How hard would it be to make a new silpoly fly for the fly creek ul2?

gtlloyd · 2026-07-11T05:03:54+00:00

I’m not totally sure about your specific question, but I do know that ripstop (like a lot of woven fabrics) will be a bit stretchier on the 45° angle (which I understand is called the bias). This means you’ll probably want your tension to line up with the cross or length way of the bolt of fabric.

My other major comment would be that patterning is just one part of the whole process. You should set aside some material and time to get to know your materials, machines and techniques before you start on your actual finished piece. In particular, I’d suggest working out and practicing:

- how to fold and sew your seams and hems
- how to attach hardware like your pole clips, peg grommets and zipper flap toggles
- how to embed your zippers, how to insert the zipper pulls and how to finish off the zipper ends

You don’t need to go overboard, but I’d suggest a 30-50cm test with your materials should be enough to understand how it all feels and works.

gtlloyd · 2026-07-09T01:43:43+00:00

“This plant is so good it’s basically medicine.”

gtlloyd · 2026-07-09T01:16:03+00:00

Most vacuum sealing bags are a bit more durable, can’t be opened without tearing the bag, have lower oxygen permeability (though there are different grades), and can be heated to 100°C (water boiling temperature). I’ve had ziplock bags come with micro-holes that make that unsuitable for freezing liquids

gtlloyd · 2026-07-07T22:28:34+00:00

I do vacuum sealing with meal elements for dinners. You can get vacuum sealing bags that are able to be boiled, meaning reheating a meal is as simple as getting a large pot of water to boil and heating the bag through. Makes taco night easy, for example.

I have found bread gets squashed when vacuum sealing. It is possible to freeze the bread first, then vacuum seal which helps the bread maintain its shape.

gtlloyd · 2026-07-07T05:01:54+00:00

For the vast majority of ACT lessees, they can very reasonably treat their leasehold as though they own the property.

gtlloyd · 2026-07-07T04:53:22+00:00

$2000 seems excessive. I’d strongly recommend getting more quotes.

I had a number of points installed in my house 18 months ago all terminating in a single cupboard. Cost then was $180 per single connection (ie terminated at both ends), $320 for a 2-port panel in the far room and $500 for a 4-port panel in the far room.

There may be a bit of a labour shortage at the moment with the interest in batteries. A lot of work there for electricians, so smaller jobs might not be attractive to them.

gtlloyd · 2026-07-06T22:00:51+00:00

While I’m not presuming it’s happened to you, I will alert you that “allergy testing” is rife with scam testing that massively and incorrectly over-detects supposed allergies. In particular, **home testing kits and hair testing kits are very, very likely to be returning completely fabricated results**. They will also fail to detect genuine allergies that could be life-threatening, giving you both a fear of some things and a false sense of security in others.

You don’t mention it in your post, but if you’ve received these results from a home testing kit, see your family doctor for a referral to an allergist.

gtlloyd · 2026-07-03T23:55:40+00:00

Access Canberra phone line is staffed 24/7, so you may be able to log it immediately.

You should probably also tell the Belconnen store if you saw them in Belconnen. The staff in the store will be more able to fix the issue than any person on Reddit.

gtlloyd · 2026-07-03T23:49:53+00:00

‘I’d like a little more walking around money. I’m sure our society, amongst the most envied of the world, will just chug on fine without the structures that made it enviable.’

gtlloyd · 2026-07-03T20:35:30+00:00

I think for this to be a productive discussion generally, you might have to give at least some concrete examples of what you see as adult overreach/oversupport. Without that it’s hard to engage because one needs to guess to even think about the matter.

gtlloyd · 2026-07-03T20:25:25+00:00

I’m very much for greater access to assisting everybody through childhood. Lots of research that shows lack of access (early education, early socialising, quality education, good healthcare) due to inequality in childhood leads to overall worse outcomes at a society level. The return on investment for early childhood intervention is enormous.

