Yes, the -gate habit comes from the Watergate scandal. Watergate was during Richard Nixon's second term as president, in 1972-4. He was a Republican, and resigned the presidency before he could be impeached. The name comes from an attempted break in at the Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate complex in Washington DC that ended up uncovering a whole pile of shady stuff Nixon had been up to.
Are Americans actually this ignorant of their own history?
I would love to have one of you fuckers explain to me why you like right wing propaganda so much though.
I would guess it's because so much of it simply blames problems on others and/or make others the "bad guys" and that's *way* more palatable. The right is more like "you're the problem for us", where the left is more like "we're all part of the problem" (and "the solution"). The former is easier and latter harder. In the case of MAGA specifically, it really seems to be a party of exclusion - with the test being if you're currently "MAGA enough" and an ever-narrowing definition of what that is. Just $0.02 from my Left pocket.
We go through this in cycles where every 8 years we get obsessed with some stupid moral panic and we elect Republicans and then they destroy everything because that's pretty much all they can do.
Then the Democrats come in and fix as much as they can and it's never enough because the Republicans are actively sabotaging them but they at least gets enough fixed that we can go about our lives just in a slightly lower quality.
You forgot the part where the fixing is often more painful than the breaking - like tax hikes vs cuts - which makes people unhappy, especially in the moment, because many have the memory and attention span of a goldfish and have forgotten how we all got there and they're disinterested in the future.
To illustrate your comment about Republicans / "Conservatives", think about how they lost their collective minds about trans athletes, then consider there are only 10 (ten) trans U.S. college athletes, out of 500,000. From Trans Women in Sports: Facts Over Fear:
Trans people are estimated to make up 1-2% of the population of the United States; however, trans people make up less than less than 0.002% (10/500,000) of US college athletes, and even fewer of recent Olympians (0.001%) identify as trans.
Got to hand it to them; it got people riled up though and some of those voted on that issue. Unfortunately, that says more about the voters than the politicians, and it's not necessarily good.
I expect them to be just as productive as a guy with 40 years of experience
Who also has 40 years of accumulated code to pull from.
Not as interesting as his other quote, "I drank what?"
(From Real Genius.)
This was a few years ago, so not exactly Gen-Z, but a similar situation. I was helping a very recent hire, just out of university, with a project and he asked when he would get promoted from a Junior to Senior Software Engineer. I told him, among other things, when he didn't need a senior engineer to help him with his work.
It took him two weeks to complete his task, even with my on-request guidance. When he was done, he thanked me for all the help and remarked that I had always been ready with an answer and to talk through things and he asked how I had done that. I told him that prior to being given the work his manager asked me if I thought this would an appropriate task to give him. I said I'd check it out by doing it myself first, and I had run into many of the same issue he did. The junior guy asked me how long it took me; I said two hours (which was true). Granted, I had many years of experience on him and a lot of accumulated (Perl) code from which I could pull that helped reduce my effort.
Aw, I'm disappointed there's no reply on Zuckerberg's origins.
Everything's an AI artifact. It's not like lazy people who slept through high school chemistry have been punching unit conversions into calculators for generations.
You can use the UV light. You need different material with a different bandgap. Basically a whole other panel, stacked on the first. But before you go after that 5% UV you're going to want to go after the blue, and probably the red and some of the near IR.
They're called multijunction solar cells and they're used in places where you need maximum efficiency, like in space. For regular use, single junction cells are much more popular because a single bandgap panel absorbing at the maximum solar emission is going to be more efficient price-wise than a multijunction cell where the extra bandgaps are in lower emission ranges.
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)
... 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...
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
(b) It's still projected to last 5.6x longer than the current petroleum-based coating.
Oh dear, I'm sorry I didn't read this before replying above.
Zuck was one of several government projects along the same lines back then, and he got lucky, that's all.
So is he a CIA operator indoctrinated from birth a la The Bourne Identity, a genetically programmed clone, or a straight up android?
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