This article is not about engines idling. it is about specialized fuel-burning heaters sold in Nordic countries. They do not have cats.

Car companies already know how to get cats to heat up quickly. They use precats. Using electricity to heat the cat would seem like a bad idea when it's really cold, as the battery is already heavily loaded and operating at reduced capacity. Some people actually put heat blankets (mats) on their battery to warm it to get around the reduced capacity thing.

Ice melts too slowly regardless. Get a scraper for the ice/frost.

Firefox didn't support it. Chrome didn't support it without an experimental feature flag on. Not sure about Safari.

But sounds like there's no reason to be surprised there isn't much demand for JPEG XL support. Who would serve JPEG XL pics when browsers don't display it?

> Or you hold them to the agreements that they made when the US government gave them billions on the condition that they run fiber.

That's s myth. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 was almost completely unfunded. It authorized telecoms companies to add fees to their customer's bills to pay for infrastructure improvements. Those fees amounted to billions. And only some of it was used for fiber. But it didn't come from the US government, it came from customers.

The act was created to pay for "video dial tone", which was the idea you'd use interactive TV and video conferencing. The type of fiber chosen isn't even relevant today. It's not the type used for high speed internet now. It was used at the time in some ways for 45 mbps internet. Which is not what people are looking for today.

> You do know that not letting corporations run rough-shod over the country is an option, right?

I know you're not a child. I would appreciate it if you don't treat me like one as I am not one either.

> Anything involving changing public policy or other large scale changes should involve moving in that direction, not just throwing our hands up and saying “I guess we have to make incentives for capitalists to not be fuckheads!”

Capitalists are going to act in their best financial interest. Incentives work great to make changes as we know that's how capitalists work. When regulating you can do so most effectively by understanding how the groups you are regulating will operate.

What would be wrong with metered service? It's how we manage electricity usage. If you didn't pay for electricity you would use it a lot differerently.

If customers aren't paying for metered service then the ISPs have a strong incentive to try to tamp down customer usage. It allows them to offer lower prices at the same profit margins (or higher margins at the same price). And customers like lower prices.

Going to fiber isn't going to fix this. They can still oversubscribe their uplinks if it saves them money.

Maybe the fix for residential ISPs is to abandon flat-rate service? Better services costs more, as expected.

Yeah, Apple Maps is quite good now and it feels weird. I still use Google Maps more often on Macs though, mostly out of habit.

The thing to bring scrollbars back isn't even under accessibility. It's in the general setting as you need it if you don't use a mouse with two-way scroll wheel.

And some Apple apps don't completely work right if you turn them on.

it was one of the downfalls.

Mac OS Panther with all the metal windows, jellybean buttons, etc. was all done without Jony's help.

There isn't any of that kind of lithium (elemental lithium) in a lithium ion battery. Lithium ion batteries use lithium salts.

It's like saying water is highly combustible because it has hydrogen in it.

When a new plant opens virtually all the laborers will be Chinese. Some of the low-level management may be Taiwanese. Higher level management is Taiwanese.

The Taiwanese low-level management and laborers are there to teach the new laborers and managers how to do it. And over time they leave and are replaced with Chinese.

So in a "mature" factory all the laborers and low-level management will be Chinese. And the upper management will be Taiwanese.

Yes, profits flow to Taiwan. Obviously a lot of the money generated stays in China as it goes into taxes, workers pockets or to suppliers who tend to be local.

Your picture is stored in the chip on your passport using JPEG-2000 (US passports).

It's still not much though.

I find attaching a hard drive to my phone makes it less portable.

And yes, on a 10 mbit connect you'll find transfer times to be annoying long for PNGs of photographs.

If you like lossless you can use PNG and RAW. No one is stopping you.

WebP seems like the smarter play by far. You already have the hardware to decode it on so many platforms.

So JPEG-XL doesn't fly. It'll join JPEG-2000 on the pile. No big deal.

Kinda weird. They imported it without checking to see if it met US regulations?

Depends on the phone. On an iPhone or Apple Watch there is a chance it will still work. The device keeps your "key" information in memory when entering low power mode. That might get you through the day.

I expect some Android phones do this too.

Or it might not.

Google sends shake alerts directly through google play services.

Counties can also use their alert systems (like the AMBER alerts) but those aren't as quick. And quicker is better here.

It was in the mountains in a (very large) state park. No population in that area I expect. I bet a lot of hikers headed for that spot soon after though.

Maybe in the US.

The systems have been in place in Japan for a while longer.

It takes two people to make a back and forth. If you don't like a back and forth then don't participate. You can't go blaming someone else for dragging a conversation on when you are 50% of the continuation.

You expressed something about a problem with Lightning. And asked me a question about it. But you refused to express what this problem is.

