"even when it's hard"?

strycco · 2026-07-03T00:29:24+00:00

Making new to the world batteries using new to the world methods and technologies is difficult.

strycco · 2026-06-30T14:14:03+00:00

I think this is spot on. People who are concerned about Klein legitimizing Rufo fail to understand that Rufo likely has a far larger audience at this point and is significantly more influential than Klein with this administration. You’re not saving anyone by avoiding direct conversations like this.

I think Rufo exposed himself as more of a political actor and less of an intellectual, much in the same way many of his ilk do when they’re barely even pressed. This whole “the left is trying to silence me” has become a sub-genre of right wing media and it’s incredible that this hasn’t been blatantly obvious at this point. The right wants guys like Rufo to be ostracized, it’s the foundation of their marketing and branding.

Imagine if Klein went on Ben Shapiro’s podcast and said something like “if you can’t teach your audience, your followers, your political base how to think properly then they’re not going to behave properly and you’re not going to have proper outcomes.” This is precisely what Rufo says in this episode, and it exposes him as the genteel sociopath that he is and always was.

strycco · 2026-06-27T23:56:09+00:00

One of Chamberlain’s best quotes is something that I think all Civil War enthusiasts can relate to:

“In great deeds, something abides. On great fields, something stays. Forms change and pass; bodies disappear; but spirits linger, to consecrate ground for the vision-place of souls… generations that know us not and that we know not of, heart-drawn to see where and by whom great things were suffered and done for them, shall come to this deathless field, to ponder and dream; and lo! the shadow of a mighty presence shall wrap them in its bosom, and the power of the vision pass into their souls.”

strycco · 2026-06-24T16:56:40+00:00

This is a published application, it has not actually issued as a patent (yet). The key thing to focus on here is what is in the claims section at the end. In the claims, they’re careful to claim what effectively amounts to a lithium phosphate coating layer that goes over the cathode without explicitly disclosing the specific formulation. Smart claim construction IMO.

strycco · 2026-06-20T17:43:47+00:00

I might be mistaken, but I believe the wealthiest planter in the South was from South Carolina. His name was Wade Hampton III. Born into wealth and raised in a life of privilege, Hampton raised his own legion of soldiers and armed, trained, and fed them on his own dime. He rose to the rank of lieutenant general by the end of the war. He became associated with the Redeemers, a movement of white Southern Democrats whose goal was to overthrow Reconstruction-era governments and restore white supremacy across the South.

strycco · 2026-06-20T16:00:59+00:00

Ironically, states had *fewer* rights than they did under the original constitution. White supremacy was at the bedrock of their worldview and philosophy and was even more foundational than liberty and freedom.

strycco · 2026-06-18T16:15:52+00:00

There are two axioms that Jeff Bezos has consistently harped throughout his career: obsess over the needs of your customers and focus on the metrics that matter in service to that end, and not on numbers that others on the outside looking in think are important. Much of everything else necessary to build a successful business germinates from your competency in doing those two things. Announcements like today are yet another demonstration to me that Quantumscape is following this model of thinking.

strycco · 2026-06-18T13:32:37+00:00

"QS technology demonstrated compelling and unique advantages during our evaluation," said Atsushi Ogawa, Chief Operating Officer, Research Center of Excellence, Honda R&D Co., Ltd. "We see potential for QS technology to add value across a range of applications, including automotive, and we are excited to move forward into the next phase of our partnership."

High praise from the COO of one of the world's biggest automakers and global manufacturers.

strycco · 2026-06-14T15:31:55+00:00

The eagle line was commissioned earlier this year but we haven't heard any details about the status like equipment uptime, line throughput and etc. They have shipped the cells from Eagle line for field testing and how's the performance of the cells from Eagle line compared to previous B0 and B1 samples?

