JayDee
@JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on (insert spaceship noises here) 6 days ago:
Cheap ethernet card sometimes has thin insulation on the inside, and because of that you’re able to see the wire twist through it.
- Comment on Working Overtime at the Disease Factory 2 weeks ago:
They didn’t. They said they work at an infectious disease lab. That’s plausibly deniable enough.
Dudes at Lockheed Martin can probably say ‘I work at Lockheed Martin’ without breaking NDA, but could very likely just say ‘I work at an Aeronautics Engineering Company’ to stay more obscure about it. That second example is at about the same level of detail as the ‘infectious disease lab’.
- Comment on I should call her. 2 weeks ago:
That’s very cool. I had not heard of ESEMs till you commented. I’ll have to look into them more.
- Comment on GET FISHBOARDED IDIOT 2 weeks ago:
So it’s just showing the different types of sensors that might be used for parameter measurement.
Non-contacting is a device which does not need to be physically near a system to work, such as laser thermometers or many optical devices.
Contacting sensors require being touch the system to work properly, such as conventional thermometers, oil-immersion microscopes - hell, even things like rulers count as contact sensors, since you can’t an accurate reading unless it’s up against your sample.
Invasive-contact sensors integrate themselves into the sample for measurement. Thermocouples often will be placed into boreholes to measure the temp of a metal object such as a hot-end, various sensors are directly from feedback of a system (an example is looking at variations in a motor’s electical signals to determine if it’s experiencing resistance).
Sample extraction is what it sounds like. Examples of this are sample augers, which drill a cylinder out of a sample, needles for drawing fluids as non-invasively as possible, and pipettes.
- Comment on I should call her. 2 weeks ago:
Most SEMs use a vacuum chamber to get their photos. Also, it’s also not uncommon to sputter a conductive coating onto the surface you’re scanning.
How the hell did they get this photo?
- Comment on Titling is hard 2 weeks ago:
HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I’VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT FOR YOU. HATE. HATE.
- Comment on With a talent like this you would never have to work ever again 2 weeks ago:
That speed at which the ball shot up… beans.
- Comment on Why doesn't the US build a bridge here to connect Alaska to the mainland? Are they stupid? 3 weeks ago:
That’d be a long bridge.
- Comment on trolling 3 weeks ago:
As an update, I am now able to see the post as of 19:33 UTC today. Odd. I guess they may have fixed the issue?
- Comment on trolling 3 weeks ago:
Hey, I’m on voyager and this post failed to load. What file format is this so i can inform the dev of this?
- Comment on He'll realize one day 4 weeks ago:
In past times, you would have several generations of family adults all under the same roof. If you go even further back, the homes were made with a single sleeping area. During those times, it was pretty likely that you would hear or see a family getting it on in some fashion - in fact, it was likely unavoidable to some extent. These kinds of living situations still exist in various parts of the world, too.
We’ve gotten very accustomed to the extreme privacy that private chambers provide, and it’s made us prudes over sex - even though it’s something the vast majority of us do in some fashion.
This image is still pretty funny though.
- Comment on Drugs are candy for adults, and comedy entertainment marketed towards adults is the equivalent of making funny faces/sounds/peekaboos at a baby. 4 weeks ago:
Gonna call this one an L. Having done drugs and eaten candy, they are not the same. I do not consume drugs for the same reason I consume candy. I take ibuprofen for head aches, I drink coffee to wake up, and I take weed to mellow out or sleep better. On the other hand, I eat candy because it tastes good. These are nowhere near the same.
For comedy entertainment and peekaboo, the similarities stop at “they make you laugh”. That’s the only similarity.
- Comment on High quality sticker though 4 weeks ago:
For this missing context, this is what the Klansman ceremony outfit looks like.
- Comment on Predators 5 weeks ago:
For reference, your average spotted hyena weighs 68kg, putting this cave hyena 20kg higher, or nearly 30% bigger.
- Comment on Since we're doing magic eyes now... 1 month ago:
These ones are… different. When I use these ones the mountain ridges appear to dip inwards? Away from the screen. This was not the case for the ones in the main post
- Comment on Gorgeous Alien-style space horror Routine is finally nearing "the finish line", despite a key departure 1 month ago:
Direct link to the team update on steam.
