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Discussion in 'General' started by Brooxy, 28 Oct 2009.

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  1. Gareth Halfacree

    Gareth Halfacree WIIGII! Lover of bit-tech Administrator Super Moderator Moderator

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    Let's have a look... the LD50 of water ('cos eeeeverything will kill you if you have enough of it. Too little, sometimes, too. Both are true for water) is 90,000mg per kilogramme according to this. A cup of water, per the DuckDuckGo auto-answer thing 'cos lazy, is 284ml. 113 cups of water is, thus, 32,092ml - or 32 litres and a splash.

    One litre of water is, handily, one kilogramme (you've got to love the metric system!) or 1,000,000mg. 32 litres is, thus, 32,000,000mg. Given the above LD50 of water, drinking 113 cups of water would most likely be lethal unless you weigh more than... 355kg.

    BBC Science Focus says you could "theoretically" consume up to 20 litres of water a day, spaced out across 24 hours - but also says that seven litres in three hours has been known to cause fatal water intoxication. Either way, 32 litres is well out-of-spec.

    So, to conclude: you could kill someone via caffeine overdose by giving them 113 cups of coffee, except they'd be dead of water intoxication about two-thirds the way through the process. Probably. Please don't test it.

    EDIT:
    And only after all that do I see @Byron C already said the same thing at the bottom of his post. Whoops!
     
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  2. Mr_Mistoffelees

    Mr_Mistoffelees The Bit-Tech Cat. New Improved Version.

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    You know what, after the way I have been in the past, I'm just happy that now I can talk about this, without it sending me into a very dark place...
     
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  3. Flibblebot

    Flibblebot Smile with me

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    [​IMG]
     
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  4. Gareth Halfacree

    Gareth Halfacree WIIGII! Lover of bit-tech Administrator Super Moderator Moderator

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    A very low bar to clear for "awesome," but this did amuse me...

    I was writing up a story about a dude called Dylan who discovered his Eight Sleep smart bed thing had a massive security hole in it: an SSH backdoor, letting the company's engineers do whatever they want on the embedded Linux system and bounce out from there into his home network.

    Eight months ago, I wrote up a story about a dude called Dillan... who discovered his Sleep Number smart bed thing had a massive security hole in it: an SSH backdoor, letting the company's engineers do whatever they want on the embedded Linux system and bounce out from there into his home network.

    Yeah. If I had a nickel &c...
     
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  5. IanW

    IanW Grumpy Old Git

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    This month's payslip showed a smol bonus, which was nice.
     
    IanW, 26 Feb 2025
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  6. yuusou

    yuusou Multimodder

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    Slack is down.
     
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  7. adidan

    adidan Guesswork is still work

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    That's who we get our dishwasher tablets off
     
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  8. IanW

    IanW Grumpy Old Git

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    It was enough to completely pay for the 3D printer I put in the purchases thread last week! :D
     
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  9. adidan

    adidan Guesswork is still work

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    That is an awesome belated Christmas present :rock:
     
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  10. Byron C

    Byron C I was told there would be cheesecake…?

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    What a coincidence, a bonus is what paid for mine, too… :happy:

    I still used a credit card, even though I paid it off in full straight away. It’s a relatively high-value single item and I want the payment protection that comes with paying on a credit card.
     
    Byron C, 27 Feb 2025
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  11. IanW

    IanW Grumpy Old Git

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    Same. :thumb:
     
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  12. Cookie Monster

    Cookie Monster Multimodder

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    You're slack!
     
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  13. yuusou

    yuusou Multimodder

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    Bloody good weather. Nice enough to sit in the garden, soak up some sun and a beer. Haven't felt this happy in weeks. Who knew what I needed was some sunshine.

    I'm certain it'll all be over by tomorrow though. The sun will still be here, but unfortunately I won't.
     
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  14. IanW

    IanW Grumpy Old Git

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    Finally found this little guy while doing my weekly shop

    [​IMG]

    Series 27 completed!
     
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    Spring is almost here the sun is starting to warm and the days are getting longer. This time of year always raised my spirit.
     
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  16. Mr_Mistoffelees

    Mr_Mistoffelees The Bit-Tech Cat. New Improved Version.

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    Don’t forget, it’s Fat Tuesday today! :grin::grin::grin:
     
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  17. adidan

    adidan Guesswork is still work

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    FTFY
     
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  18. Flibblebot

    Flibblebot Smile with me

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    I've been clearing the archive room at the organisation I work for, we've got so much crap in there. In the process of my decrapification, I discovered a roll of old Sun Microsystems posters (I'll take photos of them when I can) - from "the network is the computer" era, I think probably late 90s early 2000s?

    The weird thing is, the organisation I work for isn't even vaguely related to anything that Sun any did, so I don't even know why they were there in the first place :sigh:
     
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  19. IanW

    IanW Grumpy Old Git

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    Maybe left by a sales rep, back before the world began?
     
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  20. DeadP1xels

    DeadP1xels Social distancing since 92

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    FINALLY got the photo booth working—it’s been driving me mad for weeks. Until I had the core setup running stably, there was no point in doing anything else. I had almost given up… I could get it firing, but without any live view, and occasionally, it would just stop.

    After weeks of fiddling with different cameras, manual settings, lighting, iPads, and apps, I completely overlooked the simplest possibility: the iPad hub might not be up to the task...

    Yesterday, I ordered a bunch of hubs from Amazon, including the £39 genuine Apple one, after noticing that some were labeled "Apple MFi certified."

    The very first (£7.99) one I tried worked perfectly straight out of the box.

    Slightly annoying I hadn't considered that to be the problem until now but a win is a win.
     
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