Too bad modern Android phones are all about TURBO RAPID MAX BLAST charging and the shitty SoCs heat the damn phone like nobody's business.
Simply charging my current phone with the screen on results in temperatures that are uncomfortable to touch. If I'm running GPS navigation with the screen on, I have to place it in front of the AC vent.
The situation isn't unique to my phone, several Nexus devices I've had first hand experience also love overheating, as does a budget mid range phone from Motorola.
Because TESLA = MAGIC, okay? Even when they use COTS parts.
The only thing Tesla does is over provision. You advertise a capacity and throw in more cells than you need for that capacity. Then you have your controller expose, drain, and charge only the advertised capacity. At the beginning, this means you're getting less usable capacity than you actually have, but it meets the advertised figure. As the cells wear out, your controller simply uses more of the actual capacity to maintain the advertised figure. Eventually, they'll still wear out to below the advertised figure.
I'd much rather see smaller batteries or batteries run closer to actual capacity and battery swaps. Wasn't Tesla advertising battery swap stations to compete with the refuel time of a regular car? Let Tesla manage battery lifecycle outside of the car. Let the car run with less dead weight and give it more trunk space, or give it a longer rated range (closer to the full capacity of the cells). Tesla can recharge drained batteries whenever and send off aging cells for recycling / reconditioning. The end game would be similar to swapping your LPG tank for your grill at the supermarket.
Yes, that's why the Android battery usage graph and estimated time to empty / full charge is so accurate! It's also why my 1 year old, $800 smart phone absolutely never hard shuts off at 15%.
Seriously, this is America's original sin. Farming too hard in the colonies? Trap a bunch of Africans and bring them over as slaves.
Not quite. Africans enslaved and sold other Africans. The Portuguese, Spanish, French and English bought those slaves then stuffed them in boats and sent them to work in their colonies (the ones that survived, anyway).
When the US was founded as an independent nation, slavery became a hot topic not because the north thought it was bad and the south was racist, but because the governing structure of the country involved indirect representation of people, and slaves were people. Well, three fifths of a person each, after haggling with the north who thought they should be zero fifths of a person.
The 3/5s compromise was fine enough until the south saw their economic and legal power was being stripped away as population and industry in the north grew and as the north kept adding states. Westward expansion saw continual fights over whether new territory / states should have slavery or not. The industrial revolution wasn't exactly kind to plantations.
The north wanted to abolish slavery and send slaves back to Africa, or at least to end the slave trade and grant protection and state citizenship to any slaves who made it north to a free state. The south, of course, wanted to keep their slaves, have them count for representation, keep the slave trade and keep expanding westward with new slave states.
Eventually, we had a civil war over the issue. The north (union) won - barely. But let's not pretend they were fighting for noble reasons. The fight over slavery was about money and power for most people of the time, not what was morally right. Even Lincoln didn't start with the Emancipation Proclamation. He was fine keeping the status quo. So much so that we engaged in the bloodiest war in US history (true to this day) when another option was available - just let the south secede.
I find it odd that people love to point to the US as being the poster boy for racism, slavery, etc. The US was not alone in that shit, and in fact inherited that shit from their British masters.
When news first hit, the media was broadsided and reports/anchors, even from CNN, were positive and even commending Trump.
The next morning (after their 4 AM talking points) the reports were more along the lines of "Oh, we've heard this from North Korea before. It won't really happen.".
As it continued to look more and more like it could happen, there were a few reports of chicken little bullshit about Trump playing into NK's hands, Trump falling for a NK plot that will just trigger WWIII, etc. But they didn't stick.
The general consensus among the mainstream media now, leading up to the official meeting, seems to be "Huh. Okay, this might happen. Maybe Trump being an asshole and Kim Jong Un being an asshole worked out in a Bizarro sort of way.".
Word on the street is they've already met and hammered out a deal, and a peace treaty (not just a cease fire) is about to be signed. He's even been trotting his wife out in public, and they've been acting like typical dignitaries.
Whether or not it's genuine remains to be seen, but we've never seen such behavior out that regime. If a peace treaty is signed, then there's still a long road to unification, but it would be the eventual goal.
