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A phone is usually less than 200g, a CRT monitor can easily be >10kg, so at least 50 times worse
by philipdavis 6y ago
A phone is usually less than 200g, a CRT monitor can easily be >10kg, so at least 50 times worse
- epidemian 6y agoAnd damage does not scale linearly. I'd much rather have 50 200g rocks falling on my head than a single 10kg rock :)
- foobarian 6y agoAnd with a CRT you can also have the tube implode, and then you get 1000s of 1g sharp glass shards in your face.
- natmaka 6y agoThen the EHT (extra-high tension, ~25kV) module lands in what was your face. 'Incredibly unwise' seems sound!
- skrebbel 6y ago> And damage does not scale linearly. This must be today's "most HN" comment.
- slingnow 6y agoSaying something obviously true makes it the "most HN" comment?
- zbentley 6y agoThis may be today's "Most HN" reply...
- Sohcahtoa82 6y agoWhen I think of a "most HN" comment, I think of one of four options: - Dismisses a new project that simplifies a task and makes it more approachable to non-technical folks (Like the famous Dropbox comment [0]) - Is extremely pedantic and serves only as a distraction from a discussion - Argues in favor of pure functional programming - Misses obvious sarcasm, even when the /s is included. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
- newsbinator 6y agoAnd lately: * dismisses the thought by referring to the commenter's privilege for having it in the first place, rather than commenting on the value or feasibility of the thought itself.
- hamburglar 6y agoplease add - tries to come up with an overly precise technical definition of something entirely subjective and unserious. ;-)
- fouc 6y agoThe functional programming one could probably be generalized to "argues for switching to a programming language or programming paradigm when it doesn't even make sense for the particular context or HN thread topic". There's always someone that's religious about their particular technical choices.
- skocznymroczny 6y agopure functional programming is so 2010. rewrite it in Rust is the 2020 way.
- throwaway0a5e 6y agoYou forgot "find a wordy way to criticize something while pretending you're suggesting an improvement so that you can pander to some viewpoint that it's hard to argue against with the demographics here being what they are"
- skrebbel 6y agoThose are all negative. Lots of HN comments are positive. Can you think of any other community where someone can discuss the damage of a CRT monitor falling into your face with terms like "scale linearly" and everybody just nods in agreement? I think it's delightful, one of the little pleasures of hanging around here.
- masklinn 6y ago> a CRT monitor can easily be >10kg, so at least 50 times worse And some of the later generation CRTs breached 20" and were a good 30+kg. Sony's 24" GDM-FW900 was a pretty incredible 42kg.
- GordonS 6y agoI used to have a large CRT monitor that was 30kg (I don't recall the actual screen size, but it was somewhere between 20-30". It was an absolute behemoth, and I remember the desk sagged down at least an inch in the centre. It looked pretty dodgy, but it sat there for years without incident!