I talked to about this quote have no idea what Dr. Oppenheimer was speaking about.

is a thing.

I have thought that long before electromagnetic-confinement fusion reaches power production, it will be useful and usable for isotope production. Tritium for "boosted" fission weapons and possibly breeding plutonium?

orcas may even learn how to format a Slashdot post into paragraphs?

That's great that you drink mostly water.

But the important question is which Linux distro did you install on your grandmother's computer?

And is Grandma still on speaking terms with you?

How being diplomatic works.

For all the attempts to correct the warts and remove limitations to make Pascal usable for large system development--Modula 2, Ada, Oberon, Component Pascal--it appears that Pascal World has coalesced around the Delphi 7 object Pascal dialect for which Free Pascal is the mullti-platform compiler?

Isn't a particle detector a form of gambling?

"C'mon, baby, give me another sigma that I can publish this paper!"

I see this as a way of dealing with owner anxiety of an unexpected battery replacement expense, maybe a major maintenance done every 5 years and 80,000 miles, not something done on a daily basis.

The condition of a battery can depend a lot on how it has been used-cycles, depth and rate of discharge, amount of fast DC charging, temperature conditions.

I always wondered about the Model Y making battery replacement as a long-term maintenance item nearly impossible. I think the justification were some strong claims from Tesla about their battery packs lasting longer than anyone would want to keep the car going, which seems optimistic.

I think the use case for battery swap is to support a kind of "power-by-the-hour" battery warranty akin to the arrangement airlines have with the jet-engine manufacturers.

If there was a way to replace the battery that didn't require hundreds of dollars in labor fees, an electric vehicle owner wouldn't have to worry about the unexpected expense of a battery wearing out. The motorist would "lease" the battery, essentially pay a subscription fee for the use of the battery, receiving a replacement when warranted.

The way this would work is that the software on the car would record how much wear-and-tear your driving put on the battery in terms of time, mileage, rates of charging and peak rates of discharge along with time spent at different state-of-charge, much like a jet engine warranty is for a certain number of bringing-the-engine-to-takeoff power "cycles" along with a "rating" applied to the engine as to what constitutes full power in all but emergencies. To make this transparent to the motorist, the system could display the amount of use put on the battery and remaining life.

The key to this battery lease arrangement is that it is relatively simple to exchange the battery. You would not be doing battery exchanges for increase range--that would open the can of worms of exchanging your relatively new battery for a battery someone had "beat on.". The exchange in this leasing arrangement also may give you a reconditioned used battery, but you are paying for "drive cycles" and are not put at financial risk if the battery you receive cannot complete the warranted drive cycles.

Get off my lawn!

with 5000 Navy enlisted personnel who haven't had enough to eat.

Forget it. He's rolling.