A North Korea source told CNN that Kim has finally decided to open up a new chapter for his nation. Kim has committed himself to the path of denuclearization and will now focus solely on economic growth and improving the national economy, the source said. The North Korean leader has realized the best path forward is to normalize relations with other countries, the source added. He is finally being recognized by the international community, and this is a historic, timely opportunity, the source said. The decision to halt nuclear and missile testing comes just one week before the leaders of South and North Korea are due to meet at the demilitarized zone between the two countries.
Even the media can't spin this. I may actually see a unified Korea in my lifetime. Or it could all fall apart. But as far as I can tell, this may actually be within grasp.
Claiming that the "super-delegates" were "bought and paid for" is just ignorant flailing nonsense. Super-delegates are people who already have power in the party, whose votes count more. These are the people already established in power, and they exercise it directly in this case; the idea that they would be "bought" by people with less power is absurd.
Claiming that the "members of congress" were "bought and paid for" is just ignorant flailing nonsense. Members of congress are people who already have power in the government, whose actions create and pass laws. These are the people already established in power, and they exercise it directly in this case; the idea that they would be "bought" by corporations with less power is absurd.
You're a retard if you think super delegates weren't bought and paid for by HRC. Money talks, bullshit walks.
It can not be shorter than the longest straight line distance between any two points on the coast line.
Of course it can.
A: Not all land between points of coastline is coastline. We don't even have a solid definition of coastline to start measuring.
B: In strict 3 space, measuring coastline makes little sense. Lines are 2D, the coast is 3D, and you first need strict rules for tracing the path before you can measure it. How do you handle a cliff on a beach? What if it juts out over the water? When considering 2D projections, it makes a bit more sense. But "the longest straight line distance between any two points on the coast line" in such a projection is infinite. Consider "the longest straight line distance between" your dick and your ass based on a 2D projection (flat map) of Earth. That line would simply wrap around the Earth forever in an infinitely tight spiral. Or consider the simpler scenario of wrapping around Earth once. That's "the longest straight line distance", yet we can show the actual distance is shorter, even if we don't know the true position of either point. Start by drawing a bounding box around each point with whatever accuracy/precision we want / can achieve, then measuring the distance between the outer edges of the bounding boxes. This gives us an upper bound for the actual distance. (You can simply draw a line segment between the points, then draw lines perpendicular to that segment at each point, and find where those lines intersect the bounding boxes to determine the "outer edge" of each bounding box.)
The question is "Did he criminally collude with the Russians to interfere in a United States presidential election?"
The answer is "No.". We have official word that he is not the target of a criminal investigation. We have official word that the entire dossier that started the whole thing was bought and paid for by HRC and the DNC. We have official word that the dossier was used to illegally obtain a warrant from a FISA court to spy on Trump and his campaign.
Trump's administration did the exact same thing and since they knew better, that's intent to commit a crime. But no screams of "lock them up!"
Please show where they have done this, and please show intent. Also, keep in mind that the President can declassify and release shit at will.
And there may be collusion with our President and a foreign power
Please show one shred of evidence. Then show how it is illegal. What one calls collusion another calls diplomacy. See all the "diplomacy" HRC and WJC engaged in during, and after their official roles.
a foreign power that wants to see our demise.
Please show which foreign power that is and show that we are at war with them. Hint: The US is not at war with any nation. The US has not been at war since WWII. The US has not had official "enemies" since WWII. Further, all UN member nations are allies of the US.
And you want everyone to move on because he won?
If this is what our country has become - our guy is in, so who cares how he got there! - then we don't deserve the freedoms we have.
We want you to move on because your song and dance is tiring and has been exposed as bullshit, bullshit, bullshit. The fact is he won. The fact is he got there far more cleanly than HRC tried to, even if you believe the "collusion" bullshit. Hint - the media isn't even pushing that story anymore. We have official word that DJT isn't the target of a criminal investigation. Their new things are tying him to a washed up porn star and getting mad that he has the audacity to fire (or have his administration fire) corrupt, criminal clowns.
It's actually true. Politifact, as usual, is spouting bullshit.
The post’s headline is "NOTE TO SANDERS SUPPORTERS: Bernie Would Have Won If Not for Super Delegate System!" It makes a flawed argument that Sanders would have nabbed the nomination if all of the Clinton superdelegates backed him instead.
