Personally I have seen the blanket RTO mandate makes little sense for some employees. If an employeeâ(TM)s coworkers are not geographically located anywhere near them, then RTO means they have to fight traffic to drive into work for an online meeting. During the pandemic one thing that happened was team members were not organized by location as much.

Yeah, lots of employees are just commuting so they can do meetings on Zoom all day, rather than being able to do the exact same thing remotely.

Of course, one thing I have noticed is people's hours have changed - it used to be there were people in the office at 7:30AM, now a lot of places people don't get in until 10AM or so. So they are "in" the office but rarely spend all 8 hours there. Maybe they do 5-6 hours and then go back home, bypassing rush hour traffic.

You don't want a trailer - because you don't want to push the tow vehicle if someone runs into it.

It's for roadwork that moves at a slow pace - because you can either close a mile of road to paint it, or you can keep the road open, and paint the lines, but then you have the problem of dealing with live traffic. The crash vehicle needs to travel behind the work crew at a sufficient distance so if someone crashes into it at highway speeds, it will not hit the road crew ahead.

Drive by wire is quite hard - and you need instant reactions when it gets hit. An autonomous vehicle could react instantly when hit by slamming on its brakes or swerving to avoid running into the work crew ahead. Drive by wire systems don't have such reaction times and thus likely to present a hazard.

Also, $1M isn't really expensive for this kind of equipment. It doesn't need a lot of intelligence - basic ADAS systems cover 99% of what it needs to do (literally "follow the work crew ahead at a distance of 250ft") and "slam on brakes when hit and avoid road crew". LIkely also some bit about turning towards the side of the road if the 250ft runs out if it was hit by say, a semi.

(and honestly, $1M is cheap compared to the hospital costs for a work crew)

Buy Slashdot from its shitty, penny-pinching owners.

The site supports Unicode just fine. It's supported Unicode for decades.

The problem is Unicode support is more complex than just saying "we support UTF-8" and done. Especially for a system that allows arbitrary user input.

You can tell when someone writes their own comment system because their website is unreadable. This happens because people realize they didn't sanitize their inputs, and sanitizing Unicode inputs means making sure users don't input things that screw up the site. Unicode is full of this - from control codes like RTL and LTR overrides, to character decorations where you can put accents and such on characters. (Unicode is a system designed for universal human input - so some languages use character sets where you haev a base character, then apply docorations based on context that modify the character. Well, Unicode doesn't limit how many you can stick on and if you do it right, you could have a user comment be 1MB of a single character with so many decorations the entire page is... black).

In the early days, it was easy - users who did this were quickly spotted as non-robust renderers resulted in many systems crashing.

Slashdot took this to the extreme and decided to whitelist ASCII characters only. Then they did the clever thing and stripped the high bits off everything you input to limit you to ASCII input. Back when it mattered because it was quicker to strip the high bits off than to check if every character matched.

Also, lowered air pollution - things like catalytic converters and such lowered the amount of NOx and acid rain producing chemicals from the air, which had the effect of cleaning up the air. But that also meant less sunlight was being reflected into space.

So yeah, the effect is relatively minor, and anyone who's lived in LA or Beijing probably can tell you smog days suck, but it's also an unexpected side effect of cleaning up the air so you can breathe.

Airpods basically ran all of those off the market. I'm not entirely sure how or why because it was a 30 to $50 headset versus a$200 pair of airpods but not long after airpods head all the decent cheap Bluetooth headsets disappeared. Motorola still makes one but they're kind of crap and then there's the off-brand weirdo Chinese stuff where the batteries last 60 minutes if you're lucky.

There's plenty in the $50-100 market. Anker SoundCore headsets are extremely well regarded for their price, for example. And there's plenty more along the lines. They aren't going to match those Bose or Sony headsets that cost $500, but at $50-200, they're surprisingly competent.

The good Chinese brands have basically replaced the market - basically all Bluetooth stuff is done in China so that's where all the expertise is now.

Stick with the well known Chinese brands like Anker and you'll probably find a set that's cheaper and works better.

Your doctor actually writes anything? In my experience, in the US, everything is entered directly into a computer system. All my prescriptions are sent electronically to the pharmacy, and my records are available electronically on the doctor's website.

