Android, and Chromebooks.

His comments have been on the level of "it looks like most 100m sprint finalists are black, i think they might have a genetic advantage to run faster"
Apparently this is a crime.

Thats exactly it. Drama is hostile, doesnt matter over what exactly. SJW or something else.
I choose to work somewhere to build a particular product, idea or service - thats what im there for, if it comes with a truckload of drama and emotion i will simply go elsewhere. Which is what the devs here did.

You completely missed the point. Rate of drain is CRITICAL when the phone is on standby, i.e. in my pocket. When the screen is on with a bunch of foregrounded apps, the equation is completely different and rate of drain is not the primary issue.
For example, in screen active mode most of the time clocking down the CPU is about the stupidest thing you can do from battery saving perspective, as short bursts of high activity with long deep sleep cycles are more efficient than dragged out activity cycles on lower clock.
Saving battery is an active fight, and operating systems are always going to be fighting a losing battle against the apps - but by no means should they give up, there are myriad of untapped ways how to make the current situation much better for an average user.

The idea of having a 10% dumb phone in my pocket that cannot do anything does not match with any of my use cases. I simply dont send texts and rarely have to do phone calls. However, it is often critical that i can still open email and maps, for my wife it is critical to take this one last photo for which she has been saving for, and for someone else it is that one last foursquare checkin. Your pattern is not my pattern and vice versa, and there is a lot of improvement room for mobile operating systems to get much much smarter about that.

Yelling panic at 10% is something that my laptop did in 90ies.

more hardware and fuel could be lofted any day, there are plenty of operational launch vehicles all around the world.
if you add up the actual launch capacity of all the operational rockets and pads you could put like thousand tons or more to orbit every year.
to get to mars, you will need to launch more than once in any case. to get to moon in a useful capacity with more than flags and footprints, you will also need to launch more.

what exactly is the point of spending another decade, tens of billions and building yet another launcher to actually start going anywhere?
orion is dumb because it is not actually designed to go anywhere, SLS is dumb because it is redundant.

rate of drain is obviously a critical variable when the screen is off and the thing is in my pocket. I.e after I have not actively used it for a minute or so. and even then instantaneous draw doesn't matter, but average draw over a minute or 5 matters a lot

as long as I'm holding it and doing something I know full well I am burning power - including doing things like playing games

I actually want it to warn me even if it is 99% full and draining fast, because i was planning to hike around all day in a city that i am visiting and will have no opportunity to charge. I know i will need every drop of charge for photos, google maps etc, but all of it needs to go into useful activities, not into background drain with some obscure rarely used app trying to randomly download updates or some BS like that.

so, I have had this annoyance with android forever.
there are multiple battery saver things that trigger saving features when I'm below percentage - but its obviously too late then!!

the trigger needs to activate when the RATE OF DRAIN exceeds a particular threshold

For a vehicle that is literally planned to be in development for about two decades, this is a rounding error anyway. The world is not going to stop turning or even much of a notice if it doesnt launch tomorrow, the next week or in the next couple of years.
First of all, it is an engineering test article that is very far from what the final product is supposed to be, and the flight really mostly exist because nobody would otherwise believe the program exists and does anything. Ares-1X , anyone ?
Second, it is not really a deep space craft that could really go anywhere on its own even after its supposedly ready. Moon ? No, need at least a lander and a service module. Mars ? Not even with addons, as it wont survive for 6 months on the outward journey, 2 years in orbit and then 6 months coming back.
Why is it being even built absent any plans to actually go anywhere ? Well, all these people have to have jobs ..

And "web" should have stopped at HTML 4.01 ? What an odd number to pick.

People don't realize that this battle will not ever end. What exactly is "just a browser" supposed to do these days ? Javascript, flash, webgl, java applets ? WebSockets ? Maybe rewind the clock and go back to nonstandard video as well .. RealVideo .

So now firefox went and officially made WebRTC an actual visible thing, it is immediately bloat. How are the other half assed standard(ish) web tech crammed in over the years not bloat ?

This is a continuous evolution of web as a platform. You either try and stay at the forefront and be part of shaping the platform, or stay in the stone age - i bet IE can still run VBScript with some defaults. Maybe they still have Gopher client built in too.

If you are a developer or web content creator your options however are very limited. Technically they could do everything with lynx, however the tooling support would be pretty shitty and their customers wouldn't appreciate either.

I was just laughing my ass off the other day about Windows RT ( surface ) people not being able to use any other browser but IE , and then i realized there are some poor bastards somewhere actually trying to test their web based applications on that thing.

Just a small technical quibble. Intelligence is of course quantifiable and limited resource. Stupidity however has no bounds, it's abundance therefore cannot really be measured.

QED. Men are animals, women are not.

I would recommend JavaScript. Hybrid apps are completely viable

>> We stuff billions of logic gates into a square centimeter of silicon.
Compared to hundreds of trillions synaptic connections and everything that happens at chemical and molecular level, that is minuscule. Sense of scale.

>>We already pretty much understand how a neuron works,
No we dont. Understanding how 300 neurons of c.elegans worm actually work is beyond our current capability.

>> it's just the emergent behaviour of billions of those neurons connected to each other that still evades us
Bollocks, for all we know connections are just a small part of the puzzle. Chemical and molecular level functions could be the key for actual functioning nervous system, worst case quantum level.