Making it more practical to walk and more people will walk. I spend time in a major European city and mostly walk unless it is a long distance say 2 or more kilometers or later at night.

Not necessarily. Companies can get lists of graduating seniors and reach out to those they are interested in at least interviewing. I heard form several companies while in graduate school that I had not sent a resume or otherwise applied.

Just enact a token tax on AI compute. Make it large enough to easily fund UBI for all the people thrown out of work and enough to subsidize pebble bed reactors at every data center.

Thanks for the clarification. I understood the part that sd:

The 13-year-old girl arrested in August 2023 had been texting with friends on a chat function tied to her school email at Fairview Middle School, which uses Gaggle to monitor students’ accounts.

just to mean she signed up using a school email and the school had access to what was otherwise a private account, not a service run on behalf of the school. TFA was somewhat vague about the exact circumstances. But yea, they over reacted.

Apple had a product called AppleLink which they opened to end users in the late 80's. The original one was an ihouse/partner/developer system that ran on GEIS machinery, but they partnered with Quantum Computer Services and Steve Case, who was running a service for Commodore 64s. Apple beta tested AppleInk for a while, I still have my TShirt and mug. AppleLink eventually morphed into AOL and the rest is history. In 1991, STS-43 sent the first email from space using a Mac portable and AppleLink.

So in it's own way.Apple was responsible for Eternal September...

Very true, but looking at the test mule Chevy used there are a lots of areas that could be improved without making the truck look like a Aptera. For example the headlights, rear view mirrors, front fascia angle, wheel arches. Even incremental changes that lowers the Cd would be helpful.

So long as people want their cars and SUVs to look like, well, cars and SUVs, the laws of physics dictates that increased battery capacity is the only change they can realistically make. Everything else about modern EV drivetrains is already pretty damn efficient.

While I agree on the perception issue, respectfully disagree that aerodynamics can't be addressed while maintaining how some think a vehicle should look. Incremental changes over time that aren't radical will reshape the idea of what a truck, SUV or car looks like as well.

Cars have been sold without spares for years as a weight saving device to get better CAFE results. While I agree the effort is far from real world conditions, improving aerodynamics vis things such as hidden windshield wipers. lower drag front ends instead of a billboard perpendicular to airflow, etc. will be key to EV mileage advances without having to wait for better batteries.

I suspect if they or a family member received that treatment they would not say the same thing. Where I live the parents would lawyer up a lawsuits start flying; so the school district would never pull that stunt. What I don't get is why does teh school have access to their social media accounts? If a school asked for it they's get a big F off it's none of your business. I suspect many kids ahve the 'offical' account and a real account. What happens when a bunch of students decides to monkey wrench the system and flood the zone or someone hacks an account and post something for the laughs?

Since airlines know exactly how much revenue each mile generated, they can control how much money they make on each redemption and easily change the price of a ticket at any time. High demand routes as well as high load factors allow them to bump up the miles they demand for a seat; and let them have sales where there is excess capacity. In addition, many never get redeemed so they get essentially free money for them; plus they can also sell thngs like lounge access, drinks on flights and in the lounge, etc. that have large profit margins as well..

Yea, and TFA didn't have details on the discount. It seems like a move to grab at a chance to lock in the feds on AWS. The big playersa re making moves to stifle competition. Oracle and OpenAI made similars move with chatGPT:

The GSA announced a similar deal last month with cloud rival Oracle . The agency also reached an agreement with OpenAI on Wednesday that will give federal agencies access to ChatGPT for $1 through the next year.

From what I see, it's a big announcement but not a whole lot of change; I suspect as you do that it only involves FedRamp due to Federal security requirements. As for AWS, this could also be the tech equivalent of the drug dealer giving you your first hit for free. Once agencies are tied tightly to AWS it will be harder for competitors to gain traction, and after 2028 AWS can start raising prices as a result.

Would be considered a radical lefty today and no doubt appalled by what the Republican Party has become: Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed. Their mistaken course stems from false notions of equality, ladies and gentlemen. Equality, rightly understood, as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences. Wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

He also warned them about letting religion intrude into politics: Republicans are selling their soul to win elections. Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. The government won't work without it. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them.

It is interesting apparently in France while ships are masculine, they can be given a feminine name, Germany a ship is general neutral, but is often referred to in the masculine. It was interesting to do a little research and discover how ships are referred to in different cultures. As for submarines in English, they are generally referred to by the feminine, even if they have a masculine name so the USS Pulaski, for example, would still be referred to as she. However, submarines are generally just referred to submarines as boats.

Thanks, I did not know that.

He clearly ordered a large course of stupid with hubris as the dessert.