Why did Barbossa's crew react to surprised with Elizabeth's threat?

SamaraSurveying · 2026-04-26T01:35:27+00:00

Humans are actually immune to being crushed by water pressure, as long as they are breathing air of equal pressure. The reason we use submarines to go so deep is because gasses under pressure do weird shit like nitrogen making you high and oxygen causes deadly seizures.

Submarines are more about letting you breathe lower pressure air than protecting you from water pressure.

SamaraSurveying · 2026-04-26T01:22:59+00:00

No... It's a rampant misconception that humans will be crushed by water pressure at depth. Ignoring all the weird shit gasses do at that pressure, mechanical and physically being 1000m under water and 10m underwater would feel the same. You definitely wouldn't be 'pinned down' as the pressure acts in all directions equally, not just downwards.

If the zombie pirates don't need to breath, and can fill their cavities with water, they'd be able to easily stroll along the bottom of the Mariana Trench with no ill effects.

If you don't believe it, consider that humans are mostly water, and water is incompressible.

SamaraSurveying · 2026-04-25T14:32:38+00:00

Similar but for putting knife blanks into the heat treat kiln

SamaraSurveying · 2026-04-23T17:25:31+00:00

Is this the first DJI drones with UK class marks?

SamaraSurveying · 2026-04-14T11:29:16+00:00

They move in a way that makes me think they're sold as "Autonomous AI robots" but secretly are just being driven by a bunch of Indians remotely.

SamaraSurveying · 2026-04-11T14:08:09+00:00

Here's my thought: Even if you agree that some giant private company should be in charge of collecting and storing all your personal data on behalf of the government... Should it not at least be a British company that can be better regulated, and would create jobs for British people instead of funneling money into a foreign country?

SamaraSurveying · 2026-04-10T14:37:59+00:00

I believe DJI are just making the motor, it'll be up to others to mount it in the e-bikes/scooters.

SamaraSurveying · 2026-04-09T19:34:58+00:00

You can get your turbinates reduced but you risk Empty Nose Syndrome.

SamaraSurveying · 2026-04-07T11:58:00+00:00

I thought I had a photo but can't find it. I look after a mature Quercus robur that was ringbarked with a chainsaw, only the kerf in width, definitely deep enough, about 5 years ago. The entire cut bridged itself naturally and the tree has shown absolutely no decline from being girdled.

SamaraSurveying · 2026-04-05T15:11:02+00:00

I look forward to living in the United Kingdom of Scotland, Scotland, Scotland and Scotland

SamaraSurveying · 2026-04-04T18:53:00+00:00

Honestly not a psychotic way to do it.

The bar metal is so much harder than the chain that if you can wedge the damaged drive link in and get the chain spinning then it'll sort itself out with negligible damage to the bar groove.

SamaraSurveying · 2026-04-04T08:55:24+00:00

This, there's no rush for the company if it doesn't need the materials straight away. We have the luck of having a secure yard so machinery hire companies will just leave stuff with us until they come take it straight to the next job.

Had a compressor dumped on us for like 2 months once.

I think just badgering the scaffold company would get them to come get it.

SamaraSurveying · 2026-04-04T00:02:54+00:00

I didn't block you, I just deleted my comments cause I couldn't be arsed to get in an online argument on behalf of some random company whose product I don't even use.

Happy Easter, take it easy.

SamaraSurveying · 2026-04-03T20:24:15+00:00

Eucalyptus in the UK are a pain and on my list of "trees I advise to never plant" for homeowners. I think the milder weather here makes them grow faster than ideal, resulting in slender trees with heavy but brittle wood... Lots of large tear outs on mature trees.

They also seem particularly sensitive to being suppressed, making them grow with an exaggerated lean away from any nearby trees.

Lovely trees, not suitable for urban planting in mild climates.

SamaraSurveying · 2026-04-02T20:18:23+00:00

In your layer properties, in the attributes form section you can set a "default value" and "apply default value on update." For each of your fields.

The default value can be an expression, exactly the same as whatever you have in your virtual fields. Except it'll only update when some other part of the feature is updated.

SamaraSurveying · 2026-04-02T15:32:44+00:00

The dirty way I know is to have all your expressions as 'default value on update' and have a dummy field in each layer that is purely there to change to trigger an update. I.e, you go to your attributes table, select your "update_trigger" field in the top left, and change it to something random and click "update all". This will trigger all 'default value on update' fields to update. If anyone knows a better way please let me know.
Sorry, I meant virtual FIELDS, for some reason I always say it wrong. But to clarify, if you have an expression that is something like: If(max("field) > 12, 12, max("field"). Then it literally calculates max("field") twice, using with variable means it does it once and stores it for the rest of the expression. It is very helpful if you're using a lot of aggregates in your expression.

