Each comment GP made corresponds to quote following the comment. i.e.:
>This one could apply to our relationship with China maybe?
>> Yes, we quarrel with the French. The members of a family argue pretty freely inside the home ; We quarrel with our allies, We don't quarrel with our enemies -- we fight them.
With that said, I wouldn't interpret the US relationship with China as one of alliance nor as one of enmity (yet).
Uh, the US military has declated China it's main adversary and the US just had a presidency that used "clash of civilizations" to describe the relationship with China, why do you think "enmity" is not an appropriate word?
Because the relationship with China is more complicated than that. You can see it in the NIH funding research at the Wuhan virology lab or all the made in China goods that the US consumes.
It makes sense for the military to recognize the other forces that pose the biggest threat. But regarding declarations by politicians, it appears to me that internal politics in both countries are driving politicians to make such statements. As in, both American and Chinese leadership see advantage in creating an external enemy. Naturally, as China's power rises, the relationship changes texture, but how much of our attitude change is recognition of the changed situation versus a change in attitude induced by the political class?
I read the article as arguing the low hanging fruit are picked, and that performance can't quite make another leap. Can't bump up clock speed because it'll use more power or because the CPU design won't support it.
There isn't evidence that Apple's team has run out of architectural improvements however, so I do think performance gains are still out there. Plus there's always the possibility of going to smaller semiconductor processes.
I don't think you could get thousands of cycles, but you might be able to go from <500 to ~1000. Higher quality cells might achieve the same thing though. Apple guarantees 1000 cycles on its laptops, like a sister comment states.
Consider a Tesla that gets ~250 miles of range per full cycle. The battery would reach 1000 cycles after 250k miles of driving, at which point you have a pretty old car. Depending on factors like time, environmental conditions, driving style, a battery replacement might be necessary at some point in the car's life. So the batteries in EVs probably cannot sustain thousands of cycles. The battery capacity is large enough that the overall cycle count is reasonable within the lifespan of the vehicle, and the battery cooling system keeps degradation reasonable given the high demands EV batteries must fulfill.
I don't believe it. When I had a cheapo mountain bike, I could hear the tires on the road, especially at higher speeds. With my current road bike, the tires are a lot quieter. That noise translates into lost energy, including lost energy that can't be heard. Sure the bikes differ a lot, but the difference in rolling resistance is stark to me. The road bike also can roll for a lot longer a distance.
For me, what doesn't work is trying to write it out on the computer. Writing down thoughts requires a level of clarity that I might not have yet for a particular task. I find that a shower or other bathroom break helps to organize my thoughts. Walking outside is a bit too distracting.
I need to try to get up from my desk more when stuck. There's a bit of inertia to overcome in getting up from my seat, but it would probably be more efficient, thinking wise.
Miyoko's is good. Available at Whole Foods and even some products at Target. Miyoko cheddar-style cheese slices have a nice tang to them. The coconut oil and tapioca starch kind of stuff (Daiya, etc.) is alright for pizza, but it's not great. It's expensive too. This kind of stuff should be cheaper to make than dairy cheese. Unfortunately cheese and cheeze are both high in calories, sodium, and fat.
> To be clear, the potato is not, in and of itself, an energy source. What the potato does is simply help conduct electricity by acting as what’s called a salt-bridge between the the two metals, allowing the electron current to move freely across the wire to create electricity. Numerous fruits rich in electrolytes like bananas and strawberries can also form this chemical reaction. They're basically nature’s version of battery acid.
"The sun is not a light source, it's just very hot, which causes hydrogen to go into nuclear fusion, which releases energy in form of electromagnetic radiation"?
If you want a deeper dive, the chemistry here is actually really simple and (IMO) very cool.
I'm drawing on some really dusty knowledge here but TL;DR the cells can be modeled as two reactions, oxidation and reduction. One is gaining an ion and the other is shedding one. This is typically shown in the equation as some number of "e-".
Because there are two reactions, each one is described as a half cell and there are tables[1] of all the voltages that these half cells create. Therefore you can mix and match to create batteries of arbitrary voltages, though whether they're practical is another issue.
If you look at the table, you'll notice that some common battery chemistries stand out, like:
Li+ + e− ⇌ Li(s) −3.0401
for lithium Ion batteries (the other reaction adding the last ~.7v to reach the nominal 3.7 cell voltage you're used to). Similarly you can find the half cells that make up a 1.5v alkaline battery[2].
It can’t be quite that simple. I’m not at all an expert in electrochemistry, but you can put pure zinc and pure copper together in a sealed container with nothing else except ideal electrodes until the cows come home, and you will not end up with copper oxides, zinc oxides, or any useful energy output.
What it means is that the potato is just working as a media to connect two metal plate and not as a power source. Actual voltage and current is created by the metal plates corroding and melting into potato.
So it’ll be like saying “the atmosphere is not an energy source, it just blows between the sun and solar panels” without understanding what that means.
No, the potato is basically acting as a salt bath here. It would be more like thinking the empty space the sun's light travels through is the light source, not the sun.
I think weightlifting (and also nutrition) have an intersection between one's choices and the scientific literature. From what I've seen of bodybuilders on youtube, there are many that base their programs and recommendations on what they believe is scientifically optimal. In most other areas of personal decision-making, you won't find wisdom in academic literature. For instance, remodeling your kitchen or dating. You might seek out advice from various sources, but those sources probably wouldn't include academic research.
The other thing about this article is that in using forums and websites to gauge the view of the bodybuilding community, you end up sampling more dedicated people who are interested in this sort of discussion. There might be people following all sorts of weird stuff ("woo") based on what their buddies at the gym are doing.
I wonder whether there are political issues where the "literature" is ahead of where natural intuition is. For instance, the minimum wage. Microeconomic intuition says raising the minimum wage reduces the number of jobs available. I think there are lots of studies out there saying that this intuition is false. The minimum wage's effect on jobs is something fuzzier than scientific fact however, and it kind of falls outside the concept of metis too.
Also, the majority of comments here seem to be focused on the question of rest interval, but that's not the main point of the article as I see it.
I think the author is assessing what the average bodybuilder (i.e. not a pro, someone interested in lifting weights to look good) thinks about rest times. And on this question, it seems like the average belief has caught up (or agrees with) what the most recent scientific studies are showing.
The author has no idea what the average bodybuilder thinks. How laughable would it be if I, as a bodybuilder, grabbed a handful of comments from assorted /r/cscareerquestions threads to demonstrate what the average programmer thinks about some topic in software engineering?
Even worse, BB.com is a traditional forum with no voting system; there's no way to validate whether the opinions expressed are held by most bodybuilders or just the musings of a slightly-informed bro.
With programming, the average programmer is a paid professional. With weightlifting, even specialized to bodybuilding, the average participant is lifting for recreational reasons. I imagine the fraction of people who've competed at the amateur level in bodybuilding is a minority of the total people discussing the subject. So it depends on whether the author is interested in gauging opinion among the minority of competitive bodybuilders or among people just a little more dedicated to lifting weights than usual. The article reads as if the author wants to somehow survey opinions among the "bros."
>This one could apply to our relationship with China maybe?
>> Yes, we quarrel with the French. The members of a family argue pretty freely inside the home ; We quarrel with our allies, We don't quarrel with our enemies -- we fight them.
With that said, I wouldn't interpret the US relationship with China as one of alliance nor as one of enmity (yet).