@lizzard this was a lot of work done just to get to the last line. I trust this one was written backwards so I salute your determination.

@leeloo ah! OK, now I've got the opposite question. If they're doing it like this because of the chemistry, how do the ones that don't use 6 AAAA batteries do it? Are they just making 6 flat cells packed into a rectangle instead of cylinders?

@mattdm @kwayk42

@nettings it's packed really tightly in there. The question I have is how it even makes sense economically to do that.

@astrid @kwayk42

@mattdm I'm not sure what I was supposed to be seeing in that article. Would it make more sense if I had a subscription to read the full article?

@kwayk42

@nettings I've taken one apart and I've seen it myself.

https://www.rfcafe.com/references/electrical/aaaa-cells-inside-a-9volt-battery.htm

@astrid @kwayk42

@mattdm yeah that brings up so many questions. So few things use AAAA batteries that most people don't even know they exist.

On the other hand, 9V batteries aren't at all uncommon yet manufacturers will often make 6 AAAA batteries first and then use those to make a single 9V? Wouldn't it be more efficient to make the 9V directly and make fewer AAAA's?

This has been bugging me ever since I learned this.

@kwayk42

@jalager OK, I had no idea the single A battery was a thing.

Also, it's really funny that this battery is apparently so uncommon that they didn't have an actual photo to use on the Wikipedia page for battery sizes so they just drew a 2D representation of it on a piece of graph paper.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_battery_sizes#/media/File:A-concept.jpg

@kwayk42 @astrid

@astrid is there any easy way to tell which ones are or aren't without ripping apart a 9V battery?

I actually didn't even know AAAA batteries existed before I learned about this. I found an old 9V and tore into it as soon as I read about it and that one was indeed made from 6 AAAA batteries.

@kwayk42

@kwayk42 that little factoid about 9V batteries (usually) being nothing more than six AAAA batteries in a trench coat will never not be mind blowing to me.

@astrid

@munin it feels like we've tipped back into the days when someone releases worms named "ILOVEYOU" that brings the entire Internet down to a crawl. The server logs I've been reviewing are some kind of awful these days.

@killyourfm "some of those that burn crosses are the same as those who hold office!"

@paninid JFC.

The Superbowl is a little over a week away here in the SF Bay Area. You may know that Bad Bunny will be doing the halftime show, which greatly displeases a shitty old man and his equally shitty friends.

It's being explained as a marketing decision because it's important for the NFL to reach a wider global Latino audience.

OK, but have you seen the rest of the entertainment lineup?

The pregame show has Green Day, Brandi Carlile, and Coco Jones. It could still be explained that those are acts that play very well in the San Francisco Bay Area where the #Superbowl will be played, but it sure looks like the #NFL intentionally booked people who are known to have strong opinions and zero fucks.

Respect to whomever made this happen even if they have to publicly downplay it as purely a marketing decision.

https://www.nfl.com/news/green-day-to-open-60th-super-bowl-with-anniversary-ceremony-celebrating-generations-of-mvps

@manikrathee gladly taking you up on that generous offer. I'm putting in $50.

Thank you for doing this.

@mikemccaffrey I second that fantastic job posting. I copied that page to save for inspiration and to show other people what a clear and functional job posting for a software engineer should look like.

Whoever was responsible for crafting that, very well done!