ChicoSuave
@ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
- Comment on Solar panels should not be cleaned with dishwashing detergent, study shows 4 days ago:
The study found that the optical properties of the studied anti-reflective coating on solar panel glass did not deteriorate as a result of chemical cleaning—except when dishwashing detergent was used.
It is unlikely that dishwashing detergent damages the glass. However, rinsing does not seem to be sufficient, as the transmittance of the solar panel glass cleaned with detergent did not return to the pre-cleaning level after the rinsing.
“Even though the glass looks clean when cleaned with detergent, its ability to transmit light is significantly impaired. Therefore, a clean-looking end result does not guarantee optimal performance,” says Research Assistant Julianna Varjopuro.
TL;DR - dish cleaner removes the anti-reflective coating but glass cleaner does not. And once lost, it does not come back.
- Comment on World's biggest game publisher Tencent threaten to sue US government for listing them as a Chinese military company 1 week ago:
Do it.
- Comment on Sony is working on Horizon Zero Dawn and Helldivers 2 movies 1 week ago:
Starship Troopers exists so any video game movie adaptation will be compared to it. Unless Paul Verhoven is directing, it is a big uphill battle to win any comparisons.
And it’s Sony, so, good luck? They can’t seem to understand what makes a movie interesting to want to watch. They can’t cut a good trailer but their actual ability to produce and execute movie production is just bad. They can’t make a comic book movie that isn’t produced by others.
- Comment on Elon Musk wants the U.S. to “Liberate the people Britain from their tyrannical government” 2 weeks ago:
Fascism cannot exist without capitalism. Capital is what supports and strengthens fascism - the idea that business is more important than the people. This sounds like how the world has always been but it wasn’t until the 60s, at least in the US, when the business leaders wanted to stop unions, make more money, stop the possibilities of environmentalists from hurting profits, etc. The pushback from the people in the 60s spawned the Civil Rights and threatened to derail the business first approach America had gotten used to from after the Depression. The war years gave too much money and power to too few people and things like the Business Plot simmered under the surface of our grandparents’ generation. Two generations of propaganda that made social and community based governing sound villainous has brought us to a full on fascist revolution slow burning through wealthy democracies.
- Comment on Russia admits its homegrown consoles can't match the PS5 or Xbox Series 2 weeks ago:
This has been their schtick since Game and Watch.
- Comment on Thanks mom, I don't want any 2 weeks ago:
Lots of American food companies use recipes on the box to give the buyer an idea of what to make. This was a part of American food packaging going back to the Depression; learning to work with what we had was the lesson of the period. It was a time of searching for what was cheap and learning how to make it palatable.
- Comment on Thanks mom, I don't want any 2 weeks ago:
But that 7oz of 50s tuna was also like 20% dolphin by weight. It’s 5 ounces of tuna.
- Comment on Imperialism, authoritarianism and oppression is bad all around m'kay 5 weeks ago:
Corporate leftists, the “libruls”, are right wing political actors pretending to be left wing for a variety of reasons. Supporting business over people is fascism and the liberals are fascists who don’t mean to be.
- Comment on Che Mangione 5 weeks ago:
Got you tagged as a corpo shill. You are about as useful to democratic thought as sandpaper napkins.
- Comment on Rumor: Star Citizen Developer Had Another Round Of Layoffs After Last Month's CitizenCon 1 month ago:
Lots of other companies are laying folks off. It’s the result of bad decision making after planning like COVID would never stop. CIG is just another tech company.
- Comment on What's in a name? 1 month ago:
Ouroboros Lemmy
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 1 month ago:
And progress without testing it’s resiliency against malicious actors will not last. As much as we hate Trump being elected and staffing clowns in each position, it will test what has been made so far. Row v. Wade, as we now know, should have been stronger. The Voting Rights Act too. The states that required the law to be fair have pulled back the law and reveal little has changed.
No one likes getting burned but fire is useful for showing us what burns easily and what withstands the heat. We will rebuild stronger and know what works.
- Comment on Car crashes into people outside primary school in central China: state media 1 month ago:
Ah, the classic “35 killed” in China. That means way more people died and they are hiding the actual number. China hates the truth.
