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zedprime posted:Explosions in a technical sense have certain expectations on magnitude and extent of the pressure wave. It's sort of useful to be able to distinguish between gonna knock your windows out and blow your ears out vs it popped and is now burning off a smog feeding pillar of smoke. sure all that's technically true, but they didn't say it because they're pedantic, they said it to minimize any liability, so not only are they "distorting reality" through PR, they're doing it to save a few bucks
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Terry Pratchett had a pretty OSHA request for the disposal of his unfinished work. https://twitter.com/terryandrob/status/901028525200879616 https://twitter.com/Wiltshire_flo/status/902536668170866688 https://twitter.com/terryandrob/status/901037198665019392
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lol five bucks the platters are still intact enough to get data off of
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Yeah, that's a really stupid and wasteful way of getting rid of data in a HDD.
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yeah and the fact that they're going into a museum means it's inevitable that they'll be forensically examined thoroughly
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zedprime posted:Explosions in a technical sense have certain expectations on magnitude and extent of the pressure wave. "Explosion" is a colloquial term. If you, say, heated a scuba tank until it ruptured, or overinflated a truck tire, it's perfectly correct to describe the term as an explosion.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:lol five bucks the platters are still intact enough to get data off of Official sounding CDR-Recovery account says very likely unrecoverable based on those images https://twitter.com/CDRdatarecovery/status/902883415166521344
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It's a symbolic thing because he didn't want his works being finished after his death jfc goons.
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Former DILF posted:sure all that's technically true, but they didn't say it because they're pedantic, they said it to minimize any liability, so not only are they "distorting reality" through PR, they're doing it to save a few bucks *clutches pearls*
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he saw what happened to frank herbert and went nawww
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atomicthumbs posted:"I think we can replace all these janky old PLCs with something close to the metal. Have you ever heard of node.js?" Oh my god this is great on so many levels E: For the uninitiated, ladder logic is a graphical programming language designed to be accessible to 1970's maintenance electricians where all the code is made of hardware relay diagrams. shame on an IGA fucked around with this message at 21:28 on Aug 31, 2017 |
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zedprime posted:Seems like conflicting info from similar sources, the tweet I quoted sourced Arkema as saying it wasn't exploding even after their Twitter said it was exploding. It's not an explosion unless someone's shoes get knocked off.
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Pratchett probably had bacukps and other copies anyway. It's totally symbolic.
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:And the gas. Are they inflating it with CO2? That's what it looks like to me. We used N2 instead of air at the truck place I worked at before. I've never heard of CO2 being used. It's almost certainly just air. What you're seeing will be a combination of dust kicked up when the split rim fails and moisture from the previously high-pressure air condensing as it reaches ambient temperature and cools. Enourmo posted:Yeah, it's a video from the cage manufacturer basically going "look how good our cages are! buy them plz". This is a cage for split rims; split rims have a nasty habit of appearing to be properly assembled right up to the point where the locking ring takes off for parts unknown at the speed of sound. For car and 4wd sizes, it's usually enough to chain them together for inflation*. Most tyre shops where I live don't know what they are, and those that do know what they are won't touch them (rightly so). *: While you stand well out of harm's way behind a tree or something.
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shame on an IGA posted:Oh my god this is great on so many levels ?????????
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that's the first thing that came to mind when I saw that tire overpressure cage.
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Humphreys posted:Opening a portal to hell? Those are isolator switches. They are not designed to be opened up when current is flowing through them. They are in series with a circuit breaker. Opening the circuit breaker safely stops the flow of current. Once that happens you can open the isolators. Many times isolators are used for safety (along with attaching grounds) on high-voltage systems. Here is a good example where the interrupter failed on a single phase: https://youtu.be/6GiIVze2Tac This causes severe burning and damage to the contact surfaces of the isolation switch. Three-Phase fucked around with this message at 02:36 on Sep 1, 2017 |
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Differing points of view It sounds like they took their safety systems for granite.
