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GNOME is a giant turd and stinks more than ever. Remember these guys are directly responsible for or associated with:

* DBUS
* Avahi
* PulseAudio
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* Systemd - Need I say more?

If you liked this garbage, knock yourself out. It *is* Ubuntu, after all. I consider Ubuntu (and Fedora to a lesser degree) a powerful moron magnet, peeling away people I'd rather not see in IT anyway.

I love how the Linuxites say "But it's for the servers!" when they talk about things like Systemd which are really there to assist GNOME crap. Pottering loves to trot that out "Servers boot faster". As if an extra 10 seconds is going to make any difference on a server that takes many minutes just to get through post (ie.. an HP DL G9 server for instance).

Let's be real. It's not for servers. The nasty-fying of Linux is actually for GNOME and Android. Period.

The ugly little truth is that they are pending Linux to suite the less technical folks and phone distros. This is a side effect of the "taking over the world" mentality. It's just that saying it's for servers makes it seem more technically justifiable and cool.

Sorry, but my perception is that Linux isn't cool anymore and hasn't been for a long time. I feel it's more suited for newbies, technical rubes, and loud talking non-listening visionary assholes like Pottering.

It's either that or off to the re-Neducation camps you go!

Re-Neducation Center
"Where the elite meet to have their spirits broken"

Why is water a problem between Cairns and Sydney, where the average annual rainfall is around a meter?

Ok, if it is a known practice, cite it.

Originalism. It's not hard to find.

Find me some supreme court decisions that disregarded amendments in favor of what the Founders thought. Or appeals court decisions. Or circuit court. Or traffic court.

Oh, you want to see it in an American legal context? Most especially you'll want to look at the criticism of the Dred Scott decision for the most infamous example.

More recently, well, there other sources of information as to the patterns and practices of your average self-proclaimed originalists.

It's a bankrupt and destitute moral philosophy.

ok, look at this graph again. It's temperature for some random city, it doesn't matter, probably in the month of March or something. Can you see what the blue lines represent? Can you see that the red line is the thickness of the entire global temperature anomaly?

Also remember that you can customized the Look/Feel of any of the Linux distros. Specifically for Mint:

This will make LInux Mint look like Windows 7:
http://www.noobslab.com/2014/0...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

More on cusotmizing the look/feel of Linux Mint:
https://community.linuxmint.co...
https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_...
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/201...
https://delightlylinux.wordpre...
https://drive.google.com/file/...

What do you make of the consistent failure of the denialist community to come up with any explanation for the recent warming trend that wasn't trivially debunked ?

I can't speak for the denialist community, because I don't care who they are or what they believe. However, I can tell you what high-quality scientists like John Christy and Richard Lindzen tend to say.

First, they don't deny that CO2 has an affect on the atmospheric temperatures. You can discount anyone who denies that as ignorant (or possibly they have a new and fascinating hypothesis backed by data for how that could happen, but I haven't seen anyone like that. Up to now they're all ignorant). The main question is, "how much warming will be caused by CO2?"

Briefly, practically every scientist agrees that doubling CO2 in the atmosphere will cause a change in temperature of .7-.9 degrees. And that's not enough for anyone to worry about. Alarmist scientists say, "but there are feedbacks that will in addition cause temperature to rise 5-9 degrees with a doubling of CO2!" This hypothesis is that feedbacks will affect temperature far beyond what CO2 would do by itself, and is not well supported. Certainly the computer models that gave the worst predictions have been disproven by now.

Then there are scientists like John Christy, who goes around testing scientific claims, because that's what scientists do. When he heard claims that the global temperature was rising, he devised a secondary way to measure the temperature, to test that (essentially using satellites), which has more-or-less matched the terrestrial record. He's also gone to Africa to create temperature datasets to test claims such as "the snows of Kilimanjaro are melting due to climate change." He investigated claims of temperature rise in the California central valley and found that irrigation has caused a lot of it, not AGW. This makes alarmists look really bad.

So in the end it's not that "temperature is not rising" it's that "temperature rise is minimal enough to not worry about." Lindzen likes to show this graph, where the red line is the entire range of the global temperature anomaly.