Depends on the doctor.

I've had prescriptions where the doctor wrote it up on the computer and then printed and signed it. My cardiologist writes it out on a custom prescription pad. The prescription is on the computer as he references it when he writes it out, and I'm sure he could print it out but he chooses not to.

I suppose the problem is just how many printers are needed - some doctor's offices only have one printer so the doctor prints it out but after consultation you have to wait another 15 minutes for the prescription. Others had a printer in the exam room, so they could print it out immediately and sign it and hand it to you.

And like anything involving printers there's always the fun of running out of toner, ink and paper during the consult.

Of course, they could also just electronically send the prescription to the pharmacy as well, but I guess a few people might get flummoxed because they don't know which pharmacy they want to use.

Given PowerShell is at 7.5 right now, deprecating the version shipped inside Windows might not have been a bad idea. (PowerShell is also open-source and available for Linux, macOS and others as well).

Heck, even the Windows 10 PowerShell was constantly reminding you probably want to install PowerShell 5 when you invoke it.

Same goes for WMIC, since everything it does is doable via PowerShell since WMI APIs are still available and PowerShell can interface with them directly.

It's really about removing ancient versions of software that are no longer maintained by the Windows team and replacing it with software that is maintained by a separate team - PowerShell is now maintained outside Windows, and WMIC was for when PowerShell didn't exist or was poorly understood. Nowadays people aren't using batch files or CMD scripts, they've moved to PowerShell scripts.

That's why the current CEO moved his family to Seattle and is encouraging the rest of the Boeing management team to move back as well. And apparently has tapped many of the ex-engineering team leaders for advice. (He came on during the strike, and while you can blame him for prolonging it, you could say he was taking the advice of the previous leader - because in general coming in and mucking things up is the best way to ruin things, than to come in and see how things work first before you change anything. And coming in during the strike, he only had the advice of the outgoing leadership).

Though we really should call it the McDonnell Douglas management team, since there is truth to the whole "McDonnell Douglas bought Boeing using Boeing's own money".

And of course Boeing would be working on something new - despite their previous leader saying they won't start a new design until 2035. It takes a long while to design a plane - Boeing starts now, t hey might be able to do flight testing in 2035.

Which given the backlogs of both Airbus (order a new Airbus plane now, take delivery in 2035), this might be an interesting development.

I wouldn't call it Trump's doing, Trump just capitalized on the problem.

The problem is the anti-intellectualism that's infected American culture - where being "smart" and "educated" have been seen as negatives. Granted, there were brief periods where it hasn't - like the the dot-com boom where said geeks and nerds were becoming overnight millionaires, but in general, American culture always shows off the dumb jocks making fun of the nerds as a staple.

Now, it's really come to a head the past couple of decades or so, and our Dear President has embraced it fully the past decade. It started with basically climate skepticism (though that has roots in the past with things like leaded gas and smoking - same playbook), but the Internet and social media greatly amplified things, add in vaccine skepticism and then a general belief of "I know what I see and I'm right, not someone who's done it their whole life expert".

So while you can blame Dear Leader Trump a bit, he really is just hitched onto something that's been around for decades

Good that there is a system in place. I was going to say, this seems a lot like a patent troll. You can't be popular without people discussing you - this is predictable. Using that against people, really seems like trollish behaviour.

The problem is SLAPP laws are state level only. Not all states have them (Texas, for example, doesn't, which is why Elon Musk did all sorts of legal maneuvering to keep his lawsuit there against various groups). It also doesn't have a federal counterpart, so when Elon Musk can't get it kept in Texas, he fights to move it to federal court.

It's imperfect, but it can help.. I don't know where the lawsuit was failed but it can make a big difference, so attempts to quash usually begin by trying to move it to a state where the anti-SLAPP laws are powerful (e.g., California).

And she rammed it through a grand jury; but you can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich, it isn't a high bar.

And yet, they couldn't even indict Subway Guy (someone threw part of a sub sandwich at an "ICE" (?) (you can't really tell since anyone can wear stuff that says ICE on it) official. And they couldn't even indict the guy who assaulted that DOGE sex predator employee.

