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BONGHITZ
Jan 1, 1970

electrons are for fags

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Space-Pope
Aug 13, 2003

by zen death robot
protons are for retards

"buhh duhhh i have the same amount of charge as an electron but opposite and like a way bigger mass"

Beast of Bourbon
Sep 25, 2013

Pillbug
when are we going to invent neutronium

atomicthumbs
Dec 26, 2010


We're in the business of extending man's senses.

Beast of Bourbon posted:

when are we going to invent neutronium

the universe has a patent on it, and that patent is crushing death

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule


Sagebrush posted:

the people who say "current kills, not voltage" are people who don't understand ohm's law

And why everywhere I used to work, I wore an Arc-Flash suit.

Fake edit: At noisebridge fixing their poo poo

OJ MIST 2 THE DICK
Sep 11, 2008

Anytime I need to see your face I just close my eyes
And I am taken to a place
Where your crystal minds and magenta feelings
Take up shelter in the base of my spine
Sweet like a chica cherry cola

-Cheap Trick

Nap Ghost

Sagebrush posted:

the people who say "current kills, not voltage" are people who don't understand ohm's law

nah, small currents will gently caress with the heart and kill you

high voltage will cause physical damage, but won't necessarily be fatal if the path to ground doesn't go through the heart

Sweevo
Nov 8, 2007

i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

the worst are the people who think getting shocked a lot will eventually make you immune

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

ayn rand hand job posted:

nah, small currents will gently caress with the heart and kill you

high voltage will cause physical damage, but won't necessarily be fatal if the path to ground doesn't go through the heart

and here is someone who doesn't think about the relationship between voltage, current, and skin resistance

OJ MIST 2 THE DICK
Sep 11, 2008

Anytime I need to see your face I just close my eyes
And I am taken to a place
Where your crystal minds and magenta feelings
Take up shelter in the base of my spine
Sweet like a chica cherry cola

-Cheap Trick

Nap Ghost

Sagebrush posted:

and here is someone who doesn't think about the relationship between voltage, current, and skin resistance

i am paid to show the engineers in my lab pictures of charred and burned hands resulting from electrical accidents and how to work with exposed conductors

im also paid to show them arc flash and make sure that all of our electrical cabinets are kept clear of hazards


also who touched the poop on the heat press

quote:

[Noisebridge-discuss] Heat press not functional, repair help needed.
Jeffrey Faden jeffreyatw at gmail.com
Tue Jan 19 06:53:12 UTC 2016

Dude what do you think the Reboot was about. Noisebridge passed electrical inspection. And fire safety. Quit spreading FUD, if you please.

Jeffrey

OJ MIST 2 THE DICK fucked around with this message at 21:00 on Jan 19, 2016

BONGHITZ
Jan 1, 1970

I'm a maker.

Tanith
Jul 17, 2005


Alpha, Beta, Gamma cores
Use them, lose them, salvage more
Kick off the next AI war
In the Persean Sector
several members of sietch noisebridge have been drinking the water of life without being prepared so we've had a few deaths, I understand that we're doocratic and all that, but I had been saving a baby sandworm for a project this weekend and when I came in, someone had already drowned it. most un-excellent.

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

ayn rand hand job posted:

i am paid to show the engineers in my lab pictures of charred and burned hands resulting from electrical accidents and how to work with exposed conductors

im also paid to show them arc flash and make sure that all of our electrical cabinets are kept clear of hazards


also who touched the poop on the heat press

what they're trying to get at is that a voltage high enough to pass a deadly current through your heart has to exist

people who say "current kills, not voltage" are forgetting that; a lead acid battery can source current hundreds or thousands of times greater than that which will kill you but 12 volts isn't going to drive a deadly current through your body

Apocadall
Mar 25, 2010

Aren't you the guitarist for the feed dogs?

makers are basically people that couldn't get a degree to be a real engineer, so they like to play pretend with equipment they know nothing about

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

Apocadall posted:

makers are basically people that couldn't get a degree to be a real engineer, so they like to play pretend with equipment they know nothing about

people who call themselves makers are actually a couple steps below actual hobbyists because they need everything spoonfed to them in the forms of arduino-centric tutorials

edit: I looked into the makerspace in my city a couple years ago before I realized how poo poo makers are and the list of equipment was lower in quality and variety than the poo poo I have at home - except for the laser engraver that they did useless poo poo with like etching logos into hamburger patties