Most languages come with masculine/feminine baggage. In French, you have to magically know that a book is masculine and a shirt is feminine. In English, things don't have a sex ("the" / "it" / "that"), but the right answer for the prom example is technically, "what is he wearing?". That's what it is in the English language.

So, IMO, this is a proposal to change a rule. If we're changing the language, I'd prefer not to overload and muddy the definition of the perfectly good pronouns "they", "their", "them", etc. That's why I asked what would be appropriate for that example. As you noted, it could be "is he", "is she", or "is it". IMO, none of those hit the mark (assuming the goal is to remove the masculine preferred). This is why we need a new series of words (ex. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki..., or https://genderneutralpronoun.w...). Bastardizing the use of "they" is broken, but I guess that fits with all the rest of the "rules" of the this language... no point in being logical now :-)

Yeah, so he saved the man who instead offered his daughters to be raped.

A good US-based god would have sent Lot some guns to make short work of the guys outside. There is this little known artist rendition of what really happened.

Mmm... anyone think that a global accountancy firm might be somewhat biased in their reporting on this subject? The most helpful and interesting article I've found to date has been this review of a report that seems to be fairly rational: https://3starlearningexperienc...

The last couple of glaciation cycles ended rather abruptly, yes.
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFoss...
https://grist.files.wordpress....

If you have better data to support your view, let's have it.

Oh yeah? So this scene was actually a promotion for some charity and not an absolutely embarrassing, sloppy, public blowjob in front of 20 million people and a hamfisted commercial for Elon Musk Inc.?

Scene: The soup kitchen.

Howard: Y, you’re Elon Musk.

Elon: I am.

Howard: Wh, what are you doing here?

Elon: I’m washing dishes. Well, I was on the turkey line, but I got demoted for being too generous with the gravy.

Howard: Oh, man. I, what an honour to meet you. I’m, I’m such a fan of Tesla and SpaceX. All your companies. Howard Wolowitz, Caltech.

Elon: Nice to meet you, Howard. Feels great to come down here and help the less fortunate, huh?

Howard: Oh, yeah. Nothing better than helping people. Which is something I realized when I was viewing Earth from the deck of the International Space Station, where I spent two months as a payload specialist, a job I was qualified for because I’m an MIT-trained engineer.

Elon: And I thought I ladled the gravy on thick.

Howard: Sorry. It’s just, you’re you, you know? And I really want you to adopt me.

Elon: Well, you’re here on Thanksgiving, so you’re probably a good person.

Howard: Oh. I made my wife come down, too.

Elon: You think you might ever get back out to space?

Howard: Is that a job offer? ‘Cause I really want to go to Mars. Assuming I can bring my wife. She hardly takes up any room. She’s basically a carry-on.

Elon: Well, we’re not quite there yet, but we’re always looking for engineers. So let me give you my e-mail. We can stay in touch.

Howard: Thank you.

Elon: Oh, look. Someone hardly touched their pumpkin pie. Want to share it with me?

Howard: A partially eaten piece of pumpkin pie from a homeless shelter? With Elon Musk, you bet I do.

Do you think they had more than that as a plan when they went to the moon?

I'm still a fan of the Apollo Venus flyby mission.

https://falsesteps.wordpress.com/2012/07/21/manned-venus-flyby/

And lets not forget the Bulldozer bug, I have been putting up with bluescreens and freezing for years because Gigabyte failed to produce a BIOS update for something that had a fix from AMD also: https://scalibq.wordpress.com/... I have a new system now so not longer have this issue, but it surely was frustrating to get it blue screen several times a day.

I can't imagine too many CS graduates who want write a PowerShell script to ping 80,000+ workstations and output the results to an Excel spreadsheet.

I can't imagine too many CS graduates would bother writing that themselves, now that it's already written, and turned up with a simple google search. That CS grad would use the existing code, and probably spend their time on more interesting work while the script runs and collects data.

But hey, we know - if you didn't write it, it must be terrible.

Poland and Finland wont anymore, but why should we put their people above our own families?

As a Finn: fuck you. We are not, and have never been, in NATO. We already pay for our own defense, every cent of it. We have compulsory military service for all men due to the size difference between us (5,4 million) and Russia (140 million). If push comes to shove we can muster nearly a trained million men into arms.

