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Comment Re:The 3rd story about Mangina this month... (Score 1) 100

Would I hail the guy as a hero? I don't know. Do you?

His approval rating is almost double our Congress average. So it’s clear Americans believe he is doing a better job. Even my mother in her 80s was ecstatic he was offed and she is a non politically minded centrist leaner. This is why the oligarchs are shitting themselves.

Comment Re:Uh huh (Score 1) 88

That would be very useful for a lot of sensors. It's enough energy to send a transmission every day, and take some readings.

Even if the electronics only last several decades that would be a huge improvement on current 5-10 year battery lives.

It would be funny if somehow a similar nuclear battery could be made super cheap so if it kept the 170 micro watts/g just imagine scaling up past an 11kg battery delivering 1 watt to a 50 metric ton behemoth that produces nearly 5kW to power my home and top off my EV for my family and my descendants for thousands of years. It would be no problem to find the needed 15 cubic meters at diamond density to store it. So on paper it has the potential to be an amazing fixed location power source too, though for mobile devices you’ll want to be in space or very low gravity.

Comment Re:Those in the EU/UK ... (Score 1) 35

You cannot say such a generality. A creditor is ANY person or company owed money because they provided goods or services. Electricity, water, food, rent, parts, advertising, health care, whatever. Exactly what makes them, in general, "guilty" and of what are they guilty?

Its accurate and easy to say such a generality. If a merchant stall gets set up along with everyone else in the bazaar, but they shit the bed and leave toxic waste and reproduction toxins all over and uproot the brickwork and take it home. There are laws to prevent this and it’s a very apt analogy for space maintenance and management. Sure, it would be a bit unfair to change the rules already in play without some type of compensation possibly, like if there wasn’t a law about stealing the road and killing people indirectly through radioactivity and grotesque births crippling people for a lifetime poisons, but it’s obviously not obeying the social contract that frees them from any and all harm intellectually. People that were expecting rational behavior so the system could continue for the rest of us to have relative freedom in a workable environment are rightfully upset wonton killing is allowed if one step removed, it smacks of the Old Testament saying how to properly beat your slaves - if they did that day it’s your fault and a minor sin not a full killing a Christian sin, but if they die on the second day or after you’re in the clear. Then proceeding to use AI to optimize the beatings for a very tight spread of deaths just 24 hours and one second.

Comment Re:Uh huh (Score 2) 88

Amps, volts, or ohms are still useful here, in order to describe the optimal load. For a completely overexaggerated example, if the battery has an internal resistance of 1 teraohm, it means that, for practical output voltages, it acts as a constant current source

Its probably easier to realize maximum power transfer happens when the internal resistance of the load and source match, thus the optimal load would have 1 teraohm as well with more or less resistance providing less power to the load. So you have it backwards, battery manufacturers rarely include very important data such actual capacity vs discharge rates, self discharge rates over temperature and state of charge ranges, on and on, which do affect chemical batteries as well as these though differently. More information is very preferable to actually solving an engineering problem but battery manufacturers have inconsistency and are afraid of stating actual data in the data sheet beyond maybe the basic well Whaddya want, it’s a battery.

Comment Re:Uh huh (Score 5, Informative) 88

"Devices" as in what? This battery probably gives femtoamps. And we get excited when a radio floating in space lasts 50 years, we have zero experience building electrical devices that last thousands of years. And I have yet to see any excitement for life extension, so using a time span of thousands of years appeals to who?

A joule is a watt second so it can supply 15 watt seconds averaged over a day or 170 microwatts continuously if that tidbit is correct. Amps is just flow, makes for improper comparison when batteries have different voltage ranges. with no voltage there is no actual power, just like with voltage and no flow. This makes for an excellent power for memory or ultra low power sensors and processors.

Comment Re:Those in the EU/UK ... (Score 1) 35

A good solution is open sourcing of Embodied's code but this might be hard if it depends on licensed components. An update allowing them to be updated from a non Embodied server would be a good start as that would give time for an Open Moxie to be developed.

Yep. It should be a legal requirement, in the EU, US, and elsewhere, for companies being liquidated to publicly post all code (at least a compiled version) needed for repair including firmware, all repair materials including manuals and fixture information, remove the need for a centralized server or back end as part of the release even if this tautologically removes some or core functionality, and anything else required but reasonable to produce in order to keep the product functioning. If these conditions aren’t satisfied, the money obtained in liquidation pays for this before any creditors get a cent.

Watch the right to repair problem suddenly solve itself.

Comment Re: Missing the mark (Score 1) 50

Tomatoes donâ(TM)t naturally exist in a really sweet paste form. Itâ(TM)s more savory in nature. The food sciences guys are using other ingredients or chemicals to enhance the flavor playing games with labels. Never doubt a food engineer with a problem to solve.

Yea, tomatoes naturally exist in a nightshade form with tiny bitter fruit and are toxic plants in nature. Only with human induced cultivation changes have tomatoes expanded their sugar content upon harvest and become palatable. So the savory flavor is highly unnatural, like a poodle of the wild.

Comment Re:Unintended consequences (Score 1) 272

I guess this means more and more people will buy (or 3d print) the short buckle clips and leave them in permanently to prevent cargo from triggering warnings. Likely meaning when an occasional passenger sits in the back seat and finds they cannot insert the buckle, they'll just decide to go without.

Yep, like when kids were jumping off a passenger bridge to play in a creek despite the sign saying it was dangerous they eventually shut down the bridge for an entire summer to raise the fencing because of safety. Well it was the only way out of that end of the park so people were taking the train bridge instead including one woman I saw with a stroller. Not everything is thought through.

Comment Re:Great idea! (Score 1) 171

A tube maintaining an internal near-vacuum against the incredible pressures at the ocean's bottom sounds like a trivial, non-scary thing to put people inside.

I think we should give free tickets to everyone stupid enough to think it was a good idea.

Kind sir, I have witnessed your wisdom and influence among the good people and as such, an investmenter myself, have constructed a deep sea vessel for miraculous pricing and would like to offer you two free tickets to spread the joy of adventure! What do you say?!?

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