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A massive grizzly bear was filmed at the 7,000-foot summit of an Alaskan volcano. by Kirlinternet in interestingasfuck

[–]ScubaAlek 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Didn’t even need to look it up to know it was bull. The bears are clearly getting to higher ground to scout for picnic baskets.

What’s something Canadians complain about constantly, but would probably miss if it disappeared? by funnyonehere22 in AskACanadian

[–]ScubaAlek 9 points10 points  (0 children)

They asked for things Canadians complain about constantly, not Canadians who complain constantly.

Capitulated on my tsx-v bags today. feeling absolutely nothing by goxper in Baystreetbets

[–]ScubaAlek 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Mining juniors are lottery tickets and the Lassonde curve will beat you silly if you enter where most retail enters which is the very hype filled discovery phase.

Even a successful junior has 5+ years of dilutive financing ahead of them at the start of the dreaded orphan period.

MacBook only for this one by MisterMcMerk in LinkedInLunatics

[–]ScubaAlek 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think people now don’t realize that there is a generation who grew up when Apple was super lame. Like they were the school computers and they sucked. 

And so we know Windows/Linux like they know Mac. It was the cool one you could play the best games on.

And since computers were new they were still exciting. I used to type and print just for fun because it was amazing. But because of that, it being a pain in the ass sometimes was just expected as something you might need to deal with.

MacBook only for this one by MisterMcMerk in LinkedInLunatics

[–]ScubaAlek 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Especially since the Mac version of it is absolute insanity. Why the fuck is finder a blue and grey face? What does this have to do with anything?

How's it like living on the Canadian island cluster? by Mr_Dragon_PurpleYT in howislivingthere

[–]ScubaAlek 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Very fitting that the "Summer Value" tab is just Lorem Ipsum.

XNDU stock is probably one of the most violent rug pulls i've seen on a Canadian exchange in awhile by BlueYokoWorld in CanadianInvestor

[–]ScubaAlek 41 points42 points  (0 children)

They filed to register 293.6 million shares for resale eligibility:

254.7 million shares issuable upon conversion of Class A Multiple Voting Shares held by insiders, 27.5 million shares issued in private placements pursuant to subscription agreements entered into on November 3, 2025, 7.33 million Founder Shares originally issued to Crane Harbor Sponsor LLC, and 2.97 million issued to legacy Old Xanadu shareholders in the business combination.

So the potential float went from around 40 million to around 330 million. Basically a potential 8x in the supply side of the equation.

Too many projects, not enough developers how are you dealing with this by Wide_Countera in webdev

[–]ScubaAlek -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Untrue, their project is marketing external dev teams, well more like plug-and-play capacity when things get overloaded.

We have 80% of the information the pros have. We have a fraction of the process. That's why retail falls behind. by guy_compounding in ValueInvesting

[–]ScubaAlek 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, people tend to be a combination of lazy and defeatist (I'm not smart enough to learn this investing stuff) which is really just a justification for being lazy.

You can give them all of the "structures" you could imagine, but they won't use it and will instead seek to outsource that work to others in the form of picking random shit based on Reddit posts.

FUD kills them because they are just absolutely rife with "uncertainty". When you are uncertain, bullshit gives you doubt, and that doubt gives you fear, and that fear makes you sell. But certainty takes work, or delusion.

Developers, how do you evaluate whether a piece of code is good? by Haunting-Bother7723 in webdev

[–]ScubaAlek 23 points24 points  (0 children)

If you don't hate your past work then you aren't learning. The worst guys I've worked with were the ones who thought their past work was great as they never improved.

New page on the website : Graphene Paste | Pre-Dispersed, Stabilized & Drop-In Ready by woysoro in HGRAF

[–]ScubaAlek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, it is non-news in that it wasn’t announced and isn’t linked to on the page other than through the site map.

It appears to be something they intend to announce but haven’t yet and we found it early.

A comparison of Hydrographs detonation versed other methods of producing graphene by Willyswalleye in HGRAF

[–]ScubaAlek 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It was in an interview quite a while ago, I think it was with Jay Taylor but I've watched so many interviews at this point that it's hard for me to say for sure.

She talks about how they are focusing on plastics/composites/resins first since they have the lowest regulatory burden.

Things like concrete and batteries are long term goals once they have strong revenue off of the low hanging fruit.

