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I was on the "quitting" side of this at my last job. For years I had gone above and beyond and then the company was bought out. The new owner required salaried employees, which I was, to clock in and out. Needless to say I started clocking in and out and stopped working nights and weekends. I also started looking for a new job the same day.
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In a paper published this week in the journal Matter, researchers say they have made a biodegradable battery with a substance found in crab and lobster shells. Red Lobster becomes a power company
Try their new "Endless Shrimp" charging station!
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One step closer to The Matrix.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Quote: Chitin can also be made into a derivative called chitosan, which researchers combined with zinc to create a new electrolyte substance to power a battery that they say remains almost entirely energy efficient after 400 hours of use.
So it only works good for about 2 weeks and ...
Quote: What’s more, unlike traditional battery electrolytes, this crab goo will break down in soil in about five months, leaving zinc—that can be recycled—behind.
... begins rotting an unspecified but apparently short time later (because 5mo is the done time not the start time).
Making it not just the perfect choice for all my devices with LiON batteries that can last a few years of daily recharges, but also things that I slap a pair of alkaline AA/AAA batteries in once a year or two.
There may be scenarios where this type of battery is reasonable; but I suspect it'll be limited to things that are otherwise 100% biodegradable anyway.
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Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Making batteries out of crab shells may be a great idea
I'm sure that the crabs will disagree!
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The Federal Communications Commission wants to do something about space junk in low Earth orbit. It's like the 'five second rule', but you can't eat the satellites
edit: fixed spelling
modified 11-Sep-22 19:34pm.
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Where is Wall-E's big cousin when we need it?
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http://http://http://@http://http://?http://#http:// is a legitimate URL We work in a house of cards, on a bowl of jello, on top of a swamp
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Kent Sharkey wrote: We work in a house of cards, on a bowl of jello, on top of a swamp ...in the caldera of an active super-volcano.
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Buffalo [buffalo]. is a valid sentence in American English.
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Up to (at least) n=5, I think?
English is also a house of cards, stolen from everyone else around the globe.
TTFN - Kent
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Developers of the embeddable WebAssembly runtime have focused on compiler performance and runtime security in the run-up to a September 20 release. Is it any good? It's WASM
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There has never been a better time to start your journey to becoming a Microsoft 365 Developer. Microsoft 366 developer on leap years
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Microsoft 366 developer on leap years Mmmm if you find someone that pays the whole year salary for just working on Feb. 29th... tell me, please.
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TIL that Microsoft has 3 clouds.
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The U.S. Department of Justice told a federal judge today that Google illegally maintains its search monopoly by paying partners billions of dollars each year to Apple, Samsung, and a long list of wireless carriers— AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon in the U.S.—to ensure that it is always the default option on devices. When your company name has become a verb, you might just be a monopoly
Xerox says "hi"
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I don't want to defend Google, but most other search engines are still a bit away from delivering as good results as them to the queries (and I'm not saingy that google's results list has no issues).
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Unless you're searching on something where they've manipulated the results to exclude various websites.
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Or the others didn't pay enough to get into the list... I know.
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I flip my default search engine to DuckDuckGo immediately on getting a new computer. The only device I have that uses Google search by default is my Android phone.
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With polymorphic encoding and a multistage infection chain, Shikitega is hard to detect. Mysterious and spooky, it's altogether ooky
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Linux has no virus / malware, hasn't it?
I suppose we have to thank MS to the increase of bad actors in Linux, since the user base has grown quite a bit since MS started annoying people out of windows.
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