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They are not, 100% strictly speaking, “ensured”. But they are 128bit numbers, so you have realistically no chance of generating a uuid that someone else has already. Age-of-the-universe type chances of duplicating one.


They are; the blog post explains why.


I have been hoping for compatibility layer + application flatpaks for a while so it’s nice to see someone doing it. My dream is to have a bunch of flatpaks for the Microsoft office suite


I actually have a lot of firsthand experience with limewash on stucco. I don’t know if our lime guy is just screwing it up, but I have been very unimpressed. The claims of vibrancy and longevity just don’t pan out in my experience. A house project I worked on last year used limewash and it’s already falling off and fading. It may have been the contractors not applying it properly, but our lime guy himself said the issue was applying to a wall that the sun was hitting, so it dried too fast. It seems like a very fragile process to get everything right, which makes it a huge pain to use.


One of the first things that this PDF talks about is the application of limewash to different substrates, and how different substrates must be prepared differently.

It sounds like the kind of thing a lot of tradespeople would screw up- like it requires study to do properly. They specifically call out how mortars and renders (which includes stucco) should be composed with the 'mechanical keying' of limewash in mind.


Most important preparation in my experience is to mist the substrate before application to prevent rapid drying.


The last paragraph on page 10 has some interesting information on applying in very dry and hot conditions. Repeated wet/dry cycles each day during application are important for promoting the carbonation to make the final surface durable.


It has to dry slowly to crystalise properly. Hanging damp hessian over the freshly painted wall is a common practice.

It's the same when using lime mortors, you are generally looking for a three day cure for mortor. Lime does not like the sun, wind, or rain (basically any weather!) during this time.


To expand on the angles of a polygon idea. It looks like each of these tracks has about a 30 degree bend. So you should have 360/30 = 12 more right-handed than left-handed tracks, or vice versa. It takes some counting, but you could probably get pretty quick at going around the track and adding or subtracting 1. If you end at 12, perfect. Your distance from 12 is an estimator for tension.


This is necessary but not sufficient for there to be no tension. For example, if you have 12 curved pieces, all curving in the same direction, and one straight piece, there will be tension.


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