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Comment Real bugs or typos in comments? (Score 1) 29

For over a year now, there's no way to turn off scrolling inertia (aka dynamic scrolling) in Chrome on Linux. The problem apparently being in the engine, Edge and Chromium have the same bug. While I've no idea what the utility of this "feature" is, I cant turn it off, and since no amount of bug reports are of any use, I hope AI can find/fix it

Yeah, I know, this means I'll be using Firefox with all its issues for a looooooong time.

Comment Are we still doing lithium? (Score 1) 44

If we look past the maximalist approach to squeeze every last kWh/kg, sodium batteries are already there. They're even selling sodium starter batteries, going beyond their use in cars. Better low temp performance, comparable capacity, and having the stellar distinction of not being rolling bombs. Why are we still so focused on the rare earths and patents needed for lithium ion? The logic of "lithium batteries have been in development for a fraction of the time ICE have been, so give it a little more time and they'll be comparable to ICE" should now be applied to sodium ion batteries.

Comment Is the summary cleverly designed to confuse? (Score 1) 53

The title and summary confused me and made me want to read the article, breaking the Slashdot tradition. Is the discovery that black holes are merging generally, per how the summary starts off "now we have evidence that hundreds of thousands of them are merging". Or is it that black hole pairs are merging, and the summary says shortly thereafter "the population of massive black hole pairs that are merging"?

Or is it that the way that the general merging is happening is one pair at a time, such as with Sagittarius and Andromeda, which just happen to the the two that are merging the closest to us, and which will result in a binary system forming? will the binary system then merge with another supermassive black hole? Or does it have to then merge with another binary system? Or is is a one level merge event, and once every supermassive black hole has participated in one merge event, then it's all done?

I got confused enough and got so any terms thrown at me in the summary hinting that something got grossly oversimplified in the title.

Comment Finally taking climate change seriously (Score 1) 127

There are oil & gas fields releasing over 25000 kg of methane all over the world. That's per hour, by the way. Good to see that after all the diversions into subsidies that gives us at best incremental benefit in cutting greenhouse gases, the US is doing something that can have immediate and substantial impact and not just greenie points.

Comment Re:No problem (Score 1) 89

Exactly! They made it narrower than the tablets that pass for phones these days. But too tall. So it isn't pocketable. its just different for the sake of being different. Won't appeal t to the "media consumption" crowd, nor to those who want to carry something that isn't noticeable until you need it.

Comment Re:How effective? (Score 1) 223

OK, I thought the document you posted had that info, not the document summarized by the document you posted.

As for deterrent effect, you can't know directly, but they have numbers for crime before cameras and crime after. Some of the reduction could reasonably be attributed to cameras.

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