The strategy of defense for us is not to compete with Russia in a direct conflict. But when you scatter 800 000 soldiers to the woods with guns and (modern) equipment hidden all around the vast countryside, it's going to make Afghanistan look like a a walk in the park. The Russians have around 30 000 troops that they can mobilize rapidly across the border. That's nowhere near enough to take us on. An invasion would require them to start moving large amounts of troops from elsewhere, something they have very limited capacity to do at the moment because of funds and the ongoing conflicts in both Ukraine and Syria.

Which is to say: while we cannot singlehandedly defeat Russia, we can make occupying this country so costly to them in terms of lives and resources that they will have to think hard whether or not the benefits outweigh the costs. That's been the corner stone of the Finnish Defense Forces ever since the 2nd world war and so far the Russians have not desired to test just how serious we are about maintaining our independence, probably because they have some bad memories from the way the Winter War went for them.

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"cum" has been used long enough that it's an established new word.

But it is nothing new at all. It is an old meaning of an old word. ( Kids these days think they invented sex :-)

I was just whining about the recently mutated spelling, which is totally not cool in English.
I believe it happened because young people were familiar with the word only from spoken English, and failed to realise it was from the verb "to come".
It has not replaced the "proper" spelling,

Big cum-vs-come discussion here:
https://stronglang.wordpress.c...

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Verizon had signed a contract with the city and failed to hold up their end of the contract. Naturally, there are provisions for what happens in this case.

15. DEFAULT AND REMEDIES

15.1. Defaults. In the event of any breach, default, failure or other noncompliance by
the Franchisee in the performance of any obligation of the Franchisee under this Agreement
(each such breach, default, failure or other noncompliance being referred to herein as a
“Default”), which Default is not cured within the specific cure period provided for in this
Agreement (or if no specific cure period is provided for in this Agreement then within the cure
period described in Section 15.3 below), then the City may:

  15.1.1. cause a withdrawal from the cash Security Fund, pursuant to the provisions of Section 15.11 herein;
  15.1.2. make a demand upon the Performance Bond pursuant to the provisions of Section 15.9 herein;
  15.1.3. draw down on the Letter of Credit pursuant to the provisions of Section 15.10 herein;
  15.1.4. pursue any rights the City may have under the Guaranty;
  15.1.5. seek and/or pursue money damages from the Franchisee as compensation for such Default;
  15.1.6. seek to restrain by injunction the continuation of the Default; and/or
  15.1.7. pursue any other remedy permitted by law, or in equity, or as set forth in this Agreement, provided however the City shall only have the right to terminate this Agreement upon the occurrence of a Revocation Default (defined hereinafter).

I'm pretty sure Verizon is going to claim they are blameless in court per the Rules of Acquisition..

#17 "A contract is a contract is a contract... but only between Ferengi."

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Let's face it: the 7-inch and 9-inch displays in the early netbooks were too small, full stop. The small keyboards were somewhat difficult to use even after acclimating to the smaller layout. I have the original Sylvania G netbook which is just an Everex Cloudbook with the touchpad moved to a less stupid location; it is quite hard to type on that thing due to the key size and the 800x480 7-inch screen isn't exactly a spacious work area. (It also had a VIA C7-M 1.2 GHz, a chip notorious for being quite weak when compared to the Intel Atom N230 that went into the first Eee PCs and Acer Aspire Ones, plus a memory limit of 1GB and a 1.8" parallel hard drive. Even with a KingSpec ZIF SSD and an XP install aligned to sector 64 instead of 63 to work with the flash memory better, it struggles hard to even start Firefox...plus it won't boot Windows 7 or later with the default partition layout due to a super inexplicable BIOS bug.)

The 11.6-inch "netbook" of today is the perfect size. The keyboard keys are full-size. The touchpad can be reasonably large. There can be more USB ports. RAM and hard drive upgrades are often possible unless it's one of the Chromebook-based ones with soldered RAM and a 32GB eMMC SSD. The screens are nice and big and always have a minimum resolution width of 1024 pixels, a number which some websites don't even work on without a horizontal scroll bar but which is far better than the 800-pixel screens of the bad old days. They're always thin and light and disposably cheap.

No one in their right mind wants 7-inch netbooks back. Even 9-inch models have squished keyboards and myopia-inducing screens. The 11.6-inch netbook, despite not carrying that label in the marketing literature, is what the market has settled on...and with good reasons for doing so. I can only see a tiny niche market for uncomfortably small netbooks. Let the old tiny netbook remain peacefully in its grave.

