AnAustralianPhotographer
@AnAustralianPhotographer@lemmy.world
Photographer and open source software fan.
I’ve also made a few tutorials at youtube.com/@AnAustralianPhotographer
Blog: anaustralianphotographer.wordpress.com
Webshop: anaustralianphotographer.threadless.com where you can buy prints and other merch featuring my photos.
- Comment on How is my bedroom being heated? 1 day ago:
Sounds like a job for an IR camera or PolygonDenimLand? lemmy.world/post/25404145
- Comment on Anon wants $3 million 4 days ago:
Well that changes things. Then probably some fluro vest wearing people would unexpectedly turn up from the ‘council’ and want to take the exhibit away early cause they got the call there were some ‘thieving bastards’ about and you couldn’t trust anyone.
- Comment on Anon wants $3 million 4 days ago:
If it was done in Australia, I reckon the 3 mil wouldnt last 24 hours. Possible tools I’d say would be used are :- 1) Ute 2) Bobcat 3) Backhoe & 4) Bulldozer, not necessarily in that order…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It varies by army, so this won’t be exact.
A platoon has around 30 people in it. It has around 20 privates, about 7 non commissioned officers and one commissioned officer. Say 3 lance(junior) corporals, 3 corporals and a sergeant. In overall command is a commissioned officer.
When you join the army you typically go in as non commissioned as a private or commissioned as a leuitenant.
Officers are trained to lead people from the start. The lieutenant may have 1-2 years experience and the sergeant may have 16 years experience.
The next level up is a captain who commands say 3-5 platoons. At the start of saving private Ryan, Tom Hanks character was a captain in command of around 100 soldiers.
I think around 5 companies make a battalion. And that’s just soldiers.
You can also make a unit out of soldiers, engineers, artillery, transport and some other specialists like medical and cooks.
I believe a brigadier general would command a unit around this size.
To get there I would expect he worked his way up the rank, working at each level for around 2-3 years.
He would have been in the army around 15-20 years, but some people could get promoted faster.
- Comment on Worst nightmare 2 weeks ago:
Well, that’s another way to be sure.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I feel communities can be put in 3 categories.
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Everything here is safe for work
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Things here are not safe for work, e.g. adult communities. There might be a bit of safe for work, but anyone browsing it knows what to expect
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The third is a combination. It might have a community rule that anything NSFW is tagged as such. With my browsing setup I have to click on NSFW posts to reveal them.
I’d have a look around for an art sharing community. I think theres one on world and they might allow NSFW content and people would be more likely to give you relevant feedback.
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- Comment on What is the best post sort for Lemmy? 4 weeks ago:
My default is hot for subscribed, although i should also try scaled to show smaller communities.
And if I hit posts I recently browsed, I changed it up to Top 12 hours or top of day for all to see some ‘newer’ things.
- Comment on blast from the past 4 weeks ago:
Damn. What’s the fastest way to the Mesozoic?
- Comment on Woloolooloolool 4 weeks ago:
Mmmmmmmm… Bur… gers…
- Comment on Can someone explain to me how a ventilation fan can suck LESS when on high compared to low? 1 month ago:
That could happen with propellors that have Constant Speet Units. (Propellor pitch is able to be changed) The act is called ‘feathering’ . This can happen on multi engine aircraft and reduce the drag of the side with the failed engine. Cheaper propellors are fixed pitch and no means exist to change them.
- Comment on Can someone explain to me how a ventilation fan can suck LESS when on high compared to low? 1 month ago:
Not exactly a scientist, and I agree with the other long answer about blades disrupting each other, so I’m replying to see if I can help you visualize/understand some of the forces at play.
My source is a Tom Clancy book about a sub war.
Typically the subs are stealthy, however if I remember correctly, I’d they decided to gun the engines (think something like 105% on the reactor), they could spin the blades really fast.
But compressing the water as the blade spins makes some of it high pressure and the other side of the blade low pressure.
This would reduce the pressure low enough that the water would become a gas and in doing so, make a lot of noise and was called cavitation.
When the sub commander did this, it did mean the ship could go very fast, but was noisy as hell and anyone near would know they were around, but if someone shot a torpedo at you and you had to get out of range…
Before readying the other reply I thought something like this might have happened and disrupted the smooth laminar airflow.
