It makes sense things would burn faster due to the higher ratio of surface area to overall volume. Since volume increases with the 3rd power and surface area with the 2nd power little logs have proportionally more surface area.

I wonder if you could make a tiny candle?

I worry about this.

A lot.

“…and we will make more”

Kind of misleading without the rest of the quote. Basically saying no more AI layoffs for now.

This is not a change of course, its a pause in the carnage.

Is 30,000 a lot for China? I feel like it might not be.

Also this is kind of the bottom line: “The LX 7G100 remains a poor buy for anyone chasing performance per dollar…”

We have an “occasional absence” policy where you can take a few hours in the middle of the day for a doctors appointment or such.

There are scientists who make their careers peddling shady results for big companies:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchants_of_Doubt

Its tragic

Scooby Doo

When you use biometrics with passkey, they are stored on-device. In that sense they respect privacy.

Its a great question, I was able to find this on the Framework site: https://community.frame.work/c/community-market/202

That is completely fair. For the way I use my laptop I need fairly current hardware, but if you do not, the premium price might not make sense for you.

The audiobooks are amazing, super-talented narrator who does a while host of voices.

The way I justified it was by saying that it will last longer than a laptop I just throw away after 5 years. If I can keep it for 10 years with an upgrade ir two the economics starts to make sense.

Specifically the brainwashed assassins were programmed with an urge to buy copies of the book. The CIA tracked purchases and used it to keep tabs on the assassins movements.

It is kind of ludicrous, but not a bad movie.

Rough surfaces can be more aerodynamic than smooth ones

“For more than 80 years, the principle of “the surface of an object must be smooth” has been the basic premise of aeronautical engineering throughout the world in order to suppress the transition to turbulence and reduce aerodynamic drag. This premise was based on the results of a 1940 study by Ichiro Tani, a Japanese aerodynamicist who quantitatively demonstrated the relationship between “surface roughness” (an indicator of the state of the machined surface) and turbulent transition, arguing that surface roughness, which was unavoidable with the manufacturing technology of the time, prevented laminar flow from being realized.

However, in 1989 Tani reinterpreted the experimental data on rough-surface pipes obtained by fluid engineer Johann Nikulase in the 1930s, bringing a new perspective that “roughness may not necessarily only promote turbulent transition and increase fluid resistance.” Inheriting this idea, a research group led by Yasuaki Kohama of Tohoku University experimentally demonstrated in the 1990s that fibrous rough surfaces, which have fine fibrous irregularities on their surface, have the effect of delaying transition under certain conditions.”

Multiverse, not to be confused with Multipass, which is something completely different.

Caveat emptor

Bullshit:

Meta reported for its most recent quarter (Q1 2026, ended March 31, 2026):

• Revenue: $56.3 billion
• Net income (profit): $26.8 billion

That was up from:

• $42.3 billion revenue a year earlier
• $16.6 billion net income a year earlier

You’re half right. The way companies expect people to use passwords is unsustainable. People can remember a password. No one can remember a unique, hard-to-guess password for every login they have. So they re-use passwords. Password re-use is so common and unavoidable that losing a single password is disastrous. It should not be. This is one of the promises of FIDO and passkey, not relying on a password that can be stolen, guessed and re-used.

IMDB reflects popular opinion. Everyone has unpopular opinions, heck I liked the Emoji movie. Also, for some niche movies the ratings are wildly skewed since only die hard fans are voting on them. And for some movies where there are strongly held opinions, many people will pile-on and vote on them without even having seen the movie.

All that said, IMDB is a useful tool for getting read on popular opinion on movies. Also, IMDB is standing behind me with a gun to my head. Send help, please.

Viva Longevity

https://m.youtube.com/@Viva-Longevity

“Our channel is not commercial—no product promotions, no Patreon page, we turn off all optional ads.”

Dude is a scientist who is doing this channel as his retirement project. High quality production value and science based.