But math has "a steep learning curve"! :ducks:

> film which has comparable resolution to 4K and below

"It's complicated".

Many of the masterpiece films were filmed on 70mm which is about 4x the size of 35mm, plus better emulsion with a tighter grain.

So if we take your 4K number for a normal film and 4x it and double that for scanning we're waiting for 32K to master it digitally.

We're going to need faster storage!

Why ask why you need it?

Ever see a Jumbotron in 1080p? It's ridiculous.

I can totally see a wall-sized screen being useful for many businesses. Walk to one area, read what's there, move to another area to read something else. Analysts, factories, hospitals, military, theme parks, etc.

They already are doing this with walls of a dozen different screens, with that many video cards, cables, power supplies.

Or complex video splitters, muxers/demuxers, etc.

When they scale to 24K there will be customers too.

I'll be happy with low-cost 8K when all that hits the market.

I live in rural Maine and it was taking 7-9 days, now down to 5-7. Same day or even next-day delivery here would really change life.

Fair enough.

And I repeat. Cars are redesigned all the time.

This is not a big deal.

Yes. It shows selected locations. It does not show "most of the world".

Ah, not a native English speaker. When we say "24/7", it means 100% of the time, not 80%.

Quoting you:

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The only significant north latitude shown the map was Birmingham, which was 62%, not ">80%".

Yeah, Brave has for a few years and it's a Chromium downstream.

I don't like it at all, but maybe in right-to-left bottom-to-top writing cultures it feels natural.

There's a retired couple in my town who had to tell everybody how virtuous they were to save the planet with their EV's and then their Volkswagen burned down their 1800's barn while charging, destroying the other EV and almost burned down their house (flame damage but saved by FD).

Billows of black smoke for half a day.

I have similar concerns with my solar batteries and need to figure something out.

So you do see them! ;-) That's what I was talking about. Yes, the broken rate is probably not quite as high as it is for chargers because pumps have been around for over a century so we have had time to really optimize the design. However, when you are going to a location with 4 chargers and one is broken and the other three are in use you really notice it because you have to wait 30 minutes or so to be able to charge. If that happened at a petrol station you'd just wait a few minutes and use the next free pump without thinking anything of it.

Yeah, so? Cars get redesigned. This is not anything new.

It would be surprising if cars didn't get redesigned.

Did you read the text in your link?

01...On an average day in a sunny city like Las Vegas...
02 It is possible to get 97% of the way to constant solar electricity every hour of every day of the year (24/365) in the sunniest cities.
03 The economics are great in sunny cities

It is repeating what I just said: in the optimum location.

Shouldn't those go in %APPDATA% ?

n.b. I last adminned Windows when NT4 was dominant.

No, not even in China. Silicon array technology is way down the learning curve; they know how to neutralize the waste products (hint: neutralize HF with NaOH), and the process doesn't really produce toxic waste.

Pretty much everybody. You get a 20 to 25 year warranty on most solar arrays, and as much as a 40 year warranty on some of the top of the line arrays. Nobody throws them out after ten years; it makes no sense.

Incorrect. This is misinformation fed to you by think-tanks funded by the fossil fuel industry (and sometimes by paid nuclear-power lobbyists). The vast majority of solar arrays are single-crystal silicon, and the raw materials are sand, aluminum, and glass. None of these produce vast quantities of "incredibly toxic" waste to make or to recycle.

If you look at any of these claims that making solar arrays produces toxic waste, and drill down into what the solar array industry actually does, you'll find that all these reports on "OMG! Toxic waste!" are for processes that aren't actually used.