• Agent641@lemmy.world
    3 months

    The easiest primary explosive to synthesise at home is HMDT (Hexamethylene triperoxide diamine) The second easiest is TATP (Acetone Peroxide).

    Knowing what organic mercury does to the body and brain, and how miniscule an amount is required, and how easily it gets into the body

  • olbaidiablo @lemmy.ca
    3 months

    What a human body looks like after being dead for 5 days in the July heat in an apartment with no air conditioning. The smell is also something I wouldn’t wish on anyone either. Even worse, actually knowing and liking the deceased.

    • oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip
      3 months

      My brother works at a funeral home and I hear stories about stuff like that all the time. Not much specific about the appearance (because we make him shut up, but even just the general bits are usually gruesome enough.

  • AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    3 months

    “To know the future absolutely is to be trapped into that future absolutely.”

    - Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

  • whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    3 months

    There are some atrocious actions people have done to other people and themselves that I wish I could unlearn. Not just the genocides, slavery, and mass rapes across history and currently but the individual stuff like what happened to Furuta Junko (nsfl). I used to think learning about the more morbid nature of humanity would be helpful to understand but it’s hard not to become cynical or misanthropic after learning about some of the worst stuff.

      • makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml
        3 months

        Doooo NOT watch it.

        My brother-in-law sent it to me maybe 20 years ago now and every horrible moment of it is still there making me flinch and pain.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3 months

      Man, in the showerthoughts community I saw someone independently invent Roko’s Basilisk from the AI data center craze. They’re inventing the fucking verification can torment nexus.

    • purplemonkeymad@programming.dev
      3 months

      I’ve legitimately had people use Pascal’s wager and then say that the basilisk is nonsense. So I guess you could include Christianity in this too.

    • electric_nan@lemmy.ml
      3 months

      I have several friends with this syndrome. Has led to them introducing me to some fine vegan cheeses!

        • electric_nan@lemmy.ml
          3 months

          I guess I’m near an epicenter. The people I know who have are actually related, but don’t live in the same house: my friend, his sister and her husband and two kids.

            • electric_nan@lemmy.ml
              3 months

              No I don’t think so. It’s legitimately spreading fast in some areas, including mine (VA).

    • weeeeum@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3 months

      One of my mentors in a trade got a tick bite in 82’, and for years couldn’t stand or walk, or fully close his hands. Never again could he fully close his hands, having to hold hammers and chisels with his thumbs only, making them extremely exhausting to use.

      The nerve damage is still getting worse, and now his only goal is to wrap up all his final projects before he physically can’t use his hands at all anymore.

      They scare the shit outta me

      • Carl@anarchist.nexusEnglish
        3 months

        The scary part about this is that he likely has zero actual support from any kinds of disability, because chronic Lyme disease isn’t officially recognized in the medical world. Or rather, they recognize that there is a correlation between Lyme and long-term impairment, but they have no treatment nor palliatives for it. So they just sort of say “deal with it. Most people can return to work after a few weeks, so you can too.”

        Sort of like how long COVID affected (and still continues to affect) a sizable part of the population, but government disability in America didn’t recognize it as official so patients with long COVID had to keep going to work even when they were dealing with debilitating long-term symptoms.

  • Inucune@lemmy.world
    3 months

    Mercaptan (the chemical used to give natural gas an easily detectable smell) is not regulated.

      • Inucune@lemmy.world
        3 months

        That is a good question: should anyone be able to buy and use the ‘natural gas’ smell or should it be tracked and controlled to make sure it isn’t abused?

        • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
          3 months

          The main risk seems like it would be pranks. You can definitely buy other unpleasant odours for pranks, and if the point is to make people thing there’s an emergency, smoke would also work.

  • dan@upvote.au
    3 months

    Not sure if this counts, but as a software engineer, pretty much all major software you use is hacks on top of hacks on top of something someone built as a ‘temporary’ solution or as a proof-of-concept that’s still in use years later. It’s amazing that anything works properly at all. Stable software is basically just software with 10+ years of bug fixes layered on top of it.

    Part of the reason that Windows backwards compatibility is so good (plenty of Windows 95/98 apps still work fine on Windows 11!) is because Windows automatically applies compatibility fixes, including simulating bugs that were in older versions of Windows, because old apps could be relying on those bugs.

    My wife gets very frustrated when she encounters bugs, whereas I’m usually like “well, it’s not nearly as bad as it could be” lol

    • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
      3 months

      Outside of software, I can say that most major companies operate like this too. In advertising, companies like to project that they’re all polished and sophisticated, but behind closed doors, everything is held together with duct tape and prayers.

      • Carl@anarchist.nexusEnglish
        3 months

        Most organizations in general. There’s a quote from a career congressperson somewhere, that basically paraphrases as “when I first got into office, I tried to find the big movers. The people who really knew what they were doing. I wanted to find them so I could learn from them. And all I learned is that nobody knows what they’re doing. We’re all making it up as we go.”

    • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3 months

      all major software you use is hacks on top of hacks on top of something someone built as a ‘temporary’ solution or as a proof-of-concept that’s still in use years later.

      i had a thought along a similar veing yesterday because i realized that the code base i’m responsible for now was originally built as a proof of concept that never got it’s bugs ironed out and a temporary solution i implemented bit me in the ass.

      • dan@upvote.au
        3 months

        Accurate. At work I’m finally getting around to paying down tech debt from a temporary hack that was supposed to only be in the code for a month or so, but now it’s been in our production code for around five years.

        It would have been maybe a week or so to do it the right way initially, but we had hard deadlines and were pressed for time and just couldn’t get around to doing it. Now it’s over a month of work for one senior engineer (me) to clean up, because there’s so many interdependencies between the hacky code and other parts of the system that depend on side effects of the hacky code, or the order of updates performed in the hacky code. What a mess.

        At least AI can help a bit. Even the newest models aren’t so great at system architecture in brownfield projects though (projects building into existing systems).

  • MrOtingocni@lemmy.world
    3 months

    What the murmurs in the void are saying.

    Don’t try to figure it out. Just. Leave. It. Alone.

  • Anna@lemmy.ml
    3 months

    Why people allergic to cockroaches can’t have coffee