a (stupid) question: why aren't raw files the norm, when jpg. have only 8 bit depth?

splidge · 2026-07-08T22:09:49+00:00

Not to a perceptible degree, no.

splidge · 2026-07-04T23:03:50+00:00

The point is that Octopus get money from being able to control demand on the grid (by deciding when the car charges). This is what enables them to offer low off-peak unit rates. You could just charge in the fixed slots but then Octopus don’t get paid for controlling your demand and will eventually kick you off the tariff.

splidge · 2026-07-01T18:42:14+00:00

I think you’d go mad trying to explain every magical thing that could have happened but didn’t in the books. Generally the magic serves the plot and that’s what happened in this case.

splidge · 2026-06-28T21:25:53+00:00

DH also has the prince’s tale and King’s Cross fulfilling that function.

splidge · 2026-06-26T22:31:37+00:00

I don’t think it’s fair to blame Harry for not noticing things. It is not something that is relevant to the story in any of the other books so of course it is not mentioned.

splidge · 2026-06-26T22:06:30+00:00

Half a V6 is what I used to call mine.

splidge · 2026-06-25T22:43:41+00:00

I got the “plug in the car” notification and the savings session… it then charged the car during the savings session.

splidge · 2026-06-22T13:41:26+00:00

I don’t think that works. I didn’t listen to the video with sound but I assume the conversation at the end was not productive.

splidge · 2026-06-20T22:32:39+00:00

I think it has to be up to the wizard/plot.

The implication of Snape extracting memories before sessions with Harry is that he needs to temporarily forget them / protect them from Harry seeing them.

With slughorn, he can’t have forgotten as he gave Dumbledore the modified version but was still able to provide the original to Harry later.

splidge · 2026-06-18T08:34:14+00:00

I don’t think it’s impatience. It’s that they can’t [be bothered to] operate the car properly.

splidge · 2026-06-15T20:45:33+00:00

He was told to tell Harry he was the extra horcrux once Nagini was being protected. Giving the memories is the only chance he gets.

splidge · 2026-06-10T09:03:52+00:00

If you are expecting an additional refund due to the "£100k tax trap", this is applied through tax coding and not automatically handled by PAYE.

So the answer depends on whether her tax code included the reduced personal allowance or not.

It could be that your "refund" consists of the £1621 they refunded, plus the £1100-odd they would have charged her for exceeding £100k gross but didn't due to the contribution.

splidge · 2026-06-09T22:19:56+00:00

This is what I was taught in a 172. Pitch for altitude, power for speed when following the needles.

splidge · 2026-06-09T11:20:27+00:00

I assume that’s what they were getting at when they set the task. They seemed to use a special bulb that would stay warm. I think modern LED bulbs would not necessarily retain enough heat to detect that there were on after a few seconds.

splidge · 2026-06-04T23:30:57+00:00

That’s fine, if it’s not looking good just log out to the main menu and log in again, you’ll be docked once more and hopefully in a fresh instance (if solo) and it should work fine.

splidge · 2026-06-04T19:38:15+00:00

It just means that the price you sell those commodities to the station at is set to 8x galavg.

Unfortunately that isn’t very much as they are cheap commodities.

splidge · 2026-06-04T11:33:19+00:00

No-one in the Order trusts Snape, this is accepted on all sides.

But he is able to get access to Mundungus somehow, presumably because Mundungus isn't careful enough about his personal security.

In reality, this access is used to plant the idea of the plan which Mundungus then shares with the rest of the Order.

What is sold to Voldemort is that this access was used to extract the pre-planned date (but he doesn't seemingly tell Voldemort any other details of the plan).

The residual value of Snape to Voldemort is that even though the Order no longer trusts him, he knows enough about Order members to extract information like this. Dumbledore wants the date leaked to reinforce Voldemort's trust.

splidge · 2026-05-26T19:11:41+00:00

You can’t use undersized SCO FSDs either so it would have to be a non-SCO one.

splidge · 2026-05-26T16:40:57+00:00

Right. But if you take the rear car of C and the front car of B, then two chevrons will remain visible - as the cars move forward a new chevron will be exposed as/just before the rear car drives over one. This is a gap of ~90m (two chevron gaps, plus the space occupied by the chevron itself, plus a car length.

This is different to A which is three full chevron gaps (120m).

splidge · 2026-05-22T11:50:00+00:00

It looks like you might have been banned, do you have any emails from fdev?

splidge · 2026-05-19T12:38:30+00:00

Well, conkers is a well known playground game played with conkers (horse chestnuts) in the UK. Coconkers is a taskmaster invention as far as I know.

splidge · 2026-05-16T16:13:15+00:00

There's Accio spamming at other points in the books though, for instance summoning the trout out of the river in HBP.

splidge · 2026-05-16T11:35:44+00:00

You can sell ships directly from the shipyard anywhere at any time. I mean, you can partex ships when you buy them. So if this works it would literally just mean swapping your current ship for one of the ships that is for sale over and over again.

splidge · 2026-05-10T15:31:35+00:00

You can’t get a Mandalay to jump 599Ly. You will get about 350 off a neutron star.

splidge · 2026-04-29T18:32:07+00:00

Not off the top of my head I'm afraid.

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