Class of '96. I had to read at least 1 YA novel/semester (stuff like Narnia and Beverly Cleary) starting in 5th grade. There was a little library in the classroom we could check books out from as well as the school library, which we visited once a week, and could also stop by during recess. You were expected to pick a book, read it, and do a little 2-3 page book report, mostly just to prove you actually read the thing.

In higher grades all of my English classes up through High School included at least 2-4 novels / year assigned by the teacher as well as vocabulary, grammar, creative and persuasive writing/debate. Throughout we would also do shorter sections on notable short stories, poets, journalism, etc.

I didn't go to a fancy private school nor live in a particularly affluent area either. Just an average middle class New England suburb.

Latest USB 3 PD spec allows for up to 240W (48V @ 5A), which should be plenty for just about any laptop. My current laptop draws up 180W through USB-C no problem, other than the laptop itself getting uncomfortably hot.

The problem is usually a bad cable, assuming your power supply is rated for the output. You can get a little inline power meter you can put between the cable and the device if you suspect a bad cable, something like this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B5... .

If you are willing to spend more you can also get testers that will read the tag resistors and display the rated capacity of the cable and check the appropriate pins for continuity. They can also attempt to draw the max rated power and see if the cable/power supply can actually deliver. But at that point you are spending $80+ to test a power supply and if you don't do it all the time, you might just want to spend the money on a new one.

It's less wasteful as you don't need to throw out a whole display when the hardware is outdated. Plus no need for a battery. As long as you don't need computing on the go and just need to play musical chairs in the office, it could be a nice solution. Hopefully the storage is an m2 drive that can just be swapped between keyboards when the time comes for a compute refresh.

That would be POSIX certification. That doesn't make it UNIX. POSIX certification just guarantees compatibility with certain de facto standards that grew out of the UNIX ecosystem, not that the OS is UNIX(tm).

Because then you get Code Ranch.

I always thought that it should give you a choice: if you post to a discussion you've moderated, then your moderations get de-anonymized or your moderation gets undone. You also shouldn't be able to moderate in a thread you've posted to.

For EVs you could just have a machine that reads the mileage and VIN from the ODB port. It sends that info to the DMV and the registered owner gets taxed for the mileage. Could be an annual 5 minute stop at a gas station, I could even imagine such a machine being self-service. Make it mandatory for all your EV use tax to be paid up to renew your registration and/or license.

That engine was built on slavery and unspeakable abuse of workers and children. Of course business will profit if you don't have to pay for labour. You'll note that the billionaire class is working hard to return us to that state right now.

Humans can adopt to a situation on the fly and exercise common sense. Waymo goes into a failsafe mode and becomes a roadblock, potentially getting people killed. It can only adopt after the fact. After the damage has been done. Telling the family of the guy who dies on the way to the hospital because a bunch of Waymos are blocking the road that "you'll fix it next time" is cold comfort.

On the flip side, being into DIY hardcore punk in the 90s, there are so many bands who were on tiny local labels who went defunct before any of the rights to the records they put out could be transferred to a streaming platform. I'm really thankful for my physical media collection and that I took the trouble to preserve most of that stuff digitally. Some of these bands went through the trouble to upload their music to their own websites, so they were available for a time, but as those websites go away, or their owners die, it's all becoming lost media.

Buy on bandcamp, and either stream directly from the app or download the files as FAC or 320kbps MP3. Save to your Poweramp folder or whatever your favorite Android player is.

This story and others like it are just the administration doing exactly what he promised to do in his campaign. I would really like to hear from someone who heard this shit back in July '24 and now disapproves.

Yeah, like say, during a big earthquake. It would really suck to have these clogging up the streets while emergency vehicles are trying to get through. Good thing California doesn't need to worry about that...

It's a total farce that these things are allowed to operate on public roads with no human behind the wheel.

Money isn't, but the labor and natural resources it represents often is.

WebOS is shitty and laggy enough without having it try to drive an AI interface. I bought the TV for its picture quality not to have a half baked LLM tell me what to watch. Even on my brand new G5 OLED, which must have some decent horsepower for all the image processing it can do, the menus take a few seconds to load in. No way am I trusting them with an internet connection. I hooked up a separate media player box and my PS5 and the TV has never even seen my network.