BattleMaster fucked around with this message at 02:39 on Jan 20, 2016

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

BattleMaster posted:

people who call themselves makers are actually a couple steps below actual hobbyists because they need everything spoonfed to them in the forms of arduino-centric tutorials

oh i thought they were the ones who look down on tutorials

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

Jerry Cotton posted:

oh i thought they were the ones who look down on tutorials

I actually don't know the proper definitions but I blame hackers/makers for hackaday going from an interesting site to a non-stop feed of "holy poo poo this guy figured out how to blink two LEDs with an arduino" a couple years ago

OJ MIST 2 THE DICK
Sep 11, 2008

Anytime I need to see your face I just close my eyes
And I am taken to a place
Where your crystal minds and magenta feelings
Take up shelter in the base of my spine
Sweet like a chica cherry cola

-Cheap Trick

Nap Ghost

BattleMaster posted:

what they're trying to get at is that a voltage high enough to pass a deadly current through your heart has to exist

people who say "current kills, not voltage" are forgetting that; a lead acid battery can source current hundreds or thousands of times greater than that which will kill you but 12 volts isn't going to drive a deadly current through your body

no poo poo, you can die from like 60 volts if you grab an exposed conductor and exposed return with wet hands. the current will take a path across your heart and kill you

as i said, the major issue is the positioning, not the voltage

the human body isn't ohmic, and you can make a few general approximations that will give you a rough estimate, but "higher voltages mean higher currents" doesn't do as much for surviving an incident than preventing the current from pathing over the heart

OJ MIST 2 THE DICK fucked around with this message at 02:55 on Jan 20, 2016

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

"From each according to his ability" said Ares. It sounded like a quotation.
Buglord

ayn rand hand job posted:

nah, small currents will gently caress with the heart and kill you

high voltage will cause physical damage, but won't necessarily be fatal if the path to ground doesn't go through the heart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDf2nhfxVzg

OJ MIST 2 THE DICK
Sep 11, 2008

Anytime I need to see your face I just close my eyes
And I am taken to a place
Where your crystal minds and magenta feelings
Take up shelter in the base of my spine
Sweet like a chica cherry cola

-Cheap Trick

Nap Ghost

this dude would fit in at noisebridge

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

ayn rand hand job posted:

no poo poo, you can die from like 60 volts if you grab an exposed conductor and exposed return with wet hands. the current will take a path across your heart and kill you

as i said, the major issue is the positioning, not the voltage

the human body isn't ohmic, and you can make a few general approximations that will give you a rough estimate, but "higher voltages mean higher currents" doesn't do as much for surviving an incident than preventing the current from pathing over the heart

no one is arguing otherwise we're just criticizing the simplistic and wrong "current kills, not voltage" line that people repeat

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

electricity doesn't kill people. nerds kill people.

The Eyes Have It
Feb 10, 2008

Third Eye Sees All
...snookums

BattleMaster posted:

I actually don't know the proper definitions but I blame hackers/makers for hackaday going from an interesting site to a non-stop feed of "holy poo poo this guy figured out how to blink two LEDs with an arduino" a couple years ago

Bad news: everything including web sites will change over time. It's probably changed again/more since two years ago on top of that. It's a waste of time to pine/grudge/gripe

Alternately: no one gives a poo poo what you thought of some web site two years ago

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

Mister Sinewave posted:

Bad news: everything including web sites will change over time. It's probably changed again/more since two years ago on top of that. It's a waste of time to pine/grudge/gripe

Alternately: no one gives a poo poo what you thought of some web site two years ago

okay

Cyberpunkey Monkey
Jun 23, 2003

by Nyc_Tattoo
Also, if you don't think that programming a microcontroller to blink a couple LED's is cool you are way too jaded about just how loving magical transistors are.

