What way would you suggest to change the school shooting issue without highlighting it? This actually could be the best way of doing that: Highlighting the shooting itself but not the terrorist responsible.
I agree that showing the shootings as anonymous events is superior to highlighting the shooters. I also think that this site is an even better version of that, showing how non-unique it makes a person when they commit an act like this. However I just personally believe in nurture over nature. I think that not reporting on anything like that at all will take away as I see it the largest motivation for any act of indiscriminate violence, which in my mind is notoriety of some sort. Then again maybe some see it as a way of killing themselves where there's no chance of turning back, similar to a suicidal person driving into oncoming traffic...their decision may just solely be about them, in which case why would it need to be on the national news in the first place?
It was a very funny "no, no, no, see, this is a Facebook product that's sooooo integrated with our platform and totally isn't something you can spin off easily!!" moment.
What is proprietary about Apples chargers? They sell USB-A and USB-C wall warts, and their devices happily charge on non-Apple chargers. Their laptop chargers are USB-C and have been for some time. I charge my MBP from a Lenovo power brick. The only proprietary part is the lightning connector.
To answer the question, with a usb-c/micro usb cable? No, obviously not. With a Google/Samsung/Anker manufactured wall-wart? Yes! Android "chargers" aren't a thing that I'm aware of with USB-C, just with micro usb, which would be pointless, because the proposed law would make those redundant anyway.
When was the last charger sold with a built in cable? And honestly, why is carrying 2 cables such a hardship? I agree that USB-C would be more convenient, but the bluster that is made every time this "issue" comes up really is over the top. Look at it this way; the argument goes that having Lightning cables produces e-waste. Changing to USB-C will render existing Lighting cables useless, thereby producing significantly more e-waste! At this stage both arguments are redundant.
As to being labelled a 'troll'; the OP made a factually incorrect statement. I questioned, genuinely, other than the cable, what was proprietary about wall-warts and charging bricks currently made by Apple?
Not if the cable is built into the power adapter. But if the power adapter just has a USB-C port, then you can charge it using the cable that comes in the iphone box.
Not really. The biggest claim is that this measure will reduce e-waste, but that’s a red-herring since the e-waste is in the charger not the cable, and chargers are already interchangeable.
… but Apple’s chargers have been USB on the charger side for ages (previously USB-A, currently USB-C). The easy availability of chargers that work with the phones did little to stop the complaints when they were unbundled.
Wrote a compiler with .NET last year. Used F# for the Lexing/Parsing to an AST and C# for LLVM IR code gen. Interop was so easy, but the docs for the C# LLVM bindings were not so great, so it's a little incomplete. I only got it to effectively interpret, never actually executed a whole outputted object file.
Exactly what I walked away with after wasting my time reading this. The other line that really irked me:
>One thing is clear — Covid may not be that deadly to people, but I think it’s primary goal is to kill capitalism.
How much more deadly does something need to be to be taken seriously in the land of the free? 440k unnecessary deaths in the span of a year apparently doesn't qualify?