It isn't a high bar, true, but the DoJ seems to have made it much higher for some reason.

Even Comey's was only able to be indicted on 2 of the 3 charges.

The only really good news is because of the purging of competent lawyers at the DoJ in order to find someone who would go through with Trump's retribution campaign, the defendants will likely be able to score easy victories that would humiliate Trump even more.

(Nevermind the fact that Trump kept claiming Biden was using the DoJ to persecute him - when Trump IS actually weaponizing the DoJ).

It does not support; it does not support WebExtensions APIs. I'm guessing it won't support other ad-blockers as well. So no dice, not on my machine, not yet anyhow.

I would guess that "supporting HTML" is slightly higher up on the list of to-do than supporting extensions.

WebExtension support I would expect once it's actually done and likely in a usable state, right now it's likely more of a curiosity and I'm sure it can only render the most basic of websites at the moment.

I would likely even doubt the alpha release (scheduled for summer 2026) will have support for it, or expect that you can't go more than a couple of pages without it crashing.

Even Apple took an already established engine (KHTML) to create WebKit, though I'm pretty sure when Apple did it over two decades ago they didn't expect it to become the dominant browser engine. (Granted, Blink is dominant, but it is a WebKit derivative).

But you need to plan and you need to be able to spare a couple hours. All I'm saying is that alone precludes many people.

You need to plan only as much as you might need a new route if your present route doesn't take you past any fast chargers, or your trip won't have an opportunity to charge. But for those trips, you likely plan as well to get gas so you don't run out while you're out camping.

Most people do have a general plan on their route - those that don't usually are the ones that end up on the news where they ran out of gas on some rural road in the middle of winter.

As for a couple of hours, a 1100 mile trip is between 15-20 hours long. Someone would certainly have contingencies for traffic jams, detours and other things, or even just a stopover for lunch. And most people will do that over a couple of days, so a couple of hours might just be taken because you dawdled in your motel room a little bit.

The only EV trip that can't be made would be the cannonball run. And I'm pretty sure that's something most people wouldn't even attempt. Or a "we don't stop for anything but gas" trip, which I would lump into cannonball run simply because that's a dangerous thing to do.

If you do a more normal road trip with stops for breaks and meals, an EV might require a tiny bit more planning simply because you're not familiar with where all the chargers are since they're not really called out on the interstates like gas stations. And if you do it right, your planning will likely not take substantially longer than with an ICE. And you might need to stop at a motel with an EV charging facility since it's not all common. Or maybe find a convenient RV park since RV parks pretty much all have high current L2 chargers available. (RV parks with facilities have access to 110V 20A, 240V 30A and often 240V 50A circuits)

I knew they existed but little more, but now after reading the writeup (and a few others) I can't understand why anyone would buy one of these things in the first place: They look like any other EV out there, they're from an unproven company, they're fecking expensive, and there's endless stories of them being riddled with problems. They don't quite have a big flashing sign over them saying "Stay away", but they're pretty close.

Well, they were the only competition to Tesla back in the day. This was early early days and I think basically it was the Model S vs. the Fixker cars. I believe Fisker had the slight advantage that you could get them, versus Tesla which had endless waitlists.

If you had money and wanted an EV, Tesla and Fisker were your only choices. And you could buy a Fisker, while you had to wait for Tesla. Used Teslas at the time were selling for about 30% more than a new model.

Of course, Fisker had a bunch of quality problems and the Hurricane Sandy incident didn't help matters (Hurricane Sandy hit New Jersey and the Fisker cars in the port loading dock all caught fire when their low voltage systems shorted out)

Odd, how Eric Schmidt sees a declining birthrate as a crisis, and somehow does not connect that working 12 hours a day for 6 days a week leaves no time to date, find a long term relationship, get married, have children, etc.

That's really the point of things like abortion bans. Basically the goal is to force women to have kids, and have them popping out kids involuntarily. Men won't need to date, they just poke random women and the women are forced to have babies and there's you're replacement population.

I mean, you have people like Musk already having 10 babies, most of them he doesn't even support, so that's how you do it. As for regular men, well, you don't need to have sex because the 1% all the way to the President will just poke women to produce babies.