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Perhaps it could be revised by adding two unearthed Europlug round-pin sockets below the broad pins, though within a recess shaped like the thin European plugs to prevent the connection of earthed plugs, and declaring Europlug to be a British standard for unearthed mains, for use with devices not requiring earthing. Not sure if the geometry would work out, though.

It needs an unearthed version without the shutter-opening pin, for things like low-power electronic devices with figure-8 mains sockets, phone chargers and such.

Of course, some BS1363-stan will inevitably show up to argue that as this is a crucial safety feature, unearthed connections should be illegal, much like the Australians who argue that bike helmets should be mandatory in Amsterdam.

And Europe doesn’t have old houses with the same difficulty in wiring?

Ah, Amanda Palmer, Gaiman’s Ghislaine.

We need to turn the entire world into paperclips GPUs

It would be nice if the electoral system was preferential or proportional. Under first-past-the-post, it’s just a grim fight of all against all.

If you want a serious, thoughtful progressive challenge, Zack Polanski’s Green Party is right there. Your Party is just Magic Grandpa Corbyn (aka the one remaining socialist in post-Blair Labour, who got catapulted to fame for actually believing in something other than expediency, which masked the fact that he was not a particularly deep thinker) and a motley crew of hangers-on, each fired up by their own wild vision.

Now do the rest of the Brexit campaign.

He can probably expect a few lucrative directorships from Reform UK backers in return for his help in making the Farage government possible. In a few years’ time, his yacht will be moored next to the Blairs’ one.

Then the AAA studios will use some of their Saudi cash to buy out the most prominent indie developers, only to slowly strangle their products

“Dog bites man” is famously not a story, whereas “man bites dog” is. Replace biting with shooting and it’s the other way around.

Even worse than there being no comments: the code is extensively commented, but its function has drifted from what the comments describe to the point where they are actively misleading.

If Apple licensed their optimised variant of ARM to third parties, Steam would probably jump right on it, along with other hardware manufacturers. The performance Apple Silicon got over the x86 machines it replaced was game-changing, along with the improved battery life. And other ARM vendors, whilst behind Apple (who do have excellent CPU engineers), are catching up.

I suspect the Frame, with its x86 to ARM recompilation layer, is a trial balloon for higher-performance ARM hardware in more traditional form factors. More concisely, the Steam Deck 2, when it appears, will be a high-performance ARM device, with similar performance/efficiency characteristics to Apple Silicon MacBooks rather than phones/tablets. Of course, this depends on a vendor producing suitable CPUs.

This headline could have been written 15 years ago, in response to carnicore hipsterism, with its gentrified takes on meat-heavy fast food and artisanal butchering being the new playing bass in a hardcore band. (That particular subcultural current is also probably not unconnected to the hipster-culture-to-alt-right pipeline, as exemplified in Vice Magazine-adjacent edgelordism. After all, making eating meat part of one’s identity serves well to own the libs.)

The problem is that GPS signals are weak, and generally need a line of sight to the sky. Phones don’t rely on GPS alone, but also get location data by triangulating base stations and/or querying databases of WiFi SSIDs over the internet. And AirTags don’t contain either a GPS receiver or an internet connection: they’re just simple, low-power Bluetooth beacons which send an encrypted ID to any nearby iPhones, which add their locations and forward it to Apple.

Basically, all the smarts are in Apple’s infrastructure (including the numerous privately-owned devices running Apple’s location services). Replicating this without a network of roving receivers is a nonstarter.

Elon Musk: “I only date models”

Thatcher may be dead, but TINA lives on in the Labour Party that was her self-professed greatest work.

Your Party are the Hyperloop to the Greens’ high-speed train: a cockamamie pie-in-the-sky alternative that won’t actually work, except for diverting attention from the real thing that actually exists.