Bryan Elliott
Coder dude.
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Bryan Elliott@programming.devto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•You can't burn water, because it's already burntEnglish
14·2 years agoThe fun part about that: you can burn hydrogen with fluorine because fluorine is the best oxidizer; it’s then deadly (and caustic) because hydrogen is not the best reducer - it’s both an oxidizer and a reducer and, as a result, it’s basically middle-of-the-road for both properties. Specifically, most metals are better. So the HF will happily drop its hydrogen for many metals to oxidize (fluoridate) them instead. Lead, iron, zinc, aluminum, magnesium, and lithium will each make a way more stable fluoride than does hydrogen.
In solution (say, if you inhale HF, it’ll dissolve into the moisture in your lungs), it breaks apart into H⁺ and F⁻ ions - both of which are just straight-up electrochemically promiscuous. The pair’ll run through your lungs breaking up organic bonds like couples at an orgy.
Even so, HF doesn’t hold a candle in terms of danger (and oxidation potential) compared to fluorine peroxide / dioxygen difluoride / FOOF.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•You can't burn water, because it's already burntEnglish
6·2 years agoYes.
Not only will metal fires break apart the water into oxygen and hydrogen, but they will consume the oxygen, as the metal oxide is a more stable energy state than is water. So you end up with a billow of hydrogen coming off the fire that mixes with the oxygen just above (because lighter gases rise) the oxygen-depleted zone of the fire, and it combusts there.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•You can't burn water, because it's already burntEnglish
18·2 years agoNext time it snows, remember: you’re being gently coated in stellar ash.
For those wondering, that’s a -6 from a range of -8…7 Harsh.
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politics @lemmy.world•Trump causes confusion by sharing meme calling Jan 6 a ‘government staged riot’ even though he was in power
1·2 years agoCannon won’t be presiding over the J6 charges. She’s Florida circuit; J6 will be filed in D.C.
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politics @lemmy.world•Trump causes confusion by sharing meme calling Jan 6 a ‘government staged riot’ even though he was in power
2·2 years agoReally? Then why say, out loud, that during the time you were in charge of the government, that the government staged a riot?
I mean, that’s a confession, right? Does he realize it’s a confession?
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politics @lemmy.world•Trump causes confusion by sharing meme calling Jan 6 a ‘government staged riot’ even though he was in power
4·2 years agoThe axon and dendrite of the one cell don’t speak to one another anymore, so we have to treat them as two.
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politics @lemmy.world•Trump causes confusion by sharing meme calling Jan 6 a ‘government staged riot’ even though he was in power
23·2 years agoDoes that technically count as a confession?
Bryan Elliott@programming.devto
Technology@lemmy.world•Meta Threads engagement has dropped 50% in a weekEnglish
16·2 years agoAt least not until there’s a damn web version.
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politics @lemmy.world•Mike Lindell Selling Off MyPillow Equipment: They ‘Did Cancel Culture On Us’English
591·2 years agoBro, you used your pillow sales to try and incite insurrection on the thinnest of bullshit data. The fact that the vast majority of folks with sense thought maybe you shouldn’t have pillow sales to fund terrible ideas anymore is kinda on you.
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politics @lemmy.world•Mike Lindell Selling Off MyPillow Equipment: They ‘Did Cancel Culture On Us’English
60·2 years agoWhat’s even better is that the guy in question - Robert Zeidman - is, in fact a Trump supporter. But as a data analytics engineer, he wasn’t able to fool himself with bullshit data.
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Everyone should have a tool-building factory factory factory
15·2 years agoI’m sorry, but why is this not an AbstractToolBuildingFactoryFactoryFactory? How are you going to derive alternatives?
Bryan Elliott@programming.devto
Programming@programming.dev•No. Greek Semicolons hold no power here.English
1·2 years agoReplacing semicolons with Greek question marks? Easy fix.
Terminating identifiers with Greek question marks? Pure evil.


Largely? The lack of convincing emotional range.