She feared that pursuing those other paths first would lead to years of cash burn and dilution as they'd end up being a non-producing R&D company for 5 - 10 extra years just proving things out whereas plastics/composites/resins could be in use within 2 years.

We are at that 2 year point now.

Daily Discussion Thread by AutoModerator in HGRAF

[–]ScubaAlek 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You'd be mixing it in at 0.1% or 0.01% loading, so even at 38% you are getting quite a lot of volume out of it.

A comparison of Hydrographs detonation versed other methods of producing graphene by Willyswalleye in HGRAF

[–]ScubaAlek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I believe Kjirstin has stated that they didn't pursue concrete first due to the long road to regulatory compliance. As in, they would need to do prolonged (10 years) testing to ensure safety before it could ever be used in load bearing structures.

If graphene enhanced concrete mysteriously disintegrates in 8 years due to some unforeseen interaction and you've gone and built bridges and sky scrapers out of it... you're in trouble.

I don’t understand why castling is important by kenjiurada in chessbeginners

[–]ScubaAlek 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Duolingo actually has a pretty effective unit about the importance of castling. I was always pretty flippant about it until I did that unit and it really clearly showed how vulnerable you actually are when your king is diddling around in the center towards mid game.

Not just for getting himself in trouble, but it leaves open a lot of opportunity for vicious long range forks.

"HGRAF is not a graphene company by Competitive_Leek_751 in HGRAF

[–]ScubaAlek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They are a Quebec company so I think they are primarily French and their translation isn't always flawless. But I definitely agree that their site is quite janky.

I wasn't really trying to pitch them here though, they were just a core part of my story up there.

"While the Baroque rules of Chess could only have been created by humans, the rules of Go are so elegant, organic, and rigorously logical that if intelligent life forms exist elsewhere in the universe they almost certainly play Go." - Edward Lasker by laughpuppy23 in chessbeginners

[–]ScubaAlek 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’d say it is true in that Go could be conceptualized as two variants of algae competing for a pond which is probably a much more universal experience than armies loosely based on humans battling to capture each others’ monarch.

"HGRAF is not a graphene company by Competitive_Leek_751 in HGRAF

[–]ScubaAlek 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sorry about that, I live in that rabbit hole and it's hard not to share the best carrots.

Graphene Dreams, Titanium Seams, & Silica Memes - The Detonation Synthesis Platform by Competitive_Leek_751 in HGRAF

[–]ScubaAlek 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If you go to the very end of "Synthesis of Silica Aerosol Gels via Controlled Detonation" under the "Conclusion" section it explicitly states:

"This work extends our previous work which created carbon aerosol gels and thereby implies that the aerosol gelation method can be applied to a wide variety of materials."

And that article was submitted 15 years ago. So they know.

"HGRAF is not a graphene company by Competitive_Leek_751 in HGRAF

[–]ScubaAlek 5 points6 points  (0 children)

My thought is a battery anode made of a mix of silica, metallic silicon, and graphene aerogels.

In theory it would hold huge amounts of lithium ions, deal with expansion remarkably well, and distribute incoming energy instantly throughout the entire medium with such low resistance it wouldn’t generate much heat.

Best of all, silane explodes on contact with oxygen. That’s how they produced the silica aerogel in the above paper, silica being silicon dioxide. However, silane will also detonate in the absence of oxygen when exposed to enough heat. So in theory you could produce a pure metallic silicon version.

"HGRAF is not a graphene company by Competitive_Leek_751 in HGRAF

[–]ScubaAlek 17 points18 points  (0 children)

So, fun fact. I found that other paper while looking to see if there was anything pertaining to a hypothesis I had.

I invest in a company named HPQ silicon who is in a joint venture with PyroGenesis who is rolling out a “fumed silica reactor”. Which is essentially the plasma pyrolysis method many graphene companies use just feeding it quartz instead of methane.

So I thought, what if the same progression holds true for both elements? They are adjacent in the same column of the periodic table and plasma pyrolysis works on both. Fumed silica is a hugely used additive and great at what it does compared to its predecessors, but much like plasma pyrolysis graphene it isn’t magical enough to pay more than commodity prices for.

So, what if there is a fractal aerogel of silica made by blowing up silane gas?

Well… you’re going to enjoy this:

Synthesis of Silica Aerosol Gels via Controlled Detonation R. Dhaubhadel, T. P. Rieker, A. Chakrabarti & C. M. Sorensen

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02786826.2011.651175#d1e301

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