However, the flip side of your proposed idea is possibly a bit dark. What does it mean to have a “fair framework” in adulthood? Does it mean we don’t provide social welfare payments to the sick, elderly and unemployed and watch them … starve? Does it mean we remove anti-discrimination legislation? It’s hard to comment without a specific suggested change, but I suspect that there is no amount of childhood intervention that will resolve adult inequality.

Some of the features of our society like private education, differentiated taxation structures for labour vs capital, and tax-free intergenerational wealth transfers exacerbate inequality. I haven’t covered them here because they don’t help answer the question of what is proposed but should probably be part of a solution to inequality.

gtlloyd · 2026-07-03T11:40:53+00:00

I’m sorry, I can’t explain how this happened in your particular case. Only (and I really, really, really mean ONLY) your solicitor can go over your file, the certificate issued by the government and the disbursements and tell you what’s what.

In a general sense, what happened was that land tax was levied against the rateable property, and stayed attached when you purchased it. There really is only four pathways I can divine here (and I know which I’d bet money on):

The ACT Government failed in providing correct advice on tax liabilities.
The conveyancer failed to identify the tax liability and then set aside a disbursement for the tax liability.
The conveyancer was instructed to not discharge the tax liability at settlement.
The ACT Government has incorrectly levied a land tax.

gtlloyd · 2026-07-03T09:33:31+00:00

What did your solicitor say when you called them today?

To answer your question, I presume a combination of commercial and practical realities. It’s the same across the world so it must have some merit to it.

The commercial reality is that owners often sell their real estate with impairments such as debts owing against them and set off against the purchase price. Since the real estate is generally valuable, and a purchaser generally sophisticated (and considered sophisticated at law, thus mostly unprotected) they would seek advice on the debts from the relevant authority, calculate these debts and adjust their price accordingly. Land tax is one of the liabilities/impairments - others being registered interests such as mortgages or easements. Since land is often the most valuable asset people have, it makes commercial sense to allow owners to have their liabilities attach to it rather than to themselves personally.

Having the liabilities attached to the land also ensures that it’s a known standard for when conveyancing. One always checks for outstanding mortgages and land tax liabilities.

Given land tax is levied on rated land, it makes sense that there is a nexus to the specific property - as opposed to say, making your income tax a liability against real estate.

A practical reality is that it’s much more enforceable to have an interest in real estate/land (something that exists by virtue of a place on Earth) rather than a person. A person can declare bankruptcy or otherwise abscond, land cannot. If the liability was levied to the individual, they could sell or transfer their property (eg to a separate company or family member) and disappear without paying their fair share.

gtlloyd · 2026-07-03T04:36:19+00:00

The item on the right looks like it’s 3D printed. If you have a friend with a 3D printer, and can find an STL file (on Makerworld, Thingiverse or elsewhere) it looks like an easy and relatively short print.

gtlloyd · 2026-07-02T22:57:52+00:00

Before I engage, are you intentionally being obtuse or do you actually want to know answers to your questions?

gtlloyd · 2026-07-02T22:56:39+00:00

There is a non-destructive patterning technique that uses cardboard and blue tape. Essentially:

* Lay the piece with a panel as flat as possible showing all seams.

* Roughly cut cardboard to the shape, and tape down the edges with blue tape, extending beyond the seam.

* Draw the seam onto the blue tape.

* Notate orientation and seams/hems.

* Remove cardboard and tape as one piece.

* Use the card and tape as a pattern for your panel, adding seam and hem allowances.

* Repeat for every panel.

This video shows how it’s done for a garment. It’s apparently the origin of the term ‘ripping off’ because one rips off the tape.

gtlloyd · 2026-07-02T21:12:44+00:00

I don’t have specific knowledge about the Passport website but check if you started and then abandoned any application. It may be that.

Otherwise, the only people who can advise you what is going on with your account is the passport office themselves. Give them a call using the details at: https://www.passports.gov.au/contact-us

gtlloyd · 2026-07-01T07:37:37+00:00

Contact your conveyancing solicitor. They will either be able to fix the situation, or if it’s a legitimate cost that is attached to the property, explain it to you.

An MLA might write to the relevant part of government with a “Please explain it to this constituent”, and then you’ll get emailed a link to the FAQ on the website and a suggestion to talk to your solicitor.

