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Comment Re:All copper is "oxygen-free" (Score 1) 64

There is no copper in solid form you can get on earth that is oxygen free.

I love that it didn't occur to you that just because YOU can't source any, then it means that no one "on earth" can get any, lol.
Who's your copper guy? Maybe contract with a new one if yours can't get you "the good stuff"

Comment Re:Blessing in disguise? (Score 1) 62

I got one around 2008. They were the best of the non-premium 1080p HDMI screens at the time.

The one I got had slightly better test review scores on display quality than the LG that year. The Sony was 20% better for 3x the price.

It lasted about twelve years and by then a bigger 4K with much brighter colors was half the cost in nominal dollars, so probably 1/4 the cost in real terms.

And by then cheap flashable streaming sticks were available as was pihole and fairly easy outbound NAT rewriting rules to keep the beasts contained.

Comment Re: All copper is "oxygen-free" (Score 1) 64

Iâ(TM)m sorry, "water pipes"? What about all the dissolved minerals and gasses in that water? Fix your poor attention to detail, dude.

You don't now what you're talking about -- ultrapure water doesn't have "dissolved minerals and gasses" in it; that's literally the point of it, lol

Comment Re:All copper is "oxygen-free" (Score 1) 64

Have you ever heard a single person, including plumbing professionals, call them "copper-phosphorus pipes"?

Yes, just this morning, actually.

No. Because that's not how the English language works. You're the one who is too lazy and ignorant to figure out how people actually communicate in society.

Wait. You're asking ME a question and instead of letting ME answer the question that YOU ASKED ME, you're answering it YOURSELF, deciding that the answer is "No", and then giving yourself a big pat on the back? lol. wtf is THAT sad shit about? Are you serious?

Hint: The systematization your mind wants to apply to everything is not absolute. You need to figure out when to relax the formal logic rules when they start to result in absurd outcomes.

Nah, "relaxing the formal logic rules" seems like a good recipe for asking a question of someone and then answering it -- incorrectly -- yourself, quod erat demonstrandum

Comment Re:Meanwhile (Score 1) 180

t depends on if they send you a tax notice or not. There was an outfit in Ohio that I used to purchase a lot of electronics from. One year I got a note from them listing my purchases, and that I would have to pay taxes on. That was a pain in the ass.

I think they got "caught", or had new accountants or something. But yes - if you can avoid the sales tax, it's a significant discount.

Interesting, I've never received any such notices....but most of my stuff is one off buys...not repeated purchases from a single site...

Comment Re:All copper is "oxygen-free" (Score 0) 64

The only thing stopping you from calling the water pipes in your house "copper-phosphorus pipes" is laziness and poor attention to detail.

By your awesome logic, instead of saying "pass the salt" at the dinner table, it's better to take the lazy route and say "Can you please pass the chloride?" because for some reason it doesn't matter that salt is sodium chloride.

Comment All copper is "oxygen-free" (Score 0) 64

It works by trapping particles in a Penning trap composed of gold-plated cylindrical electrode stacks made from oxygen-free copper that is surrounded by a superconducting magnet bore operated at cryogenic temperatures.

What does that even MEAN, lol?
Copper is a chemical element, atomic number 29 on the periodic table.
Oxygen is also a chemical element, atomic number 8 on the periodic table.

i.e, e,g., therefore, & also: all copper is "oxygen-free." If the article got something so simple as THIS completely wrong, one can easily presume that the REST of the article is incorrect gibberish.

"oXyGEn-fREE cOppER", lmao

Comment Self-Review (Score 1) 65

I feel like a good idea for this sort of thing if it's going to be deployed is include the applicant in the loop.

"Hi, your application will be rejected because:
* You list your qualifications as an electrician, not a medical expert.

If this anything is in error and you want to continue with your submission, please explain the error below and click "Contest" attesting that you believe this to be in error and someone will be sure to review more carefully."

Even without AI it would be nice for job application forms to let applications know that they're just going to get tossed automatically regardless of the automated system. In fact it should be against the law to discard applications automatically without allowing an application to review the criteria by which they were automatically rejected regardless of it being algorithmic or fuzzy AI.

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