AnAustralianPhotographer @ AnAustralianPhotographer @lemmy.world

Photographer and open source software fan.

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Aussie!, Aussie!, Aussie!!!!!

Ahh, the XP-79C...

The movie I saw in Australia had the quote exactly as is. I'd like to think most of us recognize that a mile is a bit longer than a kilometer and that those distances are common in drag racing, so they're referred to as is. If we were measuring distance from driving to another city it's in kilometers and miles aren't used.

Tape measures have centimeters and inches on them. If I'm using approximations I might use inches and Subway has probably been the main reason Aussies know of inches and a foot.

If I'm doing any scientific measurement like building a cabinet etc, it's mm and cm.

I'm more into central American rainforests.

Is the promo of buy one, get a free Wiesel still on?

JATO Spooky A380's with parasite tigers..... I cannot confirm nor deny knowledge of the existence of plans for any such aircraft....

Kookaburra photos.

Sounds like a job for an IR camera or Polygondenimland? https://lemmy.world/post/25404145

Hmmm. There's room for a slash from the top left to bottom right to disambiguate this, but it'll likely end up with more slashed Os and 0s.

I don't see how this could be enforced. There's no requirement for each instance to run the same software ad others to require this.

As open source, someone could create a private fork and just not do it.

There could also be communities where up vote and down vote farming could occur so save them for other communities.

Now for the good news. If you were a school or uni or some other organisation, you could make your own instance and have to software changed to enforce this and not federate as the organization controls the servers used and the code on it.

Balrogs. All the way down.

LOL

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.

Do you want and can deal with no compression at all?, what if you made an ISO of each CD and then archived that as a lossless option.

Well, that's another way to be sure. When taking off and nuking the site from orbit isn't quite enough.

Instructions very clear. https://youtu.be/KFiXReaYEj8

Want me to dim the lights and get you an aspirin?

And the dinghy got him all the way to dock. What more could anyone want.

I wasn't trying to say that fault tolerant practices like journaling file systems wouldn't be used, but to use an analogy, the system knows that when it's low on power and tired to the point it needs a recharge, it can stop and lie down deliberately rather than keep running until it drops and maybe fall over and hit it's head.

I'm not a switch expert but can think of a reason why it might do this.

The system might show it's battery level to you as 100% to 0% when it might actually be draining from 100% to 5%. That last 5% might be used as a sort of internal Uninterruptible Power System .

When the system boots up it might be doing some things where a power failure could have severe consequences like bricking the unit if the plug was pulled out and there was no battery.

The system might use some swap space like storage or have some key variables kept in RAM which needs to be written out to non-volatile memory before the chips are powered down.

For example let's say it hibernates and it doesn't or incorrectly writes the wrong instructions pointer address When the system poweres up, it might try and execute game data instead of instructions and not recover.

Nintendo wouldn't want to handle heaps of complaints of bricked systems due to exceptional circumstances like a power outage if it let the switch play off mains alone.

That's my theory, I could be wrong and I'm sorry it's frustrating you.