Try a different USB-C cable. Either that or you have one of the dodgy models of Sandisk SSD that's about to die. Maybe a good time to buy a new one.

Stage 3 smog alerts were year-round when I was a kid in the 1980s. They were more common in the summer, but they could happen any time the temperatures rose, and they were a fact of life at school in the spring and fall. I spent a lot of recess and PE time indoors for Stage 2 and 3 alerts. This page shows the number of days at different air qualities for Los Angeles going back to 1980. The highest number of good air quality days was 11 in 1983. For all but two of the remaining years, it was in single digits. The combined number of unhealthy, very unhealthy, and dangerous days usually covered a cumulative six months or so out of the year.

You can see the numbers shifting to the left starting in 1989. Both Republicans and Democrats in the state government (which was run by Republicans at the time) had authorized various government agencies to make changes that would affect smog levels. Since 2002, the number of moderate or good air days has covered at least half of the year, a huge reversal from the 1980s. The number of very unhealthy or dangerous air days has been in the single digits every year (bar one) since 2007, even reaching zero in 2010 and 2013 and only one in six of the other years.

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... and then it all went dark.

I wouldn't call that "supporting". He plays the game by donating to both sides, so that whoever wins, they see him as an ally. And in particular, Trump responds to obsequiousness. There is a perception that by giving money, businesses can curry favor. Not saying that doing so is a good thing, but it definitely should not be interpreted as evidence that the business leaders are necessarily in favor of Trump's policies.

Screwdrivers. Ask Bernhard Goetz.

Folding blade pocket knifes make little difference whether locking or not. Most "working knives" are fixed blade and therefore marginally legal even under UK law. Go ahead. Prove I'm not on my way to my chef's job. Locking/not locking makes little difference when commiting assaults. It does affect a knife's use as a tool. Non locking blades are definitely weapons. Period.

UK law obviously written by a bunch of aristocrats who have never gotten their hands dirty or calloused.

I've never heard of it either (and I'm in Europe), but I'm astonished that it's receiving less than 90% AI content.

Not to mention a Time Machine clone for local NAS storage. I don't want my phone backed up in anybody's cloud. I use iCloud because Apple makes it d**n near impossible to back up locally except over a wire.

Stabbed. Not shot.

Read.

Putting a hardware guy in charge of Apple might help the company return to its roots as a hardware-first company. They've been so distracted by silliness like trying to squeeze more money out of the App Store, iBooks Store, etc., resulting in fines and antitrust decisions going against them in the EU and the U.S. on so many occasions, mostly because the company has strayed too far away from its core mission — to make great hardware and build operating systems to support that hardware and produce a great user experience.

Build a great product, and everything else will follow naturally.

To be fair, that's nothing against Tim Cook. He always struck me as having a good head on his shoulders and being generally a decent human being. And he held the company together through a tough transition, losing one of its founders. That's not an easy task.

But Mr. Ternus has, in some ways, an even tougher job, showing the markets that Apple is more than just a company that sells phones. I don't envy him. But I do look forward to seeing the direction that he takes the company.

Do elaborate?

I wasn't "taught" it by anybody, just like you were never "taught" how to spell. But slavery exists in modern-day Western society, just as human trafficking still exists.

Nah, I'm pretty sure this one's a robot. But it's a robot that's purpose-built to run a half-marathon. Huh? What's the utility of that? And somebody's going to have to convince me that it's not remote controlled.

Put it to you this way: You know what else can beat a human in a marathon? A car.

Uh-huh.

Even supposing you are right (which you are not), it's not much of a badge of honor to end something you started.