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Well, you might be able to do it. But you might not want to be holding it in YOUR hand when you turn it on. :P

The problem is, this assumes that even if the kind of AI creators that are scraping relentlessly (and there’s a fair few that do) took this data source directly, that they’d then put an exception in their scrapers to avoid wikipedia’s site. I doubt they would bother.

Not really, an almost infinite number of non-shakespeare monkeys came before him and also didn’t happen to write the entire works of shakespeare.

There are quite a few April Fool RFCs, but this one is definitely one of my favourites. This one and RFC 1149 (A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers).

In the year twenty-five, twenty-five, twenty-five.

Although this year might feel like it has 25 months actually.

As an outsider looking in, everything this regime does is testing the waters to see if they can get away with that, and if so how much further can they push it.

If someone doesn’t actually take real action to stop it soon, it may become unstoppable.

Maybe c# has similar. There’s \r\n or \n like c++ and Environment.NewLine.

Probably it’s similar in that Environment.NewLine takes into account the operating system in use and I wonder if endl in c++ does the same thing?

Yeah but on one hand you hold the possibility of peace and in the other rampant profiteering.

For an absolute scumbag the choice is obvious, no?

This was exactly what came to mind when I read the post.

Well, I’d expect that if they allowed 5v through but with a low current limit (I think the default 5v standard states quite a low current allowance). They could catch anything drawing too much and shut the port off until it detects disconnection/other reset.

I mean, if they’re thinking about protecting a downstream device, adding this logic would make more sense than just not supplying any power unless a negotiation is made.

In any case, since standard USB ports on a computer will output 5v without anything being negotiated, then it’s really no less safe than any other USB port in that regard.

But wait. Doesn’t this make them both dumb? I’d expect a modern USB-C charger to still support basic 5v low current lazy devices too. If there’s a USB-A to C cable that works, it must also still be possible to send the basic 5v down a C-C cable.

I also think there’s always going to be a balance between how much a device needs to make and/or how much it needs fast charging to make sense to add the charging circuit for PD/PPS. Even $1-2 on top of the cost can ruin margins in the current electronic market.

Yeah, but it randomly freezes for me in Linux. Really annoying.

Otherwise it looks quite nice.

The point he makes in this episode about the menu prices. This is probably the same reason your supermarkets don’t include sales tax on the pricing. If they did most people would go to the “cheaper” one.

Most of the world have laws to require this, and things are much clearer.

No one will change this behaviour voluntarily, as they showed people will see the ones that don’t change as cheaper, even when in reality they’re not.

If everyone has to change to meet legal requirements, then they will all need to change and it’ll be fine.

No, just this one particular crow.

Many many years ago. I did some work in Texas. We go into this sit down place. Now, having been caught by the huge portions a previous evening I’m cautious. I just order a chicken burger. The waitress is all like “Oh are you sure, just the chicken burger on its own?” I’m thinking, oh well maybe things are normal size at this place. I order some fries to go with it.

Some time later the chicken burger arrives completely filling the full size plate it came on, and the fries came on an entirely separate plate.

I’m not a small guy, but I could not eat all that.

No no no. You need to at least let someone post about getting up 2 hours before they went to bed, licking the tar off the road and whatever else it was. THEN you say the last line.

You closed this off for the rest of us to join in!

Kids of t’day.

You could be right, but I am not so sure.

In terms of percentage, the lib dems made a smaller gain than labour. I’d also suggest that while maybe some of those votes came from wavering labour voters, I expect that at least a similar number would have also come from the tories. I don’t think the lib dems split the vote any more than they normally do.

Reform, while not new, last time round they did not compete against the tories. This time, they did and the result is clear.

I think that is indeed the best you can hope for with new labour in control over the tories. Slightly less backhanders and tax breaks for the already stupidly rich.

I don’t expect anything far left of centre. I say this as someone that is somewhat centre left (UK centre left to be clear, USAans don’t judge me on your political compass), I don’t really think I resonate too much with the current labour party.

I think the thing that terrifies me, is that the tory party we had, that pushed through a no-deal brexit (when there were many other less disruptive ways to leave the union available), that has wet dreams about planes flying immigrants to Rwanda weren’t right wing enough for our population.

What is the tory party’s solution to this going to be? I doubt it will be returning to the centre right position they occupied in the Cameron era. They either accept their death, or move further right. I suspect we’ll see the latter. When we find out their new leader, I suspect it will cement their direction for us all to see.

That’s what I originally thought would be the case. But, just statistically (looking at voter share here):

2019: Cons: 43.6% Lab: 32.1% LD: 11.6% SNP: 3.9%
2024: Lab: 33.7% Cons: 23.7% Reform: 14.3% LD: 12.2% (Weirdly, wikipedia has yet to include reform in their share ranking had to use BBC)

Labour picked up less than 2% more of the vote share. Reform took the vast majority of the tory lead away.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad the tories are out. But, it’s mostly because reform split the vote and Labour were second place in most constituencies. This is important to bear in mind while the conservatives sort themselves out to decide how they deal with not being right wing enough…

I think it’s important to note that the primary reason the conservative party lost many of their seats is because their vote was split between them, and an even more right wing party led by Nigel Farage. It wasn’t because of a huge shift to the left (or at least the centre left position the labour party occupy right now).

In my constituency for example, if you put the conservative + reform votes together, they would have beaten the nearest competitor by a country mile.