#Flow Engineering

[decoupledlogic]

Revolutionizing Business Operations for Digital Products a Value Delivery System (VDS)

In the world of digital products and business operations, we often talk about delivering value to customers. But what does this really mean in practice? How can we ensure that our processes are optimized for maximum efficiency and effectiveness? Enter the Value Delivery System (VDS) – a framework that’s revolutionizing how businesses approach value creation and delivery. Deconstructing the Value…

[pizza-rina]

wip of comic im making for Flow cause MY GIRL DESERVED BETTER

[fuckyeahfluiddynamics]

The Art of French Drains

Civil engineers face a constant challenge trying to protect their structures from water -- both above and below the ground. Subsurface water can build up enough pressure to lift and damage structures, so engineers use subsurface infrastructure -- like French drains -- to control the water underground. (Video and image credit: Practical Engineering) Read the full article

[skyriderwednesday]

I love new Electra, but also there is something deeply wrong about Bald Electra to me, so I gave them hair :))

[ryan1014n2]

Someday, eventually, things will become okay again

[scary-senpai]

Rewatching One Punch Man and talking about the origin of different abilities.

Me: a lot of them look supernatural, but the origin is usually hard work. Like Saitama—

Boyfriend: hard work or monsterization.

Me: well yeah but that’s not really not what I—

Boyfriend: —and monsterization usually comes from obsession, right? So Saitama works hard but he’s also obsessed with strength so maybe he’s got all this power because he’s a little bit monster—

Anyway I think I have to go lie down for a bit.🫠

[smidge-j]

I went to see the first major hydroelectric system (not a dam) built in New Zealand today

Coleridge Power system in Canterbury, New Zealand

Water in the natural Lake Coleridge is diverted through some tunnels (pic 3) under a small mountain, then down the side of the hill through the penstocks (pic 1), where it goes through turbines to generate electricity before being discharged into the Rakaia River(pic 2), which runs parallel to the lake, at a significantly lower elevation. It is not a dam, like most hydroelectric systems are, instead using the natural elevation and tunnels to power the turbines.

Stats:

Operational in 1914

The tunnels through the hill are around 2km long

Elevation difference between the lake and the turbines is around 160m

Output of 270 gigawatt hours annually.

Tagging @possumofdoom because I know you are also interested in hydroelectricity

[muontron]

I do this thing in my head that’s a little cringe but I talk to my “mentor” figures in my head like they’re right there. Not like my irl mentors but …. Um. Newton and Galileo and stuff like that. People who I look up to, that most certainly have no correlation to me at all.

For instance— Something goes wrong while I’m woodworking and I stare at the wall and go: “did you see that, archimedes?” And sigh like a sitcom character. A laugh track plays in my head as I am the object of jest

[bacchuschucklefuck]

the nsbu table is five DM pets and rekha shankar

[carlyraejepsans]

i might actually post the rough of this because the first scenes are just enough info to keep u guessing and introduce the actual plot and like, 99% a ridiculously fluffy, sans-centric character study of theway he feels about frisk post pacifist that's been rattling around in my head forever

[batsplat]

i also think that marc’s single minded focus leads him to ignore people who are significantly less talented than him (no offense). it seems like there are some people who would LIKE to beef with marc, but he simply catalogues their crimes against him (or however he sees it) and uses that as motivation to very tidily beat them. and maybe vale was more ready to “stoop to their level” so to speak — although, like you said, MOST of his feuds were with quite talented riders

(follow up to this) all of them were quite talented riders! but again, what you're talking about can really be explained through competitive necessity. marc's career has quite a few seasons where he's well clear of the field and quite a few seasons where he's not competitive at all, whereas valentino has far more seasons where he's top three of the championship without being completely dominant. that's the thing right, marc's spats aren't with riders he's currently engaged with title fights in. and valentino wasn't doing all that much stooping either - he too has various minor spats of the marc variety... but they've been forgotten about because it just wasn't that serious. all of valentino's major feuds are with riders he got into title fights with

