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Comment Re:Musk was right, children are a blessing (Score 1) 214

As an aside, that's actually legally the case in the UK. You can't sue for damages for having a child, e.g. because you raised them but found out you were not their biological parent, or your sperm was accidentally given to the wrong person at the fertility clinic etc. The law considered a child to always be a blessing, not something that can ever cause you financial loss.

Comment Re:Just bought... (Score 1) 165

It might be a case of you not knowing what you are missing, if you don't read/speak Chinese or Japanese. The characters are detailed and complex, but it seems that whatever translation you read isn't bringing those aspects over.

Comment Re:Catching up with the EU then (Score 1) 71

I got a nice bump up from British Airlines when they were unable to run a scheduled flight I had booked. They told us about half an hour before take-off that it was cancelled, so I immediately booked with ANA for a few hours later. That happened to be a first class upgrade, but it was the only seat they had, so I was entitled to it and BA had to pay the price which IIRC was around £4,500, when I only paid them about £800.

These days I always go with ANA or JAL anyway, BA have been terrible too many times.

Comment Re:Nation of Origin: Carolina (Score 0) 117

That's a distraction from the real issue here, which is that both political parties in the US don't like the kinds of things that are being said on TikTok, and really hate that the TikTok algorithm is promoting those videos.

There is a lot of stuff about Palestine, and about unions and worker's rights, and about the rental market. A lot of it skews socialist, fairly common European stuff but terrifying to American politicians.

They want an American company to buy TikTok and change it to promote conservative views. And when I say conservative, I'm including the Democrats in that, they are far to the right politically of where TikTok users are.

Comment Re:Prove it (Score 1) 44

Modern CPUs adjust their performance based on the available cooling. The more heat that the system can dissipate, the faster the CPU will go, up to some very high limit that no consumer device ever reaches.

So these chips will run better in laptops with active cooling, and in tablets and phones with passive cooling. Maybe the OEMs need to improve their products, or maybe it's just an Intel-style room heater with some bonus computational ability.

Comment Re:The enshittification continues (Score 0) 76

It's not new, Windows has pretty much always been like this. The default install of Windows 95 came with a load of crapware and offers for dial-up internet. Which was actually kind of funny, because Windows 95 didn't have a firewall so if you did dial-up, you were pretty much guaranteed to have your machine p0wned within seconds.

Comment Re:This is expected, can be mitigated, and is good (Score 1) 115

We have had the problem solved in the UK for a while now. Chargers tie in to pricing data, which is predicted a day in advance, and then delay charging until it is cheapest. Often the price goes negative, i.e. you are paid to charge your vehicle, if you are on a variable tariff.

Have a look at this website showing prices: https://agileprices.co.uk/

You can see that for 7% of April, prices were negative, and for another ~30% they were extremely low.

Comment Re:How much is really delayed maintenance? (Score 0) 115

The changes won't just be needed for EVs, they will be needed for domestic solar as well. People are going to keep adding solar and batteries, getting to the point where they barely need the grid for much of the year, or at all. If the grid doesn't adapt to much greater changes in demand and lower unit prices, the operators are going to go bust.

They will need to transition from centralized generation to becoming distributors and offering convenience services.

Comment Re:It takes time (Score 1) 22

If you read the summary, it points out that Google is in fact ready, it's the UK Competitions and Markets Authority that is causing the delay. Google's already-deployed alternative doesn't allow them to track you, all data is local and the API sites can use to target ads is properly designed to prevent it being used for identification.

I recommend you turn off third party cookies manually. This is just for the default off setting. I haven't noticed it breaking anything.

Comment Re:Word use (Score 1) 70

Probably just a case of them not really thinking about it, like we didn't before Snowden.

People seem to forget that most sites didn't bother with HTTPS and most apps send data in the clear before Snowden's revelations. That was when the push really started to encrypt everything by default, and browsers started warning about non-HTTPS etc.

China just hasn't had their Snowden moment so is like we were 10 years ago.

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