avandesande - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Just ban PFAS (Score 1) 31

by avandesande on Thursday May 02, 2024 @01:35PM (#64442778) Attached to: PFAS Increase Likelihood of Death By Cardiovascular Disease, Study Shows

I think you have it backwards. Corporations should prove that a new compound is unambiguously harmless before they can use it in consumer products. We are at the point of diminishing returns in material science, how much new crap do we need?

Comment Re:Don't finance Experimental electronics. (Score 1) 148

by avandesande on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @02:57PM (#64436470) Attached to: 'The Apple Vision Pro's eBay Prices Are Making Me Sad'

They still have these classes. My son took 'financial literacy' as an easy to graduate math class his senior year he says he learned more in that class than any other he's taken.

Comment Re:EV will never overtatake hydrogen (Score 1) 130

by avandesande on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @12:35PM (#64436000) Attached to: America's First Big-Rig Hydrogen Fuel Station Opens in California

Sure, but a battery that would give just the cab 100 mi range would be a lot different than one hauling a load for hundreds of miles.

Comment Re:Y2K tech debt (Score 1) 121

by avandesande on Monday April 29, 2024 @05:03PM (#64433886) Attached to: Airline Ticketing System Keeps Mistaking a 101-Year-Old Woman for a 1-Year-Old

Yeah, there was 1,000 years to prepare for Y2K, COVID not so much.

Comment Re:Don't finance Experimental electronics. (Score 1) 148

by avandesande on Monday April 29, 2024 @02:34PM (#64433400) Attached to: 'The Apple Vision Pro's eBay Prices Are Making Me Sad'

Sounds like the fool from the OP is going to pay a couple thousand interest on top of the overpriced amount he payed originally.

Comment Should be Embarrassed (Score 5, Insightful) 148

by avandesande on Monday April 29, 2024 @02:30PM (#64433394) Attached to: 'The Apple Vision Pro's eBay Prices Are Making Me Sad'

It's 2024... you should be pretty embarrassed to be surprised about price drops on new gadget releases.

Comment Re:EV will never overtatake hydrogen (Score 1) 130

by avandesande on Monday April 29, 2024 @01:53PM (#64433298) Attached to: America's First Big-Rig Hydrogen Fuel Station Opens in California

Why charge trucks? Trailers sit in berths for extended periods. Put the battery under the trailer.

Comment Re:Trolleytruck? (Score 1) 130

by avandesande on Monday April 29, 2024 @11:37AM (#64432886) Attached to: America's First Big-Rig Hydrogen Fuel Station Opens in California

I always thought the best approach for electric long haul would be a battery in the floor of the trailer since they spend so much time sitting at their destination.

Comment Re:dubious value (Score 1) 75

by avandesande on Monday April 29, 2024 @11:23AM (#64432852) Attached to: Ocean Spray Emits More PFAS Than Industrial Polluters, Study Finds

It's funny now Conservatives are the ones now that don't want to pollute the planet. We live in the age of techno-facism, if it's novel and new, it must be good.

Comment Ultimate Hydrogen storage system (Score 1) 130

by avandesande on Monday April 29, 2024 @11:14AM (#64432834) Attached to: America's First Big-Rig Hydrogen Fuel Station Opens in California

You could chemically bond hydrogen to carbon and combine into long chains so it is a easily handled liquid. It would have great energy density too! Where is my Nobel Prize?

Comment Re:dubious value (Score 1) 75

by avandesande on Sunday April 21, 2024 @08:36AM (#64411816) Attached to: Ocean Spray Emits More PFAS Than Industrial Polluters, Study Finds

Why don't you name some application we can't do without?

Comment dubious value (Score 0) 75

by avandesande on Saturday April 20, 2024 @11:42AM (#64410324) Attached to: Ocean Spray Emits More PFAS Than Industrial Polluters, Study Finds

Dubious value just ban them.

Comment Re:Welcome to the machine (Score 1) 260

by avandesande on Friday April 19, 2024 @04:41PM (#64408900) Attached to: Google To Employees: 'We Are a Workplace'

Understood, but I don't think this is a good example of them shaking off their 'different' moniker. There are much better examples such as the paring of basic research, indifference to user's privacy and degradation of the search engine.

Comment Re:Welcome to the machine (Score 1) 260

by avandesande on Friday April 19, 2024 @03:42PM (#64408718) Attached to: Google To Employees: 'We Are a Workplace'

Wanting your co-workers to follow some basic rules of decency is hardly authoritarian.

Comment What is 'not evil' (Score 2) 260

by avandesande on Friday April 19, 2024 @03:39PM (#64408708) Attached to: Google To Employees: 'We Are a Workplace'

As far as I am concerned, not being subjected to political BS and protest at work is the not evil option.

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