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Comment Re:Overwrought (Score 1) 23

You can get a huge amount of good code out of LLM 's if you know what you're doing. An experienced programmer can just fly.

This does not appear to be holding up in practice, at least not reliably.

https://developers.slashdot.or...

Clearly the value being generated is very large. Not just my perception but in the opinion of the most wealthy investors.

You may have thought tulip bulb growing was generating very large value too...

The machines are already able to do most coding and in some cases all of it.

Again, not my experience. I'm inveterately lazy, and have tried it repeatedly. It's... OK I guess. Definitely faster for some stuff, seems more to actually slow me down on others. Trouble is you never know which in advance.

Comment Re:A life of 8500 hours? (Score 2) 30

Just a guess here, and I could easily be wrong. But maybe that's 8500 hours of direct and strong sunlight?

The Applied Optical Materials.journal article referenced in TFA/S describes the stability testing setup:

2.6. Stability Testing and Color Alteration Characterization

DSSCs along with UV filter films were subjected to an intensive light soaking protocol using an Atlas XLS+ solar simulation system. The xenon lamp of the system (model NXE 1700), which simulates the AM1.5G solar spectrum, (34) facilitated a 1000-h exposure to artificial sunlight. The spectral irradiance within the UV 300–400 nm range was quantified at approximately 240 MJ/m2. The simulator maintained internal conditions of approximately 35 C, a black standard temperature (BST) of 60 C, and a relative humidity level of 20%. Thermal imaging, conducted with a Fluke TiS75 camera, indicated the average temperature of the filters and DSSC to be 45 C. This 1000-h duration was chosen since it aligns with standard light soaking protocols in photovoltaic research, corresponding to roughly one year of outdoor exposure in a central European climate under the AM 1.5G solar spectrum. (54)

Comment Re:A life of 8500 hours? (Score 1) 30

For those keeping score at home, 8500 hours is just over 354 days.

(a) The Sun doesn't shine 24 hours/day. (On on spot on the Earth /pedantic :-) ) (b) It's still projected to last 5.6x longer than the current petroleum-based coating.

... the CNF-ROE filter could extend a solar cell's lifetime to roughly 8,500 hours. The PET-based filter? Just 1,500 hours.

Just a guess here, and I could easily be wrong. But maybe that's 8500 hours of direct and strong sunlight?

I mention that because solar panels also produce low-but-still-useful levels of power when it's cloudy, as well as during early morning and late afternoon. In those cases of lower levels of sunlight, I suspect that that the UV levels are disproportionately lower; witness the reduced incidence and severity of sunburn on cloudy days and in the early morning and late afternoon.

Comment Re:Silly question ... (Score 1) 30

... is stuff gonna eat that solar panel covering now?

It's the red coloring in the onion skins, which is extracted and bound with cellulose from wood pulp. From TFA:

The CNF-ROE film—short for cellulose nanofiber with red onion extract ...

I'm guessing it'll be too meager a meal for termites... :-)

Comment Re:It's easier to ask for forgiveness ... (Score 1) 86

I apparently am the layest of the laymen here.. This may help a bit though. Thank you.
So you can use the image but you can't re-animate it to perform depraved sex acts or even make it blow rainbows out of a unicorn's, umm, orifice... both of which seem likely to happen knowing the internet.
I'll rephrase that. You could use a still image of public domain character X, but you couldn't start selling "Steamboat Willie's Pre-Cooked Wieners" ...oops, it's happening again.
So still images used in your advertisement would be fair use of the character.
but creating a brand around it would not.
That's my takeaway.
I'm still having difficulty fully understanding the differences.
No matter, I'm not going to be doing any of that stuff.

For some reason, and is this just me, but even as a child I thought Mickey Mouse was pretty lame.
Give me the Thunderbirds anytime... IR, International Rescue with puppets and spaceships and machines that drilled into the earth and a secret hideaway that looked like a cross between a Club Med and a James Bond hollow mountain, seemed way more interesting to me than, a mouse with a deformed head, giant feet, and a voice like he's on helium.
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