brendansimms
@brendansimms@lemmy.world
- Comment on What do you call the first person with a new genetic mutation 1 week ago:
“A person”. Every single person has genetic mutations that differentiate them from every other person. Now if their mutation happens to be wings or something, then I don’t know, ‘Bird-Person’ probably.
- Comment on Scientists make game-changing breakthrough that could slash costs of solar panels: 'Has the potential to contribute to the energy transition' 1 week ago:
Adding to what the others wrote, solar cells become less efficient at power conversion (light -> electricity) as the temp of the solar cell materials (semiconductors) increases. So the issues is how to get more photons to the semiconductor without heating it up.
- Comment on Scientists make game-changing breakthrough that could slash costs of solar panels: 'Has the potential to contribute to the energy transition' 1 week ago:
Adding to what Eldest_Malk said: They aren’t just putting a new type of lens over standard solar cells, they are also designing/fabricating custom cells to work with the lenses. [I’m not a PV expert, but the fact that the IEEE paper focuses so much on the cells and not just the lenses leads me to believe that the lenses can’t just be used with whatever standardized solar cells are on the market]
- Comment on Scientists make game-changing breakthrough that could slash costs of solar panels: 'Has the potential to contribute to the energy transition' 1 week ago:
I just skimmed the IEEE paper (peer-reviewed, solid journal); The usage of ‘slash costs’ in the title is entire sensational. The tech gave a SLIGHT increase in efficiency (which is good news - marginal improvements are still very good and can be game-changing if scaled up), but there is no cost/benefit analysis in the paper regarding the additional costs of lenses and whether the increased PV efficiency would offset those costs at scale.
- Comment on Goldman Sachs is piloting its first autonomous coder in major AI milestone for Wall Street 1 week ago:
I am ready to be hurt again
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust | The chatbot is also praising Hitler and attacking users with Jewish-sounding names. 2 weeks ago:
this comment is preposterous.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust | The chatbot is also praising Hitler and attacking users with Jewish-sounding names. 2 weeks ago:
Bad headline, should remove the " 's Grok ’ part.
- Comment on Robot performs first realistic surgery without human help: System trained on videos of surgeries performs like an expert surgeon 2 weeks ago:
Why?
- Comment on Grandma is on her own 2 weeks ago:
Meanwhile, in the suburbs of DC/Baltimore you have 96m² for $414k: Local Listing
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 2 weeks ago:
And what share of the profit should go right in executives pockets? How many employees should be laid off to increase this profit? Is 6 million $/yr enough for a CEO to feed their fucking family?
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 2 weeks ago:
Not loving that the exact source of the data in this graph is not clearly linked in the description.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 2 weeks ago:
So stop sitting idly. Join a DSA chapter: DSA; Sign up for the general strike: The General Strike
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 2 weeks ago:
Okay then, join a general strike and we all stop polluting via mega-corps at the same time and demand a change: The General Strike
- Comment on TikTok Is Reportedly Making a U.S. Version of the App 2 weeks ago:
PaywallRemoved - not there’s much to the article that you can’t see from just the top of the page
- Comment on As China prepares to invade Taiwan, a reality check: sitting on the sidelines won’t help Australia 2 weeks ago:
HongKong was captured and occupied as a British colony and the waning power of the UK led them to finally agree to give back the land.
- Comment on Why was file search much faster in Windows XP than in subsequent versions? 3 weeks ago:
switch to linux mint and all these issues poof away
- Comment on Why does it feel like protesting isn't as "extreme" as it used to be? 3 weeks ago:
I guess its up to us
- Comment on So if we're just good with careening into fascism 2.0 what does the future look like? 3 weeks ago:
there are very rich and powerful people who spend all of their ‘working’ time actively fighting against those things. They (clearly) would sooner support the construction of the fourth reich in america than give up profit streams like energy/housing/automotive.
- Comment on So if we're just good with careening into fascism 2.0 what does the future look like? 3 weeks ago:
damn homie are you the heritage foundation
- Comment on We live wasted lives 3 weeks ago:
no i am.
- Comment on We live wasted lives 3 weeks ago:
iirc…Lysenko (soviet agri-scientist - a shitty one) had convinced the party leaders that his newly bred ‘winter-hardy’ wheat breed was worthy of being planted en masse. It had worked well under ideal lab conditions but failed after several crop yields when planted in the field, and this created famine.
- Comment on [Video] BBC cuts away during pro-Palestine musicians Kneecap. The followup act Bob Vylan invents a new chant on live TV 3 weeks ago:
You have it backwards. The IDF are carrying out a genocide. So an analogy to the WWII-era would be like if Cab Calloway chanted ‘Death, Death to the Nazi SS’ , and then you’re comment (on our fictional 1940’s internet forum) would say “Cmon guys, this seems problematic because it can easily expand to target all German people”.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to a family member who says the COVID vaccines are being used to depopulate? 4 weeks ago:
I’m on the ONS site and there’s mountains of publications and data on Covid. Which publication did they read?
- Comment on OpenAI warns that its upcoming models could pose a higher risk of enabling the creation of biological weapons and says it is stepping up testing of such models 5 weeks ago:
“Our default behavior for the general public will intentionally err on the side of caution, by training models to provide high-level insights that support expert understanding while withholding sufficient detail to prevent novice misuse.” — So users have to have a premium subscription for bioweapons development assistance?
- Comment on It's that time of the decade where we can bring out this meme 5 weeks ago:
I can’t wait for the CIA funded war films where we get to feel sorry for the PTSD-ridden us troops that just HAD to slaughter innocent iranian civilians. ya know, for freedom.
- Comment on THIS always annoys me. 5 weeks ago:
As mentioned in other comments - the tax deduction thing is not true. It is true, however, that they can '‘donate’ the funds to a charitable foundation that is run by the same people as the company (i.e. they are on the board of the charity as well as being C-suite execs of the company) thereby creating a slush fund disguised as charity that may only need to actually use 5% for charitable activities.
- Comment on What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality 5 weeks ago:
I modded it with the ‘no purchasable resources’ and it became a totally different game; It was all spreadsheet/logistics and organizing galaxy wide shipping to central hubs where I had to fabricate all my own materials to be able to upgrade equipment. I found that far more enjoyable, but the game is still meh. Not worth the replays like skyrim was.
- Comment on What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality 5 weeks ago:
seriously - how fuckin lazy it was to just copy/paste the same enemy outpost 500 times.
- Comment on What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality 5 weeks ago:
After running through the main story once, I modded it to where you cannot buy any natural resources - they must be harvested in person and/or setup a base and and ship all natural resources to a central storage planet. This essentially turned it into a spreadsheet-logistics game which gave me a a second, much more enjoyable playthrough. But I agree - absolutely medium-tier game.
- Comment on Is Google about to destroy the web? 5 weeks ago:
I hate google enough to pay 5$/mo for Kagi - it puts a smile on my face everytime I go to search and know that I’m not supporting google