That math checks out on paper, but it is nonsensical in reality. The post offers no rationale for why the superdelegates should flip their votes against the popular vote (Clinton won 3.8 million more than Sanders).
The super delegates threw their weight behind Clinton on day 0. They were bought and paid for. That gave her momentum and caused others to support her. It's called momentum.
If the super delegates had announced such support for Bernie, or if they had even remained silent or evenly split, Bernie would have won. Clinton only got more votes (if you believe she in fact did) than Sanders because they rigged the game against him from the beginning. The super delegates were a major part of that. People like backing a winner. The DNC declared Hilary the winner from the start despite the massive popularity of Sanders. They rigged every rally, debate, etc. to stifle him and piss off his supporters. Had the playing field been level, Bernie's support would have continued to grow and would have caused super delegates to back him, letting him win the nomination and win the election easily.
You ever tried to coach someone weaned on modern tablet interfaces through the process of setting up an XMPP client and entering the arcane data you need to connect to a server? And then it doesnâ(TM)t work right and they didnâ(TM)t enter what you said exactly and you have to help them letter by letter?
And how do you get from your friendâ(TM)s tel number to find them on XMPP anyway? Or do a real name search? You canâ(TM)t.
XMPP is way too complex to catch on with the public and doesnâ(TM)t offer features like real name search that people want to find their friends and stuff.
Believe it or not the world is not solely the basement dwelling nerd set. People have lives and they donâ(TM)t want to spend all their time messing with arcane things.
Have you ever tried to tell an Apple user to use regular fucking apostrophes instead of the various curly abominations?
Most of the popular prepaid plans are limited. People value data more than voice, and only want enough minutes to handle the occasional emergency or maybe the one month you're job hunting.
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Suspect was identified as Alek Minassian. Allegedly that's an Armenian name.
My kingdom for a fucking stop button that actually works!
Too bad modern Android phones are all about TURBO RAPID MAX BLAST charging and the shitty SoCs heat the damn phone like nobody's business.
Simply charging my current phone with the screen on results in temperatures that are uncomfortable to touch.
If I'm running GPS navigation with the screen on, I have to place it in front of the AC vent.
The situation isn't unique to my phone, several Nexus devices I've had first hand experience also love overheating, as does a budget mid range phone from Motorola.
Because TESLA = MAGIC, okay? Even when they use COTS parts.
The only thing Tesla does is over provision. You advertise a capacity and throw in more cells than you need for that capacity. Then you have your controller expose, drain, and charge only the advertised capacity. At the beginning, this means you're getting less usable capacity than you actually have, but it meets the advertised figure. As the cells wear out, your controller simply uses more of the actual capacity to maintain the advertised figure. Eventually, they'll still wear out to below the advertised figure.
I'd much rather see smaller batteries or batteries run closer to actual capacity and battery swaps. Wasn't Tesla advertising battery swap stations to compete with the refuel time of a regular car? Let Tesla manage battery lifecycle outside of the car. Let the car run with less dead weight and give it more trunk space, or give it a longer rated range (closer to the full capacity of the cells). Tesla can recharge drained batteries whenever and send off aging cells for recycling / reconditioning. The end game would be similar to swapping your LPG tank for your grill at the supermarket.
Damn, you got him with his own juice!
Yes, that's why the Android battery usage graph and estimated time to empty / full charge is so accurate!
It's also why my 1 year old, $800 smart phone absolutely never hard shuts off at 15%.
Seriously, this is America's original sin. Farming too hard in the colonies? Trap a bunch of Africans and bring them over as slaves.
Not quite.
Africans enslaved and sold other Africans.
The Portuguese, Spanish, French and English bought those slaves then stuffed them in boats and sent them to work in their colonies (the ones that survived, anyway).
When the US was founded as an independent nation, slavery became a hot topic not because the north thought it was bad and the south was racist, but because the governing structure of the country involved indirect representation of people, and slaves were people. Well, three fifths of a person each, after haggling with the north who thought they should be zero fifths of a person.
The 3/5s compromise was fine enough until the south saw their economic and legal power was being stripped away as population and industry in the north grew and as the north kept adding states. Westward expansion saw continual fights over whether new territory / states should have slavery or not. The industrial revolution wasn't exactly kind to plantations.
