All true, but there is a measurable increase in pollution in the upper atmosphere now, some from launches, and most from all the satellite constellations burning up all the time. It's not as if these satellites just burn up to nothing. They leave behind all sorts of metals in the upper atmosphere, especially aluminum and magnesium compounds. It's a bit reckless. From what I read some of these particles might act as cooling agents, so hey it's all good. Nevermind the kerosene soot that lingers for years in the upper atmosphere after every spaceX launch. And other compounds damage ozone. We really have no idea how these effects will play out.

China's labor costs have been rising fast in recent years. I don't think you can say any longer that China produces cheap goods because their labor is cheap. Especially for the kind of technology goods that so many of us buy. Phones, laptops, gadgets, etc. Rather China has invested in advanced manufacturing technologies. And they make all their own tooling. They now have more experience building and operating electric vehicles and charging stations that we do.

I participated for a while in a small company that was trying to mass produce (domestically) a product for a specialized market. I learned all about saving pennies and removing as many parts as possible until it just barely functioned. The Chinese learned to make goods as cheaply as possible from us!

No, this is not targeted at industrial control! This is for consumers programming arduino microcontrollers, or setting up drone autopilots, over USB serial cables. Web Serial definitely provides access to that. In fact there's a web-based Arduino IDE that requires no software download, thanks to Web Serial.

Chrome has had web serial for at least five years. Not really sure what you're talking about with adafruit and css.

I liked the original Star wars a lot and generally loved the book universe. But count me among those who just want it to die now. Let's let it be finished.

How did this get modded insightful? Kameniko uses rs232 keyboards? Obviously they don't have any clue what web serial is used for.

Yes I'm happy to see this as well. It's funny to read the comments here on slashdot. It's readily apparent those who know what this API is for and those that don't! Indeed the Web Serial API makes it fast and easy for beginners to get into Arduino using the web-based Arduino cloud IDE, or even just to install Circuit Python or MicroPython to a microcontroller. Also good for interacting with and setting up IOT devices.

That is a lot of solar panels. Using the sheer number of panels theoretically required as an excuse to not do solar is silly. I have half a megawatt of solar on my land. It's placed on a just a few of acres of marginal, otherwise-unused land. Grass grows great still underneath them. Gotta start somewhere.

Most buildings should have solar of some kind on their roofs. In some parts of the world, solar water heaters have been mandated on roofs for decades. Data centers should have their roofs entirely covered in solar panels and a certain amount of battery storage should be included in the development plan. Vertical bifacial panels have a place too. As for carbon cost of manufacturing and installing solar, yes it is definitely there. So the choice is emitting some carbon once every thirty years to build solar, or continuously emitting orders of magnitude of carbon dioxide just burning the stuff (once and done)---the answer seems pretty clear to me!

Chromium has already removed v2. that happened quite a long time ago now. If you have uBlock Origin installed, it gets disabled and cannot be re-enabled.

Yes and China does that right now. All of China is one time zone, which happens to be the timezone that Beijing is in. The problem is that although they've eliminated timezones, they haven't eliminated the problems that came with timezones. Across China schedules are different to accommodate, you know, the sun. Someone in the east of china who wants to call someone in the west of china still has to be cognizant of the fact that in the west they go to work a couple of hours later than those in the east. Solves nothing, but it serves to remind people where the power of the CCP lies (in Beijing). Also to make the thing work, a lot of regions do their own non-official time that's more lined up with the sun.

I agree changing twice a year is stupid, but standard time is what most people want. The referendum in Alberta made that clear (which Smith completely ignores). They voted against full-time DST, but would have been completely in favor of full-time standard time.

If Smith gets her way there won't be a Canada to follow suit in the next couple of years. All because, as trump says, we're being treated so unfairly.

Why do you think time zones have anything to do with electric banking transactions?

But yes you're right about infrastructure such as alarms. But we've already changed the DST start and end dates several times and every thing seems to have worked out. So dropping DST entirely, or sticking with DST entirely would be work fine I think.

I agree about uniformity across the nation being important.

You misremember. It's an argument that many have for abandoning DST altogether and sticking with standard, sane time zone hours, not keeping DST

DST year round in northern states (or countries) would probably mean schools would have to adjust their schedules in winter, starting later, and running later.

Here in Alberta we have a premier who fancies herself as a donald trump sort of leader (she's a stable genius), so she got her party to pass a law to make DST year round here, never mind that only a few short years ago a referendum came down decidedly against year-round DST. Had the referendum been about keeping standard time year round, it would have been a landslide "yes." But she knows best, democracy be damned.

Personally I want standard time all year long. But changing clocks, as dumb as it is, is preferable to DST in winter. Honestly the time change has never bothered me. I haven't really noticed it in decades. Laptop, tablet, cell phone time all change automatically and alarms ring when they should. If people stopped thinking so much about the time change and using it as an excuse for their ills, it would affect their health less. It's like my relatives that lived abroad their entire lives, but every time they'd make the trip back here for the summer they'd complain endlessly about jetlag and constantly look at their watches and say, "oh it's 3am back home." Whereas when I travel I change my watch and phone to the destination time zone the minute I get on the plane, and then never think of my home time for the duration of the trip. Still get tired and exhausted but can adapt faster without my brain constantly thinking of the time difference.

modded 0, flamebait!? Really? Come on mods you can do better than that! Wish I had mod points about now.

uBliock Lite cannot block the kind of malware ads that come from html-load.com and related sites, and other ad-blocker-blocker systems that rely on integrated javascript. I've seen the html-load malware on slashdot even. Also I doubt uBlock Lite can stop YouTube ads, something that even uBlock Origin struggles with sometimes.