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Jason

@iamjbq.bsky.social
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Everything’s computer. Battery scientist, father, aspiring game dev in the wee minutes of spare time I have. NS, 🇨🇦

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Jason @iamjbq.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
@gruber.foo just was listening to the latest pod and I wanted to say I do believe the audio on the watch is truly private but my concern is for places like in Canada with two-party consent systems. You're not storing the audio, but you are still technically sampling audio without consent.
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Jason @iamjbq.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
@reckless.bsky.social thinking about the last website on the internet and I was wondering if you've ever looked at McMaster-Carr's before. It's truly one of the most well-designed things I've ever used and I'm interested in your impression.
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Jason @iamjbq.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Amazing work as always!
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ezEngine @ezengine.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
We've added screen space shadows to #ezEngine. In the video below, a dense vegetation scene tremendously benefits from this, making the leaves appear much more volumetric.
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Jason @iamjbq.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Looks really good!
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Jason @iamjbq.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Oh boy is this going to ruffle some feathers.
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Jason @iamjbq.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
It is disgusting but we should be clear that it isn't real liquid cash. You wouldn't be able to withdraw that all or even at once. It's only paper value. He still sucks though.
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Jason @iamjbq.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
@reckless.bsky.social “This implies I have good access to the database of the 8-year old girls coming to my house next weekend” Sir, I just took a sip of coffee. Who can I bill at the Verge for the monitor I just damaged?
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Jason @iamjbq.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Gotta love that the chat will stay unread even while you’re looking at it and you have to deselect and reselect it.
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Jason @iamjbq.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Battery engineer here, it is HIGHLY dependent on design and chemistry. They will have done EVT to ensure that this does not result in a 3 year life span.
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Jason @iamjbq.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Is this some of that conservative humour I keep hearing about?
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Jason @iamjbq.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Or creating anything that someone else can’t create for themselves in exactly the same amount of time.
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Jason @iamjbq.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Hell yeah Black Dahlia
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Jason @iamjbq.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Time to use @yahoo.bsky.social ?
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Jason @iamjbq.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I’m honestly a little surprised that media websites don’t try to get in on this together instead of separate subs. Apple News still has to go through Apple.
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Jason @iamjbq.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Just following up on this matter.
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Jason @iamjbq.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I’m just a humble Canadian but I hope to see you back at it again in the future.
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Jason @iamjbq.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Please please let this be the beginning of the “find out” phase.
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Jason @iamjbq.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Also, water is wet, more at 11.
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Jason @iamjbq.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Ain’t no way Apple is still working out display kinks on something that launches in 6 months. This is probably for next year.
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Jason @iamjbq.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Whoah that’s sick
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Jason @iamjbq.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Anyone want to buy a gently used, lightly goldfish dusted ID4?
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Jason @iamjbq.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Jfc why are people the actual worst? I’m sorry to hear that
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Jason @iamjbq.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
So it’s going to be one of those weeks I guess.
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Jason @iamjbq.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Or the bridge toll.
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Jason @iamjbq.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Is it really alive when the servers go down though?
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Jason @iamjbq.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
I lived in Germany and I fucking love how straight up they are. This was such a good episode.
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Jason @iamjbq.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Man I love German honesty
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Jason @iamjbq.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Holy physics buttons, this is so good!
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Jason @iamjbq.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Sadly it’s one of the reasons large platforms proliferate so much. What’s actually good for society usually keeps monetization separated but isn’t what grows things. Endless frustration and the burnout of open source in general :/
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Jason @iamjbq.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Completely so, but it does scare me a bit that it works at all. It’ll be a real bummer the day an AI can write a whole c++ compiler better than clang in one go.
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Jason @iamjbq.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
In Canada some stations let you check in on the app and then you just fuel up and drive away. That was my favourite before I got an EV.
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Jason @iamjbq.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Their flagship car only sold a few thousand last quarter as is. They’ve been dead for a while.
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Jason @iamjbq.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
For newbie Fedora users this is awesome. No more dnf install akmod.
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Jason @iamjbq.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
The other half just weren’t asked.
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Jason @iamjbq.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Hell yeah, weird game where you worked in a nursing home. I could do without that one though.
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Jason @iamjbq.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
The fact remains that the people committing the acts would still exist. The underlying problem needs to be fixed.
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Jason @iamjbq.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Get this man some gloves!
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Jason @iamjbq.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
He’s already threatened so many times, I just don’t think we give a shit any more.
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Jason @iamjbq.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
If we really do live in a simulation, it’s concerning that an advanced civilization couldn’t implement RTTI for it. #programming
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Jason @iamjbq.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
BOY WAS IT EVER
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Jason @iamjbq.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Hell I’m Canadian and I’ll probably never buy an American car again on principle after this BS. Thinking long and hard hard about how much I like this iPhone as well come this fall.
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Jason @iamjbq.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
When people no longer feel their voice can affect change, they turn to other means of communication.
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Jason @iamjbq.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Bet that the US will put up some kind of restriction against people crossing the border with one.
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Jason @iamjbq.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
100%. Cars and good e-bikes have have systems to prevent it from charging when it’s cold and cars warm their batteries up before charging, but if you force it in a lab like I do, you can completely kill a battery in like 10 cycles at -10°C if you fast charge it.
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Jason @iamjbq.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
But if you only ever charge NMC to 4.06V ~80%, and cycle slowly (~3 hr charge/discharge times) it can last 5000+ cycles with the right additives. That’s like 1 million miles of driving.
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Jason @iamjbq.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Phone batteries are even quite a bit worse in that sense. They are usually LCO cathode and typically don’t live past 500-700 cycles but have very high energy density, whereas EVs are NMC or LFP and can hit much longer cycle life albeit slightly lower. There’s always some trade off.
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Jason @iamjbq.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I’ve asked my company to do the same. I’d love to see more of our government distance themselves from the insanity of this platform.
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Jason @iamjbq.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I’ve asked for my company to consider the same action.
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Jason @iamjbq.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Correct. Using a Lvl 2 charger only you may still have 90+% capacity after a decade of driving. Battery chemistry and quality are important factors too, but much easier on the system long term.
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