CharlesMangione
@CharlesMangione@lemmy.world
- Comment on mountain dew wine from goldenhivemead 8 months ago:
God forgive us, we know not what we do…
- Comment on Anti-doom-and-gloom post 9 months ago:
🏴☠️
- Comment on Elsimore the Wizard destroys Psionics (not my story, no song lyrics at the end I promise) 11 months ago:
I can’t believe I read that entire, awful, pointless, fake-ass rant.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
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- Comment on Turmoil at OpenAI shows we must address whether AI developers can regulate themselves 11 months ago:
An artificial intelligence designed to the task could, but
- Comment on Cooling Paint: How to Make Surfaces Stay Cool in the Sun 11 months ago:
You are absolutely right to be skeptical. There are a great many downsides to this technology. Getting it grimy, pointing it out of the sun, cloud cover, etc. will nullify any cooling effect. And yes, the DIY preparation shown would be completely destroyed by a powerwasher, or even a moderate storm. I have read recently of a university of maryland research team that made an improved coating that allowed the nanospheres to withstand significantly increased weathering while still remaining effective.
- Comment on Cooling Paint: How to Make Surfaces Stay Cool in the Sun 11 months ago:
What’s this? Did you rehost it so we dont give google the traffic?
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- Comment on Polymeric sand in cold weather! Creative solutions to helping it cure? 11 months ago:
I’m gonna be honest, it sounds like a bad idea. Disclaimer, i’ve never worked with this, but just describing your problem it sounds like you’re going to run into ground temperature even if you manage to get the air temperature warm enough to set.
- Comment on Researchers' 'cooling glass' blasts building heat into space 11 months ago:
Under very specific circumstances, this technology really can reduce surface temperatures by up to the claimed 3.5C. The first I heard of this technology was on Tech Ingredients’ channel about a year ago, where they go into very specific detail about how it works. Since then, I’ve seen Nighthawkinlight attempt to refine the material by producing consistent nanospheres. You could make the stuff yourself, they tell you how.
To be absolutely clear, I’m not knocking these inventors, who have found a novel incremental advance in this technology (they made the technology more durable so it wears in the weather better) I’m saying the article is bad and the author should feel bad. “Unlike previous attempts at cooling coatings…” does more than suggest that those “attempts” were somehow unsuccessful at being a cooling coating, especially when taken with unequivocal claims to unique “invention.” It reads like an ad or propaganda, which of course it is. Daniela Benites is the Communications Coordinator for the University of Maryland School of Engineering, and the author of this article. You’ll never guess where these two researchers/scientists/inventors/
students/whateversoundsbestinthearticleatthetime go to school.This article is a fluff piece of grossly overstated popsci which does a poor job of explaining how the “new technology” works. (some major disadvantages: being almost useless on cars, actually useless in the shade or on any surface that doesn’t point directly into space, and useless when obstructed by clouds) It isn’t new, it isn’t magic, and these guys didn’t invent it. They found a new material/production method, but they don’t get any credit for inventing what is basically reflective paint. Standard science “journalism” stuff, not surprised you doubted it.
Don’t worry about all that though, there’s a handy little popup that says the article is totally trustworthy: We are assured this is a “fact-checked, peer-reviewed publication” from a “trusted source” and has been “proofread.”
- Comment on Google sues people who “weaponized” DMCA to remove rivals’ search results 1 year ago:
It started to affect someone’s bottom line.
- Comment on Engineered yeast breaks new record: a genome with over 50% synthetic DNA 1 year ago:
Interesting and Anxiety-Inducing in about equal measure.
- Comment on Physicists Simulated a Black Hole in The Lab. Then It Started to Glow. 1 year ago:
Talk about clickbait. The lab didn’t glow at all!