I was in the 2nd grade when that happened. From my perspective, it was a great novelty and meant we got to take (mostly unnecessary) flashlights to school that we used in the morning walking to our bus stop. It was a hit with the kids I knew. We were disappointed that the "experiment" was stopped.

Meanwhile, in the northern-most states, the kids go to school in the dark now part of the year.

U.S. Banks have managed OK opening after "business hours" start and closing before they end for pretty much the history of the U.S.

It's almost like weather information in emergencies is transmitted over AM...

That said this is stupid. A car is not emergency equipment. You should have an emergency plan that involves a situation where your car is in accessible and an emergency kit with a hand cranked AM radio in it, ESPECIALLY if you live in places with blizzards, floods and tornadoes.

No you don't. Your car is not a part of an emergency kit. You should have an emergency kit at home which includes a hand cranked AM radio. Forcing this into a car is stupid, cars are quickly abandoned in actual emergencies where frequently moving on foot is required and causes people to be disconnected from communication.

Don't trust me on this. There's whole departments dedicated to educating you, e.g. FEMA, and no their advice is not based on some DOGE bro cuts.

Even a few places where it doesn't actually rise in June because it didn't set in the first place and won't for another month or so.

That's because you've been boiled like a frog. If you actually used a Teams version from 2019 and then suddenly switched to a version from today you'll find it is a HUGE improvement, especially around the usability, "multi-tasking", and conversation management.

It used to be shit, it has improved to a 2 Michelin Star rated shit.

I think very few people except for true language experts have the ability of stating any kind of preference on this matter, which is sort of the point.

I mean no disrespect to your efforts, but you are right. Latin is a language used for teaching of basic structure of it's modern successors. People learn it and yet no one actually uses it for anything new. C like Latin should really remain an academic curiosity in the modern world unless you're working on a system anchored with a long history and have the brightest language experts dealing with it (like the Linux kernel).

Depends on "your idea" - was it exclusively yours, does it even constitute an "idea" by that point? I took a tour of Motorola and made a pre-service-launch phone call on Iridium in 1998. SatComms hasn't been an "idea" for many decades, it's a big area that advances with thousands of new ideas every year.

So DoD like I said? Precisely the security over usability justification you just mentioned. The issue is if you don't end up with a user base a project often becomes stale and defunct. I hope this doesn't happen.

Also we have multiple rendering engines already. I don't see one not supporting basic functionality such as JIT compiling (which is largely credited for actually making the internet usable with the modern functions we expect) as a feature; users will consider this a bug leading to poor performance and not adopt or contribute to a project.

It's not a question of starting, my question was "what is driving the need?"

While it's good to see a browser work, it's a shame that the code base seems to be focused on something designed to be as portable as possible rather than functional. Any idiot can cobble together 2 lines of code which actually do support proper UI scaling, but right now they've released something non-functional. I'm not questioning bugs here, I'm questioning their approach.

It's not just NDA. In some cases it's not actually possible to do it at all without the aid of completely inaccessible binary blob software. Memory timing on current gen AMD systems isn't done by UEFI, it's handled by the Platform Security Processor which runs an AGESA binary blob which then hands the result back to the UEFI, meaning it's literally not possible to boot up AMD's current gen chip without relying on some closed source proprietary blob at some point.

AMD has promised to address this going forward with openSIL, but that is still in an experimental phase of development. But at least it's opensource. Though how long that lasts remains to be seen (AGESA was originally born as an open source contribution to coreboot over a decade ago before AMD decided to close itself away again.

Oh good, the software is done. No need for any further funds to continue development. Close up shop boys we're going home /s.

On the surface of it stuff like that seems nefarious, but in reality very few of these conspiracies stand up to scrutiny. Mainly because the thing one is a statistics of is also included in other statistics so it's trivial to see the co-contribution of such a renaming in official figures, and yet it never actually appears.

It's like the people who complain that unemployment is being played with because they stopped counting people who gave up looking for work, except there has always been 6 different measures and they've always been defined and measured the same way.

Reclassifying crimes is easy to spot, you can't just hide a crime in some other statistic.

But while the first part of your post is correct, the title of it is just plain fucking stupid. ICE / National Guard have zero to do with these crimes and don't do any enforcement of them. The reality is for nearly a decade there's been a steady increase in normal police focus on these crimes, and this has very much lead to an increase in the chance of getting caught which *may* influence the crime rate.

Any reason to disbelieve it or the benefits? Or just emotionally-centered anti-AI-sentiment?