Comment Re:Responsible way to dispose of space trash? (Score 0) 88
Another thought came to mind. Let's assume we have intentionally fired and targeted rockets, and choice is between the Moon and the Sun.
I would choose the Moon, for the reason of recycling. We can likely recover materials from those rockets later. Many of them highly valuable once remnants of meteors that hit our planet's surface run out and before we start asteroid mining/if we discover some significant obstacles to mining asteroids in the future.
Shoot it at the Sun, and it's gone for us. We cannot use it again.
IMHO it makes sense to do keep them at least hypothetically recoverable in the future at no cost to us. Moon is worthless. It's an old, dead rock in space with no atmosphere and no magnetosphere. It eats massive asteroid collisions regardless. Even six to seven digit rocket shots at it would change nothing relevant from our perspective. If anything, I'd try to concentrate the rockets falling on the Moon in hopes of making it more concentrated batch of resources to more easily recycle in the long term future.
Comment Re:Responsible way to dispose of space trash? (Score 0) 88
Story implies they didn't aim at all, it just took itself out?
Am I reading it wrong, or is story lying? I will admit I didn't verify.
Comment Responsible way to dispose of space trash? (Score 0) 88
Honestly, a bit confused here. The problem with space debris is that they stay up there, requiring a lot of tracking resources so that new launches don't get hit by it.
If this one went into Moons gravity well and crashed there, that means it's not a problem any more. Trash has been taken out. That's a good thing, isn't it?
Comment Re:Reality check (Score 0) 6
Most of "Steam's Linux users" are almost certainly Steam Deck users at this point. Steam Machines running SteamOS aren't relevant yet due to RAM costs hitting those, and if you're a gamer on desktop, you boot into your windows partition even if you're a mainline linux user pretty much every time.
Microsoft knew exactly what it was doing when it allowed you to run windows even without a license in 10 and 11.
There are almost no exceptions to this outside the neckbeard crowd. Hence the main fluctuations in Linux users so far have been from Steam Deck adoption rate.
Unfortunately, "year of Linux on desktop" remains a meme in 2026.
Comment in which screen zombies learn a lesson (Score -1) 133
This isn't a Google Maps problem, it's a problem of kids outsourcing their thinking to an app.
Comment Re: This is good for people with EV's already (Score 0) 143
It's an issue of battery capacity and charging/output speed. When battery was small, charging speed low and engine power low, you could do with cheaper air cooling.
As charging speeds and power go up, air eventually becomes insufficient.
Leafs from last 7-10 years are mostly ok. They had low power, low charge speeds, and so battery doesn't heat all that much in normal use patterns. Old Leaf's main problem was BMS. It was primitive and did a very poor job at maintaining the battery.
Comment Reality check (Score 2, Funny) 6
Margin of error is probably in the realm of 1-2%. This is no meaningful change in user base month to month. You're seeing fluctuations that are within the error margin.
Don't take the clickbait.
Comment Re: This is good for people with EV's already (Score 0) 143
Leaf batteries are air cooled, and their early BMS was very, very unfinished. Hence the rapid drop of range with time.
Modern EVs are pretty much all liquid cooled, and have complex battery (and) thermal management systems. Their degradation is much better than early leafs.
Comment Re:Battery fear is gone (Score 0) 143
Reality is quite a bit more complex. Batteries do go bad when usage is bad. Rapidly. Fast charge to 100% every day, and see how it holds up. Hint: it won't.
What changed is that now we have mechanics with experience in battery management who will take a look a deep look into the battery data that they will pull from a modern BMS (which have improved massively in last 10 years), compare it to how it should have aged and will be able to give a detailed reports on how this car's battery holds up.
This means that people who do retarded shit to their EVs now struggle to sell the cars, while responsible owners who keep batteries in good condition can now charge a bit of a premium on used market in most developed nations (and increasingly, quite a few developing ones).
So in summary, this is about evolution of BMS coupled with emergence of experienced cadre of specialist mechanics who specialized in automotive batteries, their service and repair. You still shouldn't trust old batteries. But now, you have ways to verify.
Comment Sadness (Score 0) 47
The weird part is that main value of youtube premium is ad free everywhere with no real hassle.
And instead of just offering people "cheap ad free tier", they instead bundle more and more crap with it and keep increasing the price, while waging long term war on ad blockers.
Comment Re:Already a problem regardless of underscore coun (Score 0) 224
The obvious question is: "If these claims are true, what was his legal defense doing?"
It's literally the job of defense lawyer to bring up all those problems in court. That's why you get one appointed to you in anglo nations if you can't afford one. And if case was really as bad as this claim is, even a shit tier public defender should've been able to get it tossed, since his client has obvious defense of "this is not me".
Comment Re:You lost me at "The Telegraph". (Score -1) 229
People like you, with attitudes like yours, enabled Der Fuhrer and his minions to enslave a nation.
Comment correlation (Score -1) 63
Comment Re:Money To Burn (Score -1) 13
What could possibly go wrong?