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by dymk 1338 days ago
Well sure it's a confident answer - that's just how physics works. You generate heat in an enclosed area, it's going to leak out. The hotter it gets inside, the faster it's going to dissipate through the material containing it.

The question is how hot will it get for some amount of LED on-time.

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But it kind of misses the point. The titanium does do something. It slows down the heat dissipation to an unnoticeable level according to the creator.

The comment was confident and correct, but not accounting for the whole picture. Couple that with a level of snarkiness, and it's a classic internet comment that makes the internet worse IMHO.

I'm always reminded of that comment on hackernews that shits on dropbox when it was launched. It was correct and of course dropbox was "trivial" to copy using a couple of commands, but it misses the point.