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I take it you have never seen the accounting floor of a large business circa 1970 then, because it would have been filled with semi-skilled people filling out numbers in books and passing aggregated numbers to the next tier. Thats how books were done in those days. And those positions were replaced by spreadsheets, with automated cascading on changes, no need for more than a few people anymore.

See the following image for an accountancy department prior to computerisation (computerisation as we know it today):

https://benpadley.files.wordpr...

Its no different at all to your factory worker example. No different at all. You just never noticed the accounting jobs disappearing.

This is neat, because you no longer need to setup a cheap double-wide for living while you build your own home by hand.
If your willing to deal with a flimsy plastic roof while your doing the rest of the stuff by hand, by yourself, in your spare time, you can get your home on with less money, less material, and less hassles.

Make it a bit more modular in design (say a wall which can be knocked out later without messing up the structural integrity of the whole building) and turn it into a garage later.

Then again... what you are describing as "doing the rest of the stuff by hand, by yourself, in your spare time, you can get your home on with less money, less material, and less hassles" is how homes are often built in the poorer parts of the world.

Only, instead of building a small home to live in while building a bigger and better one next to it - it's usually just dropping a square structure on as many square meters of land affordable to you at the time.
Then, get living inside that ground floor tiny house with no insulation and complete disregard for architectural or esthetic norms.
If you end up needing more space, such as when your kids grow enough to need their own rooms, you build upward. Add another floor. And another.
It's OK. Foundations will hold. And you can always use lighter materials for upper floors.
Plus you get the heat insulation as a bonus, and it is usually cheaper than using bricks.
What's the worst that could happen? What do you mean "land slides"?

Most "hassle" people avoid revolves around (cutting) costs and (not) following rules. Be it building codes, laws or common sense and logic.
And it might all be just fine for years... until some long ignored issue raises its ugly head - and the roof over yours ends up collapsing. Regardless of its esthetic qualities.

See this takedown.

Musk hasn't gotten any Western country to bite and invest money. Maybe in a third world country with less education and a restricted media, he'll find takers.

Most ladies do not want to actually kill themselves; it is a cry for help - not because they choose a method that is less reliable. That is not my opinion, although I have seen it first hand (and hope never to see it again) - it is the opinion of all the research I was forced to read and comprehend.

Interestingly enough in the last couple of decades certain societies closed the gap between the male/female " successful" suicides. You know where that is - in Scandinavia, the most emancipated society on Earth. Bottom line - once society starts treating women as men, the women kill themselves. So much for the privileged male...

I strongly recommend the book "Is there anything good about men" - https://gendertruce.files.word...

UDF is the RW format for dvd-rw and can be used on HDs in all modern OS (it requires format version 2.01)

The format is resilient, as DVD-R(W) may have scratches and have CRC in metadata... sadly it do not have CRC in data, as the DVD reader/physical format also have some recovery info, so UDF didn't add it directly.

It is still a good format, being a ISO, it should have a long life and be read for a long time. Of course, for HDs, i would bet that mechanical problems will probably be a problem sooner.

other than UDF, ZFS and BTRFS both have CRC and should be resilient and the format is set and should not change. but there are other formats with CRC, check the wikipedia for more options

Finally, probably the format that you store the files is also important, a solid RAR or TAR may cause problems in the future than compressing each file with gzip. Probably the best option is store the files using par, as it was created to permit access to the files even if several blocks can't be read. some backup tools support this, directly , as DAR or but, or indirectly, as backuppc (search ArchivePar) on the archive step

Whatever you do, a followup of this in one year (or more) is a good idea, as the theory and real life may be different things :)

One of the major issues is the need for actual empirical evidence that quantum computers can do things that classical computers cannot with reasonable time constraints. Right now, the general consensus is that if we understand correctly the laws of physics this should be the case, but there are some people who are very prominent holdouts who are convinced that quantum computing will not scale. Gil Kalai is the most prominent https://gilkalai.wordpress.com/2014/03/18/why-quantum-computers-cannot-work-the-movie/. It is likely that before any 50 bit quantum computer we'll have already answered this question. The most likely answer will be using boson sampling systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boson_sampling which in their simplest form give information about the behavior of photons when scattered in a simple way. Scott Aaronson and Alex Arkhipov showed that if a classical computer could efficiently duplicate boson sampling with only a small increase in time then some already existing conjectures in classical computational complexity had to be false. (In particular, the polynomial hierarchy would have to collapse and we're generally confident that isn't the case.) Boson sampling is much easier to implement than a universal quantum computer, although no one has any practical use of boson sampling at present.

