Heavy Questions

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Is my phone actually heavier when it’s 100% charged compared to 0%?

This is where you can actually use E=MC2 to figure out the answer. It’s not even difficult math, as such things go. In fact, it’s dead simple.

I’ll spare you the full math (though it just involves converting the Wh into joules, then figuring out the mass added by energy increase with E=MC2) It is just a simple identity, essentially. Just how the universe works.

So, charging an iPhone from 0% to 100% stores about 49,320 joules of energy (for a 13.7Wh battery). By mass–energy equivalence, that stored energy gives us an added mass of about 550 picograms. Or if you want to be exact that is around 0.000000000548759 grams.

These questions have pretty exact and easy answers but Reddit types never seem to realize that.

Chill Links

If you put the Apple icons in reverse it looks like the portfolio of someone getting really really good at icon design.

It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons.

Army Punches Its MV-75 Tiltrotor Program Into Overdrive.

More than 8,100 stores closed across the U.S. in 2025, up roughly 12% from 2024,.

Trump’s promise to slash energy bills in half has failed across the US.

MacOS’s UI has gotten drastically worse over the last 10 years, in ways that seem so obviously worse that it boggles the mind how it happened.

Ocean damage nearly doubles the cost of climate change.

Adams

Chill Annoying, Clowns

I don’t really give a rip what Scott Adams did or said outside of Dilbert.

During the 1990s and early 2000s, I read the comic and enjoyed it. It made me laugh more than once. That’s more than most people have ever done for my life. That’s enough for me. I just can’t bring myself to care what artists and entertainers do outside of their art.

That so many do is a major flaw of our age.

Early Hope

Chill Music

This is worth watching the first part of for a brief glimpse of Hope Sandoval when she was very young. In the video she’s 21 and though she doesn’t say anything or sing, she has the affect and mannerisms of someone much younger.

Just looking at that brief clip, if I had to guess her age I’d say she was 15-16. She also looks vastly different than her later much more goth-y look.

Strange seeing her like that, really. You almost get to hear her laugh.

Dev HD

Chill Annoying, Tech

What Twenty Years of DevOps Has Failed to Do.

One of the primary reasons DevOps failed is that it invariably ends up becoming the developer help desk. Into that department is dumped all the tasks and project that developers don’t want to do, don’t understand how to do, or are not smart enough to undertake.

And in my experience devs are even worse to support than regular users. Most non-dev users are aware of how little they know. However, developers often think they know much more than they actually do. This leads to untold problems.

DevOps is a failed experiment. In the end, ops people should do ops and devs should do dev work. AI might change that some, but that’s the basic shape of it.