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Anything exciting going on in your field of work this year? Or breakthroughs in science, new technologies developed, things like that.

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[-] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 88 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The end-of-year numbers aren't in yet, but 2023 should be the year that wind and solar finally generate more electricity than coal here in the US.
https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/report/BTL/2023/02-genmix/article.php

For new generation projects coming online in 2023, 86% of the electricity is from non-fossil sources. The generation capacity that was retired in 2023 was all fossil based.
https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/articles/fotw-1304-august-21-2023-2023-non-fossil-fuel-sources-will-account-86-new

[-] DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 years ago

Wow that's pretty great.

I thought you guys were on par with Australia but in fact you're making us look bad - that's great.

[-] LennethAegis@kbin.social 80 points 2 years ago

The first CRISPR gene editing treatment for sickle cell disease was approved. An amazing start to what I hope is a future of cures for various genetic diseases.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fda-approves-cure-sickle-cell-disease-first-treatment-use-gene-editing-rcna127979

[-] runner_g 10 points 2 years ago

The FDA also approved the world's first RSV vaccine. If you've noticed a lot of ad-campaigns for it this year, that's why.

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-respiratory-syncytial-virus-rsv-vaccine

[-] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 54 points 2 years ago

Dracunculiasis (disease caused by Guinea worm infection in humans) is almost eradicated. We hit a new all-time low for known cases: 13 last year, and now only 3 in the first half of 2023.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/mm7245a4.htm

https://www.cartercenter.org/health/guinea_worm/index.html

[-] AFLYINTOASTER@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

LFG Humanity! We fuckin WIN THESE go TEAM

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 53 points 2 years ago

Humanity was able to experience Baldur's Gate 3.

[-] M137@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

More importantly, IMO: The Talos Principle 2

[-] EightLeggedFreak@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

It snuck up on me. I love the first game, completed it and the dlc 100%. The first time I heard anything about the sequel was less than a week before launch. I broke the sacred code and preordered. I don't have much time to play, but I'm making my way through the gate puzzles now.

[-] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I've just started it and my party died basically right after getting on land to those brain creatures.

I'm loving it.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I almost died there too on my first playthrough. Those things are tough when you're level one!

[-] MissJinx@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago

Well I work in cybersecurity so everyday is a new year

[-] them@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Is this a joke about every day being a 0-day?

[-] hashferret@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago
[-] MissJinx@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

some bro, same

[-] macattack@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago
[-] nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 2 years ago

They could have just consulted Dory.

[-] jlow@beehaw.org 20 points 2 years ago

I have been really appreciating open source software this year. I always preferred FOSS over the alternatives (Firefox, Thunderbird, Libre Office etc) but I tried to use it for as much as I could this year, even professionally.

Haven't bootet into my Windows partition with Adobe Cloud for months now, it's almost exclusively Inkscpape, Scribus, Blender and Krita on Fedora and I love it! I'm also slowly, slowly getting into Godot which seems like another piece of amazing software.

Sure there are some (very) rough edges here and there and I will have fire up Illustrator or Unity (🤢) at some point when clients demand it but I'm pretty amazed at how well it's going.

Welp, sending this is totally gonna jinx it but whatevs 😘

[-] luthis@lemmy.nz 5 points 2 years ago

Godot is definitely a major highlight. I would love to start using it, but I have too many other things to learn first

[-] xilliah@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

The other day I was trying to get an empty vr project to run in unity. After half a day I just gave up. There's just so many options and packages and license agreements. I'm gonna switch to Godot and Steam index. Even if it's a lot of work I know I can share it with others.

[-] TotallyHuman@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 years ago

We started deploying malaria vaccines!

[-] Newguy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago
[-] focusforte@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

John Green and Nerdfighteria was able to pressure Johnson and Johnson to give millions access to life saving tuberculosis medication

[-] semperverus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I love how war-driven John Green is against tuberculosis

[-] Jaamulberry@beehaw.org 18 points 2 years ago

Maybe not a breakthrough compared to some of the other comments but home assistant got local voice control this year. For the price of a raspberry pi and a 13 dollar microphone you can have a completely local home automation system controlled by your voice. You can even hook it up to a LLM like chat gpt if you want via a different phrase to do some fun party tricks

[-] focusforte@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

There was a breakthrough in cat medicine research that is showing promising results in doubling the lifespan of cats.

Edit: Sorry for leaving y'all in suspense, I didn't remember exactly what it was at the time of commenting, but I found it https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/features/z1304_00039.html

[-] vladmech@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Like we’re talking from 14-18 to 28-36ish???

[-] TEC_XX@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Please elaborate/link, I'd be very interested to read about this.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Is that a good thing? 🫣

[-] focusforte@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago
[-] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I dunno, I had cats who lived to be like 18-19 years, so almost two decades. I can't imagine how miserable they'd be if they lived to be 40...

[-] focusforte@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Cats have an average lifespan of about 15 years, so it's doubling from 15 to 30 on average.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Still, that's a lot.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 years ago

China's carbon emissions are now entering structural decline thanks to the massive push in renewables and nuclear https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/nov/13/chinas-carbon-emissions-set-for-structural-decline-from-next-year

[-] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

A multi-material 3D inkjet printer. Most of the rest of science news too.

We have just set up a fund for poor countries effected by climate change.

[-] massacre@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

We are getting very close to approval of Melanoma vaccines. https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/14/health/moderna-merck-melanoma-vaccine-immunotherapy/index.html

For those not aware, Melanomas are not only one of the deadliest and most common cancers, it isn't really very treatable with chemotherapies or radiation. And yes, Fuck cancer - we're coming for you, bitch!

[-] Bronco1676@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago
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