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[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)
An MSDS may not tell you what respirator to use;

Slander! MSDS will tell you to use the right one (“appropriate respirator”), it’s your job to figure out what it is

Po-tay-toh, po-tah-toh, still better than an LLM directly endangering you with bad advice

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

as if we needed LLMs for that. at least two of my profs have abstract tattoos left from experimenting with homemade explosives when they were in high school

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

as reminders? or are they just that metal?

(e: mostly unsure whether you mean ink or scartissue with “abstract tattoos”)

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

sorry if that was unclear, metal acetylides that they played with when ignited give off a cloud of fine metal particles and soot, they had hands close enough that these particles got embedded in their skin, permanently. so basically tattoo ink but explosively deposited

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago

ah, gotcha. so, metal, but not quite the type I had in mind! no worries on the initial confusion, was just not entirely sure what you meant wrt mechanism