I think opinion pieces are fine if they’re labeled as such. But more often then not this sort of thing happens to be nameless idiot hiding behind big brand.
I always suggest people to follow individual creators and not brands, since in case of poor quality it’s very easy to filter out bad apples
Nope. The moment you stop flooding it with water, it starts burning back again. Lithium reacts with water producing heat and hydrogen. Spraying the surface with hose just doesn’t work. You have to drop car into a water tank for prolonged period of time. Long enough for water to reach all damaged cells and react with all exposed lithium
The only way I know how to reliably extinguish a lithium car battery fire, is to throw the whole car into a water tank
This thing haunts me every few months since always. You can usually stop it by exhaling deeply and relaxing muscles in affected areas.
Is this really a capitalism thing?
Well, anonymous chatbot won’t cancel you and it won ruin your life out of pure spite.
No wonder this is a thing
No, by design, you have as close as possible to raw metal on one of the electrodes when battery is fully charged. That’s the chemistry behind it - its moving metal between oxidation states. When it burns down, it also moves to higher oxidation states. Volatility is baked in. Usually you have lithium in carbon matrix that acts as physical sponge. But that’s just raw lithium in a sponge. It will still burn like hell.
Not as rapidly as lithium batteries. From firefighting perspective this is much uglier case. Bonus issue: unlike gasoline, you can’t extinguish it reliably - it has to burn out on its own
Very relevant for firefighters who have to deal with lithium and sodium fires.
BTW: Explosion in case of lithium is indirect since you need a hydrogen buildup first. In case of sodium plus water it goes boom almost instantly
Except the fact that batteries burn extremely rapidly. In case of fire you have seconds to open the door and help the driver/passaners escape out of the vehicle
I was born in 1977 in Yugoslavia
Then I guess you forgot what kind of shit hole it was back then, and what kind of progress happened since the fall of communism in europe
Except ones with no handles. You’re supposed to burn alive in these.
Technically correct.
Sodium blows up when exposed to water.
It is if you want to move drive between windows and Linux machines
Another reason to install Linux and be done with this shit.
I recommend starting with Fedora KDE, and delving to anything else later…
It leaks private data, like it’s own source
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/01/anthropic-claudes-code-leaks-ai
Not because it’s so smart, but because it’s so fucking stupid, and morons from Anthropic just click buttons without checking.
You can’t expect it to measure time if it doesn’t have an internal clock. I’m sure it could be done if you give LLM necessary tools and system prompt
Welcome to headlines lying to your face