Absent his RDF, yes, he would have been. But he was an effective marketing tool. He was also intelligent enough to see that the Newton was overwrought as a portable device and demand something simpler. The market was moving in that direction anyway, and he charged out in front of it successfully.

Yes in fact they are, or at least, any persistent particulates are dangerous. That's what makes automobiles so bad, and why DPFs actually make diesels worse. We've discussed here on Slashdot before that gassers actually make just as much soot as diesels, it's just far finer so it's much harder to detect, which is why this fact went unknown for decades. The reason it's hard to detect is that the particulate sizes are very small. When they get very small (PM2.5 and below in particular) cilia have a hard time removing them from the lungs and they tend to persist. The soot particles are very stable since they are made out of carbon. All persistent irritants are potential carcinogens.

Some of the additives in tires are very carcinogenic.

It's both infeasible and impractical. Even the carbon black and silicates in tires can cause cancer for the reasons explained in the first paragraph. At best you can mitigate risk, you'll never make them non-carcinogenic. It would be better to also reduce the number of vehicles and also make tire compounds harder to reduce wear. This does reduce safe effective speed around corners and such, but most vehicles have a lot of excess in that department these days, and the ones that don't usually aren't going very fast. I like hard cornering, it's where the fun is in my opinion, but I do consider it to be more important to improve health.

Switching facilities are expensive, but you can design grids such that they are able to break into smaller grids, and that does get continually cheaper. Restarting and synchronizing grids can be difficult, but the more battery storage you've got, the easier that gets. So what we'll more likely wind up with is a grid with more compartmentalization, with a lot of people left in weird and unreliable sectors of the network with unreliable power because nobody will force the providers to actually provide them with power reliably.

There's a lot of space available because it doesn't need it all to itself. There's a lot of desert nobody is using, a lot of canals and reservoirs we could cover, a lot of nice safe flat commercial roofs, a lot of commercial glass, a lot of car parks. So since that's not a real problem, can we just legislate it and move on?

Because so many lies are being told about it, yes.

Show me your A*

The "on rails" complaint is indeed goofy any time the game is not open world, and all games don't need to be.

OTOH it used to be common for games to have both single and multi player, and that was good.

Seems like if you were sure of how that came out, you'd have gone and looked it up and had a stronger comment.

Supposedly it's as many as "breast, pancreatic, and prostate cancer combined." https://www.cancer.org/content...

Because 1) handling exceptions is hard and 2) keeping everything updated from the myriad of sources is hard too.

Whether the benefits are worth the risks is surely complicated, but if it means updates get done that otherwise wouldn't (and it does) then there's at least a reasonable chance that it's a net positive overall.

I'm down with practically anything, or at least just about anything practical, over NCM. It just has issues on every level from political to technical.

I've got my fingers crossed for sodium, but sure, nickel-iron would seem to make sense for stationary applications. I'm hoping though that they can come up with a sodium battery that wouldn't be toxic even if you blew it up.

Please, please, please re-read that sentence and think about it in light of what you know about the US auto market and its protectionism.

I see you're new to capitalism. Can I borrow your unicorn? I want to take it on a walk through fantasy-land.

Great, let's have another world record setting BESS fire.

These are the same packs that caused the last one.

Surely it's a good plan to double down instead of recycling them into something less shit!

So then the same shit NCM packs that caught fire in Moss Landing?

No, npm is literally the opposite of that.

I run Drupal and it uses composer, which does basically the same thing. But then I want some javascript libraries that you can't get through composer repos itself, you need to get them from npm. So every time there's one of these npm exploit stories I say oh shit, some more shit I need to read. Luckily I'm only pulling in literally two packages from there. But I don't need to do this, I only do it specifically for the purpose of not having my site refer to some other site for those javascript libraries. That way, someone else changing their library doesn't automatically screw up my site, or more plausibly since I am not running any javascript on the server side, start back dooring other people who visit there. So npm is exactly the kind of thing you think people should be using, except with less oversight which is why we keep hearing about loads of compromised packages.

Yeah, they had B5 to crib from.

If you're putting it in the title, yes it is.