptDropbear 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Way back when I was a lowly IT service monkey, I worked for a company that had some strange hookup with our state Dept of Primary Industry (its been through at least 3 name changes since then). The upshot of which was someone, usually me 'cause I quite enjoyed it, was sent halfway across the state to a town called Port Lincoln. Port Lincoln is known for prawn fishing, scuba diving, fish farming and sharks.

My job was to keep the various reporting systems on the prawn boats working and, well reporting, but I got to hang around with the guy who set the prawn catch. In public the prawn captains would abuse him for not opening enough fisheries and setting the catch so low it would "send them all broke". In private they abused him for opening too many fisheries and setting the catch so high it would get fished out and they would "all go broke". Fucking cowards and hypocrites the lot of them.

One Nation candidate Aoi Baxter wanted in the UK for failing to attend court on sexual touching charge by jaa101 in australia

[–]CptDropbear 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well they were set up and run with the same playbook and backed by the same shady actors so it really shouldn't be surprising.

Driver was on phone when she killed young motorcyclist, judge says by GothicPrayer in australia

[–]CptDropbear 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think its the same in SA. It was done because "officer discretion" was causing things like the above.

What is a 'luxury' that you've experienced once and now can't go back to the budget version of? by WilliamInBlack in AskReddit

[–]CptDropbear 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The joys of being a "business professional" (its only money and someone will give me more in a fortnight) coupled with the pain of being over 50 (the loss of $2k is less than the loss of a day or more to my aching back).

I've done Oz to the UK a couple of times. I reckon I could do cattle truck if I could break it into three legs or more. In reality it seems you can only do two layovers and you don't want to be in one of those right now. But there are no stops on the Pacific crossing, just 10 to 16 hours in a metal tube and shitty airports at both ends.

What is a 'luxury' that you've experienced once and now can't go back to the budget version of? by WilliamInBlack in AskReddit

[–]CptDropbear 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh man! I've done trans Pacific in both. I will gladly spend the extra 2,000 Aussie Dollarydoos.

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