They aren't going to reduce the capacity of the battery just for the battery-eaters of the world.
Besides, you can't really "neutralize" toxic metals.
I don't know if they could be converted into safe compounds but once the battery contents get dispersed inside a stomach you'd need a lot of "neutralizing agent" to make sure you got all the metals - many, many times the entire capacity of the battery.
Damn, I won't be buying any more of those then.
Surely I can't be the only person who sucks on their batteries to see how much charge is left.
Their pricing model is full of hidden fees and fees you have no control over.
See also, Cory Doctorow's introduction of the word "enshittification".
a major fuckup by Amazon
for which the customer pays directly. That sounds like Amazon, indeed.
Did you remember to get it translated from the Chinese into English by a Czech who speaks neither Chinese nor English? "Golden fingers" time.
Add in India, and you're maybe up to 20%. And around 50% of the population. (Where you draw the borders matters. Russia, west of the Urals? Iran? Iraq? Jordan? Israel?)
I mean, I know that most people are geographically illiterate outside their home countries, but you would hope for better after the Editor has gone through with the blue pencil. It's not as if it's difficult - the list of countries and their approximate areas (and populations) is not even twice as long as the Periodic Table - and people here should have a working relationship with that.
Well, I certainly can do the conversion (subtract 32 ; multiply by 5 over nine, if I recall properly), but when I see "Fahrenheit", I think, "Some redneck septic who can't speak properly, and therefore isn't worth listening to." You see, it cuts both ways. "used to" does not equal either "resigned to" or "willing to".
41.9 degrees Celsius is approximately 107.42 degrees Fahrenheit.
44.9 degrees Celsius is approximately 112.42 degrees Fahrenheit.
This may (or may not) be true, but what is undoubtedly true is that 41.9 degrees Celsius is exactly equal to 41.9 degrees Celsius, without the inaccuracies introduced by conversion. So why add inaccuracy unnecessarily.
I used to think that the average Slashdot user could, possibly, count to 11 without taking off their pants or shoes. But average Slashdot users try to disabuse me of that ludicrous notion on an almost daily basis. Septic exceptionalism. I spent decades kow-towing to redneck fuckwits for pay, and I'm fucked if I'll do it in my leisure life.
You're right: the cloud isn't going away.
What should go away is for-hire cloud services from monopolistic and abusive vendors. My hope is that people will eventually be able to deploy and manage their own clouds without paying a fortune to, or having your data pilfered by Big Data giants, thereby giving the Microsofts, Amazons and other Googles the middle finger they so richly deserve.
Maybe, just maybe, just like in the 80s when the personal computer finally broke the mainframe monopolies and freed us from insufferable BOFHs on power trips and insane pricings, someone or something will come along to break the cloud monopolies.
And then we'll be free again, until the next bunch of suckers lets history repeat itself once more. But I'll be long dead by then.
I'd say its absolutely useless for that job. SO you have something you don't know how to do, and don't know how to evaluate, and you have a program that sometimes kind of can do things, but its trained on random data with no actual understanding of what it's doing, and you're trusting it to work? I'll take the result of a google search over that any day of the week. At least then I'll get several options and can compare them to see what feels right. About the only people who could use this are so technically clueless that they can't od the job anyway, and trusting the AI is rolling the dice with a random answer that may or may not work. Or have massive security holes. Or even remotely solve the problem. At current level it's at best a mediocre replacement for a google search, and it won't be much better in our lifetimes.
More seriously, I wonder what sort of protocol they're using.
NASA have been working on developing an "Interplanetary Internet" set of protocols for decades now. I remember when Vint Cerf (one of the original designers of either TCP or IP) was hired as part of the project while everyone else was worrying about the Millennium Bug.
They seem to be using a "store and forward" protocol, with a recognition that physical and logical addressing are not necessarily going to be the same (or even similar) at both ends of a connection.
This would be a fascinating problem to solve.
So far, I believe that it's a theoretical construct. The only place that it's approached being needed is with the constellation of orbiters around Mars acting as relays between the rovers on the surface and radio telescopes on Earth. Their movements can be readily predicted (unless some inconvenient fool stops the Earth rotating, or otherwise violates Newton's mechanics), so they can book the telescope time months in advance.
But when there are multiple things in orbit in the Earth-Moon system, at least some of which can be data sources or sinks, that's going to rapidly get more complicated.
Before I was born Bob Kraft explained how T CrB works, and it is not like that animation.
I think ideas have got considerably more detailed than that, with another half-century of work. But yes, the basic idea of accumulating mass onto the surface of the white dwarf remains the same. But - are the stars tidally locked? Does the material land on one point on the star's surface, or is it spread around it's equator? Or further, if their spin axes aren't aligned, and they mutually precess?
Harvard ADS need a better OCR engine for their archive. I had to go back to the PDF to make sense of the linked page. Hmmmm, "
There is no evidence that the 1946 outburst affected the orbital period.
" That puts quite a stringent limit on the total amount of mass transferred across the 1946 eruption. Or rather, the amount which transferred, less the amount blown away in the eruption.
An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms.