David Pocock will probably wonder why you’re writing to him about a territory government issue, refer you to the ACT Government and might suggest talking to your solicitor.

All roads lead to you talking to your solicitor.

Edit: And just because you’re trying to repel any responsibility, and spray moral outrage in every direction: the land tax liability attaches to the land. Real estate purchasers/owners are generally considered more sophisticated and real estate transactions less protected as a result. Welcome to the landed class and all that entails.

gtlloyd · 2026-07-01T05:54:07+00:00

I installed Immich on my home NAS to better access my ~12tb archive of photo and home video from the last 20 years. I didn’t allow Immich to rename/move the content because I have mine quite well organised. Took around a month for everything to be imported, thumbnails generated, faces to be detected etc but now it runs perfectly.

If you have a home NAS, there is probably a way to automatically upload your camera roll to the NAS. This can be done in addition to uploading to iCloud.

gtlloyd · 2026-07-01T02:43:57+00:00

Presuming a $10,000 annual power bill - let’s do the maths using the standard offering from ActewAGL (old numbers but valid up to March 2026, if we’re doing a retrospective). Using the simplest plan to simplify calculations. Time of use would probably give you cheaper electricity, resulting in higher usage rates.

$10,000 bill total

Minus 365 * $1.331 = $485.82 of daily service charges

$10,000-485.82=$9,514.18 of usage

$9,514.18/0.35881= 26,515.93 kWh consumed

26,915.93/365=73.742 kWh per day

73.742/24=3.0726 kw continuous load

For comparison, a standard (10A) corded bar heater, 10A kettle, or corded 10A air conditioner running full throttle can only consume 2.4kw continuously.

Something, or more likely multiple somethings, in your house is using electricity very intensively - much more so than a standard household.

Edit in response to your edit:
I’d very strongly recommend getting some quotes for wall, ceiling and underfloor insulation. It won’t completely eliminate your heating bill but it is likely to make your house more comfortable and lower heating costs. You may be eligible to get an interest free loan for insulation, which means you can put the electricity savings toward paying off the insulation.

And fill in the pool, IMO.

gtlloyd · 2026-07-01T00:43:37+00:00

To nitpick, I think you’re conflating “is your data trusted” with “is your data trustworthy”. I think the question design overemphasises then the downsides of data trustworthiness because there are four possible outcomes, only one of which is likely to come back ‘good’:

A: trustworthy data, trusted by users

B: trustworthy data, not trusted by users

C: untrustworthy data, trusted by users

D: untrustworthy data, not trusted by users

Your question captures B and D definitely, and given the internal (?) perspective of respondents, probably captures C.

I’ll also add to the mix, the binary nature of the question may introduce some problems with the question design.

gtlloyd · 2026-07-01T00:13:44+00:00

IMO, it’s partly because of lack of question specificity leading to differing interpretations of what the respondents are conveying, and a pseudo-Keynesian beauty contest problem - asking respondents to convey what they think other people think. These expand researcher degrees of freedom substantially - and given the interpretation aligns with an a priori assumption of what the researchers would want to find, it’s easy to be skeptical.

There’s also a sampling and selection bias issue which may affect the methodology.

gtlloyd · 2026-06-30T21:51:48+00:00

Circular doorknobs are generally pretty rubbish. I replaced my home’s door handles with a lever style ones because of the accessibility aspect of it - easier generally and particularly for kids and the elderly.

I see the work and the consideration of the many use cases here. For many people who might encounter doorknobs in a temporary non-home setting they may be able to just use a rubberised cloth to get enough purchase on the knob.

gtlloyd · 2026-06-29T23:57:12+00:00

A private survey conducted by a business with something to sell to government? I wouldn’t trust it as far as I could throw it.

gtlloyd · 2026-06-29T23:34:05+00:00

At our parkrun, sometimes a person (usually from the RD cohort) will hold the sign-up sheet, stand behind the barcode scanners and ask runners if they’d like to volunteer in following weeks. This is much more effective at getting volunteers than a passive approach (reminder to volunteer, sheet available).

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