So, just went on Amazon to buy a book on SW design and it is showing me a selection of Geiger counters in "More items to explore".
Is there an impending nuclear apocalypse I didn't get a meeting invite for?
Has the wife been searching for Uranium again using my account?
Amazon only recommends stuff you’ve already purchased, you need to look through your order history
Amazon only recommends stuff you’ve already purchased, you need to look through your order history
Pretty sure I've not bought any geiger counters before...
Last time I knowingly played with anything radioactive was Secondary School, back when they could hand out radioatcive isotopes for us to play with in Chemistry classes.
The more you test, the more problems you will find. If you don't test, you have nothing to worry about.
Investigated a holiday to Chernobyl ... or Dr No's tropical lair?
Radiation poisoning affects your memory
Have you watched Chernobyl on Prime?
Last time I knowingly played with anything radioactive was Secondary School, back when they could hand out radioatcive isotopes for us to play with in Chemistry classes.
You should get a smoke detector, it could save your life.
OP... been shopping for masks?
Amazon only recommends stuff you’ve already purchased
It depends on the page you are looking at.
Home page it recommends, mostly, other stuff which other people who have brought the same thing as you in the past have brought.
On item pages it shows stuff people who have looked/brought also brought/brought instead off.
Plus of course the advertising crap.
Plus various other variations including the "you brought this before do you want to rebuy?" and "people have brought x again". Which seems a rather dubious category to me when its anything other than books or consumables. If I see someone has brought an expensive gadget a second time I start thinking did they have to buy it a second time because it broke?
Some of the "people who brought x also brought y" are rather scary. Going back to the OP I think there does seem to be a worrying link between some software developers and a end of the world complex. Although thinking about it if you have to figure out the latest web standards and cool JS library regularly I can see why an apocalypse would appeal.
Being a sad sort I sometimes do like clicking through the amazon recommendations in the same way I like clicking through random things on wikipedia and seeing where I end up. Its like six degrees of separation but with far more nuttery.
Thing is, unless they sell you a calibration source to go with them then they're not really much good. Wish my work would get more of the wee compact digital meters though, us plebs still have to use ion chamber RO1's.
@disonnance where did all these people take things to?
Wasn't there some worry about high reading of certain isotopes recently detected in Sweden?
Pretty sure I read shortly after about an Iranian enrichment facility that had a fire and explosion, think that was the source.
'SW' innit.
It's quite radioactive down here in the South West. That's the real reason tourists go home with that 'holiday glow'.