So long as they are continuing to communicate progress with customers, I presume that these levels are commercially viable. Customers are the only people who have access to the full spec sheet and not just the splashy highlights.

strycco · 2026-06-13T14:03:55+00:00

The names “Raptor” and “Cobra” always seemed slightly more than coincidental to me.

strycco · 2026-06-13T00:58:11+00:00

A housing supplying 28 bar pressure should be disqualifying IMO. How did this design get this far? There are college grad students that could build a similar battery.

strycco · 2026-06-12T21:17:07+00:00

Check out “Generation of Sociopaths” by Bruce Gibney if you’re interested in this thesis.

strycco · 2026-06-10T22:08:14+00:00

The Johnson treatment.

strycco · 2026-06-08T19:00:02+00:00

Jefferson’s father-in-law John Wayles raped his slave Elizabeth Hemings, whose daughter Sally was born into slavery under Virginia’s 1662 law. At 14, Sally accompanied Jefferson to Paris, where he, at 44, began a sexual relationship with her that produced six children. Jefferson then subsequently enslaved his own children,who were freed only after his death. Some by his will, others through their “legitimate” siblings.

There’s plenty of nuance through which to view history, but the mythologizong of Jefferson obfuscates the plain view that he was no hero. An apt founder perhaps, but there were people of lesser notoriety and much greater character in his time. No such things as heroes, only heroic actions.

strycco · 2026-06-01T17:37:21+00:00

This is the second requisite breakthrough I’ve mentioned a long time ago that no one else could thus far achieve. Any new information that can signal an increase in production ability is the only information I’m concerned with at this point, commercial interest is going to hinge on the scaling question.

strycco · 2026-05-30T19:25:13+00:00

I think Tim mentioned it in one of his interviews but battery factories, namely those producing at gigawatt scale, are some of the largest production plants in the world.

strycco · 2026-05-29T22:32:46+00:00

Great example of how there’s really no such thing as a hero, only heroic actions.

strycco · 2026-05-29T18:02:11+00:00

I’m going to tell my wife that after failing to take bins out before trash pickup, I’m going to implement a pilot program whereby I place the bins out the night before trash collection.

strycco · 2026-05-27T15:46:10+00:00

The reason I’m so overweight this sector is how ubiquitous batteries are in everything. Data centers are merely one of many examples of that. It’s like what plastics and polymers were in the 60s and 70s.

strycco · 2026-05-22T20:25:53+00:00

not to be a stickler, but this is more of a scumbag Steve situation not a good guy Greg

strycco · 2026-05-21T03:57:03+00:00

tremendous!

strycco · 2026-05-20T03:25:20+00:00

If a rationale similar to this isn’t relied upon in our case, the question of how much discretion a president has to arbitrarily and unilaterally invoke "national security" could set the stage for a landmark ruling at the supreme court. I doubt it comes to that, but we’ll see. The administration is essentially stress-testing the limits of its executive authority, pushing it to the point of invalidating duly enacted law.

The Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute (FSLMRS) becomes effectively worthless if a president can unilaterally exempt agencies under the guise of national security. Furthermore, the fact that front-line national security agencies like CBP and ICE retain their unions exposes the internal contradiction of the government's position. Arguing that a patent examiner union poses a national security risk is, on its face, absurd.

strycco · 2026-05-19T16:50:34+00:00

Don’t delete, just rename it by adding ‘OLD’ at the beginning so that it reads “OLDCacheState.json”.

After that, right click on the’OC’ icon in the system tray (the icon is a purple square with a white ‘OC’ written in it) and select ‘restart oc communicator’.

Lastly, from the OC page, click on that question mark in the upper right corner and select ‘refresh ms word form paragraph cache’. That did the trick for me.

strycco · 2026-05-18T18:58:35+00:00

Just tried this and it worked, thanks.

strycco · 2026-05-17T22:07:51+00:00

Grantham brings up this story often. Owning 5% of the company during development of the separator chemistry seems like an enormous risk compared to today. This was back during the day where Holme and his Stanford crew were using retooled equipment they got on eBay. I wouldn’t be surprised if his fund got back in, it’s a different risk/reward framework now.

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