I’m going to start haggling with the cashiers.

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The first casuality of war is the truth.

Potentially fake news. Depends if you trust Qatar and the UAE on the matter. I cannot find the original Bloomberg article. I guess we will find out in a few days if they have enough missiles.

Qatar disagrees with Bloomberg and calls them irresponsible.

https://imo.gov.qa/media-centre/press-releases/statement-from-the-international-media-office-of-the-state-of-qatar-in-response-to-an-article-published-by-bloomberg

Contrary to reporting by Bloomberg on Monday evening, the inventory of Patriot interceptor missiles held by the Qatar Armed Forces has not been depleted and remains well-stocked.

The Qatar Armed Forces have repeatedly demonstrated their capability to defend the nation against external threats and remain at full readiness to protect all citizens, residents, and visitors for as long as necessary.

Publishing such false information without verification from official sources is deeply irresponsible, especially during this fast-moving and highly sensitive period in the region.

Same with the UAE.

https://saudigazette.com.sa/article/659390/world/uae-qatar-reject-bloomberg-claims-on-air-defense-and-missile-stockpiles

In a statement, the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it “categorically rejects” the assertions, calling them unfounded and a misrepresentation of the country’s preparedness, technological sophistication and operational readiness.

Its got electrolytes! It’s what plants crave!

The photo choice is a big one that always bothers me with these articles.

Article photo. https://www.sciencedaily.com/images/1200/aqueous-batteries.webp

Actual lab setup. https://www.rsc.org/suppdata/d5/ta/d5ta05128b/d5ta05128b2.mp4

multiply this (Current x Time)/(Weight) value by the nominal voltage of the cell to get to (Power x Time)/(Weight).

This is the part that annoys me. The nominal voltage could vary between different batteries. 200Ah/g means different capacity for a 6v battery verses a 48v battery. I’m guessing battery scientists are using standardized nominal voltages for these tests or are seeing the same Ah/g capacity at different voltages (that I may have simply missed in the paper because I skimmed it and I don’t claim any deeper knowledge on battery research)

the strategy of retaining crystal interlayer water yielded a specific capacity of 280 mA h g−1 at 10 mA g−1, one of the highest capacities reported for SIB cathodes in literature.

All I could find. This isn’t a statement about capacity(?) Units are wrong(?)

Its worth noting how preliminary this research is. Currently these “batteries” are just jars with chemicals.

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2025/TA/D5TA05128B

https://www.rsc.org/suppdata/d5/ta/d5ta05128b/d5ta05128b2.mp4

They mostly these articles are showing new avenues for research. Most are deadends usually due to issues with production/scalability.

Sodium Ions batteries are coming to market, however the issue is that Lithium Ion are just improving faster and making it harder for Sodium Ion batteries to compete.

“Fuck me Sam, I don’t have anymore ideas on how to turn a profit. We’ve tried everything. How about we just give the AI its own infrastructure and bank account with the instructions ‘make money’ and see what it does? I know that safety guy advised against it before, but he no long works here. I mean if it becomes a singularity event, at least it’s our singularity event to control”

HTTPS ❌🇬🇧

HTTP ✅🇬🇧

SSH ❌🇬🇧

rlogin ✅🇬🇧

What are they going to do? Put IoT DRM in every stepper motor?

“Alexa, slander this man for me”

“If a district attorney wanted, a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich.”

I don’t think the district attorney tried to do more than the bare minimum for the indictment. I wonder if they purposely threw the case.

SEO Evolved

Can someone recommend some XMPP clients for Mobile/Desktop. The internet is littered with XMPP clients that look like this:

Did they just add that? Last I heard it was on the roadmap

I personally think the UI for both XMPP and Matrix clients generally kind of suck, which isn’t great for convincing non-techy people to use them.

Ding ding ding. Make a Discord/Slack clone that does screensharing and drag/drop file sharing and I won’t care if it uses XMPP or Matrix

I mean the problem is that even with human eyes it’s still really hard to tell l and 1 in that font.

See image

Are you having as much trouble with OCR as the article author? I would have thought OCR was a solved problem in 2026 even with poor font selection.

I’m a software developer and I’m currently trying to recover one of these attachments.

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