The north wanted to abolish slavery and send slaves back to Africa, or at least to end the slave trade and grant protection and state citizenship to any slaves who made it north to a free state. The south, of course, wanted to keep their slaves, have them count for representation, keep the slave trade and keep expanding westward with new slave states.
Eventually, we had a civil war over the issue. The north (union) won - barely. But let's not pretend they were fighting for noble reasons. The fight over slavery was about money and power for most people of the time, not what was morally right. Even Lincoln didn't start with the Emancipation Proclamation. He was fine keeping the status quo. So much so that we engaged in the bloodiest war in US history (true to this day) when another option was available - just let the south secede.
I find it odd that people love to point to the US as being the poster boy for racism, slavery, etc. The US was not alone in that shit, and in fact inherited that shit from their British masters.
When news first hit, the media was broadsided and reports/anchors, even from CNN, were positive and even commending Trump.
The next morning (after their 4 AM talking points) the reports were more along the lines of "Oh, we've heard this from North Korea before. It won't really happen.".
As it continued to look more and more like it could happen, there were a few reports of chicken little bullshit about Trump playing into NK's hands, Trump falling for a NK plot that will just trigger WWIII, etc. But they didn't stick.
The general consensus among the mainstream media now, leading up to the official meeting, seems to be "Huh. Okay, this might happen. Maybe Trump being an asshole and Kim Jong Un being an asshole worked out in a Bizarro sort of way.".
Word on the street is they've already met and hammered out a deal, and a peace treaty (not just a cease fire) is about to be signed.
He's even been trotting his wife out in public, and they've been acting like typical dignitaries.
Whether or not it's genuine remains to be seen, but we've never seen such behavior out that regime. If a peace treaty is signed, then there's still a long road to unification, but it would be the eventual goal.
A North Korea source told CNN that Kim has finally decided to open up a new chapter for his nation. Kim has committed himself to the path of denuclearization and will now focus solely on economic growth and improving the national economy, the source said. The North Korean leader has realized the best path forward is to normalize relations with other countries, the source added. He is finally being recognized by the international community, and this is a historic, timely opportunity, the source said. The decision to halt nuclear and missile testing comes just one week before the leaders of South and North Korea are due to meet at the demilitarized zone between the two countries.
See you in a week or so.
Even the media can't spin this. I may actually see a unified Korea in my lifetime.
Or it could all fall apart. But as far as I can tell, this may actually be within grasp.
Claiming that the "super-delegates" were "bought and paid for" is just ignorant flailing nonsense. Super-delegates are people who already have power in the party, whose votes count more. These are the people already established in power, and they exercise it directly in this case; the idea that they would be "bought" by people with less power is absurd.
Claiming that the "members of congress" were "bought and paid for" is just ignorant flailing nonsense. Members of congress are people who already have power in the government, whose actions create and pass laws. These are the people already established in power, and they exercise it directly in this case; the idea that they would be "bought" by corporations with less power is absurd.
You're a retard if you think super delegates weren't bought and paid for by HRC. Money talks, bullshit walks.
Take a walk.
The clown I replied to stated that the coastline could never be shorter than that distance.
You're doing it backwards.
It can not be shorter than the longest straight line distance between any two points on the coast line.
Of course it can.
A: Not all land between points of coastline is coastline. We don't even have a solid definition of coastline to start measuring.
B: In strict 3 space, measuring coastline makes little sense. Lines are 2D, the coast is 3D, and you first need strict rules for tracing the path before you can measure it. How do you handle a cliff on a beach? What if it juts out over the water? When considering 2D projections, it makes a bit more sense. But "the longest straight line distance between any two points on the coast line" in such a projection is infinite. Consider "the longest straight line distance between" your dick and your ass based on a 2D projection (flat map) of Earth. That line would simply wrap around the Earth forever in an infinitely tight spiral. Or consider the simpler scenario of wrapping around Earth once. That's "the longest straight line distance", yet we can show the actual distance is shorter, even if we don't know the true position of either point. Start by drawing a bounding box around each point with whatever accuracy/precision we want / can achieve, then measuring the distance between the outer edges of the bounding boxes. This gives us an upper bound for the actual distance. (You can simply draw a line segment between the points, then draw lines perpendicular to that segment at each point, and find where those lines intersect the bounding boxes to determine the "outer edge" of each bounding box.)
Hello Hillary. How's the wrist?
