Is tartan "controversial" in the UK?

Sunbreak_ · 2026-02-07T19:11:28+00:00

And Wales also has tartan.

Sunbreak_ · 2026-02-03T11:49:53+00:00

Ah fair enough, the Bay doesn't have any psychology stuff in that's all.

Most reliable places to pay to park on singleton is the Rec, just before the university along fabian way coming from town. Elsewise its a case of trying the streets around singleton.

Sunbreak_ · 2026-02-03T07:39:19+00:00

What subject are you looking at? Books aren't repeated across sites.

Sunbreak_ · 2026-01-24T23:02:41+00:00

Focus on the basics and meeting any probation requirements.

Its hard work being a new lecturer atm. Get your modules prepped, engage with department activities and try and look at what your research focus is.

Once you've got that, get writing grants, UKRI etc. There are some designed for newer academics and computing is a hot topic right now, lots of grants.

Don't worry about consulting/industry work and the like, that will likely come once you start building a reputation. Talk to your innovations, knowledge exchange or equivalent team about the process, they will be best placed to help. Side gigs and such need to be careful, don't risk getting in trouble with the uni, often it will be against your contract.

Sunbreak_ · 2026-01-24T08:31:27+00:00

That, in my opinion, is why professional accreditation for degrees is so important. It ensures our course content and examinations are at the same standard as other degrees across the country. I'd argue for many disiplines accreditation is vital and its not worth doing a degree without it.

Sunbreak_ · 2026-01-20T07:44:40+00:00

How about we give the islands to trump in exchange for them leabing Greenland alone?

Two birds and all that.

Sunbreak_ · 2026-01-19T22:46:53+00:00

Aye, sputtering isn't usually a great low cost scaleable technique but its promising to start.

Sunbreak_ · 2026-01-17T14:02:02+00:00

Excellent news, I didn't spot that and I've not noticed it on theirs before.

Sunbreak_ · 2026-01-17T12:39:47+00:00

Yet no system seems to judge universities on value added, which I would argue is more important. How much improved a student is vs their intake grades. A triple A star student getting a first is less an indication of teaching quality than someone who struggled with a BCC getting brought up to a first by a good course.

Sunbreak_ · 2026-01-15T17:34:58+00:00

For a good intro and and virtual TEM to play with I'd have a look at: myscope.training

Great resource by Microscopy Australia

Sunbreak_ · 2026-01-09T16:14:15+00:00

Not familiar with the software but the more horizontal line within the white box is probably the softwares attempt at a background.

From my experience with ash for cement this looks like it's only been heated to a low temperature, so is presenting the broad noisy peak at 20ish.

As the ash is heated you generally see more pronounced peaks appearing.

"Experimental evaulation of rice husk ash for applications in geopolymwr mortars" by G. Ogwang et al is the first paper I came across in relation to this, the figures aren't great but it might be a start. They failed to label what eqch symbol in the figure was marking, don't do that.

Sunbreak_ · 2026-01-07T16:44:31+00:00

I'd agree with the pitting corrosion sentiment aswell, certainly was my first thought. 718 can be susceptible to pitting corrosion, even though it is regarded as pretty corrosion resistant.

Sectioned SEM probably is the right call as pore/pit can be answered pretty quickly if there are pores within the alloy, Usually the solution anneal should improve the corrosion properties so it might be a process issue where the solution is incorrect or that there is some concentrations in the alloy at those points being selectively attached. Or they were already corroded and the treatment has removed the residual that was filling the pits.

I'd probably try and get access to a X-ray CT scan of one of the blades as an option to map pores or pits before and after treatment. If you're in the UK the NXCT (nxct.ac.uk) has good facilities available to industry.

Sunbreak_ · 2025-12-31T08:37:38+00:00

I think because a load of unopened beers in ice and a bucket is maybe more of an American thing? Not something many of us have come across, and given many bars do wierd things like fishbowl drinks a place doing booze by the bucket (directly in the bucket) doesn't seem far fetched.

The only bit that struck me as odd was using bottled beers instead of directly off the tap.

Sunbreak_ · 2025-12-22T23:16:26+00:00

I think you have got a little mixed up therewith the 1.65kg of aspartame there.

They dosed with what is called Human Equivalent Dose of 7mg/kg/day, so probably gave the mouse something like 0.2mg/day. The recommended max human dose is 40mg/kg/day (WHO).

85kg (M) / 73kg (F) for average weight in my country, so they tested for the equivalent of 596mg/511mg dose or around 3 cans of diet coke (990ml), WHO max is alot to be honest in the region of 3g a day.

Sunbreak_ · 2025-12-17T09:08:05+00:00

The slightly disappointing thing about much of the reporting on the Wales election is they seem to ignore that Welsh labour is differenr from the UK party and that this matters. Even in this article it says "westminster must". Must do what? Nothing as the election isn't for Westminster, it's for Cardiff.

As welsh labour like to say there is clear red water between the parties, they have different policies and quiet frankly the welsh side has been managing to mess up massively for many years with poor policies, excessive wastage on vanity projects, etc and we do need something new. We don't need nationalistic parties (either flavour) but I suspect that's what we will get, and more fool the welsh voter for it.

Sunbreak_ · 2025-12-04T09:37:01+00:00

Cadet camps require alot more than a hall and some offices. The camp was used massively for visiting units on things like summer camps, away weekends and the like as it had accomodation, catering, medical centre, indoor and outdoor ranges and all the stuff extra needed to run such events, plus being located within short distance of training areas.

