The number of charging spots is probably determined by the amount of land available and the cost of buying it.

Actually that is a problem, and it's a large part of the slowdown in sales. EVs are a fabulous option for affluent early adopter personalities that can add a charger to their home. Plug in every night. Wake to a full charge.

That's great, if you own or rent your own house. However, in many of the biggest cities, most of the affluent live in luxury apartments in high-rise buildings near the center of town. Yes, they come with underground parking, but unless those buildings are either very new or recently upgraded, they don't come with chargers, and installing them is going to be a major expense for the owners, which is going to be passed on to the tenants, along with the time that the spaces aren't available because the charging equipment's being installed, much of it under the floor. What do you think all of those rich early-adopters are going to do about that?

OH, I don't know about that. There's a famous case from the late 17th century where a student had learned enough Latin to translate a bit of verse into an indirect insult to his professor.

I was asking if Lance Armstrong were descended from the title character of the radio show Jack Armstrong the All-American Boy. It's a joke; laugh!

I never said it did. However, if you had followed that link, you would have had a pleasant surprise. You, sir, have been had!

I take it, then, that you didn't bother to follow the link. If you had, you might have learned something.

There's a reason Lance Armstrong is a household name...

I'm not into bicycle racing, so I have to ask: is he by any chance descended from Jack Armstrong?

And when (not if) you catch it misbehaving, what can you do about it other than skip over it? Is there any way you can report it so that something can be done to prevent it from making that same mistake over and over again? Because if there's no way to correct those errors, the program will never get any better.

During WW II, Superman stayed neutral for the most part in the comics and funny papers. His explanation was that this was one problem it was up to mankind to solve for itself, one way or the other. The big exception was in the cartoons, that had him fighting in both main theaters as well as dealing with spies back home. Possibly the best of them, or at least the most dramatic, was Eleventh Hour,with Superman sabotaging Japanese warships and almost causing Lois to be executed.

Back in the day, card images were files consisting of a set of records of 80 characters or less. These could be used as input to a program that had been designed to work on punched cards or created as the output from such a program. The idea was that as long as you restricted yourself this way you didn't have to take the time tore-write working programs instead of expanding your system with new code.

My software development experience spans more than a half century. We have come a long way from the time when I was punching out FORTRAN and assembly language job decks on Hollerith cards.

You and I are probably roughly the same age as that's how I started off too, in my case an IBM 1620 with 20,000 digits of core memory. It could be expanded to twice or three times the memory, but was otherwise thoroughly obsolete. Just out of curiosity, do you still enough about card images to explain why they were once important, without looking the term up.

In the 1960s and 1970s a "real" programmer might have said that anyone using a compiler like FORTRAN or COBOL instead of writing assembly code wasn't doing "real" programming. In the 1990s, a "real" programmer might have said that anyone using an IDE with syntax highlighting and code completion instead of vi and make was taking a shortcut. Today, you're suggesting that using an AI assistant to handle boilerplate code, debug a tricky API call, or translate a Python algorithm into Rust is somehow not worthy.

So what you're saying is that back in the '50s, '60s and '70s a Real Programmer was somebody like Mel, who wrote code that was so compressed, so dependent on the computer's oddities that it could take years for another skilled programmer to figure out how it worked. And here I thought that the late Dan Alderson was a Real Programmer because he knew how to do pointer arithmetic and direct memory manipulation in FORTRAN77.

Now, if they displayed the alert on the signs over the interstate, they would better target people who might actually see it.

They do here in Colorado; I don't know about other states, but if they don't, they should. That doesn't mean that the Amber Alerts shouldn't go out to phones, because not everybody's going to be using the interstates at any given time, but it does help alert drivers who have their phones muted to avoid distractions.

I remember, once, getting alerts for a brush fire over 100 miles away, and it wasn't redundant. I don't remember the fire's name, but it was generating lots of smoke, the winds were very strong and heading in our direction. The alert wasn't about the fire so much as warning everybody in the wind's path to stay indoors as much as possible and to wear masks if they had to go outside. The air quality was so bad that you couldn't draw a full breath without coughing, which made it hard to sleep. There may not have been anything I could do about it, but I appreciated the warning.

I live in Colorado at an elevation of over 6000 feet. We don't get hurricanes here and I've never received an alert about one. Checking, I see that there's a control panel on my phone for those alerts, and the only type that I couldn't op out of is National Warnings, which seems reasonable. I've not turned any of the others off, and the only alerts I've ever received are Amber Alerts, and never more than one for any incident. If you're receiving multiple redundant alerts, you should find out what agency is responsible for sending them out and complain there.