All of that said, the "a few years" in the article is critical- it isn't plausible that a 50 qubit universal system will be sold in 5 years. But 10 or 20 years are plausible. It also isn't completely clear how practically useful a 50 qubit system would be. At a few hundred qubits one is clearly in the realm of having direct practical applications, but 50 is sort of in a fuzzy range.

story...about a room that can charge any device that enters into it. I cannot wait to see the health issues that arise from that.

Perhaps, but worth it for the fun of all having Don King hair.

From the article:
"Drivers must have B1 level English, or the equivalent of a GCSE in the subject".

FYI This is nowhere near A level.

I provided a link with comparison of equivalencies, which lists B1 as "British general qualifications: GCE AS level / lower grade A-level".

It is so cause B1 is not a grade one gets on a test NOR is it a kind of a test one does.
It's a descriptor of a group of tests and minimum scores which one would need to take and pass in order to qualify for a visa.
Most equivalent tests are not a pass-fail test, so there is some overlap between grades and equivalency between the tests as well as the range of scores which fall under the B1 group.
BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, these tests were intended for people who are COMING INTO UK.

Someone taking an IELTS test, which is one of the approved tests for a B1 level qualification, would be tested either for an academic or a general training grade.
I.e. For the purpose of enrollment into a university OR or into some other school - or to immigrate into UK.
It's the same test in both cases. The scoring and grading is the same. It's just that the "content, context and purpose of the tasks" are different.
I.e. Academic version uses bigger words.

The only difference being that one needs a slightly higher minimum grade to enroll into a university than one needs to immigrate into UK.
5.5 vs. 4.0, which are REALLY REALLY CLOSE due to rounding up of the raw scores as they are recalculated to a band scale.

Thus the situation is that the only people with a ready B1 (or higher) qualification are - LEGAL IMMIGRANTS.
There is no equivalence for a UK-born citizen, as B1 is a level intended for approximate equalization and naturalization of foreigners to UK, not the other way around.
They might as well be asking for a non-UK birth certificate.

ONLY point where both groups intersect in qualification being the enrollment into university.
Which for Brits means taking their GCE A-levels - and for immigrants taking the same IELTS test, only the "bigger words" version.
Which they already did to get in. UK and the university.
And while immigrants who DO take that test are ALL coming with an intent to enroll into a university - 55% of UK highschoolers decide not to.

Thus, a B1 level requirement becomes equivalent of an "university enrollment" for UK-born citizens of UK - and either an immigration visa or a study visa for immigrants.
Which doesn't sound as counter-intuitive when you consider Uber's standards.

Uber's driver-partners are highly educated. Nearly half of Uber's driver-partners (48 percent)
have a college degree or higher, considerably higher than the corresponding percentage for taxi
drivers and chauffeurs (18 percent), and above that for the workforce as a whole as well (41
percent). Only 12 percent of Uber's driver-partners have a high school degree or less, whereas
over half (52 percent) of taxi drivers and chauffeurs have a high school degree or less. Seven
percent of Uber's driver-partners are currently enrolled in school, mostly taking classes toward a
four-year college degree or higher.

Hey... That's their workforce in the US. People who took their college entry tes

I had a coworker who got in trouble with HR for making racists remarks to another Africa-American friend of his (they played football together outside of work and were joking around). The guy who called HR was a few desks down and white. Offensensitivity

I've been working on putting structure to MIT's OCW courses and filling in the blanks where there's missing courses. If we all tried to just go through what is available out there now and focussed on propulsion, life support systems, systems engineering, etc, I think we could get ourselves off the planet and mining asteroids to build craft that could get to this system without having our work belong to any organizations that could keep it to themselves. I know that's quite collectivist for a capitalist, but I believe that math/basic science shouldn't be patentable, and the only way to do this is to race against those who intend to patent everything. I put my thoughts up on Hive13's wiki and moved them to http://hackereducation.wordpre... I am not a professor and I only had 2 years as a college software system architect, so my understanding of curriculum development may need help, but it doesn't matter if the idea grows into something better. We have a way to use sunlight to fuse glass https://www.youtube.com/watch?... and probably could use these: http://www.growbiointensive.or... guys' ideas to grow food. No idea since I'm a physics/cs guy and not a biologist or doctor. I just wish we'd stop waiting for the government to do everything for us and use the damned hand rectangles that contain all of human knowledge to learn ourselves and then go do it!

