Honestly, I’ve got no idea what price range is plausible these days. What I do know is, that I would only buy from someone who knows what they’re doing, and who can provide a proper datasheet. But then again I come at this from an electronics angle, so I’d want a datasheet with stats on the beam, like wavelength composition, and heat dissipation etc, and not just forward voltage and current.

If you’re looking to buy a finished product, then figure out what regulatory markings it should have, like UL, CSA, CE, and TÜV. Personally I may be European, but I wouldn’t be satisfied with a CE marking, it must at least have TÜV before I’d mess with it, and I’d prefer it to be UL listed as well. Anybody can slap CE on a product, but UL and TÜV are actual testing institutions.

lots of these are pulsed, primarily to avoid excessive local heating (burning) of the tissue being lased. these can have peak powers in the kilowatt range!

I just wrote “weird” because trying to explain 250mJ delivered in 15ns became too much math to put into a comment I wanted people to read.

also your point of output contamination is spot on! +1 to avoiding cheap “powerful” lasers :)

That’s what fucking around finds out for you. Luckily I never got to the stage in my project where I put on my budget non-certified goggles, and powered on el cheapo laser diode. But if I can help somebody else to not trust the nominal values, then I’ll chime in when this is brought up.

Suitable applications of 1w lasers

• light engraving
• ultra light cutting
• mischief and miscellaneous shenanigans
• medical (I guess it’s in the range for tattoo removal, but power rating for these lasers are stated weirdly)
• fiber optic communications

Tasks 1w lasers are unsuitable for

• any kind of pointing, besides cases where you wish to permanently damage your audience.

As I recall the cheap lasers have an issue with the quality of their wavelength. Both in contamination and precision. Which leads glasses not being effective.

Is there any induction material to read? Does anyone show me around gay headquarters? Do I have to meet any key stakeholders?

Fuck it, that’s too much work. I’ll just suck some dicks on the day, and see if that works.

That’s:
A. Drug paraphernalia.
B. Chemistry lab glassware.
C. A coffee brewing device that you’ll use a couple of times, and then only to impress guests.
D. There’s no way to tell without trying all of the above.

Water dispenser

It’s not a positive word? It may not be universal, but at least where I live being an uncle isn’t a bad thing.

Who nukes!

When war is baseline, and peace requires an ultimate seasonpass to enable purchasing it as pay per view. Luckily getting access to the unaffordable housing dlc only requires purchasing the “falsely advertised tertiary education with no actual marketable skillset”…

I like to show my students the clip of French firefighters protesting and how they’re making police pull back. There’s a lesson in there about teamwork and being prepared.

In France, we take to the streets for the smallest issue (or so they say), and the world mocks us.

We don’t mock you guys for that. There’s plenty other things to use for mocking the French. We’re secretly in awe of the liberal application of the guillotine in a class struggle.

But still, he was just in fog and expected to be in fog again in a moment. Maybe it’s just me, I don’t have a problem with people’s fog lights. What I do take issue to is people using auto hi beams, because they turn down too late.

Buddy of mine got a citation for wrong use of the vehicles lights. A fine of the equivalent of 300USD. What did he do? He had been driving in fog, and didn’t switch off his fog lights. He was pulled over less than a km out of the fog. Dude was pissed.

But it also breaks/weakens the android security model, where apps can do, store or transmit stuff protected from the eyes of the user of the phone.

Which just sounds insane to me. It’s security through obscurity, which is in and of itself a bad plan, to protect 3rd parties against you … on your own frigging device.

Obligatory milenial joke:

Your mom, very big, causes gonorrhea

TBH it’s been more than a decade since I graduated electronics engineering, I really didn’t like filter theory, so I went with embedded electronics for my specialization, and went to work in an entirely different field so…

What’s the purpose of this filter, if all you’re getting out is DC? I mean wouldn’t you want to set the cutoff frequency high enough to actually get a signal through? If all you’re looking for is the DC component, then wouldn’t you be better off (as in a more simple, thus cheaper, solution) just doing a rolling average filter?

Again, I really didn’t follow along in signal processing that well, so I may just be exposing my ignorance here.

It will also have a quota to fill. flag 5000 turists a day or we’ll remove 10% of your RAM

Ah but maybe a small obscure group of elves decided that they could rule middle earth by their sheer superiority and therefore stayed behind. Such arrogance would make them perfect as tech overlord types.

Oh… it would be kinda cool though: the modern world set in middle earth. Maybe add a little steam punk dwarven tech and some elves with electric doodads. I could definitely see an elven technological schism with one traditional group and another consisting of hipsters with the latest innovations.

Have guards at a safe distance ready to flood the casting floor with molten iron, while the dwarves are working. It may be cruel, but an influenced dwarf wouldn’t get away with the ring.

Imperfections would be acceptable. I mean once the ring is encased in 2 tons of steel good frigging luck getting to it unnoticed.

I’m not big on lotr lore. My Atlas of Middle Earth was mostly just used for RPG, and the Silmarillion has been left untouched on the book-shelves in my home. But are you saying that there’s a nazi-hunting-artifacts storyline? Like Indiana Jones in Middle Earth?