This stuff is just too hilarious, and more insanity keeps on coming. As a result, it’s popcorn time every day of the week, and I can’t sustain a diet like that.

Back in the good old days, we used to carry things with our hands.

And so it begins. You can ask Armenians and Rwandans where this sort of language leads to.

That’s a pretty good guess, but it also has grains of sand in it. I expected slag to be more uniform.

Anyway, the red and orange colors could still be connected with some iron compounds. If it is slag, then it was somehow mixed with regular sand. That could still happen if you pour molten slag on a new dump area. The later batches will be poured on older slag, so they don’t really get to mix with anything.

The best I can do, is to steer it slowly. For me, it’s always been the inferior option when compared to a regular touchpad.

Although, I do se the benefit of the central positioning when you need to type more and you don’t want to move your fingers from the home row just to click something quickly.

It’s fine. Takes some time to get used to. Some people really love it, but I don’t think it’s that great.

Writing headlines is a selection process. You write about all the useless but cool stuff while ignoring all the boring but important stuff.

Improving Li-ion by 1% doesn’t make headlines, but that sort of stuff has been going on in the background for a few decades already. That’s why current batteries are so useful and widespread.

Lab prototypes are sexy, even if they’re 50 years away from becoming commercially viable. Sure, these things can charge fast, or hold a huge capacity, but they also tend to die after 10 cycles. Fixing that is going to take a long time, just like it did for Li-ion batteries.

Thanks for taking the time to explain this. Turns out there’s always more nuance to these things.

The blockchain solves one problem: trust. Do we really have that problem in normal energy markets?

People who buy and sell energy would need to trust each other and the middle man in between them. If they have trust issues, using a blockchain could make sense. As far as I can tell, the current system doesn’t suffer from a lack of trust, so what would the blockchain do in this case?

Edit: Turns out, it would be more accurate to say that it redistributes trust away from a central authority… well at least in most cases it does. There are still situations when even a blockchain has a central authority you need to trust. It’s not guaranteed to solve all trust issues, but in the best case scenario it can solve some of them.

It’s for driving engagement. Basically, meta wants to make sure their platforms look appealing to the companies that use them for advertising purposes. More eyeballs, more ads, more money.