Is the intent to hand the initiative to China? They have less than zero reason to conform to our demands.

As a control systems engineer, putting the control loop through the cloud is absolutely ridiculous. Sure, make it so you can change the setting from your phone, assuming you know how to setup secure communication, but the control loop needs to be local. This is just dumb engineering.

Dumb requirements, really, because an app on your phone and local networks are fine. But likely some sales droid or marketing droid required the ability to control your bed anywhere in the world - like you can be at work and the bed is set up so you can watch TV at home.

And once you have that, you need a cloud server because it's then really hard (or impossible) to have users open ports and set up DynDNS so their bed is reachable from the Internet (which also has a bunch of other issues). And once you have this working, there's no need for local control and the complications it adds when you already have a working method. Local control just adds extra engineering work and time and those same sales and marketing droids don't want you to spend another couple of weeks working on the app and firmware to do it.

If the requirement was more "app control of bed" then there are many solutions where local control within the same network is just fine since the protocols for discovery and such are common easily used.

It also helps that in Europe, many big cities ban ICE trucks from doing deliveries during the day to limit pollution. Of course, EV trucks are fine.

EV trucks are also rather zippy - their ability to accelerate means they fit in very well with traffic - you're not having to deal with the dread of being stuck behind one where the light will turn red before they're even clear the intersection.

Tumblr COULD HAVE been profitable, but the decision to block/prohibit adult content completely, rather than segregate it behind a "18 and up" requirement and monetized it, killed any chance of that.

The problem was Tumblr wanted an app. If you have an "18+" section, Apple requires your app be marked 18+. Apple's reviewers at the time rejected the app because it was marked teens+ or for all ages, and Apple could easily find 18+ content. Apple even suggested they just rate the app 18+ like other similar social media apps. But they didn't want that - feeling they wanted a lower age rating on their app.

So they got rid of the adult content so they could qualify for a lower age rating.

Not that there weren't alternatives - a web app works just fine and requires no approval. But somehow they felt catering to the teenage market was more lucrative without adult content than just the 18+ crowd with adult content.

I think it would serve the citizens if they charged bitcoin miners and AI warehouses 10x in order to keep prices for the average people stable. It just does not seem to to benefit average people in the area. *water too.

That's exactly the same thing as banning them. Because no one's going to practically take them up on the offer.

School buses even have a pole that sticks out the front of the bus so kids crossing the street have to go several feet in front of the bus so drivers who might be in the other lane can see the kids and they don't just appear in front of the bus.

Of course, the big issue is on roads where there's a double lane going in the same direction. It's technically illegal to pass a school bus but if you're in the lane beside it, technically you're supposed to stop even the moment it flips out the sign. Which can be impractical if you're beside the bus when it stops - there just isn't enough time to react. Which is why we have yellow lights at traffic lights - to warn drivers to either continue or to prepare to stop.

Even if you're nose to nose with a school bus and the sign flips out you're in technical violation for not stopping even if you can't possibly see the sign, react, and stop in time.

Some ticket-happy cops have been known to give out tickets simply because it was against the law, even though you absolutely couldn't obey it without creating a huge traffic hazard

Chrome Web Store and addons.mozilla.org already implement "extensions".

A "page" is an HTML document retrieved through an HTTP or HTTPS URL. I think PPH is proposing enforcing a stricter same-origin policy. Instead of CORS, the document's origin server would have to act as a proxy to retrieve any third-party resources needed by the client-side script.

Well, SD cards are basically a solid lump of plastic with metal contacts. That's what makes them exceptionally rugged because all the bits are suspended in a plastic/resin enclosure

As for the computers, the SSD data could be recoverable - chip-off data recovery is a thing. Basically you desolder the NAND chips, then use a rig to image them onto the PC.

The PC software then reconstructs the SSD data using the controller algorithms and data tables and rebuilding the mapping tables.

It does require the NAND be intact enough to read.

In the new CEO's expertly crafted I-am-villain statement; he explains: "The past, he added in an email, is “simply not relevant to the new future.”"

I, um, guess it was polite of him to not talk about "the bigger picture" to the people whose eyes he shut down?

It may be a trite saying, but it's as true in education as it is in a gym. If you don't exercise your brain, it's not going to improve.

There's a reason weightlifters don't use a forklift or crane to pick up the barbells and do a dozen reps. The problem is not that the weights are in need of lifting. And that's the same problem with homework. The teacher doesn't need a stack of 5 page reports; what they need is for their students to practice using their brains.

Unfortunately the education system is designed to evaluate output instead of process. It's easier to grade a paper or a test, not evaluate a demonstration of knowledge. It's always been ripe for cheating, but now the cheat tools are everywhere and made legitimate by techbros demanding AI productivity. So either teaching will change, or we'll head straight for idiocracy and nobody will be left with the skills to wonder why it all went to hell.

There have been many studies at this point showing that exposure to dirt, dust, and dander early in childhood results in low rates of asthma. I'm personally fondest of the one a friend of mine (Hi Dubes!) worked on in Papua New Guinea where they found the westernization of formerly isolated cultures where dirt floors are replaced by cement results in an increase in asthma.

I recall recently hearing of a study where it was determined that when an infant's pacifier falls on the ground, and the parent cleans it by putting it in their own mouth first before returning it to the child, the children end up with substantially stronger immune systems than if the pacifier is cleaned more vigorously.

As with many aspects of developmental biology, we are born with scaffolding that needs to be trained in order to function properly. A lack of that training leads to disease. So, yes, let your kids play in the dirt.

> Because I don't have a billion dollars to blow tailoring propaganda to your specific tastes to *make* you like my side.

Your side spent more on their campaign and got blown away by the side that spent less just a year ago.

Your side is losing the messaging war, not the financing war. You just had a weekend with a big paid protest. And everyone is making fun of you and your side is using 2017 footage to make it seem you drew a crowd.

Your side is a cult.

Will these ones retain vendor support longer than the last batch?

> The fact that you see a giant platform of kids having fun and think "pedophilia"

No, it's the fact that it has a known pedophilia problem that's well documented at this point.

It has been in the news for years at this point and your failure to see it is your own, it doesn't change the facts.

> it's a wonderful platform my kids use

You're an awful parent. Your kids can learn programming safely without being exposed to the groomers on Roblox.