You can. You call the school. That’s what people did before schools started allowing phones everywhere.

If there is an emergency, you’ll need to call them anyway. No school is just gonna let your kid leave because the kid says it’s okay.

Sincerely, a fellow dad

Oh yeah, that’s fake. Turtles have webbed digits.

Roombas have also had “beacons” before they had any competition. You could set two of them up to block it from leaving.

I also have a hard time imagining that if a Roomba store chose to use its bots in the store, they would go with the cheapest model instead of showing off one of their top models.

And half the time it came from the factory like that.

It usually has better results. The features alone, however, put it above DDG.

Rankings aren’t static. You can block a site, pin it to the top of results, or just derank/promote it.

Want to redirect a domain? You can do that.

Want to see specific results? Like PDFs only, or maybe just small web, educational, news stories, forums, or whatever? Use a lens!

Love AI summaries? You can use them! Hate AI summaries? Don’t worry, they’re off by default and require you to press the small “Summarize” button.

You probably understand bangs, right? Using !w will search Wikipedia. You probably also know that some sites, such as Reddit, have shit results so using !r would be worthless. Kagi supports bangs but also has what they call “snaps” - if you type @w, it will be replaced with site:wikipedia.com.

Oh, yeah, one more thing. No ads. There are no risks of misaligned interests between you, Kagi, and their advertisers.

Sweatpea is getting a second season! Check it out if you haven’t yet.

First off, he’s an excellent couple’s counselor and, sure, all his friends went to him, but their divorces are not his fault!

On one hand, as an American, I would have loved to see us win.

On the other, nothing made me happier than seeing our asses get handed to us after Trump played interference.

You mean football, football, football, knifeball, and wheelball?

This is what happens when you conquer half the world and forget to tend to them.

You end up with cunts and people eating giant mutant grass called “corn”.

Also, today I discovered that we didn’t know how to cultivate sweet corn until 1779. Multiple Native American tribes independently discovered how to do so a long time before then. It literally took us three hundred years to finally sit down and ask them.

Nearly every state mandates AC. I haven’t seen a home in the US without it in nearly thirty years.

I know the Northwest and Alaska are special but nearly every other home has it - according to the EIA, about 90% of them.

Tbf particulates only provide short-term relief. Long term, though, they increase the thermal capacity of the atmosphere.

Blame the standards group. There are so many things USB is excellent at but they have been horrifically butchering the implementation.

They need to mandate compliance. Each accessory should support a basic level of features. Packaging and listings should include a facts table which shows the support for the various features. You shouldn’t have to guess.

But let’s talk about the features. Oh. My. God. Let’s talk about it.

USB-PD is great. But they don’t have to support it. Or they can have their own implementation which is also compliant. Or their own implementation which isn’t.

Oh, but you can connect your headphones into the USB port and play music! Well, only if the device, cable, and headphones support analog audio. Or if the device, cable, and headphones support digital audio. But if it supports digital audio, both devices must support synchronous audio. Or asynchronous. Or adaptive. And none of these are cross-compatible.

Well, that’s annoying. At least video isn’t bad. You can use it to connect directly to your monitor! Just make sure it’s DP. Or HDMI. Or VGA. Or MHL. Or VirtualLink. Only DP and HDMI are cross-compatible.

They also can support Ethernet. Or they might not. They could support ThunderBolt. Or they won’t.

They have to be at least USB 3.0. Sorry, 3.1 Gen 1. Wait, 3.2 Gen 1x1. Oh, I mean SuperSpeed USB 5Gbps. Ah, fuck, never mind they changed the standard again - USB1/2 are fine.

But at least manufacturers are happy to put the specs on their packaging and listings, right? I’m sure there isn’t any natural incentive to hide this information so they can sell inferior products.

That’s the worst part about it - the fix is so simple. Google just completely abandoned it.

It was just a single kernel function call on a single line with slightly modified arguments. Just make a small update and it works perfectly fine.

I spent much more time researching the fix than I did applying it. But now I have to rebuild and reinstall it every single time I update my kernel.

Arguing the other side for both you and the user above:

As shitty as the average driver is, I see a lot more car accidents in a parking lot than I see car accidents in some random field.

People hit the street lamps in parking lots, too. We mitigated this by using a concrete base that goes up a few feet. They can hit it but the lamps are still fine.

When you put the panels where cars are supposed to be, you have to put them up higher, this requires more material for the structure. Because the structure is now much taller, you need more material to keep it rigid.

That’s true but solar panels aren’t that heavy.

You’ll also have a bigger profile compared to the wind, so you guessed it, more material is needed to make it stronger.

Wind isn’t really that much of an issue due to the profile of the panels.

Oh, and if a panel falls on someone’s car and damages it, or injured a person waking underneath, you’ll get sued, so you need a wider safety margin, which means a stronger structure, which means more material is needed.

You can say that about almost anything. Have you not wondered how they can build large stores and warehouses so quickly? Solar panels are much lighter than their roofs.

When it rains on those panels, they create a concentrated line of water falling from a pretty good height. This will increase erosion of the parking lot, which means you need to do more frequent repairs to the surface, or you need to use more material to create gutters and channels to safely move that water away. If you go that route then you need to clean and maintain those gutters

Gutters and channels are rather cheap, especially compared to pretty much everything else in the project or even the cost of the parking lot. You can also save a bit of money by just angling the panels a bit and including a small space between them.

You’re also going to have a large energized transmission network running over an area with extremely high foot and vehicle traffic

Solar panels are low voltage, around 40v. Electrocution risk is lower than with the street lamps.

that’s not going to be a problem because the entire electrical system is going to be ripped out by a junkie before there’s a chance for anyone to get hurt…

What’s stopping them now? There’s lots of copper in the street lamps and various equipment at a store. The answer is that the copper isn’t easy to access. It would take someone way too much time to get any substantial amount of copper from the wires so long as the run back is protected. They would need to rip apart each panel to get to it.

Then there’s also the additional complexity required to clean elevated panels like that, the difficulty in maintenance, complication to firefighting, the list of logistical issues goes on.

Not really - you just need a ladder.

They’re placed on ground that’s usually not being used or isn’t being utilized in a better way. Ground solar is much cheaper than any other method and can be put together by almost any idiot.

I like the idea of building them over parking lots, too, though. Parking lots are big contributors to the urban heat island effect as those large black slabs absorb a lot of light and heat. So it would provide a bit of shade and help cool down the general area.

There is the risk of someone hitting a pole but you could just place them like we do with the street lamps - use a concrete base that goes up a few feet from the ground.

The song about that one guy who could’ve saved that other guy from drowning but didn’t? Then Phil saw it all and at his show he found him?

Are you still alive? How’s that blood clot doing?

I’m from Indy - no one is buying the story. The councilor is a complete tool who’s hated by his own constituents and will be voted out. He’s been caught multiple times making up shit like this just for attention.

Just a thought - if someone was this passionate against new AI data centers, why would they get an anti-data center flyer, put it in a plastic bag, leave it under his doormat, and then shoot up his door? If they’re going to this much trouble, they want to stop the data centers. But they’d be relying on the councilor looking under his doormat and that his opinions wouldn’t be hardened by this. Why wouldn’t they try to kill the councilor, too? Why wouldn’t they at least leave behind an actual threat?

What’s much more likely is he either did this for attention or it was a drive-by shooting and he either put the flyer there himself or it just happened to already be on his porch.