Here in British Columbia we just changed our clocks for the last time and will remain on UTC-7 indefinitely. Parts of B.C. (the northeast part) have been UTC-7 all year for a long time. The southeast part has been Mountain time (UTC-7/UTC-6) for a long time. Neither are changing how they do time.

I applaud losing the time change but I'm not crazy about permanent DST. People obviously haven't thought this through, what it's going to feel like come November.

...laura

Near-lifelong B.C. resident here...

People have grumbled about time changes as long as I can remember. Pick one. Stick to it. Just do it.

I can't say I agree with their choice. Not so much the crazy late sunset in the summer - we're used to that - but the very late sunrise in the winter. The sun will still set by 5 in December and January. So what?

...laura

As long as Ai requires vast data centres and ground based energy sources and humans to maintain them, there's plenty of reasons risk for them. The time to really worry is when AI's are hosted on solar powered orbital platforms with self maintaining capabilities.

"Please" and "thank you" are relics of a bygone age to most people.

The one that pisses me off is the habit of customer service people addressing men respectfully ("sir"), but not addressing women with respect ("ma'am" or equivalent). This isn't an issue in places like Texas, but it's very much an issue here in Canada.

...laura

When I first saw 4k I was startled by the picture quality. I also winced at the price tag, and shook my head at the lack of native 4k content. I now own a 4k TV, stream lots of 4k content on line, and generally like what I see. I shoot my own YouTube videos in 4k.

Is 8K just not that much better? Lack of content? Or just bad timing, people would rather spend money on food than a new toy?

...laura

All those cars are parking somewhere for a lot of the time. It's a matter of setting up charging points wherever cars park.
  Not every parking space needs to support charging - but even for curb side street parking, if you have a street light nearby it shouldn't be that hard to add a charger to the closest one or two car parks - and considering many of those streetlights would have been installed and wired when lighting was using much more power heavy incandescent lighting, there is likely to be a fair bit of extra capacity that could be used for charging, now lighting is all low power LED.
That's just one option. Another is chargers in supermarket parking lots, etc.

One of the driving factors behind showing power in mAh is that marketing gets to print a more impressive big number on the box.
Although Wh would be preferred, I'd be happy if they even just changed to displaying mWh on the box - and it should be a win-win. they get a bigger more impressive number to display and I get a unit of measure that actually gives the total amount of electrical energy the device can store, instead of trying to guess whether the rating is based on whatever the battery cell voltages are, or the output voltage that could be anything from 5v to 20v, for USB-C.

If it's radioactive enough to be a problem I would imagine it's easily detectable, considering that there are solid state sensors that can detect as little as 1 nSv/h of radiation and are apparently sensitive enough to be sometimes triggered by bananas.
If it's so radioactively inert that it can't be detected, then is it really a problem?

I forgot to mention that although it is possible to set some content rating based restrictions on some sited, there isn't any browser level standard. I think ideally what you would want is a way you could set your browser to be in "PG" mode for example, and then all websites (or content on websites) would be filterable accordingly.

Of course some websites might not choose to apply ratings to their content, or would apply inappropriate ratings to the content, but search engines could quickly down rate mis-rated content so it doesn't turn up in searches.
  It also goes without saying that the content filtering should be completely at the control of the individual user, with parents being responsible for setting appropriate filter levels for their kids, but only having to do it at the browser level, not each individual possible site their kid might visit.

I would love it if there was some kind of mirror site for YouTube that would convert all the long video tutorial type videos into well formatted text with appropriate illustrations extracted from the video where necessary.
scanning the transcript sometimes helps, but it's not in a very easy to read format.

It's especially frustrating when I want to see how to do something or other in say, Unreal Engine, and nearly all resources available are YouTube videos instead of reasonable documentation or written tutorials.
Even playing the video at double speed to scan for the meat of what I want only goes so far to reducing this problem.

Of course it would be far better if there was just good documentation and example, but that's probably wishing for too much.

While it's true that you can't keep kids from seeing content that mabey isn't appropriate, social media companies haven't exactly done themselves any favours by failing to have any kind of rating system for their content.

I think a far better solution would be for content to be rated, with controls in place so rating filters could be applied, similar to how tv has ratings for content, and in some cases has the ability to set a parental lock for some content.

For sites like youtube, which has so much good educational content, as well as a lot of stuff that mabey you don't want your 12 year old kids to see, it would be far better than an outright ban if you could set a filter to only show say, G or PG rated content, and you could be sure your kids weren't going to be exposed to clips of people getting blown up in a war or something.
This might mean that all content would have to be rated "Unrated" until it was reviewed and rated by either a human or sufficiently accurate AI bot, but this should be something that be increasingly possible to do.
For comments, it might be be necessary to disable them, or similarly have them get rated in real time by a bot.

Subaru do a lot of things well - they're masters of all-wheel drive - but this is nuts.

I bought a VW Taos earlier this year with the usual trial subscription to Sirius XM. I was going to pull the plug when it expired but Sirius XM offered me a steep discount if I re-upped, so I did. They did it so readily that I wonder how many people are paying full price...

The bulk of my listening is two channels, Hits One and The Pulse.

...laura

Can someone please create a counter-ai which will make you appear as poor as possible and therefore get cheap AI generated pricing?

Don't worry there will be additional tariffs for any countries that try and refuse toxic American fruit and veg.

Nuclear fusion is already taking over, with it being the cheapest power available. Best of all it's readily accessible with most homes only needing about 20-40 sqm of fusion energy collectors and about 40kwh of storage to capture enough energy to be completely off grid energy independent.
There will of course be some areas this is not fully practical, so grid connecting homes and allowing the power to be shared across longer distances will reduce localized fusion energy power fluctuations.