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.
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.
"never discount habit" - my wife has a Yahoo email address she's been using since day one.
I have a rocketmail email address I've been using since before it was acquired by Yahoo and became Yahoo Mail.
EVs pollute the land and water much more than ICE. You can clean tailpipe emissions, but you can clean the EV detritus.
I had assumed HarmonyOS was based on Linux, in the sense Android and Tizen are. But looks like they've gone and made their own OS from the ground up. With even a variant analogous to WearOS, and their own programming language too. Bold move...
Do we still need constellations of satellites for networking when we have drones that can take off and land on their own, be serviced, and go back up and stay there for a year?
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.
Don't they know the right forum for posting stuff that they want to later blame on AI or bitter chicken?
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.
When you make your mark in the world, watch out for guys with erasers. -- The Wall Street Journal