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What happens to a person if they fall into liquid isopentane?
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FunMerrania posted:What happens to a person if they fall into liquid isopentane? Isopentane, C₅H₁₂, also called methylbutane or 2-methylbutane, is a branched-chain alkane with five carbon atoms. Isopentane is an extremely volatile and extremely flammable liquid at room temperature and pressure. Boiling point: 27.8 °C Melting point: −161 to −159 °C They're surrounded by boiling liquid and suffocate as it vaporizes.
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H225 (100%): Highly Flammable liquid and vapor [Danger Flammable liquids - Category 2] H304 (100%): May be fatal if swallowed and enters airways [Danger Aspiration hazard - Category 1] H315 (100%): Causes skin irritation [Warning Skin corrosion/irritation - Category 2] H336 (100%): May cause drowsiness or dizziness [Warning Specific target organ toxicity, single exposure; Narcotic effects - Category 3] H411 (100%): Toxic to aquatic life with long lasting effects [Hazardous to the aquatic environment, long-term hazard - Category 2] Inhalation causes irritation of respiratory tract, cough, mild depression, irregular heartbeat. Aspiration causes severe lung irritation, coughing, pulmonary edema; excitement followed by depression. Ingestion causes nausea, vomiting, swelling of abdomen, headache, depression. (USCG, 1999) Poor guy who fell in had a bad time  pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/2-Methylbutane
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drat it, it's NEVER molten phenol.
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Boogalo posted:H225 (100%): Highly Flammable liquid and vapor [Danger Flammable liquids - Category 2] Oh no, not drowsiness!
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FunMerrania posted:What happens to a person if they fall into liquid isopentane? It's density is about 0,62 g/ml, far less than water's. Humans are sacks of mostly dirty water, so he probably sunk to bottom pretty fast. This was probably helped by the isopentane near his skin vaporizing, which further decreased the density of the liquid around him. So he probably drowned relatively quickly. Still not a pleasant way to go, due to effects of isopentane on skin/insides and the vaporization freezing him but I think it's pretty unlikely that he paddled for ages before succumbing to vapors.
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This was literally an Always Sunny episode.
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When common sense is abandoned in the great state of Texas *dun-dee-dun*
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WILDCARD BITCHES. YEE-HAW!
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I thought gas stations would shut off the pump for people that tried this because "HUGE loving LIABILITY".
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One brakecheck away from being turned into ghostrider.
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Neutrino posted:I thought gas stations would shut off the pump for people that tried this because "HUGE loving LIABILITY". Yeah, if they see it. A lot of stations have one person working nights who is also emptying the trash, stocking products, and doing every other drat thing. Of course, if there is plausible deniability idiot management might allow it because big $ transaction.
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Gas stations move enough product that an idiot assembling a bomb in their forecourt will be not overlooked no matter how change he's spending.
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TTerrible posted:It's a symbolic thing because he didn't want his works being finished after his death jfc goons. Adding a "delete hdd when dead" clause should be standard for all wills.
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Serephina posted:Gas stations move enough product that an idiot assembling a bomb in their forecourt will be not overlooked no matter how change he's spending. Again, some people in management are idiots. Source: had idiots work for me in management when I ran a place that sold gas. The bar for hiring in a lot of these companies is low.
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Ak Gara posted:Adding a "delete hdd when dead" clause should be standard for all wills. 'To my family: Please find all my photo albums in the C:/Pictures directory - may these memories continue to enrich all your lives. Please do not look in C:/Documents/Other/TaxForms/HighDef, though.'
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Phanatic posted:This was literally an Always Sunny episode. Is he using it to try to price gouge, or to run his generator for a long rear end time? A non-specialized plastic bin cant be good to store it though?
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Ak Gara posted:Adding a "delete hdd when dead" clause should be standard for all wills. We're not too far from this being the de facto state of things due to automatic/default encryption.
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