Which are different from animal wankers aka semen collectors, BTW. The latter are useful.
]]>I don't imagine many of these guys hanging out at the coffee shop at the end of the day checking email on their laptops.
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Actually they're shit.
]]>Interesting that at such a late date they were still having problems with something so basic as leaky valves - and that they didn't seem to have any better means of evaluating such problems than fitting a complete working engine with a different design and then seeing how much less coal it used. I knew the latter was a problem on large scales pretty well right up to the end - it being a mark of distinction for someone's chief works to have a dynamometer, even if it wasn't big enough to handle the full output of the locos they were testing on it - but I didn't realise it was also a problem down to the scale of individual components. And after all, bench testing different valve designs for leakage isn't a particularly difficult experiment.
Similarly with the illumination the paper gives to the politically unscientific nature of the controversy over valve travel, which really should have been put to bed for good long before that point by a bit of simple flow bench testing, instead of arguing about the relative merits in service of complete locomotive designs which happened to include differences in valve travel among all the other differences. There's another bit elsewhere bemoaning the difficulties of evaluating different cylinder/valve block castings for steam flow without building a complete class of locomotives to the new design and seeing how it works out. Flow bench, lads! Sure you need a big one, but it's still only a minor bit of kit in the context of the size of a whole works, and it would save so much hassle.
]]>Also went out and got new batteries for the UPS that goes on the Photoshop system, so that should be good for another 4 years or so.
And I got a set of speakers.
Hadn't thought about it, but my old monitor had the speakers built in. The new one doesn't. I watch tutorials on YouTube. Those don't work so well if you can't hear them & it's a real pain to have to come into this room to watch something & then run back into the other room to try it..
]]>Guess I won't be taking this up as a hobby - the sci-tech articles I found mentioned some bacteria that are generally not considered healthy for your typical human although the processing associated health risks are probably comparable to other natural fibers. (Environmentally, I'm aware that hemp production needs less water than cotton.)
When I searched for info about range of hemp applications (approx. 2,500) I was surprised to find it covered in this mag. Weird how the Feds are so much less well-informed and pro-active than the States about hemp cultivation and production. Good grief - the Feds run the NIH, EPA, CDC plus assorted other very advanced research* centers. Makes no sense therefore left wondering who's lobbying against hemp.
'However, despite state authorization to grow hemp, farmers in those states still risk raids by federal agents, prison time, and property and civil asset forfeiture if they plant the crop due to the failure of federal policy to distinguish non-drug oilseed and fiber varieties of Cannabis (i.e., industrial hemp) from psychoactive drug varieties (i.e., "marihuana").'
I've been looking for speakers too since getting my new laptop - terrible audio. What brand/make did you get?
]]>https://www.msy.com.au/sonicgear-quatro-2-grey-20-usb-speaker
If for some reason you want slightly more audiophile ones the AudioEngine 5+ have served me well for a number of years.
]]>Dunno about hemp, but retting flax smells absolutely disgusting.
]]>“What the retting flax are you poffering about, you slurpulent gimboid!”
]]>I imagine these assholes in Liverpool stunk quite a bit by the time they got home, too. I have sympathy for people whose arts and crafts project makes a mess; these guys, no.
]]>Re: 'And I got a set of speakers.'
I've been looking for speakers too since getting my new laptop - terrible audio. What brand/make did you get?
On the way home from Batteries + Bulbs (where I got the new batteries installed in my UPS) there's an Office Depot. I got the only set of computer speakers they had; Logitech Z313.
https://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/speaker-system-z313
I don't need anything fancier than that for my Photoshop computer.
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