You complained my argument is not valid just because I listed some specs. But you refuse to say which part isn't valid.

I can't decide which is more ridiculous. Complaining about my argument not being valid but refusing to indicate how, asking me a question and then refusing to specific what the question actually referred to or extending a discussion and then complaining about the discussion being extended.

Which part of my argument do you think is invalid? Do you have a question you want answered?

Or are you just hurling insults to divert from what you don't understand?

Is this your normal thing? To pretend others who clearly know this stuff well don't know what they are doing?

If you have some questions you want answered I can help. If you would prefer to insult others to divert from something you don't understand then you can just do that by your lonesome.

Which particular problem?

Do you mean the voltage issue? No, Lightning has that problem for the same reason USB-C does. Because both use USB-PD and USB-PD was specified in the way it was to keep the costs of chargers down. If a phone maker had to include a 100W 4-voltage agile power supply with their phone it would lead to a lot more cost and waste of materials.

I don't get how this is a "take". I explained how USB-PD (USB-C) produces these problems. And then I explained that Lightning never performs better than USB-C does. USB-C, even with its limitations, is better than Lightning overall and never worse in any case.

A charger capable of 5A and 20V is the "most powerful" charger. But some devices don't work at 20V.

A charger must be able to supply 5V, and may be able to supply 9V, 15V or 20V. It might supply all 4, or some subset. All devices must support 5V and may support other voltages. So if someone makes a charger that does 5V and 20V and then you plug in a device that wants either 5V or 9V then they will agree on 5V. Then that means you can't charge faster than 15W.

According to the spec it should still charge, just charge slowly. But some companies interpret the spec rather liberally or just don't comply. And then it may not charge at all.

Honestly, Valve seems to do a rather poor job with USB C (USB-PD) really support. So their charger is probably poor at it. A good quality USB C charger may support both your headphones and Steam deck. In case you care, like if you wanted to take only one charger on a trip. Better test it first before you leave on the trip of course!

The other poster is correct.

With USB C (technically USB-PD) a charger can support anywhere from 15W to 100W (later specs got to 240W, I will ignore these as likely neither you nor he have used any of the later spec chargers or cables).

Additionally a cable can support up to 3A or up to 5A. Given how the spec works, a 3A cable is typically only good for 60W, while a 50A one can go to 100W. Although it is a bit more complicated than that.

A charger must support 5V output. It can support 9V output, 15V output or 20V output additionally but is not required to.

So you can have a cable (limited to 3A) or a charger (limited to something less than 20V, often just 5V) which does not charge some devices well. It can even not charge them at all. And that's before we get to devices that are out of spec. Nintendo's Switch is notoriously out of spec. And Sony's Dualsense controller is also out of spec.

In theory if you have a charger which does all 5 voltages (5,9,15,20) and a cable that does up to 5 amps then it should charge any device as fast as it can be charged. This has been my experience with everything except the Nintendo Switch. And it could be the case with the Sony Dualsense too, although it hasn't been a problem for me.

A 3A cable is not a "shitty" cable, it's just a cable meant for less demanding devices. I typically prefer them because they are cheaper and coil easier (especially good for traveling). I even use them on some of the more demanding devices at times because if you are charging overnight then charging a bit slower isn't an issue, I'm asleep anyway.

Same with chargers, while I have 100W chargers capable of all 4 voltages and 5A they are larger and more expensive so I have a lot more of the less capable chargers because they are smaller and cheaper. The issue of trying to use more demanding devices on less capable chargers is going to be more and more commonplace on USB-C as devices no longer come with chargers and people just use whatever they have.

And since you're the anti-Lightning guy, note that Lightning doesn't seem to go past 3A regardless even a "cheap C cable" is as capable as a Lightning cable in terms of charge speed. And the 5A cables are more capable than any Lightning cable.

Lightning still has the voltage selection issues, if you have a 5V only charger then you're not going to go past 15W no matter what. Often you have a charger that doesn't go past 9V, but few would notice the charge speed difference between 27W and 30W. Both of these issues are the same on USB-C.

If you don't have USB-C devices over 30W (i.e. phones) then you probably wouldn't see these issues with USB-C (or Lightning for that matter).

People will have to get used to these issues and surely will. It's a pretty good spec it should work well for most people most of the time. And from a power delivery perspective it should never work worse than Lightning would in the same situation.

They generally are not spun down because the box uses it to buffer TV content all the time. So you can "rewind live TV". The drives are not just spinning but actively reading, writing and seeking. They basically copied that from TiVo.

https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-power-hog-20140617-story.html

The figure before the HDDs was 18W average usage by a cable box. Then it went to 35W with HDDs. Now that HDDs are being removed the figures are dropping again.