??? This is pretty common terminology. Enhancers ("performance enhancing drugs") are designed to _enhance_ something above the baseline, not just to merely correct a pathology.

If you don't know this, perhaps you should go back and do some more study?

Sigh. Can you cut out the "prescribed drugs are bad because they must be bad" bullshit?

ADHD stimulants absolutely do not work as _enhancers_, as your article explains. But they are not used as enhancers, they are used as medicine to fix problems. As another example: vitamin C does pretty much nothing normally, but if you have scurvy, it's life-saving. Here's an important quote from your article:

Which basically says: "ADHD drugs are not needed if you can fix all the symptoms of ADHD without drugs". Well, duh.

its a noble effort, but you are posting to an environment where everyone here knows that wind+solar+batteries is cheaper than gas or coal, because the wind and the sun are free, and they have no fuel costs. They also know that the only people who are skeptical about this are climate deniers.

These deniers keep talking about something called Net Present Value and claiming that is the correct way to evaluate and compare costs of generating systems. Net Present Value is a concept you will find in all kinds of Corporate Finance textbooks, well, do I need to say more? Its hetero-normative, racist, patriarchal and neo-colonial, and probably Islamophobic and transphobic with it and denies indigenous wisdom. Its on the wrong side of history, like coal, gas and nukes. Of course it pretends that wind+solar+batteries is actually a very expensive technology.

Well it would, wouldn't it?

What's the problem?

All they have to do is build more wind and solar (and batteries). Everyone except a few climate denialists knows that wind+solar+batteries is far cheaper than coal, gas or nuclear and can generate all the electricity anyone could conceivably need from free fuel, the sun and the air.

There is absolutely no need to restrict the installation of data centers, and there is no reason whatever why their power demands should raise prices. In fact, they should lower prices, because they will be at the spearhead of the energy transition, because it will lead to a larger and larger proportion of generation moving away from legacy technology to cheap clean power.

This is so obvious to us all here on Slashdot that its a mystery why the local politicians don't see it too.

At 1500kW it won't be spending _extended_ periods of time charging. If you want to charge a battery for 75kWh, then 5% of that is just around 4kWh.

Assuming the thermal mass of the battery 300kg, and specific heat capacity of 2000J per 1 kg per 1 C, that's a delta of 24C. So just simply using the battery's thermal mass completely passively without any cooling is probably going to work.

Modern batteries are about 95% efficient at charging. So at 1500kW you're looking at dissipating about 75kW (100hp).

A 100hp gasoline engine needs to dissipate around 250hp of heat energy. In other words, cooling an EV is completely trivial compared to cooling an ICE car.

Pretty much all stations now accept credit cards. I think you can pay physical cash on some chargers that are attached to actual gas stations.

There is no motivation to do anything in Russia. The war is most definitely not perceived as "defending the motherland" internally, so the only remaining real motivation is monetary.

And Putin managed to build a system where regular engineers are treated as scum, while the real money gets siphoned off into the right people's wallets. This was recently demonstrated by the leak of the internal emails and source code of the system designed to send mobilization notices. It's supposed to be a part of the "digital GULAG" so that the government can send mobilization notices to the people whose disappearance is not going to be highly visible. With centralized tracking and all the related good stuff.

Its leading developer was paid around $700 a month. And was battling to get reimbursement for an extra $100 spent on a hotel in Moscow during a business trip to present their system to the chief of staff of the Ministry of Defense.

And of course, a lot of good engineers left the country in 2022 or soon thereafter.

This is easy to fix! Pentagon should just publish the list of the assets that they want satellite companies to avoid taking pictures of. To make it easier, they can provide bounding boxes and maybe tag them to make sure companies blur the images enough to not be recognizable.

It reminded me this classic ad: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=...

AI claims that you can still buy AZW books and read them on one of these old Kindles. The claim is that if you buy from your PC account for the old Kindle it will be supplied as AZW, which will be readable on the device after transfer to it from the PC by USB.

The claim is that what has changed is that you can no longer buy directly from the Kindle, because purchases are now KFX only. But that you can still buy books for it over the web using your PC and they will be supplied as AZW.

If this is really true, the change is not only not a bad thing, its positively a good thing, because the account details on the old Kindles were stored very insecurely so it was a real security hazard wandering around with this very stealable device with all your Amazon credentials stored in open format.

Is it true? It was true before the latest change, but is it still?

No, we don't actually need housing. It's a stinking lie that is perpetuated by Democrats.

We have 1.1 units of housing per family right now. And we're near the absolute record on per-capita housing. Don't believe me?

What we need are _jobs_ that are not concentrated in the Misery Centrals (aka downtowns of select large cities).

No, kWh is not a better measure. They have a battery that can charge in 7 mins. You can then add as many of them in parallel as you want.

If you insist on another metric, then gravimetric and volumetric density would be interesting.

They should. Calculators have no place in school.

Well, yeah. It's a dirt-cheap disposable device for content consumption.