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"battery gains have been mostly linear for the last 25 years" After a whole paragraph about how Li-ion improves by ~5% per year. Reporters don't understand what exponential means!
Just think, 20 years ago, there was no battery life at all! :-)
> It is the result of trillions of hours of R&D over tens of thousands of years. Wow, I did not know that Ars was so much into hyperbole. That claim is just ridiculous.
It's not hyperbole but you could probably say the same about any modern computing device. Think about all the hours spent by the countless engineers designing all the individual components in a modern laptop. Now think about all the hours spent developing / iterating on previous versions of those components to get them to the point they are now. It's very impressive.
That's quite a few engineers.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not hyperbole but you could probably say the same about any modern computing device. Think about all the hours spent by the countless engineers designing all the individual components in a modern laptop. Now think about all the hours spent developing / iterating on previous versions of those components to get them to the point they are now. It's very impressive.
Assuming "trillions" means 3 trillion. Divided by the average work hours during a persons career that'd come up to about 33 million people. That's quite a few engineers.
Easily adds up to trillions of hours.
> It is the result of trillions of hours of R&D over tens of thousands of years. Wow, I did not know that Ars was so much into hyperbole. That claim is just ridiculous.
> It is the result of trillions of hours of R&D over tens of thousands of years. Wow, I did not know that Ars was so much into hyperbole. That claim is just ridiculous.
"battery gains have been mostly linear for the last 25 years" After a whole paragraph about how Li-ion improves by ~5% per year. Reporters don't understand what exponential means!
"battery gains have been mostly linear for the last 25 years" After a whole paragraph about how Li-ion improves by ~5% per year. Reporters don't understand what exponential means!
Growth of 5% per year is geometric, not exponential.
Previous submission from 2 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9637015 , which is funny because the article says it was published yesterday.
> It is the result of trillions of hours of R&D over tens of thousands of years. Wow, I did not know that Ars was so much into hyperbole. That claim is just ridiculous.
Ars has never been too serious. The same author has an article titled "Is the Internet a failed utopia?".
If you have read it, what's your quip with it? It seems quite reasonable. Is it the title?
[0] http://arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2015/06/is-t...