Even in the rural Midwest, farms have much more night lighting than undeveloped land out west.

What's weird is having sign height ordinances and not having rules about lighting. Unlike tall signs, this is literally an eyesore while driving at night. Have to look away.

That's already mostly true. The last time I could clearly see it was in my childhood on a remote country gravel road. Even now, driving to that same spot I can't even see very many stars.

As we can see even in the summary, the kind of people who respond depend heavily on their current situation. In this case, it was late responses that were mentioned but we can be sure that many more were no response at all.

People can't spare the time because they're struggling and response rates are a metric that is hard to interpret.

Believe me, I know. But this is also a bit of a subthread in reply to this comment:

Which I can't figure out any other reason for them to say this.

No. What I'm saying is that the plug shape is not an indicator of capability. Most USB-A ports are also USB 3.2 rather than 2.0 - they are backwards compatible. Most USB-C ports are USB 3.x and at least 10Gbps but may not support alternate modes or power delivery. If the limiting factor for the number of USB-C ports is tying up PCIe lanes on the CPU, then a possible solution is having some ports being limited to fewer lanes for a lower total speed. Whether that's 3.0 or 2.0, doesn't matter. I might be mad about not knowing that a USB-C port is 2.0 but I would be equally mad with a USB-A port being 2.0 if I'm connecting an external drive when I could otherwise use an adapter to a faster port.

I don't think USB-PD should be on every port because it really limits design choices. But all USB-C being full featured limits the total ports based on occupying all the PCIe lanes.

What we definitely need is better labeling and more importantly having more information available before purchase on exactly what the ports are capable of.

Technically it's Apple that made the HDMI port useless. It's not like HDMI doesn't support those things.

USB-C is a plug. A lot of them run USB 3.2, which is also supported by A ports (less bandwidth, though).

You can run USB-C ports at 2.0 speeds if you don't have enough CPU lanes and you want more ports. The form factor doesn't require more resources on its own, it's the connected devices that do. Other than occupying lanes, that is.

You can run the USB-C form factor with the 2.0 protocol. They just need good labelling for the ports. Most laptops now have USB 3.2 on the A ports anyway.

Slashdot is "good" social media, but I don't think it's from it being primitive or the lack of algorithms. There's just nothing to exploit. And it's the exploitation that makes social media bad - whether it's the parent company making the experience worse to tweak ad dollars or the opportunists who do the same from within the platform.

Lilo & Stitch (2002) is hardly the most well-watched movie, but a monster bent on destruction and mayhem simply ran out of things to do because it was on an island disconnected from the rest of the world. So the monster thrived and became good in the absence of anything else to do. That is social media when it is siloed to a small but loyal group. Facebook started out more fragmented as more separated community groups, but linking those together into a whole is what made it so exploitable.

The BBB pioneered this though I'm sure there are others that came before.

I don't believe Google is on the extortion list because good data has more value to them than the money they could squeeze from businesses. They don't just have a "review site" but maps and navigation. And their reviews are built into a general search engine so they get their revenue from the initial searches.

These reviews were likely posted from an overseas IP address. Google could do a lot more to just never post the reviews in the first place. Of course, international travel exists. But if a small town restaurant suddenly gets a dozen reviews from Bangladesh, Google should be able to handle that.

At one time, Google was at the forefront of winning cat and mouse games like keyword stuffing and search rank manipulation. Online reviews are similar in a lot of ways. The value of their services depends on quality data so this should be a bigger priority for them.

The new logo looks stupid "AS F"

Yes, the same thing that enables cancer will let your transplant survive attacks. At a certain point, you have so many non-cancerous mutations that you need a lot of leeway to recognize which cells are really you.