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A nice Gnome theming

Posted on by Paolo Redaelli

Mohamed Dali (on FB) proposes his “perfect gnome setup”: a “windows-like” desktop environment with chromeOS material design UI.

He used all those extentions, themes and the like:

36% efficiency. Wow.

Posted on by Paolo Redaelli

Perovskite silicon tandem solar cell technology is a mouthful, but it’s basically perovskite crystals layered on top of silicon cells. The combination Perovskite silicon tandem solar cell technology sounds like a mouthful, but it’s basically perovskite crystals layered on top of solar cells. The combination captures more energy from the sun than traditional silicon cells, creating very powerful solar panels. That sounds simple enough, but designing an efficient perovskite silicon tandem solar cell isn’t easy because of its multi-layer architecture. A Singapore-based company called Cosmos Innovation is making the process more efficient by using AI to optimize the design of perovskite silicon tandem solar cells and is using its tech to build a self-operating fab.

Source: Temasek’s Xora backs Cosmos Innovation’s next-generation solar cell technology | TechCrunch The actual company site is https://www.cosmosinnovation.com/

Wonderful. Now we “just” have to solve the storage issue, finding batteries having an energy density at least comparable to gasoline (Lithium-ion battery are at 0.36–0.875, Diesel fuel is at 45.6, Gasoline (petrol) at 46.4)…

And Tomaso Poggio is yet another runaway brain

Does AMD’s Threadripper 7000 make a good compiling workstation?

Posted on by Paolo Redaelli

AMD’s Monstrous Threadripper 7000 CPUs Aim For Desktop PC Dominance (pcworld.com) 22

AMD’s powerhouse Threadripper chips are back for desktop PCs. … AMD announced three new Ryzen Threadripper 7000-series chips on Thursday, with up to 64 cores and 128 threads — and the option of installing a “Pro”-class Threadripper 700 WX series for a massive 96 cores and 192 threads, too.

Take a deep breath, though. The underlying message is the same as when AMD released the Threadripper 3970X back in 2019: these chips are for those who live and breathe video editing and content creation, and are optimized for such. Nevertheless, they almost certainly represent the most powerful CPU you can buy on a desktop, for whatever purpose.

Let’s say I want to recompile a lot of code (think Android, or Linux or any other large code base)… is it a good choice?

Orwell e Huxley

Posted on by Paolo Redaelli

Orwell temeva coloro che avrebbero bandito i libri. Huxley temeva che non ci sarebbe stato bisogno di bandire i libri, perché nessuno sarebbe stato più interessato a leggerli.

Orwell temeva coloro che ci avrebbero privato delle informazioni. Huxley temeva coloro che ci avrebbero sommerso da così tante informazioni da ridurci alla passività e all’egoismo. Orwell temeva che la verità ci sarebbe stata nascosta. Huxley temeva che la verità sarebbe stata affogata in un mare di irrilevanza. Orwell temeva che la nostra sarebbe diventata una civiltà di schiavi. Huxley temeva che la nostra sarebbe diventata una civiltà di gente superficiale, attenta solo a piaceri infantili, felice di essere oppressa in adorazione della tecnologia che l’ha liberata dalla fatica di pensare.

In “1984” le persone sono controllate con il dolore. In “Il Mondo Nuovo” le persone sono controllate con il piacere. In breve, Orwell temeva che ciò che ci spaventa ci avrebbe rovinato. Huxley temeva che che ciò che desideriamo e non riusciamo a controllare ci avrebbe rovinato. “

George Orwell, dal libro “1984”

Aldous Huxley, dal libro “Il mondo nuovo”