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23-Jul-20 22:03

... does that make me an endangered species, or a limited edition?

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Garth J Lancaster23-Jul-20 22:10

Garth J Lancaster

23-Jul-20 22:10

I was thinking 'illusion' Big Grin | :-D

OriginalGriff23-Jul-20 22:25

23-Jul-20 22:25

I've been accused of being a Group Mind several times, but it's the first time I've been told I don't actually exis

Garth J Lancaster23-Jul-20 22:33

Garth J Lancaster

23-Jul-20 22:33

chuckle - actually, I know you exist, because there's that darn camera around here somewhere that lets you get the 'posting jump' on me, although the situation did improve after the redis issues were resolved

Daniel Pfeffer23-Jul-20 22:29

Daniel Pfeffer

23-Jul-20 22:29

"Endangered species" doesn't apply; there are plenty of Homo Sapiens Sapiens around (but most aren't sapient Sigh | :sigh:

). "Limited edition" sounds too much like marketerese for "we had too many of these left in the warehouse; let's see if we can ~~get rid of~~ move them by rebranding."

No, you're stuck with being unique - just like the other 8,000 million of us.

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OriginalGriff23-Jul-20 22:42

23-Jul-20 22:42

OOO! I wish you hadn't mentioned rebranding ...

I like hot sauce; and I really like the flavour of Scotch Bonnet chilis - so when I noticed I was running out of hot sauce I added it to the shopping list. "Encona West Indian Extra Hot Pepper Sauce". It's hot, but not quite as hot as I'd like, but a really good flavour.
Get to the supermarket, and spot a different bottle: "Encona West Indian Exxxtra Hot Pepper Sauce". Ah! The same thing, but hotter! I'll try that one.

Get it home, and do a quick taste test - tastes the same (good!), but ... seems like the same heat (bad).
Look closely ... barcode number is the same, ingredients list is the same ... it's the same damn sauce, but slightly rebranded to make it look hotter.
And you can only tell when you have the original and new bottles side by side. Mad | :mad:

W∴ Balboos, GHB24-Jul-20 3:54

W∴ Balboos, GHB

24-Jul-20 3:54

I've a garden actually bursting with Habanero and Yellow Trinidad Scorpion peppers. Especially, the former which seem to be running ahead of the usual end-of-august ripening.

Scotch bonnets may be a bit hotter than the habanero but the scorpions of this type, tame in the realm of this type of pepper, as in the 1,000,000 Scoville range when ripe. And like the scotch bonnets and habaneros, they're capsaicin chinese, which gives them that nicer flavor and heat that kicks in late.

My normal treatment is to grind with enough vinegar so as to make a paste and then use it very cautiously. I might also throw in a vitamin C pill to act as a preservative (as a reducing agent, it helps the peppers not turn slowly browner).

There are a lot of online sources for much-too-hot-for-humans sauces which, even if exaggerated, their content means they'll not disappoint.*

* I don't use these to make insanely hot food - for a given heat it just taste better

Ravings en masse^
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CodeWraith23-Jul-20 22:40

23-Jul-20 22:40

Or even worse: An unsuccessful prototype?

I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.

His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.

OriginalGriff23-Jul-20 22:48

23-Jul-20 22:48

I prefer to think they realized I'd be too expensive to manufacture in volume. Big Grin | :-D

CodeWraith23-Jul-20 23:10

23-Jul-20 23:10

If you believe a certain Mr. Darwin, then no living thing will ever be anything more than a prototype. Mass production of any single one is not intended any time soon.

I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.

His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.

OriginalGriff23-Jul-20 23:17

23-Jul-20 23:17

Hmmm ... are you sure? I mean, just look at Boy Bands ... Unsure | :~

CodeWraith24-Jul-20 1:53

24-Jul-20 1:53

Some things may not be part of god's plan, but that does not keep some idiots from trying to do it anyway.

I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.

His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.

dandy7224-Jul-20 2:46

dandy72

24-Jul-20 2:46

OriginalGriff wrote:
I prefer to think they realized I'd be too expensive to manufacture in volume

Ask your parents, I'll bet they'll agree.

