You can't really say it's bad code when nobody else has managed to do any better.

Ideally we should adjust clocks/schedules so that peak electricity demand lines up with peak solar output.

Beyond that, human beings need sunshine to stay healthy, so there are probably some limits on how much we adjust schedules relative to daylight.

It doesn't, they just turned AI on it for the first time.

Linux is going through the same thing, only with less good AI and more slowly.

By "calculate" you mean add one? To be honest, the mental burden isn't that great.

It has screens everywhere, but the primary interface is voice.

From OpenAI's perspective, developing the tech to format information for that screen would delay the release. ChatGPT often screws it up.

My phone and computers let me set the timezone to UTC. For interacting with everyone else I just remember the offset.

I'm working on a pirate low frequency time signal transmitter for my house. If that works out I may switch back, if I can be bothered to replace a couple of dumb clocks with radio controlled movements.

I keep all my clocks on UTC now. I can't be bothered to change them twice a year.

I'm just hoping that they abandon leap seconds as well. If another one comes I might switch to TAI.

They are probably thinking that they want to be like the computer on the Starship Enterprise. A kind of ambient AI device that you can have a natural conversation with anywhere, anytime.

That was Google's original goal too.

Funny how it apparently takes a communist to balance the budget, while still delivering on the socialist policies he promised.

EVs are at least manageable, since most people don't need to charge at a specific time. In the UK we have a system where you get a discount if you let the electricity supplier decide when charging happens. You tell them how much charge you need and by what time.

Most of the world doesn't have DST. It's really just Europe and the US. Somehow they manage.

To be honest I'm not sure there is a really good solution to this. It's very difficult to implement a backup system where you can rebuild a corporate network and devices quickly and without significant data loss. Getting as close as possible is expensive too.

I find that Anubis is a lot, lot less of a pain in the arse than Cloudflare's captchas. Usually I said right through Anubis in a second or two. Cloudflare usually requires at least a click, and often a stupid game.

Two reasons it's allowed.

1. The iPhone sells well.

2. Android lets you replace most of the OS, including core parts like Google Play Services.

There is definitely a case for requiring better interoperability where people do things like replace Play Services and then find that their banking app won't open because there is no way to tell it that the device is secure, but it's mostly enough to ward off Microsoft style anti-trust issues.

Sucks for people with accessibility issues though. Moving the mouse in a straight line, say because they have a joystick or their eye tracking software interpolates, is going to get them blocked or forced to do a long captcha challenge that isn't very accessible either.