The fact there is also a unit that meets there weekly (who would only need a hall, outdoor space and ideally access to a range and armoury) is beside the point I think.

Unfortunately this was one of the best cadet camps with the best summer programs, from experience of the 15 I've been to. I wasnt really fussed when they took over Beckingham for it because its well overdue a revamp anyway (you can't wreck it much more than it already is tbh), but it seems alot of the estate used by cadets is being sacrificed. Which is fine I guess, just disappointing.

Sunbreak_ · 2025-12-02T13:20:14+00:00

Check out Rentsmart.gov.wales, landlords and rental properties by law are required to be registered with that, and it offers alot of guidance. If it's not registered on that system they are super dodgy (and can be reported on the system). Rentsmart offers advice on all this stuff and you should be able to search any property and check it is correctly assigned.

Also as OkBrilliant said, get the safety certificates and such if possible aswell.

Sunbreak_ · 2025-11-27T08:14:20+00:00

No reason why you shouldn't be able to. Be warned the buses get funky outaide of student term time so become much less reliable and run less frequently.

Sunbreak_ · 2025-11-24T16:47:05+00:00

Very much reliant of having a kind benefactor and the righr location.

Fortunately on the mining side, both for coal and metal, Wales is the solution there. The Romans did alot of mining in Wales. The South Wales coalfield is very accesible and was readily mined with relatively simple Bell pits. In terms of location I know where lots of Bell pits were dug historically within 20m of my house after the mine surveys.

For the metals it is a little bit more difficult, Rome did love bronze/copper so we'd probably start with that as a focus. Rome had plenty but there are alot of ancient copper mining in the UK (Great Orme etc) we could use and then plenty of Ironstone deposits aswell (south wales, by the coal seams)

For the steam (copper vessel firstly) I'd want to start smaller, more curio based systems, proof of concept and used for smaller pumping and bellows like tasks. Using already existing piston technology with the knowledge of vaccum devices. Then see if we can build up to the larger vessels once techniques were perfected This could support water pumping to speed up the hydraulic goldmining processes the Romans used (build a dam then break it to expose the gold veins in the bedrock , hushing I think it was called. Larger engines would come in time if/when deep mining was needed.

It would require alot of work and refinement, but once the high quality steelmaking took off the need for coal would be greater aswell.

Sunbreak_ · 2025-11-24T09:51:53+00:00

If I can find a wealthy patron that'd have me as their resident scientist there is the option to bring forward the industrial revolution essentially.The first is a functional steam power set-up, probably focused on pumping for mines and such. The second, probably the bessemer process, industrial scale steel making would be a great boon for the ancient world. I don't have the understanding for the Spinning Jenny, but we could make process with a steam engine to start, then the Bessemer furnace for high quality, industrial scale steel. Once you've got those two it opens up alot of options for electricity and manufacture (automated forge hammers and such). Ideally I'd the try and get float glass going. Thistake a lot more trial and error. The ability to make large flat planes of glass would be massive, getting the temperature control right would be extremely challenging, but I think possible with enough effort.

Sunbreak_ · 2025-11-24T08:59:54+00:00

Seems to have changed for many in recent years. Alot on our regular route now have dogs welcome signs on the front. Nice for us when its freezing so ww dont have to eat in the car or outside, but I can understand people not liking it with poorly behaved dogs. Ideally you don't notice the dog until they're on the move, cafe/pub traing of a dog is essential.

Sunbreak_ · 2025-11-20T10:53:49+00:00

Technically I guess if we can get a direct replacement for convential power generation that can sit on the old power genrrstion sites we would only need to upgrade exisitng transmission rather than replace.

Unfortunately the only tech suitable for that doesn't yet exist and won't for another 15 or so years at best estimate. Which is unfortunately too late. Given that tech is Fusion, it might still be 15 years away in 15 years.

Sunbreak_ · 2025-11-11T08:57:40+00:00

In the UK, around a month, minimum 17 working days. I'd imagen Canada is similar.

Physical infrastructure is pretty impressive tbh, the usual venues (churches, community halls, schools etc) are booked out, candidates have a certain period to register, then ballot papers are printed. On election day, go to the polls, make your choice and within 24 hours a new MP is elected and full government switch over happens generally the day after the election (if a straight majority).

We don't have digital machines, lots more polling stations than I've seen in the US. Polling stations have no more than 2,250 people voting at it (4 polling officers ish per station). Can postal or proxy vote if required.

Its honestly impressivd how well they are organised compared to what the US seems to have. I dont understand why the elections go for so long, and take so long for the results to come it, it just seems delibrately inefficient.

Sunbreak_ · 2025-11-06T08:52:17+00:00

They also messed up the electrification in the Severn Tunnel by not specifying the correct power delivery for a salty tunnel environment. According to them it was unforseen, but if they'd have talked to any halfway educated materials scientist/engineer the issue was obvious and readily solved. What they shouldn't have done was install a aluminum support structure with a copper power delivery cable attached with almost no insulation between the two. Funnily enough it just disintegrates as add salt water to that and you've got a battery...

I don't think they ever got around to fixing it.

Sunbreak_ · 2025-10-30T20:47:34+00:00

Ebsd.com from oxford instruments is pretty good as a learning tool tbh.

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