Really, I have to give them credit where credit is due: by repeatedly pointing out errors (however trivial) out of the tens of thousands of news stories that are published every day, they've managed to get their supporters to the point where they'll trust a new story on www.siteiveneverheardofbefore.com/newishstuff/hillaryclintonpedophilering.html more than they will an actual newspaper. It's a real masterstroke in terms of controlling the narrative. "Anything negative you hear about me, it's fake, because there exist cases where newspapers have made errors, and we've selectively presented you only with those cases to create a narrative for you that newspapers are packed full of fakery." Not just newspapers - fact checkers, peer-reviewed articles, even official government statistics - all fake, because they've been presented with every case people can get their hands of of error, without the balancing context of the 10000x more that wasn't in error.

In the words of XKCD: "Dear God, I would like to file a bug report". ;)

It's the same thing that contributed to the Challenger explosion. They had a nice clean graph in front of them that plotted O-ring failures vs. temperature. There was no clear trend visible on the graph. The problem was that they omitted the successes, the cases where there were no O-ring failures. Here's what it looked like with that added in. All of the sudden there's a very clear trend of failure increasing at low temperatures - in fact, every low temperature launch had had O-ring failures, while very few high-temperature launches had. By being selective in what data you present (accidentally in that case, on purpose in the present case), you can get people to believe precisely the opposite of what is true.

Really, I have to give them credit where credit is due: by repeatedly pointing out errors (however trivial) out of the tens of thousands of news stories that are published every day, they've managed to get their supporters to the point where they'll trust a new story on www.siteiveneverheardofbefore.com/newishstuff/hillaryclintonpedophilering.html more than they will an actual newspaper. It's a real masterstroke in terms of controlling the narrative. "Anything negative you hear about me, it's fake, because there exist cases where newspapers have made errors, and we've selectively presented you only with those cases to create a narrative for you that newspapers are packed full of fakery." Not just newspapers - fact checkers, peer-reviewed articles, even official government statistics - all fake, because they've been presented with every case people can get their hands of of error, without the balancing context of the 10000x more that wasn't in error.

In the words of XKCD: "Dear God, I would like to file a bug report". ;)

It's the same thing that contributed to the Challenger explosion. They had a nice clean graph in front of them that plotted O-ring failures vs. temperature. There was no clear trend visible on the graph. The problem was that they omitted the successes, the cases where there were no O-ring failures. Here's what it looked like with that added in. All of the sudden there's a very clear trend of failure increasing at low temperatures - in fact, every low temperature launch had had O-ring failures, while very few high-temperature launches had. By being selective in what data you present (accidentally in that case, on purpose in the present case), you can get people to believe precisely the opposite of what is true.

Sometimes the truck wins

As far as temperature goes the CMIP5 models used in IPCC AR5 have been bang on: https://andthentheresphysics.f...

If you compare back to the Hanson 1981 model you find that temperature has risen quite a bit faster than projected: https://patricktbrown.files.wo...

As far as temperature goes the CMIP5 models used in IPCC AR5 have been bang on: https://andthentheresphysics.f...

If you compare back to the Hanson 1981 model you find that temperature has risen quite a bit faster than projected: https://patricktbrown.files.wo...

Promises in advanced batteries are borderline worthless. Everyone has a superior battery.....that they can't deliver one.
Ambri / Sadoway "dirt-cheap, made from dirt" / Japan Power Dual-carbon / Phinergy's aluminum-air /Sakti3/ Sumitomo low-temp molten , etc.

Hal's Battery Blog has notes on battery announcements going back years. Many, many promises, not many tangible advances.

https://halsbatteryblog.wordpr...