OJ MIST 2 THE DICK
Sep 11, 2008

Anytime I need to see your face I just close my eyes
And I am taken to a place
Where your crystal minds and magenta feelings
Take up shelter in the base of my spine
Sweet like a chica cherry cola

-Cheap Trick

Nap Ghost

osirisisdead posted:

Also, if you don't think that programming a microcontroller to blink a couple LED's is cool you are way too jaded about just how loving magical transistors are.

or an electrical engineer

BONGHITZ
Jan 1, 1970

additionally, im gay

Cyberpunkey Monkey
Jun 23, 2003

by Nyc_Tattoo

ayn rand hand job posted:

or an electrical engineer

Engineers always think they know a whole hell of a lot more than they do, though.

aardvaard
Mar 4, 2013

you belong in the bog of eternal stench

osirisisdead posted:

Also, if you don't think that programming a microcontroller to blink a couple LED's is cool you are way too jaded about just how loving magical transistors are.

i don't think that writing "hello world" in python is amazing despite the miracles of engineering that brought us to this point

Cyberpunkey Monkey
Jun 23, 2003

by Nyc_Tattoo
You lack perspective, and transistors were invented by physicists, whom are not engineers.

aardvaard
Mar 4, 2013

you belong in the bog of eternal stench

osirisisdead posted:

You lack perspective, and transistors were invented by physicists, whom are not engineers.

ok so i'm only supposed to marvel at triumphs of physics, not engineering?

anyways, just for you:
code:

print "Hello World"
hope that's as amazing as you think it is

Cyberpunkey Monkey
Jun 23, 2003

by Nyc_Tattoo
If you don't ignore context and take the miracle that we're having a psudonymous conversation via the most complex interconnected machine ever built by man, but Engineers are really bad at context and subtext. That's how the Kings constantly trick them into building murder machines.

OJ MIST 2 THE DICK
Sep 11, 2008

Anytime I need to see your face I just close my eyes
And I am taken to a place
Where your crystal minds and magenta feelings
Take up shelter in the base of my spine
Sweet like a chica cherry cola

-Cheap Trick

Nap Ghost

CommunistPancake posted:

ok so i'm only supposed to marvel at triumphs of physics, not engineering?

anyways, just for you:
code:
print "Hello World"
hope that's as amazing as you think it is

whooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooa

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

osirisisdead posted:

If you don't ignore context and take the miracle that we're having a psudonymous conversation via the most complex interconnected machine ever built by man, but Engineers are really bad at context and subtext. That's how the Kings constantly trick them into building murder machines.

maybe they just really like making murder machines.

i know i do

i'm a bit of a hobbyist you see

JawnV6
Jul 4, 2004

So hot ...
yeah I've met way too many ex-navy EE's who wouldn't blush at any lethal application

JawnV6
Jul 4, 2004

So hot ...

ayn rand hand job posted:

the human body isn't ohmic

OJ MIST 2 THE DICK
Sep 11, 2008

Anytime I need to see your face I just close my eyes
And I am taken to a place
Where your crystal minds and magenta feelings
Take up shelter in the base of my spine
Sweet like a chica cherry cola

-Cheap Trick

Nap Ghost

osirisisdead posted:

You lack perspective, and transistors were invented by physicists, whom are not engineers.

to be honest, the line between physicists and engineers is really goddamn blurry at that point

aardvaard
Mar 4, 2013

you belong in the bog of eternal stench

osirisisdead posted:

If you don't ignore context and take the miracle that we're having a psudonymous conversation via the most complex interconnected machine ever built by man, but Engineers are really bad at context and subtext. That's how the Kings constantly trick them into building murder machines.

yeah, that's pretty cool. but i don't open up my browser and marvel at the miracle that is the internet. i don't read blog posts where people say "hey, this internet we're on? isn't it fantastic???" i don't watch people plug lights into walls and marvel at how amazing it is that we have electricity. and if i see someone make an arduino blink two leds, i'm not amazed that it exists. maybe if i was a time traveler.

and i'm not even an engineer in the "we need a cooler name for programmers" way, dunno why you think i am

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

CommunistPancake posted:

and i'm not even an engineer in the "we need a cooler name for programmers" way, dunno why you think i am

perhaps you're just an rear end in a top hat. it's easy to confuse the two

Cyberpunkey Monkey
Jun 23, 2003

by Nyc_Tattoo
Well, I'm the kind of person that rode my bike to work this morning and took a nice look at the pretty colors in the sunrise and was amazed that that existed, too, because I don't take existing for granted.

You don't have to stare slackjawed and unmoving to marvel at things. Wonder is an emotion like anger or sadness. You can feel it a lot without giving in and letting it overwhelm you.

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aardvaard
Mar 4, 2013

you belong in the bog of eternal stench

infernal machines posted:

perhaps you're just an rear end in a top hat. it's easy to confuse the two

a very real possibility

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