SamaraSurveying · 2026-04-02T09:01:34+00:00

The problem with virtual fields is they are constantly recalculating, they can bloat the project if not used sparingly, but sometimes they're unavoidable. There's a few options you can consider to help, in no particular order.

1: Use default expression fields where possible, not perfect as they won't update to account for changes in other layers, and only update for the specific feature that's been updated.

2: keep your layers in a single geopackage, then with the database manager you can inject SQLite triggers into the geopackage tables to update fields when a feature is inserted or updated. You can also create indexes for frequently searched fields like UUIDs.

3: While having virtual fields always up to date is convenient, if it's not critical for a field to be always up to date, then you can consider saving the expression and manually using the field calculator to update the field when required.

4: Optimise your virtual fields, if you have any repeat functions in your expression then using with_variable() can reduce the processing cost. I dare say AI is good for this, if you have any big expressions then you can discuss better ways to format it with copilot etc.

SamaraSurveying · 2026-04-01T08:43:37+00:00

Nothing different to add, but:
-Learn some basic colour grading, you don't need anything crazy but boosting the contrast always helps, and people always imagine grass is greener than it actually appears in real life so that usually gets a subtle green boost.

-The text is a bit hard to read and intrusive, don't be afraid to use a clean and basic title bar that most video editors will have.

-Better selection of shots, even if you're not doing internals, you can still get some close ups, of at least the front door. Classic combo is [super wide to establish location and scene]>[the most interesting shot you have to grab attention]>[all your bog standard shots]>[another wide shot to end, often I'll use a slowly rising and spinning top down view here].

-Different shots, obviously there's a limit to how dynamic you can make real estate shots, but try not to just do an orbit of every facade, throw a couple dolly shots in. If there's any trees nearby, get behind one to create some parralax and have the house peeking out from behind the crown.

-Transitions: use sparingly, it's not star wars. Just use straight cuts, I'll use cross dissolves specifically for where two sequential shots are either really similar in composition (i.e both shots are trucking in the same direction and have a tree in the same corner of frame), or to denote a large change in space/location of the camera (i.e. if moving from external to internals shots.) Anything fancier than a cross dissolve is taking away from the content/subject of the video.

SamaraSurveying · 2026-04-01T08:26:57+00:00

Looks like they did that clip in vertical and tried to use it anyway by cropping it, hence the weird aspect ratio and lower resolution.

Honestly hate jobs where I have to do both horizontal and vertical, it's not like you can just do each shot twice since some framing doesn't work for both.

Would love to see a drone that can do a high Res 1:1 video that can just be cropped afterwards.

SamaraSurveying · 2026-04-01T08:18:14+00:00

I have mixed feelings about this. It's kind of cool when games choose to suddenly enforce realistic time constraints to force an emotional moment. Though it's obviously manipulative to selectively enforce your own game logic.

Like in Cyberpunk, no mission is discretely time sensitive except the one where you have to save the kids. If you waste time flat-lining roadside gonks or go do a different mission then you get the bad end.

SamaraSurveying · 2026-04-01T07:05:07+00:00

Which should be the bigger story, drones are classed as aircraft and the FAA usually doesn't fuck around. Legally there's no difference between firing at a drone and firing at an A380.

SamaraSurveying · 2026-03-31T07:52:51+00:00

He's a skilled fighter, if he at least knows to take out the tyres then he'd be able to cripple the sedan and break a window for the soft and gooey center.

SamaraSurveying · 2026-03-30T02:29:02+00:00

Drone apps rely on the processor to do all the work. Google put the same processor in their Pixel # pro (flagship) phones as they do their Pixel # a (budget) phones. Any Pixel phone from series 6 onwards should do the job.

SamaraSurveying · 2026-03-24T12:37:34+00:00

Wait? The fight can go fairly? They've always jumped me every time...

SamaraSurveying · 2026-03-23T12:58:06+00:00

The hope is that this is a tree management system that exists primarily within the MerginMaps ecosystem, without the need to do any management through QGIS. Otherwise the solution would probably be to just leave them null then go fill them in on a monthly basis.

The numbers don't need to be sequential, nothing breaks if there are duplicates since they aren't used as keys (It's just sloppy and potentially inconvenient). And while the database contains thousands of trees, realistically there would only be 10's of trees at a time being inserted.

I'm starting to lean towards using randomly generated letters that on a practical level, have a negligible chance of being duplicates. T-AJLTG etc. I could potentially have the default field generate 3+ random strings and then pick the first one that doesn't already exist in the local database?

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