SexyCyborg
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Comment · 3 years ago
You can get 265-275nm LEDs- they are effective but you have to check them since there are constant scams.
https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/154177301370350387...
You also have to dump a lot of heat so there's fan noise and Upper-Room GUV is already quite cheap so they aren't really game changers in that application- but they do work.
https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/153744305018765722... https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/153944537069847756...
222nm excimer lights are pretty costly per joule compared to 254-275nm given the 3,000hr or so lifespan of typical Chinese bulbs (although USHIO claims 10,000 is on the way) but from working with the factories they aren't quite as expensive as people think- the distributor markup is huge. You can also squeeze about 30% more out of them by switching to PTFE reflectors:
https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/156236957519840051...
Best would be no reflector at all and pump as many joules into room air as we can with some air circulation, but right now we can only do that with unfiltered excimer lights- which aren't horrible but not something you'd want to sit with for several hours a day:
https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/157656585826391244... https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/159832965174278963...
Cylindrical 222nm cut filters would solve this but so far we can only get flat panes- and they are quite costly so building a square or triangular enclosure of filters costs more than you gain.
For what it's worth I make pretty extensive use of (filtered) 222nm- both portable and at home and I haven't caught COVID yet. Just an anecdote, but I've got no reason to stop using it- at least personally.
https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/159942679977541222... https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/159708372174773452... https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/158850109792860160... https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/161091221064529920...
The math on wearable Far-UVC didn't work out (exposure time is too short for the power, high power exceeds the TLV at that distance)- but it was a fun side project for a couple of days:
https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/157297688745831219... https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/158296013877611315...
As far as 222nm safety, I'm comfortable with it based on current data, used within recommended TLVs and have tested it on myself at length. But the one area I have concerns is folks with Lupus and other UV-sensitive immune disorders. It should be ok given that UVB seems to be the problem region, but we really have no information and I'd like some before any real widespread roll out of this technology.
https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/155949983593741926...
Comment · 4 years ago
Yes, but they could not, for instance get data on or conversations I've had with other people and go after them. A firestop of sorts. It's far from a universal solution, just a very low tech, very theatrical option for very specific threat models
Comment · 4 years ago
>hang her nude bits out.
Well no, nothing of the kind was occurring in the demonetized videos referenced in my post. I did not have more skin on display than any typical YouTuber might under the circumstances. It was a tank top and a halter top summer dress on a hot summer day in a tropical city. The issue was my shape inside those clothes- not the clothes themselves. That's what was interesting, YouTube's response to demonetizing the cardboard dress form made it clear my physical shape was the problem- not the degree of coverage or activity.
Comment · 4 years ago
>Considering something like body dysmorphia (as an example) might help give someone benefit of doubt. I'm not going to pretend to understand exactly why someone feels that way.
Yes, it is something like that. But it's bullshit for me to dance around it and expect some sort of grace. I will say something.
Comment · 4 years ago
Yes
Comment · 4 years ago
> Just checked her channel and every episode is her in a tube top and short shorts. Maybe she's technical, but the way shes dressed is clearly with the intent to draw people in sexually.
No. I look how I've always looked. My clothing is about gender expression and visibility and is common within my LGBT niche. That appearance sometimes helps, it sometimes hurts, I don't object to those followers that like it but I also don't cater to them.
>When she leaves the house she puts on a full set of clothes, so even shes consciously aware of how she looks in her videos.
You mean in the winter? Why would I wear hot pants outside in the winter?
Comment · 4 years ago
Yes I made YouTube demonetize my videos for uh...Hacker News attention. Yep, checks out.
Comment · 4 years ago
Thank you!
Comment · 4 years ago
Because if there's anything to judge a person on the basis of, it's Reddit logins they chose when they were 20 and stuck with as they grew in popularity
Comment · 4 years ago
Thank you! I'm an English major and have worked very hard at it- still love to hear it though!
Comment · 4 years ago
>You think your successes would have been harder to achieve if you didn't advertise with sex appeal? You don't need to justify yourself for anything but you still sound like you feel the need to do so.
Oh, not at all. It's a gender expression issue, some dysphoria problems, I will try to go into once I muster up the courage. I'm cis but have an...odd backstory. It's definitely counter productive to success in tech after a certain point.
>they probably don't want to make the impression that sex appeal is a necessity for success in tech.
It could be, but at the same time, many young women like being flamboyant, most unlike me outgrow it, but few 17 year olds aspire to the pant-suit. A passable IG "thot" doing tech isn't necessarily the bad influence people think it is. I think a healthy balance of role models will attract a healthy balance of candidates. I think saying "you have to be gender conforming within this narrow spectrum or look like this" is an absolute nightmare for, well basically everyone- men included.
Comment · 4 years ago
Oh come on...
Comment · 4 years ago
>But the engineering feats alone will never be the focus as a consequence.
There's a line between "never be the focus" and "we will erase you". This sort of thing is constant- but I'll give you a recent example-
NPR recently ran this story: https://www.npr.org/2021/10/25/1047691984/decades-after-poli...
About an American lady who needed some parts for her iron lung and how no one would help her. Only the thing is, they knew I already had: https://youtu.be/4VKZTmTP7oY
I'd fabricated the collars in Shenzhen, mailed the first batch, revised them and needed someone on the US side to to the final fitting. Martha told them this, a quick search told them this, hundreds of people told them this- did NPR revise the story to correct the omission of "oh by the way this problem we were talking about was solved by this female engineer". No of course not. I mean, it's NPR, you think they are going to get smut on their fingers writing about someone who looks like me? Never going to happen.
Then the Razer mask story, I was central to it and some outlets gave me credit: https://www.pcgamer.com/razer-rows-back-after-zephyr-face-ma...
Others like the Verge flatly refused to mention my involvement- even jumping through some pretty crazy hoops to avoid it: https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/10/22876303/razer-zephyr-mas...
Again, hundreds of people called them out. But they did the math and decided that the stigma of mentioning someone who looked like me was worse.
That's just the last few months- this has been a constant for years. I fully Open Sourced the best selling 3D printer on the planet, have the first five Open Source Hardware Association certifications granted in China- which people said would never happen, have brought multiple Chinese companies into GPL compliance, I'm the only women to have brought a 3D printer to mass-market- a game changing design for small scale manufacturing- the list is long, but somehow, none of it is "appropriate" to cover- just because of how I look.
We're well beyond- "does my appearance detract from my work". Of course it does. We're at "does my appearance justify not just complete erasure of my work but constant attempts to deplatform and defund me" I don't think it does.
Comment · 4 years ago
Well said
Comment · 4 years ago
>I often think of your public statements against SJW issues and people diminishes your feminist work.
Who's a feminist? Those disappear where I'm from. Thing is marginalized women living in circumstances that would make most of those busybodies shit themselves don't need to collect enough ideological compliance head pats and "atta girls" to get a "good feminist" sticker on our foreheads. We have praxis.
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