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Re: YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burning, but leaves up tips

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Post by JPLeRouzic »

Tabular-Iceberg wrote: post #410
hedora wrote: post #368

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A friend of a friend disassembled a microwave to repair it, and accidentally put one of the radiation shields back on backwards. It ended up killing his wife (lots of cancers) a few years later. So, yeah. Don't repair microwaves. It's really not worth the $100's you'll save on a replacement.

Why was the cancer attributed to the microwave incident? After all, it's not ionizing radiation.

Ultraviolet light causes skin cancer, yet it is not ionizing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-ionizing_radiation#Lower_f...

Re: YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burning, but leaves up tips

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Post by b112 »

selectodude wrote: post #436
b112 wrote: post #371

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While a nice looking toaster, and supposedly good, I could buy 10 cheap toasters, each lasting up to 10 years, for the same price as one of these. It is at this point I realised my toaster oven is fine, for that once a week serving of toast. Now, if they had a 30 yr parts warranty, or some such, at least I'd feel semi-secure..

They're engineered for restaurants so they're absolute overkill for any home use. Your home toaster isn't going to successfully pump out 400 slices of toast per hour.

They're engineered for home use, that's why they are sold at home depot, on amazon, and in retail outlets.

Restaurants buy proper commercial gear, from hospitality supply depots. You don't buy restaurant ovens, and gear, from amazon or home depot. A strong tell is, restaurants aren't looking for candy red, enamel coated stuff. They want stainless, and their gear is hidden away in the kitchen, and they don't want to pay a penny more for trend.

Honestly, why would you say that? There is nothing about this that is commercial.

A 30 yr parts warranty is what tells people it's actually well engineered.

Re: YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burning, but leaves up tips

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Post by throwaway9870 »

iso1631 wrote: post #324
throwaway9870 wrote: post #150

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Current flowing through your body is what kills you. But it doesn't flow through you just because it is a high-current supply (think car battery for example). It flows through you because the source voltage divided by your impedance is what controls how much current flows through you. Impedance is the general concept for resistance and basically indicates how current and voltage are related. The higher the impedance,…

There's no particular safety concerned when you're playing with hundreds of kilovolts in a typical school. You need it when the thing you're messing with has the capability of delivering a lot of amps.

What you care about is how much charge is at that high voltage potential because current is charge/sec. Charge due to stray capacitance can be quite dangerous because if you don't know what you are doing, the amount of stray capacitance can be higher than you expect. I would be very careful doing anything with kilo-volts using a circuit, as opposed to a static charge device, such as Van de Graaff generator.

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Post by throwaway9870 »

hedora wrote: post #360
throwaway9870 wrote: post #62

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It probably should have been more than 3 hours given that you likely mean "voltage" not "amps". Before everyone jumps on me, "it is the amps that kill you, not voltage", I understand electricity quite well and in this context, saying something like "handling high amps in a university" is almost certainly not what was taught.

Once I charged a 1F (not a typo) capacitor with either a AA or 9V battery (can't remember), then touched the leads. Youch!

You must have charged it through some step up device, otherwise the max voltage on the cap is the battery voltage which isn't going to shock you.

Re: YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burning, but leaves up tips

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Post by toxik »

gruez wrote: post #355
Gigachad wrote: post #36

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It was probably turning corporations off the platform entirely since turning the likes off looked bad and leaving them on created risk.

But you could already disable likes/dislikes if you want

Turning them off, like turning comments off, makes you look like you’re afraid of what people will say about your video.

… Which is exactly the case, but they don't want it to look like that.

Re: YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burning, but leaves up tips

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Post by planede »

iso1631 wrote: post #324
throwaway9870 wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Current flowing through your body is what kills you. But it doesn't flow through you just because it is a high-current supply (think car battery for example). It flows through you because the source voltage divided by your impedance is what controls how much current flows through you. Impedance is the general concept for resistance and basically indicates how current and voltage are related. The higher the impedance,…

There's no particular safety concerned when you're playing with hundreds of kilovolts in a typical school. You need it when the thing you're messing with has the capability of delivering a lot of amps.

When you get shocked by a Van de Graaff generator, you do get high voltage, as well as high currents. The missing ingredient is time. The shock takes a very small time, so the energy delivered by the shock is very small. Skin-effect also helps.

Re: YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burning, but leaves up tips

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Post by corrral »

bee_rider wrote: post #399
conductr wrote: post #301

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This is my take. Mid 40s and I’ve never owned a toaster in my adult life, but the toaster oven gets frequent use. However I don’t make plain toast ever. I suppose if I did, especially in the AM, I’d see the appeal.

I still don't see the appeal, what's the advantage of the non-oven toaster? Maybe it is quicker or something? But the toaster oven is a timed device anyway, just run it while the water is boiling for coffee...

Toaster's smaller and easier to clean. Quicker to start, if only slightly. Probably faster. Wouldn't be surprised if they're more power efficient per slice of finished toast. Toaster oven, being large and having so much functionality overlap with a normal stove (and microwave, to some extent), is far less common (at least in the US) than the smaller and more focused toaster. Most two-slice toasters you can easily stuff in a drawer or cabinet. Toaster ovens demand permanent counter space.

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Post by robonerd »

mypalmike wrote: post #323
tehwebguy wrote: post #125

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Plenty of people hate this shit and still watch it because they got tricked. I watched (skimmed) like 12 videos yesterday trying to find a hack to locate my empty AirPods case. There’s apparently no way to do it but each video had a more infuriatingly false title than the last.

I'm curious what theoretical mechanism might there be for an airpods case to be findable?

He merely needs to apply Bayesian search theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_search_theory

1. Formulate as many reasonable hypotheses as possible about what may have happened to the object.

2. For each hypothesis, construct a probability density function for the location of the object.

...

Re: YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burning, but leaves up tips

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Post by t_mann »

logifail wrote: post #448
t_mann wrote: post #437

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Really? I kinda like the '[discipline X professional] reacts to [relevant movie clips]'-type videos (like 'Navy pilot reacts to new Top Gun movie'). You find them so terrible?

> I kinda like the '[discipline X professional] reacts to [relevant movie clips]'-type videos (like 'Navy pilot reacts to new Top Gun movie'). Those are exactly the ones I'm talking about > You find them so terrible? Yes. All noise, no signal! If you want to watch videos about Navy pilots doing their jobs, go right ahead. Why watch Navy pilots "reacting" to a Hollywood movie? The average Navy pilot must know as about…

Tom Cruise is a really bad example, because he actually does have a pilot license since 1994 and is allowed to fly some jets. [0]

I'm not looking for advice on how to make a good movie (or how to fly a plane, for that matter), but on some perspective how (un)-realistic those movies are. I think overall that sort of scrutiny does some good in terms of making movies less unrealistic (compare 80's action movies like Rambo to modern productions), producers consulting not only ex-soldiers but also physicists, doctors,...

[0] https://inews.co.uk/culture/film/tom-cruise-can-fly-fighter-...

Re: YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burning, but leaves up tips

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Post by jstarfish »

bee_rider wrote: post #399
conductr wrote: post #301

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is my take. Mid 40s and I’ve never owned a toaster in my adult life, but the toaster oven gets frequent use. However I don’t make plain toast ever. I suppose if I did, especially in the AM, I’d see the appeal.

I still don't see the appeal, what's the advantage of the non-oven toaster? Maybe it is quicker or something? But the toaster oven is a timed device anyway, just run it while the water is boiling for coffee...

Takes up way less space!
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