I'm not saying that marc isn't single minded or that he isn't arrogant, because obviously he's both of those things. and yes, he does tend to adopt quite an isolationist approach in that he mostly keeps the grid at a distance. and yes, sometimes riders criticise him and he mostly does not engage. but at the same time, all the spats you're thinking about here just aren't the kind of things that escalated into feuds for valentino either, so you're comparing apples and oranges really. the closest point of comparison we have is valentino's rivalries with biaggi/sete escalating and marc's with dovi not doing so... but like. marc isn't ignoring a string of provocations in that rivalry. there's just more compelling reasons you can point to for that not escalating, like the competitive stakes in the marc/dovi rivalry or indeed dovi's personality. you can also point to valentino being more proactive in the biaggi rivalry - but valentino wasn't stopping at that point. he didn't have some divine insight to know his talent levels were greater than biaggi several years before they began competing on-track. when he triggers that feud, he is for all intents and purposes the underdog in that dynamic

the closest you get to a marco bezzecchi-type situation for valentino is... I mean, honestly even melandri is pushing it because that guy was at least runner up to valentino and theoretically might have come to pose a competitive threat - but notably, that's actually a dynamic where you can say valentino was going by the marc playbook in brushing off questions about the conflict, kinda just ignoring it was happening while going about his business. valentino also wouldn't beef with an alex rins equivalent, not at the 2019!marc stage of his career, unless there were a compelling competitive justification... likewise, valentino isn't notably more proactive in roughing up dani and casey in 2006 than marc is with fabio in 2019 - they go about it a little differently, yes, but broadly it's on the same reasonably muted level of shenanigans. marc has more low level beef with various riders on the grid than valentino did, partly just because he's less well-liked in general, but he's not been put into situations where that was ever going to escalate into a full-blown feud. now, if you put jorge in these scenarios then, yes, I imagine that absolutely could get... unpleasant, and he's got more of an inclination to punch down anyway. but valentino? nope. remember, he generally had a reputation for being an affable rider and getting along with most of his competitors. obviously we focus more on the feuds now because they're so flashy and memorable, but that's a very very long career - and one that's reasonably light on any major beef with anyone who wasn't one of his main career rivals

anyway, look, again I'm not saying you're wrong necessarily in that marc is more inclined to withdraw than valentino is. and he DOES have some alien-based tunnel vision, hence dovi not getting any attention in his self-produced documentary. or that thing he's been doing in pressers this year where he starts reminiscing about fighting the aliens at any conceivable opening while a deeply unaffected pedro acosta sits next to him. like, I do agree with you about what marc's working process typically looks like, I just don't think it's really the reason why he's been slumming it on the feud count. valentino himself tended to brush off most instances of his competitors being critical towards him because he could afford to, and only got into feuds against rivals who were broadly speaking on his level. in valentino's feud with casey, valentino didn't have the option of dismissing casey. there was no stooping involved - because casey was not a less talented rider than valentino. casey's the extreme example, but it's true in general of valentino's rivals. yes, the working process might look different, but broadly speaking marc and valentino were exactly as likely to start feuds with riders they have never been in a title fight with - aka not at all. marc might be more inclined to cut himself off from the rest of the grid than valentino was, but unfortunately he's also had rather an easy task on his hands in that regard. he's not had anyone both willing to beef with him and capable of posing a significant enough competitive threat (when he himself has been competitive). shame, really

[clonerightsagenda]

I am not typically interested in making up new characters for existing media properties, but I am very attached to Persephone, the mother program for the Hermes relay station that the group chat made up.

She got collared while the rest of the crew got bolted, and when the survivors swing by the Hermes to make sure there's not anything or anyone salvageable left behind, they're greeted by an oddly vacant, chipper AI program who's happy to help - until she sees Miranda and loses her goddamn mind.

[fuckyeahfluiddynamics]

Breaking Down a Water-Powered Timer

In his latest "cutaway" video, Steve Mould takes a look at how you can nest siphons to create a system that periodically flushes itself.  (Video and image credit: S. Mould) Read the full article

[knairda]

Working on a little 3D platformer with @senaminbun and some other friends... hopefully more to show soon 💛

[samstree]

any fic that mentions anakin liking the rain is just 👌👌👌

[waywardstation]

Brave anon asking the big questions and winning the best prizes T^T

Thank you for the extra snippet!! <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

In regards to this post

YES! Thank you anon who asked!! (And anon if you’re reading this, genuinely it meant a lot to hear you wanted to see more of my stuff. Thank you ;w;)

And thank you friend!!!!! So happy you enjoyed it!! I really have a lot that I want to post that I hope people will enjoy haha, just gotta get over the hill that is this 20k+ multi-chapter fic. I did not intend for it to get this big, or stuff it this full of important events!!

I’m very glad you appreciated it!! ^^ <3