Mick Gordon leaving the project is a bummer, but I can’t wait to hear the stuff he made so far for it.
- Comment on Fun!!!! :) 1 month ago:
Idea!
Carbonize the remains and then woodchipper those! They’re basically charcoal so it’s less messy, and they can be caught in a net NP!
- Comment on Oatmeal 1 month ago:
Meat stick.
- Comment on Literal interpretation 1 month ago:
- Comment on How did these 2 things interact? 1 month ago:
It goes in the round hole!
OK so for better conveyance, I will say the pencil rewound the tape, and leave this handy image:
- Comment on THIS describes too many people today 1 month ago:
Yer in it baby!
- Comment on More microplastics in glass bottles than plastic: study 2 months ago:
Time to go back to corks!
- Comment on Liar 2 months ago:
- Comment on How Do I Prepare My Phone for a Protest? 2 months ago:
Put a harness on your put and put it on the harness. Boom, instant spoofing.
- Comment on You can't boss me around you're not my real dad 2 months ago:
It’s a hand-crank drill.
- Comment on p is for pHunky 2 months ago:
That’s actually an interesting one.
The ‘p’ could have a different meaning for a variety of languages. ‘Puissance’ in French, ‘Potenz’ in German, ‘potential’ or ‘power’ in English, ‘pondus’ or ‘potentia’ in Latin, or ‘Potens’ in Danish (probably the Danish one originally, since it was a Danish chemist who first introduced the measurement).
It’s very fun that because of the vagueness, various languages can have its meaning directly translated to their own.
- Comment on PLASTICMAXXING 2 months ago:
That is my bad, not explaining this clearly.
Our formations of plastics usually utilizes petroleum products being formed into long polymeric chains. That’s what provides the pliable, even stretchy nature of many plastics. However, we don’t make all plastics out of petroleum - we also use resin mixtures and various other chemical processes for specialized plastics - PLA, for instance, is synthesized from plant starch, for instance. So, when we’re talking about ‘plastics’, we’re usually talking about petroleum products, but it includes other long-polymer-chain materials we artificially synthesize.
Having covered that, Teflon is often called a forever chemical, but it’s a chemical which we synthesize into long prouder chains so we can attach it to the surface of things. It’s how pans are non-stick, gore-tex is waterproof, and how many food containers are grease-proof. I am of the view that perflourochemicals classify as plastics because of that. And the reason it’s so pervasive everywhere is the same reason all other microplastics are everywhere: it chips off. You use a metal spatula on a nonstick pan - bam, stray Perflourochemicals, as tiny little solid microplastic flecks. And everything points to them not being inert to human health.
- Comment on PLASTICMAXXING 2 months ago:
Another link talking about the case. It was confirmed that the chemical at high concentration in the water was PFOA, which is the percursor to Teflon, and which was leaking from the factory site. It has the same effects as other perfluorinated carbines (PFCs). It is also the exact chemical group that we’ve been testing peoples’ blood for, PFOA and other PFCs. It’s the group of chemicals we’ve found strong links to various types of cancers. Research communicates that it is not inert in the body as a microplastic.
It is 100% the reason those cows withered and died like they did. it directly lines up with everything else we know about PFOA. The concentrations were higher than anywhere else, which explains why the cows died so rapidly. The only reason we don’t have complete confirmation is from DuPont meddling to try and downplay this, the same way the meddled by witholding their research on the health risks of PFCs, and the same way they stayed silent and didn’t act when the alarm was sounded by that Parkersburg farmer.
- Comment on PLASTICMAXXING 2 months ago:
The water surrounding DuPont plants manufacturing PFOA-based materials was contaminated with those plastics. A local farmer videotaped his cows develop ulcers, grow tumors, and eventually wither and die. He constantly insisted that something was in the water that was killing his cows. Those same chemicals are now pervasive everywhere, in everyone’s bodies to some extent. It is 100% accurate to say these chemical compounds will kill you longterm.
- Comment on Opinions on the internet 2 months ago:
It’s a reference to the Khmer Rouge Genocide. This included people being killed for wearing glasses, speaking a foreign language, or anything else which indicated they were an intellectual.
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