ganyu · HackerTrans

vor 10 Monatendiscuss

So TL;DR,

1. Any substance that has most atoms covered by Fluoride are 'PFAS'. 2. C8 is strictly speaking PFOA (by-definition). 3. C6, and all other acids that has similar chemical properties to C8, can all be generically classified as PFOA-like materials. But for ease of communication people also call them PFOAs or just short for PFOA.

4. PFOAs are crucial for manufacturing Teflon. 5. The problem is manufacturers just dump waste water from PFAS production plants (containing PFOA) without post-processing into natural water bodies and let these toxic substances participate in the food chain and eventually land in our own bodies.

ganyu

vor 10 Monatendiscuss

PFAS is short for 'Per- and poly- FluoroAlkyl Substances'. The Teflon that's used on your pans, which are 'poly-' materials, comes in extra long chains (hundreds of thousands of molecules). Most of its chemical bonds are hidden behind the extremely reactive Fluoride atoms (so if Fluoride is bonded onto that position, it's hard to take it off) and are extremely inert, so they don't interfere with typical biological reactions, thus are perfectly safe.

C8 is known as PFOA (perfluorooctanoic acid). Per for its chained molecule shape (no carbon side chains), 'fluoro' for the F part, 'octanoic' for the 8 carbon atoms, and 'acid' for its chemical property. Unlike Teflon:

  - C8 has a really small molecular mass, making it easier to flow around your body participating in all kinds of biological operations;
  - It is an acid (having the carboxylic '-COOH' group) and can pretend to be all kinds of acids and actively take part in reactions. Once they start to get inside, the consequences can be unpredictable and devastating.
  - All other atoms on C8 except for the last -COOH group are covered by fluoride atoms. This means that C8 is not biodegradable (no enzyme can break apart the C-F covalent bond since it's bond energy is really too high), and when it gets into the environment, it stays that way.

C6 has a highly similar chemical property akin to C8 (it's a carboxylic acid, and has all atoms covered by fluoride), so is equally harmful.

ganyu

letztes Jahrdiscuss

Let's just say Windows 11 is a complete different OS compared to Windows 7 lest 10. That's still not counting Windows 11 being a new OS every couple of months, packed with brand new AI features that literally breaks your entire workflow because it's "more AI".

ganyu

letztes Jahrdiscuss

Bear in mind that "any two high-dimensional vectors are almost always orthogonal".

ganyu

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

I believe they clear out the launch site within a few kilometres so nobody gets hit by random concrete debris or just melt away, literally. The control centre is probably invitational.

But you can freely watch them live on Twitter. Just follow the official @SpaceX account.

ganyu

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

i'd prefer the term 'less experienced' but yes.

ganyu

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

Most of those devs back in 2011 were rookies, and many still are now. It would've been lucky enough for them to have even heard of the word 'asymmetric encryption'. And you can still find many public APIs in the WeChat docs (in 2022) that uses hand-written AES stuff that, unfortunately, uses ECB.

Back in those days where the CN internet infrastructure as we see today was laid down, devs and PMs literally didn't know for sure what were they doing, but they still worked overnight because it the new features must be shipped before next weekend.

And since the services worked pretty well until today it's kinda better to keep the s__tpile there and don't change it. Also there's a lot of unmaintained 'PWA's in the wild that relies on legacy APIs that you dare not to break.

ganyu

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

Matter of fact: Chinese smartphone users can be sued for hacking their devices. Particularly developers who develop location mocking apps.

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