Curious to see what the economics of starship will shake out to be

Those are normal crystalline panels, not tandem

Are there any perovskite/monocrystalline cells in commercial production yet anywhere in the world? I keep seeing a lot of buzz for adding a perovskite layer to crystalline silicon cells, but I’m not seeing any in actual production. Maybe I’ve missed something?

Not enough context, impossible to answer this question.

The LED should be expected to outlast the rest of the phone by a large margin. That said, given enough units out there, it’s statistically inevitable to get a couple with some issue that die earlier.

Wow that’s terrible design

Israel does this all the time. Prisoner / hostage swap is pretty much standard operating procedure. It’s why Hamas took hostages in the first place. Israel already traded back 240 Palestinian prisoners during the first truce back in November.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Israeli–Palestinian_prisoner_exchange

What’s going on now is negotiations. How many prisoners, exactly which ones, etc. The specific prisoners is likely the more salient point because Israel has effectively an inexhaustible source of Palestinian prisoners. It’s a renewable resource. Meanwhile Hamas needs decades to plan a border raid so it can get a few hundred hostages to trade away.

Might be worth looking at Sozi

http://sozi.guide/en/index.html

It saves the presentation as a giant SVG in an HTML file that you can animate. Should be able to convert latex to SVG and add it in. Not sure about video.

Bait and switch

Hilarious!

Pixel 7a is currently $500 new, so good mid tier device. https://store.google.com/us/product/pixel_7a

But really what you should do is get a used mid or top tier phone that’s one or two generations behind. Depreciation on phones is so great that you get a lot of bang for your buck.

For example mint condition Pixel 7 is $300

https://swappa.com/listings/google-pixel-7?carrier=&color=&storage=&modeln=&condition=mint&sort=

Nah, buy a used guitar for $50 and try it out. Most people trying out new hobbies give up after a short time.

Lol, that’s me!

The silky pyramid bags are the worst. Paper bags should be ok, unfortunately a lot of bags that appear to be paper might not be, or might be mostly paper with some plastic threads holding it all together. Almost impossible to tell just by looking at it.

Meanwhile modern teabags leach microplastics into your tea when used.

But those envelopes are tasty…

Yes, that is how active sonar works. The ship emits a very loud noise and listens for reflections to map out the surroundings. Sonar pings can be very loud and can damage the ears of underwater life forms.

Cereal box top redemption!

Wait, are you saying Bin Laden’s propaganda isn’t a good faith argument?

From the second paragraph of the article:

These remarkable findings position elephants as the first non-human animals to use a form of address that doesn’t mimic the receiver’s call, a trait previously observed in dolphins and parrots.

It appears dolphins have a “signature whistle” that they produce and other dolphins use this like a name. Sort of like if you enter a big room and yell out “Wazzup” and then everyone starts calling you Wazzup.

Elephants appear to be different, seems like they will name other elephants. Sort of like you enter a big room, the other people notice you’re short and everyone starts calling you Shorty.