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Absolutely. On the one hand, having ~26% of the known universe consisting of a substance that we cannot detect directly leaves a lot of questions open. On the other hand; dark matter is postulated because otherwise things like galaxy rotation curves don't match what we believe they should be from general relativity, and this theory doesn't seem to address that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_Cluster#Significance_to_dark_matter

Also, light 'losing energy' would be a violation of the first law of thermodynamics, unless it loses it 'to' somewhere.

Son.

There's also the financial risk to be considered. A mainstream film release from 1970 might have been produced by fifty people, cast and crew combined. The crew for Barbie as per the image above was close to a thousand people. That's expensive. Have to put in twenty times the ante to be in the game, and all the payoff is in established properties that you already know have an audience? It would be foolish to do otherwise.

Like you say, if people actual did what they said they wanted, and go and take a punt on the new stuff rather than going to watch the same-old, then it would be different. But you can't complain about it when that's what you spend your money on.

As a programmer, Vulkan is like OpenGL has decided to stop holding your hand and let you spread your wings. Learning curve is utterly brutal, but no more assumptions - you've complete control and everything is open to you.

As a user? Install Wine and DXVK, or just Proton that brings everything with it, enjoy everything just working better. Not really a tough decision.

Have given up on reading Baalbuddy now that Nitter is dead :-( Only thing I want to check on that whole damn platform, too...

Can confirm that this does work perfectly for Lutris, for upgrades at least. I've got my home directory on an NVMe drive and my games installed on a slower disk; as long as you don't move or rename any of the partitions, it just keeps rocking along.

My laptop and desktop have a different list of games installed, but because Lutris uses SQLite as its backing store, it's not terribly easy to keep 'some parts' synchronised and others not. I've spent a bit of time getting all of the icons, banners, release dates, etc all correct and looking pretty, and it's a shame that it's tough to reuse. (Lutris does this automatically for Wine installs if you get the name 'just right' to start with, but not for all your other emulated stuff - all the DOS games and things.)

I prefer the must of white grapes for wine making than the must of red grapes.

Cat food is enriched with the amino acid taurine, which they can't produce themselves. Dog food is not. Feeding cats exclusively on dog food will kill them eventually, via blindness and heart disease.

Not a disaster if they steal it from the dog once or twice, but it cannot be their long-term diet.

We've got the meaningless a-word adjective to mess with AI, we've got a description of something which she isn't holding. Is ilovegarterbelts where we're starting the fightback against the LLMs, describing things wrongly on purpose? Because if it means having to pick through hundreds, nay thousands, of lingerie photos, then I'm up for that.

Deep frying a battery - likely to make your whole kitchen turn crispy.

Shenanigans. Witches are meant to be left handed, but that girl has two right hands. Fake witch, just dressed to in order to get some attention.

Not all of the light would have been wasted on the wall. If your wall is painted green, then the 'rest of the rainbow' (red, orange, yellow, blue, violet wavelengths) would be absorbed and converted into heat. Paint is quite rough on a microscopic level, and the green light reflected would be scattered in every direction.

Things that have a colour do so because they reflect those frequencies. Mirrors reflect pretty much all frequencies of visible light with very little scattering - that's the definition of the word, really.

If you had a black feature wall behind your lamp, such that very little was reflected off it into the rest of the room, then with a mirror there would be about twice the photons illuminating the room. If your wall was pure brilliant white, much less of a difference. Your eyes don't perceive 'twice the photons' as 'twice as bright' - they scale from absorbing thousands a second when fully dark-adjusted at night, to trillions per second at midday - but you might find it a bit easier to eg. read a book elsewhere in the room.

Light output from the lamp doesn't change, but depending on the colours of things in your room, the light output that is useful for seeing might do.