drethelin comments on Open Thread, July 1-15, 2013 - Less Wrong

4 Post author: Vaniver 01 July 2013 05:10PM

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Comment author: gwillen 02 July 2013 11:54:10PM 3 points [-]

FYI, there's no need to be careful around hard drives (except for your own safety, since they're large chunks of metal your magnet will stick to.) The platters of a modern hard drive are too high-coercivity and too well-shielded for even a substantial neodymium magnet (bigger than you can fit in a fingertip) to affect them.

Credit cards, on the other hand.

Comment author: drethelin 03 July 2013 02:47:00AM 3 points [-]

It's not the being careful about ruining them, it's the giant magnet IN them that can fuck you up.