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Comment Re:NO one thinks this merger is a good idea.... (Score 1) 21

All true, but it's all doomed anyway. AI is going to do it in from both ends. Up front it's going to take the jobs, and in the back it's going to take away the jobs and therefore the disposable income from the people who would see the films. This is just hurrying things up a little bit. California Uber Alles! We're just as greedy here as people are anywhere else.

Comment Re: Revisiting (Score 1) 40

I used to be a window manager slut so I didn't get used to continuity of desktops until KDE got good. I still have to use Windows at work, but at home my laptop and desktop and minipc all run Devuan with KDE. It doesn't change much visually version to version any more.

This probably comes from the broad variety of different computers I used, but even on some of those there were other visual tweaks. On classic mac there was Copland. On Amiga there was Newlook. I tried them all habitually.

Submission + - Why Trump May Not Serve Out His Presidency (newrepublic.com)

An anonymous reader writes: In 2024, a group of 225 mental health professionals said in a published open letter (bankrolled, granted, by an anti-Trump PAC created by George Conway) that Trump suffered from “malignant narcissism” and appeared “to be showing signs of cognitive decline,” including “a dramatic decline in verbal fluency, tangential thinking, diminished vocabulary, overuse of superlatives and filler words,” and to be “exhibiting deteriorating judgment, impulse control, and motor functioning (including a wide-based gait).”

Comment Re: Revisiting (Score 1) 40

If you use complex applications you already have most of a DE installed on your system. If you don't use a file manager but do use a session manager then you've still got most of a DE running in your session. All you're accomplishing is using a less featured launcher, which is fine but really not a big difference.

Comment Re: I watched multiple journalists dog walked (Score 1) 64

Yes, every news outlet. All of them. Some were nicer about it than others but all were asking questions about his ability. IDGAF about entertainment programs like The View though, if you have to bring that up to try to support the point then you've already failed. It's not a news program.

Comment Re: Work (Score 1) 64

Man fuck history, this is now! I don't give two fucks what Russian peasants did in 1432, I care about what is possible today. And today something better is possible if we stop letting the billionaires convince us all that our neighbor who's just as fucked as we are is stealing all the money!

Submission + - New tin-based solar cells trap heat 1,000 times longer, could beat 33% limit. (interestingengineering.com)

fahrbot-bot writes: Interesting Engineering is reporting that researchers at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands found that tin-based perovskite solar cells can slow heat loss from high-energy “hot electrons” by a factor of 1,000 and could push solar cell efficiency beyond the theoretical 33 percent limit.

When sunlight strikes a panel, photons jump-start electrons into action. The most energetic photons create super-charged hot electrons. Theoretically, these high-voltage powerhouses should generate far more electricity, but, in practice, they are fleeting. In fractions of a trillionth of a second, these high-energy particles rapidly cool, dumping their bonus energy as waste heat before ever leaving the solar cell.

“This means that the energy is lost before the hot electron exits the solar cell material,” said Jan Anton Koster, Professor of Physics of Novel Semiconductors and Devices at the University of Groningen.

Using a specialized solar cell material called tin-based perovskite, Loi’s lab performed a feat many thought impossible: she slowed the heat loss down by a factor of 1,000. Suddenly, the extra energy lingered for nanoseconds instead of vanishing in picoseconds.

The study findings were published in the journal ACS Energy Letters.

Comment Re:Why just there? (Score 1) 43

Just to add: if the government, including the police, started mass video surveillance, there would be justified outrage.

Would there? How many people even know about e.g. Five Eyes? There already is mass coordinated international surveillance and... crickets.

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