I know aircraft have over speed and under speed warnings for propellors too.
- Comment on Gottem. 1 month ago:
Is the glass:- Half full? Half empty? Twice as big for redundancy and margin of error? Twice as big but needs to be and has to go into the pressure cooker? …
- Comment on What is a community you like and would recommend to others and why? 1 month ago:
Thanks. I’ve joined there too
- Comment on What is a community you like and would recommend to others and why? 1 month ago:
There’s the saying 'May you live in interesting time’s which is actually a curse, I reckon I’m up for a bit of not interesting.
- Comment on What is a community you like and would recommend to others and why? 1 month ago:
I think you should have a look at how the Golfafrinchans launched their rockets and maybe take a leaf out of their book. I hope I’m not on the same level as telephone sanitisers.
- Comment on What is a community you like and would recommend to others and why? 1 month ago:
Thank you I’ve subscribed to both. I might go back into casual conversation and put my new years goals under the post a few days ago
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- Comment on So is it "It just works" or "Shit just works"? 1 month ago:
Hmmm. What if it’s because the admin was an old school Linux user and never took to bash. “sh. it just works”.
- Comment on Not something urgent, but the Aussie parliament passed new laws yesterday and it could impact Lemmy.world (in a year) 2 months ago:
The law specifically mentions government IDs in the legislation . If have to check, but Im confident they’re specifically excluded.
- Comment on Not something urgent, but the Aussie parliament passed new laws yesterday and it could impact Lemmy.world (in a year) 2 months ago:
Ive had a look at the legislation, its an ammendment to an existing set of laws. It underwent some changes as it passed through the House of Representatives and the Senate, so i had a look at the ‘As passed by both houses’ version at www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/…/Result?bI…
So it looks like what is ‘Social media’ can be defined by a Minister / Commissioner, it looks like there needs to be something documented (again not calling on lemmy.world to do something for this as part of this post) by the Social media company, and it looks like the recording of government id’s for the purpose of confirming ages is expressly prohibited.
A penalty Unit is around $300.
- Not something urgent, but the Aussie parliament passed new laws yesterday and it could impact Lemmy.world (in a year)www.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 2 months ago to support@lemmy.world | 23 comments
- Comment on TURKEY POWER 2 months ago:
Rookie Numbers.It only uses elecitrical power generated. Why not cook turkeys in heat destined for cooling towers ? Gotta push those numbers way up.
- Comment on Do you think being left-handed gives any unique qualities or advantages compares to other right handed? 2 months ago:
In English we write left to right and lefties smudge their writing (or adapt their grip I guess) so, for right to left languages it’s a plus.
After typing there para above, I guess they could also be better drawers if they have done more practice or use a different grip or draw instead of write if they’re part of a class doing pencil and paper time.
- Comment on Is there a way to promote a community you create without stepping on toes? 2 months ago:
Have a look at lemmy.world/c/newcommunities . I just know it exists and have got looking at it’s rules and checking it out more on my to-do list.
- Comment on Can someone explain the framework of the current British... idk is empire the correct term? 2 months ago:
Thank you.
- Comment on Can someone explain the framework of the current British... idk is empire the correct term? 2 months ago:
Australia is its own country, however we still have ties and the King/Queen can cause a ruckus if they want, however recently we’ve been left to our own devices. I see people over in the UK as ‘Royal Watchers’ and monarchists, and dont see any similar level of affection for the royalty here. Sure when we get a visit, crowds will turn up, but im confident the size relative to the population over time has declined.
Not exactly a historian, so could be a wrong with this. In WW1, When Britain went to war, a lot of the people had the intent to follow and saw it as a duty to ‘defend the empire’ . In WW2 i think we had a bit more independence and remember a story about a troop ship being redirected to fight the Japanese rather than fight the Germans. That was was seen as a lot closer to home with the bombing of Darwin and fighting on the Kokoda track.
Now, i think the population would be totally indifferent.
We have the King and Queen on our coins, and the Queen is on the $5 note, but notable australians are also printed on other notes.
