politics

he will snitch on us

I forgive him

lol, Polu having to put pronouns in his bio

would be so funny

he could just delete that code and quit

also, unless Discord is going to pay Polu in lucrative stock options, no way it's worth it

I would bet on Discord getting acquired though

so if his shares vested in <2 years

probably worth

do you think we can get elon to buy discord

No

probably not

No, Discord is not a good social platform

he'll just turn X into a discord competitor

it's a good complement if you already own a different platform

Unrelated

but Cyber trucks failing hard in Canada because they are not built for the cold has been funny as shit

you watched another incest anime?

oh

I did, but that was a week ago

I even mentioned it in anime chat

lol, I've seen some memes about that Pika

yeah i know, you watched yosuga no sora

have you seen any on the roadside near you?

I have seen 1

when you're driving home to school

not roadside

there are almost zero in Canada

my mom and sister we amused because they saw one today

which I why I thought of it

I saw a cybertruck for the first time a couple months ago, on my way to a doctors appointment

Normal tesla's, also rare but you can see them every now and then, cyber trucks are just not here

it really is so weird looking

there are tons around me here, and around Max in Richmond what I don't think people will like is how fucked up their exteriors will get after Winter

we use this really abrasive road salt, and after the first year in VA, all new cars look like shit

I am sure they work fine in California

but you really need to actually make things that work in the area you are selling them

cars normally work better in the cold than in the heat my guess is electric cars have a slightly higher operating floor due to battery drain while idle

but I think keeping them plugged in (like a normal, non-woman would) should alleviate that

Pika, idk what it is

don't keep them plugged in

as if they think they're going to explode

I do not know anyone who owns an electric car

isnt keeping a battery plugged in supposed to be bad for it or something. at least thats what i keep hearing when i tell people my phone is plugged in 99% of the time

so I cannot contribute to that analysis

oh no, Dialga is a woman

i dont listen to them

if you have a raw Li-ion cell, then yes continuing to have it recieve charge is bad for it (sorta) it's complicated

So, there is a lot of complex things for batteries. I am kind of more equiped for this discussion than normal, because one of the people doing their PhD under my masters supervisor was doing control theory for batteries

but in a phone, there is a voltage regulator and 10 other things that will stop the raw cells from receiving charge when full

firmware too

How you charge a battery affects its lifespan a lot too

^

so do you ful throttle the charge, or do you do full blast, then 30% blast, then 50% blast, etc

there is a lot of fine tuning for optimizing charge time versus lifespan

most modern things like cars/phone have reserve cells, so the complex structure of the overall battery only ever drains/charges between 10% and 90%

and then yeah, good chargers draw in a cycle

Active research is currently how to optimally charge a battery without full information about the internal state of the battery

so its not a settled science in any way

and there's unavoidable degredation over time, so things like cars also have much more capacity than they advertise

and we'll probably not use Li-ion forever (hopefully)

so we'll have to relearn all that science too Pika

battery technology is one of the most critical research areas

your PHD friend has a job forever

double value job, since it was machine learning based lol

but yeah, I think battery stuff is interesting

but yeah, I mean it when I say

100% of girls

don't keep their shit plugged in

the famous android solution to scheduled charging was also machine learning based

The coolest part of my masters was now I know a strangely abnormal amount of math behind battery charging and mosquito population control

and come to think of it, I feel like boomers also keep random appliances unplugged when they leave the house

or don't leave the house when the oven/stove is on or w/e

I unplug everything when I leave for 2-3 weeks

I also am stingy and do not want my microwave clock to waste 2 cents

Pika, I'm not going to make fun of you

what do you leave plugged in?

probably keep your freezer on

Its less unplugging and more I just hit the switch on my power bar

I need to know how much you and my grandmother overlapped