OriginalGriff24-Jul-20 2:53

24-Jul-20 2:53

Probably not: I'm the second of four ... Laugh | :laugh:

dandy7224-Jul-20 6:05

dandy72

24-Jul-20 6:05

I did mean you, specifically. Poke tongue | ;-P

Sandeep Mewara23-Jul-20 23:34

Sandeep Mewara

23-Jul-20 23:34

Neither. How about a Singleton Instance? $Shucks | :-\$

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OriginalGriff23-Jul-20 23:39

23-Jul-20 23:39

Nah. I'm married.

Marc Clifton24-Jul-20 3:12

Marc Clifton

24-Jul-20 3:12

OriginalGriff wrote:
does that make me an endangered species, or a limited edition?

Does that imply your value increases after you're dead?

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24-Jul-20 3:20

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obermd24-Jul-20 3:37

obermd

24-Jul-20 3:37

With your sense of humor - a Special Edition. Poke tongue | ;-P

W∴ Balboos, GHB24-Jul-20 3:59

W∴ Balboos, GHB

24-Jul-20 3:59

Putting your well-established multiple personality disorder aside, I think you'd be better served with a more scientific sounding description. Perhaps you should consider "anomaly", or in old-school genetic description (plant husbandry), a "sport".

I promised myself not to bring up any possibility of a hybridization with Ovis aries, no matter how high the probability in your particular environment.

Ravings en masse^
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We must have some SOASs (*) on the moonbase

Gerry Schmitz24-Jul-20 13:30

Gerry Schmitz

24-Jul-20 13:30

Cloning is not out of the question.

It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
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CodeWraith23-Jul-20 21:41

Re: We must have some SOASs (*) on the moonbase

23-Jul-20 21:41

Last year I had started to print a Space 1999 Eagle[^] and had found a nice 3D model.

The model was nice until I started printing. The model was obviously made for rendering and not for 3D printing. Here are just some of the problems:

- The bigger parts were just grouped together. There were no provisions made to actually assemble the model (unless I drilled holes in them and held everything together with metal or carbon fiber rods).
- Some of the shapes had not been properly joined. Most of the scaffolding is just a collection of cylinders which overlap at the connections. A raytracer is fine with that because it only cares about the surface. The slicer (that's the program that 'slices' up the 3D model into layers and commands for the 3D printer) works in a similar way, but must also look what's going on inside. It must interpret the overlapping areas as hollow and lets the printer print it that way, making the printed part so weak that it already falls apart before printing is finished.
- Many details were just done with textures and rounded shapes were often done with too few polygons. No problem for some rendering magic, but the 3D printer can't texture anything or interpolate any curves.
- Bigger parts like the command module or the pods with the landing gear are quite large and were designed as one solid object. They print as one big, heavy and almost indestructible block. A real waste of filamen, so I had to hollow them out and cut them apart.
- Some parts were just designed lazyly. For two similar, but not identical parts often just one version was included. A little more attention to details, please!

Bottom line: There is not a single part which I did not have to modify, join together, cut apart, hollow out or even redesign from scratch. Now it's slowly taking shape and it already can stand on its own feet without a drop of glue. There is only one thing: The printed model so far does not look like it will add up to the 44 inches length of the original studio model. My best guess right now ends up with about 33 inches. Still big enough, but why did someone have to post an absolutely unprintable model and then scale it down by some random factor? To make it harder to make it printable?

And yes, there are obviously SOAS hiding in the hangar of the moonbase. All parts, especially the scaffolding again, are covered in 'cobwebs'. I'm already printing 20 degrees below the minimum temperature for this PLA filament, but the nozzle of the printer still leaves behind a wisp of filament when it moves over to another point. Maybe I should try another brand of filament when this roll is used up.

(*) SOAS: Spider Of Apalling Size

I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.

His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.

modified 24-Jul-20 4:01am.

OriginalGriff23-Jul-20 21:58

Re: We must have some SOASs (*) on the moonbase

23-Jul-20 21:58

It could be worth adding a little retraction, or even Z lift - that reduced it considerably for me when printing PETG.

I never had that problem printing PLA - I used the roll that came with the machine, so AnyCubic brand (no idea who actually makes it for them).

What brand did you use? How old is it? How is it stored? PLA for example is prone to absorbing moisture, and that causes stringing as it turns to steam in the hot end and both increases the "stringiness" of the filament, and "forces" the strand out of the head.

CodeWraith23-Jul-20 22:30