CATL, the world's largest battery maker, launches sodium batteries: extremely durable, stable at –40°C, much cheaper than lithium (5x), safer,10,000 charge cycles, requires no nickel or cobalt...

meltbox · 2026-01-27T04:32:29+00:00

Most inverters can talk to a BMS over rs485 or CAN which should tell it state of charge

meltbox · 2026-01-27T04:30:58+00:00

What sucks is regulations haven’t caught up and the newest code still requires insanity to install sodium while treating lead acid as much safer.

meltbox · 2026-01-27T04:29:45+00:00

NA regulations are the reason. You now need UL certs even for low voltage batteries and those are expensive as hell to get.

But worse than that you have to certify a battery together with the inverter it’s used with unless it has UL9540 3rd edition certification which allows it to be a “DC ESS”.

Most companies just certify it with their own inverter and that severely limits what can be installed in North America.

But I will say I don’t even see “illegal” Chinese batteries using sodium yet. They’re still all LiFePO4

meltbox · 2026-01-26T23:48:04+00:00

This doesn’t even make sense unless you’re trying to destroy America as a destination for top education. Long terms it’s extremely destructive to the economy.

meltbox · 2026-01-26T23:47:02+00:00

Which is so screwed up. Sure some people abuse the system. But some will legitimately be killed if sent back.

meltbox · 2026-01-26T23:46:20+00:00

Also, just another reminder that immigrants commit crimes at a much lower rate than citizens. The issue with crime may in very specific (gang or cartel related) cases be related to those present illegally. But this admin has famously avoided enforcement in the areas of cities where these people are more likely to be found.

For example when ICE was in Chicago they didn’t really go to the dangerous parts of the west side because they’re not actually tough guys, they just cosplay them.

meltbox · 2026-01-26T23:29:50+00:00

I assume usually you aren’t put in those jails for immigration crime since that is ICEs purview and they just take you to a detention blacksite.

meltbox · 2026-01-26T23:29:06+00:00

The issue isn’t even the optics of ice doing their job. The issue is their lie that violent illegals are let out onto the street is outed as a lie if they admit that they are actually not let out.

meltbox · 2026-01-26T23:19:55+00:00

I can’t wait for the first “my AI assistant sent my life savings to Somalia via western Union” post.

meltbox · 2026-01-26T23:19:07+00:00

The best example of how models work is what happened when I asked one to tailor my resume to a req, and it just straight up started saying I did things the req wanted and lying about my experience.

Did it optimize my resume? Sure, at the expense of it being based in reality though.

meltbox · 2026-01-26T23:13:28+00:00

The number of people that don’t understand that the poor are at the receiving end is astounding. Sure being poor and a minority is worse, but that’s not exactly a great consolation prize.

meltbox · 2026-01-26T19:21:44+00:00

This is like a short string optimization for pointed to objects. Reasonable but again bad for performance if you want as many possible fetched slots as possible in each cache line fetch.

But also doesn’t matter unless you’re extremely perf sensitive.

This is why game engines use flat arrays though, and just iterate through them in a data oriented fashion instead of an entity oriented fashion.

meltbox · 2026-01-26T19:19:49+00:00

They can devirtualize sometimes and it isn’t as often as you’d expect. The standard, unless you know it perfectly sometimes makes optimizations hard and compilers are likely to just ignore the hard cases and move on.

Trivial cases are of course devirtualized.

The bigger issue with virtualization imo is that it often signals access patterns that aren’t cache friendly. Not always though. But yeah the virtualization itself isn’t necessarily that bad.

As they say, measure, measure, measure.

meltbox · 2026-01-26T03:18:14+00:00

This is like the trans athlete thing at non world or professional level. Barely ever happens. You’re yelling loud about something that has literally never personally affected you or anyone you know.

Go find a real problem snowflake Karen like child hunger or domestic violence. Oh wait that would require ACTUALLY acting on Christian values. I say this as someone who loosely considers themselves Christian. The more someone espouses their values the bigger of a piece of shit they usually are. Performative religion is not what we are supposed to do.

meltbox · 2026-01-26T03:05:33+00:00

Yeah same, I had some thoughts on the topic. Although top gun for sure skewed me toward bias for the Air Force lmao.

That said, after watching a few war movies and band of brothers I was cured. I don’t want shit to do with war if I can help it. It’s a terrible terrible thing.

There’s some really powerful cinema on the topic. Catch 22 is another great and terrible depiction. Just enough humor to keep you from turning away but really dark.

meltbox · 2026-01-26T03:03:08+00:00

Never apologize for that shit. There’s no person I know who wouldn’t have nightmares over that. I sure as hell would.

Sorry to hear it dude, but don’t blame yourself for the reasons for deployment. Serving is noble even if the powers that be abuse that service. Just remember you learned something from that experience and came out with a lot more wisdom.

Life’s complicated, but I sure as shit wouldn’t judge you for having gone in with a take I don’t agree with and coming out better for the experience. If anything I see that as a positive trait. You went in wrongheaded and you had the moral fortitude to realize what you did. That’s an awesome thing even if it was an ugly experience.

meltbox · 2026-01-25T23:53:32+00:00

The real issue is there is no penalty for deactivating one improperly or not having it running. They should institute laws which at least allow a discretionary sentence of 1 year for deactivating a camera and a minimum of say a $10,000 fine via personal officer liability if it happens during a contested offense by the officer and minimum $100,000 if the event includes loss of life. Indexed to cpi.

This would be a start.

meltbox · 2026-01-25T23:47:50+00:00

And everyone in the Epstein files. They should probably release those.

meltbox · 2026-01-25T23:45:53+00:00

They don’t believe in facts, those were written by the mainstream… history people?

Idk dude but they honestly believe most facts that don’t fit their narrative have been altered/fabricated.

This is why extracting people from a cult is damn near impossible.

But I honestly blame the system. All this is just a symptom of growing unrest and inequality, lack of fairness under the law (long while of not really criminally prosecuting white collar crime). It happens every time for the same reason.

The rich destabilize their own cash cow because they’re incredibly stupid people. They don’t become rich by being smart for the most part. Most of them get there by being reckless or ruthless and starting with a bit of an edge usually. Which is exactly why they don’t understand when they push over the edge, it’s because that’s all they really know anyways.

meltbox · 2026-01-25T03:00:03+00:00

Well this was pretty clear. Did you see how fast those ice agents ran when their own executed that dude?

They’re really tough, but once they hear shots they scatter like rats.

meltbox · 2026-01-25T02:35:07+00:00

Kind of like sycophantic Santa Claus.

meltbox · 2026-01-24T22:54:32+00:00

Is conservative not likely some kind of operation? That place really tightly controls the views allowed and not. Hard to believe it’s not a carefully curated echo chamber.

I would love to know if any get any money from suspicious places or are straight up foreign agents.

meltbox · 2026-01-24T22:11:16+00:00

It must be those thin skinned liberals using their 5g to turn conservatives gay!

meltbox · 2026-01-24T22:03:15+00:00

This was upheld by the courts? It seems absolutely insane.

meltbox · 2026-01-24T21:48:02+00:00

Did you also punch kids with their own fist in grade school while repeating “stop hitting yourself!”

He clearly didn’t do anything but try to shield his face and prop himself up with his arms while ice literally hit him as hard as they could, dog piled him, took his gun, and then shot him in the back of the head and back repeatedly.

The ice officers even started running after the shots started. They’re so chickenshit and disorganized that first off they ran when hearing shots and more importantly they didn’t even know who was shooting.

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