Yeah, late one day in the lab, tired, aligning lasers, I used a mirror to check alignment because I knew I shouldn't put my eye in the path - so, like a complete, overtired idiot, I put the path in my eye instead.
And thought, Hey, that wasn't very smart! And Wow! I am (temporarily) blind.
It wasn't an eye-threat-level laser. Thankfully. Which is why one wears bandgap glasses when working with those: it's SO easy to mess up!
With high-powered lasers, you can go blind instantly. I also worked with lasers (in a lab, with all the safety precautions), yet I have slight eye damage in one eye.
There's a small burnt patch on my fovea, so if I look at something like a regular grid (e.g. a page with text) with the damaged eye, the grid becomes warped at the point of focus. And I found out about that only when I was doing a regular planned eye exam (I was wearing corrective glasses).
This type of damage is extremely common with lasers, and it can stay invisible and compound until the brain runs out of its ability to do fixes in post-processing.
Wow. As my only experience with lasers is playing with laser pointer I suppose the laser damage of this type is mostly by multiple reflections that are not really even seen by visible eye or scattered beam reflected from some surface you are not expecting it from?
Yes, Google has an office in Australia so do all the big US companies like Microsoft, AirBnB etc. As I mentioned below Anduril have a new operation in Sydney as Australia's submarine capability is f@#ked and needs something ASAP
My god! I can only imagine the carnage which would occur around my locale if those bikes were everywhere! But very impressive and tempting to put an order in
I came across it from a post/comments on Twitter and people were proposing that a character from the book resembles one of our current Billionaires who does car, space, social media things among others.
The lesson they should have learned from Commonwealth Bank is KYC, Know Your Criminals:
“But if they don’t understand local money laundering and terrorism financing risks, they are failing to meet” obligations around such activities in Australia.
ComBank knew how to put a tray of ANZAC biscuits out, provide little tin MoneyBanks with a slot for the CrimJrs, and partner in FrequentFlyer points with QUANTAS.
According to the article Binance Australia seems under resourced for such things:
Austrac also raised concerns about high staff turnover along with a lack of local resourcing and senior management oversight at the Australian unit of Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange by volume.
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