Comment IRLRosie (Score 1) 23
I choose to believe IRLRosie is the real Alexa. Not that she is, I just like that reality better.
I choose to believe IRLRosie is the real Alexa. Not that she is, I just like that reality better.
You can usually see which laptops use 18650s, by the shape of the case. Pick a laptop, and search Amazon for replacement batteries.
I strip the 18650s out of laptops for other uses. It's just cheaper that way. It usually works out to about $1 for each 18650, including the occasional bad battery.
Thin squares, like the MacBook Pro have, are different. It's pretty obvious that an 18650 wouldn't fit in it.
Built in batteries are more likely to be flat square or rectangle types. You're SOL for replacing those with a pack of 18650s.
I only strip them down for their cells. I suppose if you're *real* careful, you could cut the case open, and be able to reseal it. There are temperature sensors inline, that you'll want to keep. and you'll need to solder the new ones together. They're typically spot welded. And, obviously, you'll need to keep the original control board.
Ya, that's exactly what it sounds like.
You'd think that someone along the way would have said "Hey, these run too hot, lets improve the cooling before these ship".
Damned kids. We flipped through 5 static filled stations, and were happy with it!
Isn't this the beginning of Stephen King's "The Stand"? Well, see y'all in Vegas.
That sounds reasonable. A 200,000 year long process now takes 100 years. I hope geological changes speed up the same way. That'd move the next Yellowstone caldera eruption from sometime in the next 600,000 years, to possibly next Thursday. Just enough time to plan an apocalypse party!
I've probably had thousands of lithium ion batteries pass through my hands over the years.
When I started playing Ingress, battery packs weren't popular and yet, so we carried spare batteries. To play for hours, we had to swap batteries, or be tethered to a car. They were dropped, manhandled, and otherwise abused. Of everyone I know that did it, none died. No explosions. No fires.
The only real thing we found was, repeated charge/discharge cycles daily did eventually degrade the life of the batteries. A typical work day could be 1hr before work,
We see the same from ecigs and 18650 batteries. I only made one smoke, and that was by physically cutting the battery open. I wanted to see what was inside.
The only battery that I've had swell to the point of almost bursting was a Macbook Pro's battery. I stopped using it months before, and only noticed when the battery cover popped off by itself.
It looks more like a garden variety troll.
I'm a bit concerned that rescinding an emergency alert even involves a Twitter password. No important part of the broadcast system.
No one should be expected to go look at Twitter to confirm that a war just started. If anything, I'd think it would be reasonable to believe that the enemy starting a nuclear war, may be able to send out a fake tweet.
Both zip and tar already do, and have for years. I think that's why the poll is getting blind stares rather than responses.
Basically, it seems they're saying that it would be impossible to do, because we don't know how to do it. That brilliant logic has plagued us for centuries. We're living in a world of impossible sciences, according to people who didn't think it could be done.
They make the assumption that every particle in the universe would have to be recorded and mapped. It doesn't have to work that way. A block of space (like extra-atmospheric extra-terrestrial) doesn't need every block mapped. It just needs a sum of parts. 1 cubic meter block of space has an average of ## particles, and all surrounding blocks would behave likewise.
I'm not really arguing that the simulation idea is legitimate. I'm just indicating that their proof isn't proof.
It is cute that they mention an extra-terrestrial computer running the simulation. That makes no sense at all. If it's the computer running the simulation, why or how would it reside inside that simulation? If we were the simulation, wouldn't that mean that it runs on some form of computer, residing on that planet (or whatever unit they'd use)? It would be terrestrial, with all of us, and all of the universe, being on that planet.
I don't know how high anyone had to be to come up with this to start with, but clearly they had a good supply.
I wasn't really expecting Google to do anything based on a comment on a glorified blog.
That explains a lot. Yesterday, all the extensions in Chrome disappeared. I re-added them, and it was fine. It would have been nice to have some sort of warning, or even a message saying what was done.
The article says they're doing it with the update to 58.0.3029.96 , and I just verified that's what mine is.
Next time, just ask, m'kay?
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