GreyEyedGhost

The current solar panel system of the ISS weights about 8 tonnes, the Falcon Heavy can deliver 63 tonnes to LEO. That's about 715 launches of the Falcon Heavy, assuming space solar panel W/kg hasn't improved since then, that Starship never becomes commercially viable, and doesn't include batteries, cooling, or the working components. This still isn't in the range of feasible for a data center, but could be an option for microgravity industry. The value of a more successful or precise silicon crystal production method, for instance, may make it worthwhile.

Well, I know the difference between alkaline, NiCd, NiMH, and lithium batteries, and that they don't grow on trees, so at least I have that.

Well, the downside of this not being a 4x game is that sometimes research doesn't pan out, and you don't know which ones until after you're done.

We've had 3 major changes in battery chemistry in the last 45 years. Energy density, lifespan, cost, and dangerous materials have all generally improved. We also have 2 new battery technologies in the process of becoming generally commercially available. Also, batteries went from 500 mAh batteries about the size of your smartphone to 3000 mAh as a minor component of that same smartphone, about an order of magnitude in energy density.

No, that's why we use the same batteries Voltaire did on his frogs.

A lot of these products used to be good. 25 years ago, Outlook was the only option for mail and calendar because they worked well and nothing else was as simple or integrated. Windows XP brought an enterprise-class OS with true multitasking to the consumer. MSN messenger didn't have all the features of Teams, but it was a serious contender in the IM space. And now, I have Outlook every now and then telling me I have new mail but I cant see it until I restart the app, Windows gets shittier and more intrusive every day, and Teams on Android cant send me a notification about an upcoming meeting until the meeting actually starts, if I get a notification at all. I also wonder how they ended up this way given they were class leaders just decades ago.

Now if we can get alternatives that don't have all the problems of Microsoft at its heyday, let alone now, that would be amazing. I already have my console alternative, just a few more pieces.

Well, you can keep going to the restaurant with hair in the food. It's not a problem with their practices, my standards are just unreasonably high. Whatever you have to tell yourself to justify why you keep eating food with hair in it.

I feel like people who were never gonna buy it no matter what the price tag was just want something to be mad at.

So if no one responds, it's because they have no rebuttal, but if they do, they're proving your point. Quite the big brain theory there. My point was that it had nothing to do with the price tag, except that the value proposition isn't there when they can just stop giving you access whenever it becomes inconvenient for them. Moreover, while I have regrets about buying stuff on the Wii store, I'm not angry at them. So it just sounds like you're saying I'm not much of a customer for a restaurant that I don't go to anymore just because I got food poisoning a few times. Must be me and not them. And you sound like you're defending a shitty company because people say their product isn't worth buying.

You're right, because I've literally done it before with them and have nothing to show for it. So which of us is the fool?

When I had a Wii, I bought games I had played and wanted to play on the NES when I was younger. Now I have nothing to show for it. Never again. At least with Steam, GOG, or pirating, the power is in my hands to keep those games for as long as I can. Nintendo doesn't give me that option in any legal manner.

I'm willing to accept the idea of software patents, provided they follow the premise of "novel to an expert in the field". So if you walk up to a software engineer, ask them how to do something, and they cobble together something that more or less performs the desired task in a similar manner, then the patent is rejected.

I figure 10 or 20 software patents would have made it past this kind of test. Rounded corners on rectangles? No. Gif compression algorithm? No. But maybe there are 10 or 20 truly novel ideas that were patented.

I think what they mean by "community blocklist" is a blocklist maintained by the community which users can have applied to them. This means, rather than everyone having to deal with blocking the trolls individually, only one user has to and the rest get the benefit of that.