Someone on r/HomeNetworking cursed whoever invented the RJ45 connector, and in the comments, Richard Benett, vice-chair of the first IEEE 802.3 task group that wrote a standard around RJ-45-style connector, appears and offers to take the blame.
Has he stated that anywhere? Because looking at the upload date (8 months) of the latest video and the gaps between previous uploads (sometimes multiple years), it doesn't look uncharacteristic for him.
the pull tab on the right has a divot in it where it makes contact with the can, and it concentrates more pressure at the point of contact to pop the seal.
That’s an attempt to mitigate cans where you’d pull the tab and the tab would just break off without opening the can. So the person who answered it’s usually because of the seal is right.
other half’s dad [retired from] Campbell in Ohio and isn’t an internet let alone a Reddit person, you’d never guess how much trivia there is about their #2 can. I’d have commented but a brand new account will probably be buried as spam … and the second answer is correct anyway.
A former co-worker I knew said a technique he would use on a date that was going slow to try and make himself look smart and the date curious was to examine the design decisions of objects around them. The table, the paint used to make a painting, the shampoo that makes the dates hair smell so good, etc. Add in some history of the object and discuss until an interesting bit was found that could move the conversation else where. Seemed like it could work but I never needed to try it.
There's an idea in psychology called the illusion of explanitory depth. It's the idea that everyone has much more confidence in their understanding of how things work, even the most mundane and apparantly simple things, than is warranted. In turn we tend to hugely underestimate the difficulty, complexity and skill in jobs we have never done.
The world is absolutely full of utterly prosaic objects that are far more sophisticated that we imagine, either in their function and design or in their manufacture.
Most people overestimate how well they would cope in some post-apocalyptic world. But I think even many people who regard themselves as prepared, underestimate how much skill and sheer effort is involved in making really simple things like rope. To do more than just scrape by you would need to reconstruct a society of specialists, it won't be the rugged individualists.
Reminds me of something from a few months ago:
Someone on r/HomeNetworking cursed whoever invented the RJ45 connector, and in the comments, Richard Benett, vice-chair of the first IEEE 802.3 task group that wrote a standard around RJ-45-style connector, appears and offers to take the blame.
That led to this short documentary: "TWISTED: The dramatic history of twisted-pair Ethernet" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8PP5IHsL8Y
Related: The Engineer Guy’s “The Ingenious Design of the Aluminum Beverage Can” on YouTube https://youtu.be/hUhisi2FBuw
Damn you beat me by a hair
Whenever it’s about cans I can only recommend this video from the engineer guy [1]. He makes no videos anymore sadly.
https://youtu.be/hUhisi2FBuw
> He makes no videos anymore sadly.
Has he stated that anywhere? Because looking at the upload date (8 months) of the latest video and the gaps between previous uploads (sometimes multiple years), it doesn't look uncharacteristic for him.
I can highly recommend his books, however.
I also think Technologie Connections filled his spot great. He started with sound and video topics but switched to household technologies.
the pull tab on the right has a divot in it where it makes contact with the can, and it concentrates more pressure at the point of contact to pop the seal.
That’s an attempt to mitigate cans where you’d pull the tab and the tab would just break off without opening the can. So the person who answered it’s usually because of the seal is right.
other half’s dad [retired from] Campbell in Ohio and isn’t an internet let alone a Reddit person, you’d never guess how much trivia there is about their #2 can. I’d have commented but a brand new account will probably be buried as spam … and the second answer is correct anyway.
I hope to someday be too good for Reddit. For now I tend to use it or at least click on links to it like I do for Twitter.
xkcd "Work": https://xkcd.com/1741/
"Sometimes I get overwhelmed thinking about the amount of work that went into the ordinary objects around me."
A former co-worker I knew said a technique he would use on a date that was going slow to try and make himself look smart and the date curious was to examine the design decisions of objects around them. The table, the paint used to make a painting, the shampoo that makes the dates hair smell so good, etc. Add in some history of the object and discuss until an interesting bit was found that could move the conversation else where. Seemed like it could work but I never needed to try it.
I've never had a date going slow that also included me being able to smell her hair.
I love this comic.
There's an idea in psychology called the illusion of explanitory depth. It's the idea that everyone has much more confidence in their understanding of how things work, even the most mundane and apparantly simple things, than is warranted. In turn we tend to hugely underestimate the difficulty, complexity and skill in jobs we have never done.
The world is absolutely full of utterly prosaic objects that are far more sophisticated that we imagine, either in their function and design or in their manufacture.
Most people overestimate how well they would cope in some post-apocalyptic world. But I think even many people who regard themselves as prepared, underestimate how much skill and sheer effort is involved in making really simple things like rope. To do more than just scrape by you would need to reconstruct a society of specialists, it won't be the rugged individualists.
Old Reddit vibes