They've announced Trump is not the target of any criminal investigation.
It's over.
The question is "Did he criminally collude with the Russians to interfere in a United States presidential election?"
The answer is "No.". We have official word that he is not the target of a criminal investigation. We have official word that the entire dossier that started the whole thing was bought and paid for by HRC and the DNC. We have official word that the dossier was used to illegally obtain a warrant from a FISA court to spy on Trump and his campaign.
It's pretty fucking cut and dry.
Trump's administration did the exact same thing and since they knew better, that's intent to commit a crime. But no screams of "lock them up!"
Please show where they have done this, and please show intent.
Also, keep in mind that the President can declassify and release shit at will.
And there may be collusion with our President and a foreign power
Please show one shred of evidence. Then show how it is illegal. What one calls collusion another calls diplomacy. See all the "diplomacy" HRC and WJC engaged in during, and after their official roles.
a foreign power that wants to see our demise.
Please show which foreign power that is and show that we are at war with them. Hint: The US is not at war with any nation. The US has not been at war since WWII. The US has not had official "enemies" since WWII. Further, all UN member nations are allies of the US.
And you want everyone to move on because he won?
If this is what our country has become - our guy is in, so who cares how he got there! - then we don't deserve the freedoms we have.
We want you to move on because your song and dance is tiring and has been exposed as bullshit, bullshit, bullshit. The fact is he won. The fact is he got there far more cleanly than HRC tried to, even if you believe the "collusion" bullshit. Hint - the media isn't even pushing that story anymore. We have official word that DJT isn't the target of a criminal investigation. Their new things are tying him to a washed up porn star and getting mad that he has the audacity to fire (or have his administration fire) corrupt, criminal clowns.
Then low and behold she is Secretary of State
It's "lo and behold" or "lo' and behold". It means "look and behold".
It's actually true. Politifact, as usual, is spouting bullshit.
The post’s headline is "NOTE TO SANDERS SUPPORTERS: Bernie Would Have Won If Not for Super Delegate System!" It makes a flawed argument that Sanders would have nabbed the nomination if all of the Clinton superdelegates backed him instead.
That math checks out on paper, but it is nonsensical in reality. The post offers no rationale for why the superdelegates should flip their votes against the popular vote (Clinton won 3.8 million more than Sanders).
The super delegates threw their weight behind Clinton on day 0. They were bought and paid for. That gave her momentum and caused others to support her. It's called momentum.
If the super delegates had announced such support for Bernie, or if they had even remained silent or evenly split, Bernie would have won. Clinton only got more votes (if you believe she in fact did) than Sanders because they rigged the game against him from the beginning. The super delegates were a major part of that. People like backing a winner. The DNC declared Hilary the winner from the start despite the massive popularity of Sanders. They rigged every rally, debate, etc. to stifle him and piss off his supporters. Had the playing field been level, Bernie's support would have continued to grow and would have caused super delegates to back him, letting him win the nomination and win the election easily.
Bernie would have won
Easily.
and the United States of America as well as the rest of the world would have been better for it.
There's nothing more delusional and disgusting in American politics than a true Clinton supporter.
No. Bernie's a loon.
Did you use iMessage to type that? Turn off your shitty fucking curly quotes.
You ever tried to coach someone weaned on modern tablet interfaces through the process of setting up an XMPP client and entering the arcane data you need to connect to a server? And then it doesnâ(TM)t work right and they didnâ(TM)t enter what you said exactly and you have to help them letter by letter?
And how do you get from your friendâ(TM)s tel number to find them on XMPP anyway? Or do a real name search? You canâ(TM)t.
XMPP is way too complex to catch on with the public and doesnâ(TM)t offer features like real name search that people want to find their friends and stuff.
Believe it or not the world is not solely the basement dwelling nerd set. People have lives and they donâ(TM)t want to spend all their time messing with arcane things.
Have you ever tried to tell an Apple user to use regular fucking apostrophes instead of the various curly abominations?
I have not seen a limited voice plan in 5 years.
Most of the popular prepaid plans are limited.
People value data more than voice, and only want enough minutes to handle the occasional emergency or maybe the one month you're job hunting.
Was 1922 a "Netflix Original"? I really liked that. Otherwise I agree. Nearly all of it is trash to mediocre.