- Comment on Bluesky Becoming New Social Media Sensation As Millions Of Americans Snub X Over Musk's Support To Trump 2 months ago:
Tesla is expected to sell like crazy because they are one of the only EV carmakers to not be hit full force by tariffs. However, given the public reception of Musk, the car brand may see a long term decline as fewer vehicles are purchased in the US and EU for different reasons. Chinese EVs will sink EU and APAC sales and people don’t want to give Elon any of their money if they can help it.
Tesla also doesn’t create any new vehicle models or redesign of their initial line up that was created 12 years ago. He’s coasting on the demand and has no plans for doing anything different. I would expect Tesla to hit hard times after a decade or so.
TL;DR - a small bump in sales followed by a steady fall off before Trump Part Deux is done.
- Comment on whales are the mightiest of fish 2 months ago:
Chronologically, fish is bugs
- Comment on What's the best super nintendo game based on a movie? and why is it alien 3? 2 months ago:
Lion King is way up there. It’s hard, but the gameplay and music were great.
- Comment on Samsung: Exynos problems are due to "too short" 52-hour working week in Korea - NotebookCheck.net News 2 months ago:
We kept whipping and whipping but the work never seemed to get done. The only excuse they have is that half the team died from exhaustion or suicide, and they aren’t getting severance!
- Comment on Nine in ten honey samples from UK retailers fail authenticity test 2 months ago:
This is why I source my honey from local bees. It’s tough to crack open each bee but genuine honey is worth it!
- Comment on Take-Two are selling Private Division and closing Roll7 and Intercept, because they're in "the business of making great big hits" 2 months ago:
- Comment on wild seals 2 months ago:
I approve the use of seagulls as the absolute lack of morality, an all terrain nightmare creature born of pure id.
- Comment on I wish I could have a tractor car. 2 months ago:
Love that high-G architecture.
- Comment on How funny, right? 2 months ago:
Damn, I just recently learned that my stories about growing up are considered trauma dumps by my partner. It makes sharing stories of getting through childhood something I can’t talk about anymore. It’s hard to talk to people when so much of what forged me was the heat of short tempers.
- Comment on Star Citizen player reports CIG is making him sign an NDA before getting a refund 2 months ago:
All of the complaints against Star Citizen and CiG are made by folks who don’t understand how games are made AND believe the people who make them, like Randy Pitchford, Peter Molyneux, Emoji Imagine, and others. Game designers talk about all the features that they want and then meet reality and have to pull those features back or cut them from the game.
A publisher traditionally puts limits and deadlines on funding, requiring a developer to meet a criteria to get paid and continue development. The publisher will preview builds and give feedback on game mechanics or broader suggestions for game polish.
Game designers who see success begin to dream big and will eventually pitch an idea that they can’t make because the money or time needed to implement the feature would prohibit the game from releasing in a timely manner. Chris Roberts made all of the Wing Commander series. He has a track record of making games that were so big and full of features that they inevitably see many features missing from the final game. Freelancer is the one everyone thinks of when they think chopped up Chris Roberts game.
Star Citizen has no publisher to guide the veteran game developer. This allows Star Citizen to change game engines 3 times, having to rebuild much of their progress each time. Any why change the game engines? They were forced to because Crytek are bitches who wanted that giant pile of crowdfunding Star Citizen has gathered. Crytek forced the game to stop development - which is a large part of the delay in getting the game to market.
People don’t know or care about the actual reason Star Citizen is still being developed instead of being released years ago. Most of you don’t care, but given the circumstances, no one could do any better.
- Comment on They do say everything tastes like chicken... 2 months ago:
From the land that can jerk any meat!
- Comment on Magic Beneath The Forests 2 months ago:
Imagine the first time a tree gets to talk to the other trees. Like, it talks to itself for a decade or two before someone touches it and now it can hear dozens of voices.
- Comment on Oh fuck no 2 months ago:
The difference is the salsa secreta.
- Comment on Pretty sound reasoning here. 2 months ago:
Award winning and physicists.
- Comment on Russia says it might build its own Linux community after removal of several kernel maintainers. 2 months ago:
It will end up like every other Russian knock-off: made by the Chinese when Russia eventually gives up
- Comment on It's because of Gerald's Game, isn't it? 2 months ago:
Put a book written under his pen name on there…
- Comment on A Night at the Garden - 1939 pro-Nazi rally in New York’s Madison Square Garden archival footage 2 months ago:
Hopefully we all are now.