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byAmiMoJo
2026 @04:50AM
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Attached to: Fourth US Wind Farm Project Blocked By Trump Allowed to Resume Construction
Filtering out stationary objects at known locations isn't so hard. Plus you can install cameras on them and have 24/7 visibility of ocean areas, although satellites offer some of that already.
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byAmiMoJo
2026 @04:46AM
(#65963826)
Attached to: Walmart Begins Building Out Nationwide EV Charging Network Across America
That's how it works in the UK with supermarkets installing charging. Particularly for people who can't charge at home, they go there to grab some electrons and do the weekly shop at the same time. Same as they would fill their fossil car up after shopping, only more convenient since they don't have to stand around waiting for it.
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byAmiMoJo
2026 @04:43AM
(#65963822)
Attached to: Is the TV Industry Finally Conceding That the Future May Not Be 8K?
It's down to the availability of panels. They will make a panel with a certain pixel density, and it can be cut to various sizes which results in various resolutions. Of course, the larger you cut it, the more expensive it will be, due both to the amount of material involved but also because the chance of there being defects increases.
Hopefully 8k monitors are not too far off. 4k is good but not perfect. The 6k ones are similar pixel density to smaller 4k monitors, just larger.
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byAmiMoJo
2026 @04:40AM
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Attached to: Is the TV Industry Finally Conceding That the Future May Not Be 8K?
The problem with 3D is that it's very hard to get it right. If part of the image is out of focus, some people are going to get headaches. If there is too much use of depth with stuff popping out of the screen, headaches. And even if it is done perfectly, you need special glasses and a good seating position.
8k is the same as all other 2D TV on the viewer's end. The issue is making it. At 8k you can't do manual focus, for example. You need upgraded editing equipment. It's been deployed in Japan for years, and they still struggle with it. We are reaching the limits of what can be done at reasonable cost with current technology.
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byTablizer
2026 @01:33AM
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Attached to: Is the TV Industry Finally Conceding That the Future May Not Be 8K?
You got the wrong TV, silly head!
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byTablizer
2026 @01:30AM
(#65963650)
Attached to: Is the TV Industry Finally Conceding That the Future May Not Be 8K?
majority of people don't need that much resolution. It's marketing shit.
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byrsilvergun
1, 2026 @06:11PM
(#65963168)
Attached to: When 20-Year-Old Bill Gates Fought the World's First Software Pirates
And I took time out of my day running the Chinese government just a comment on slash Dot.
Also can you tell your buddy Donald Trump to stop fucking kids? I need to make a trade deal with them but he's just so busy being a pedophile. I mean 30 credible rape accusations eight of which involved children and now we find out from the Epstein files that he was just selling underaged girls. I mean we already knew he was doing it but we've got it in writing now
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byrsilvergun
1, 2026 @06:09PM
(#65963160)
Attached to: Is Meta's Huge Spending on AI Actually Paying Off?
The goal here is to create a post capitalist society without socialism. What the cool kids called techno feudalism.
AI replaces the paying of wages. Instead of employees and consumers the 3,000 billionaires on the planet will have machines and a tiny handful of engineers to keep them working. Also a tiny handful of thugs to keep the engineers in line.
Everyone else including you will live in the kind of abject poverty previously associated with the worst of the American native American reservations before the casinos. Every now and then if you start to develop a civilization on your own they will send drones to slaughter you similar to what they did to Black Wall Street as it was called.
I don't know if they will actually succeed but that is absolutely the plan.
The ruling class doesn't like capitalism. Just because they benefit from it doesn't mean they enjoy it. They absolutely despise being dependent on filthy worms like us for their power and prestige. And for the first time in human history they have a way to be almost completely free of us.
I think the hard part is it's very hard for people to wrap their heads around the idea that someone who benefited so much from capitalism would destroy it.
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byrsilvergun
1, 2026 @05:06PM
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Attached to: Bitcoin Drops 40% in Four Months. Bloomberg Blames Absence of Buyers and Belief
A lot of people have lost their shirts. Meanwhile with Trump as president there's basically no money laundering laws being enforced. So why bother going to the trouble of using crypto to launder your money? And at the end of the day money laundering is the killer app for cryptocurrency.
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byrsilvergun
1, 2026 @02:47PM
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Attached to: When 20-Year-Old Bill Gates Fought the World's First Software Pirates
Microsoft basic was stolen code fished out of school trash cans.
Are we seeing this nonsense because he's in the Epstein files? I imagine his PR firm is working overtime right now.
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byTablizer
2026 @02:04PM
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Attached to: Fourth US Wind Farm Project Blocked By Trump Allowed to Resume Construction
seems like [Don is] doing so purely for spite.
YES! Revengenomics is the Don Way. He said so many times, even per Covid supplies in 1st term. "But he was just joking" Fock Dat!
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byrsilvergun
1, 2026 @10:38AM
(#65962474)
Attached to: 99% of New US Energy Capacity Will Be Green in 2026
Is that the oil Barrons can't slow down the transition. I don't think it'll make a huge difference because it's just a different group of billionaires but it's looking like those oil men are going to get squeezed out of the upper echelons of the ruling class. Still firmly in the ruling class but they're going to basically lose control of energy production.
They figured out a long time ago that renewables were going to dominate especially in America where we have so much land we can just keep putting them up, but what they were trying to do is stop the development of renewables until they could be the ones that owned everything.
They will still have a lot of stakeholding but it won't be all theirs. It is pretty stupid that we as a country aren't just building the stuff out as regular infrastructure like roads. Power plants that just sit there and generate power really should just be built and managed by the government just like roads
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byAmiMoJo
2026 @10:31AM
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Attached to: 99% of New US Energy Capacity Will Be Green in 2026
Around here you can actually make a nice profit if you play your cards right. Feed into the grid when demand is high, draw from it when demand is low, and profit from the difference in pricing.
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byAmiMoJo
2026 @09:35AM
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Attached to: Blue Origin Announces Two-Year Pause in Space Tourism - to Focus on the Moon
I doubt there will be many tourists headed to the moon in the foreseeable future. Blue Origin is only making the lander, they don't have a way to get to lunar orbit. Even if they did, the trip isn't exactly pleasant. NASA has at least managed to install a toilet on the new capsule, but it's still not a very fun place to spend a week.
Some dedicated people will go, but it won't be like the joyrides to the edge of space that they do now.
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byAmiMoJo
2026 @09:32AM
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Attached to: US Government Also Received a Whistleblower Complaint That WhatsApp Chats Aren't Private
For messages that are reported to them. At least in theory, turns out that it wasn't just journalists accidentally added to top secret Whatsapp groups that could read the US government's messages.
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