To pass new laws in our Federal Parliament (i think state parliaments are similar but there might be exceptions), it needs to be voted on by the House of Representatives (151 elected politicians from 151 geographically organised electorates with roughly an equal number of voters. e.g. NT has two electorates which is effectively Darwin and the rest of the NT. An electorate in Sydney might only be several suburbs while a country electorate in WA could be a third of the state). it also needs to be voted on in the Senate which consists of 76 Senators ( Each state elects 12 Senators (QLD,NSW,VIC,TAS,SA & WA) while territories each get 2 (ACT & NT).
Once its past both the house and the Senate, it also needs Royal Assent by the Governor General. The Governor General can refuse to give assent but i cannot point to a time when this has happened. The Governor General can also reserve legislation for the Queens Pleasure which defers approval to the Queen.
The Governor General is not elected, and appointed by the Queen/King. I understand that convention recently has been that the Queen meets with the Prime Minister and appoints whoever the Prime Minster recommends. I think the Queen can change who is appointed as Governor General at will, so theoretically could call them to direct them to not give royal assent to particularly controversial legislation.
Right now, the Queen or King could take a seat in the Senate if he or she wished, but not in the House as it was seen as to be for the people. He or She wouldn’t get a vote, but I guess it would only be to give royal assent as soon as a bill has passed. If it happened, it would make national news.
Was there an Australian Revolution ? We floated the idea somewhat recently, and there was a referendum (a vote to change the countries constitution) on whether to become a republic. For it to pass it needed a majority of votes and a majority in the majority of states/territories. I think the wording was that we replace the governor general with a president elected by the people. It didnt get up, and the idea has been left alone since.
I think if you ask most Aussies, the like being in the commonwealth as we get more medals at the commonwealth games than the Olympics and they enjoy thrashing the Poms at Cricket/Rugby / Othersports.
As for our relationship with other commonwealth countries, I wouldnt say theres anything really special there except for New Zealand and this probably dates back to the ANZAC Corps and Gallipoli which is seen as our emergence of a country (i dont want to speak for NZ on this one). We might make fun of our ‘cousins’ across the ditch but i’d like to think that if something seriously went wrong, we’d be ready to lend them a hand in a heartbeat.
- Comment on The Prisoner's Trolley Problemma 2 months ago:
Theoretically, will a collision cause a breach of the radioactive material that’s in the box with my cat? Asking for a friend.
- Comment on Where can I buy a mosquito laser system? 2 months ago:
Would they be dangerous to mount them on sharks ? asking for a friend.
- Comment on Can you scale down a firearm to make an identical looking firearm that fires a different round? 3 months ago:
Calibre conversion kits do exist. I think they could be for might be cases where people want to practice marksmanship with smaller calibers like a .22 en.m.wikipedia.org/…/Caliber_conversion_device
- Comment on How do I... Do court? I didn't realize my license was expired and got pulled over. Now I have court tomorrow. 4 months ago:
If it was me, I would go in, dressed smart casual, be on time, polite, own up to the issue, say sorry I forgot to get it renewed and I hadn’t realized it needed doing, inform the judge of any mitigating circumstances that might have distracted you and ask that because it’s your first offence if they could be lenient as there were no other aggravating factors (speeding, drunk, crashed car with injuries rtc).
Was the car or truck in pretty good condition ?. It’s what I’d try if all indications are you are an otherwise legal and safe driver. I’m not asking for you to answer to me, but they seem relevant to a judge. I hope things work out ok for you.
The only other thing I could think of is if someone could be a character witness but the court might not want to hear them.
Maybe you have a good reason to ask for the fine to be waived if you have sick kids etc, or have been saving for a worthwhile cause and this would be a major setback or a penalty like losing your license would make you unable to work or look after kids.
If you are pleasant and don’t make things harder then they might have discretion to adjust the penalty and decide to do so. But the law might also be written so the judge has no say in the penalty or a minimum penalty is required.
I know of some drivers over here if they have an established safe driving record they can write and ask for a speeding fine to be reviewed and possibly waived (if it was just a few kms over, cant see it work gor 30km/h+ over).
I think there’s also been a few cases where people who would otherwise have their license suspended over here get an exemption for work etc.