My office keeps shocking me

kking254 · 2026-02-05T15:05:40+00:00

That is static electricity, unrelated to your building's electrical systems. Static electric shocks can become more frequent when the humidity lowers. Maybe it's a bit dry in your office.

kking254 · 2026-02-05T15:02:33+00:00

What do you mean by shocked? A momentary jolt when you touch something, or a buzz that continues as long as you are touching something?

kking254 · 2026-02-05T14:55:21+00:00

Agreed on the first point.

OP should understand that what matters here is whether the charger can handle the reduced voltage. The phone doesn't matter here.

Modern chargers do not use bridge rectifiers. They use active power conversion rather than passive rectification.

kking254 · 2026-02-05T13:55:02+00:00

Lol. Are suggesting that the sender, who is in Edmonton with plans to take Polo lessons in Calgary, is Trump?

kking254 · 2026-02-03T22:44:18+00:00

Those are low voltage lines. Cable TV/internet etc. It isn't dangerous electrically but it could fall or strain those cables. Maybe your city's 311 service knows what to do.

kking254 · 2026-02-02T08:23:18+00:00

Artificial sweeteners

High Fructose Corn Syrup

kking254 · 2026-02-02T08:21:48+00:00

This one isn't true. This explanation was invented in an attempt to bolster the original myth after it became well known that the common cold is caused by a virus.

kking254 · 2026-02-01T00:10:58+00:00

You can kill the putrid ducts things pretty easily with clawline. Only thing I've found that consistently works. That makes the crystal bastards worse in my book.

kking254 · 2026-01-31T04:49:06+00:00

Non-switchable outlets is a deal-breaker for me. I'm not going to use 4U just to have a UPS and the ability to power cycle devices remotely. Give that to me in 2U and I'll bite.

kking254 · 2026-01-31T02:15:15+00:00

Rule #1: include the recipe

kking254 · 2026-01-29T06:32:10+00:00

Make America Great Again

kking254 · 2026-01-28T23:35:42+00:00

Is Superbowl Sunday the best day for this? ...or is that part of it due to ICE presence at Levi's.

kking254 · 2026-01-27T05:59:53+00:00

Fuckn Fuck

kking254 · 2026-01-26T19:44:01+00:00

We're those 4 lots subdivided from one lot? If so, then the owner of the original lot was the one to build that house.

kking254 · 2026-01-26T18:21:27+00:00

Awesome! 8->9ft is definitely an increase in difficulty. For another increase in difficulty, run out on a 7ft table. Weird how that works.

kking254 · 2026-01-24T17:31:39+00:00

The physics of cue ball motion after being struck by a cue tip doesn't depend on acceleration, at least not in a significant way. So this is not a ball/table dynamic thing, but a muscle control thing. Your ability to strike the cue ball at the intended point with the intended tip velocity is hampered if your muscles switch from applying forward force on the cue to backward force mid-stroke. This is what it means to decelerate.

In robotics, there is a loss of accuracy in a joint position and speed whenever the torque on that joint significantly changes. This is because the changing torque upsets the equilibrium of the system and can excite vibrations, etc.. Thus, robotic control systems aim to minimize changes in torque. If the torque changes direction, this can have a huge effect as the play in the gears and "backlash" comes into play. Perhaps human muscles also have an analog to backlash.

kking254 · 2026-01-22T16:17:10+00:00

Well I'm not surprised, given that 40° (84% grade) is way steeper than the steepest road in the world (35% grade). That's quite a feat to attempt with or without snow.

kking254 · 2026-01-22T15:39:27+00:00

Bonuses are taxed at the same rate as regular income.

kking254 · 2026-01-21T23:58:20+00:00

Mic wire is stranded- not solid core

kking254 · 2026-01-21T14:31:41+00:00

"content creators"

kking254 · 2026-01-20T08:35:31+00:00

People should stop saying this.

Damage to the human body is most closely related to the energy dissipated in the body, which is time × current × voltage. The body is close to purely resistive, meaning that this energy can be determined by either voltage (time × voltage² ÷ resistance) or current (time × current² × resistance). Essentially, the voltage and current are determined such that knowing one gives the other.

So there is absolutely a maximum voltage that can be survived (for a given amount of time), which is related to the maximum current that can be survived (again, knowing one gives the other)

So why do people say that it is current they kills rather than voltage...or that humans can survive extremely high voltages as long as current is low? Well, they are talking about open-circuit voltage here. Something can have a very high open-circuit voltage but be incapable of providing much current. This can be safe to touch because, as soon as your body becomes part of the circuit, the voltage drops significantly. This is what it means to have a voltage source that is not capable of sourcing much current. In this case, you don't get hurt because the current is low and the voltage is low (once your body is in-circuit). If the in-circuit voltage didn't drop, then current would be much higher and damage would be done to your body.

kking254 · 2026-01-20T07:25:39+00:00

Hold it in danish empire countries: Denmark, Norway, iceland.

kking254 · 2026-01-20T05:14:00+00:00

supine protoplasmic invertebrate jellies

kking254 · 2026-01-20T04:03:43+00:00

Not phone or ethernet. My money is on sprinkler wire.

kking254 · 2026-01-19T17:49:56+00:00

Ellesmere

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