Some might argue that modern English is a creole of old English and French

I’d rather we get eradicated but the rest of nature is fine.

The supreme court, after such an amendment miraculously passes:

“Well actually, this sentence doesn’t mention the president of the United States in particular, so it means every president of every company ever. But a company president doesn’t have pardoning powers, so this makes no sense. So this amendment is invalid!”

Upscale it to 4K for no reason

Depending on the internal design of the phone, maybe.

But batteries are rectangular and they can’t put them EVERYWHERE. There are places (such as near the USB port) where you can’t really put battery no matter what because there have to be things that would interfere with the rectangular battery.

So it might have an effect, but not necessarily, depending on design, and it might be smaller than you’d think.

I’d have expected ad providers to catch on pretty quickly that there’s cheating involved, no?

I think that’s right for a website where you accidentally clicked an ad and now it’s trying to convince you you have a virus and you need to download their virus to remove it. Or maybe for an ad pop-up where annoying you might increase the chances that the content makes it into your brain.

But for a news website i have trouble seeing the logic.

Well you don’t say it draws 2 kWh at idle. You say it draws 2 kW at idle. While that is incredibly inefficient, it means that for every hour the device is idle, it draws 2 kWh of energy.

Oh yeah battery size isn’t sufficient to fully gauge battery life. You need to know power draw to calculate that. And it’s good to get battery life ratings from reviews. Great. It helps a lot.

But it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t get good, comparable physical specs.

Kinda like processors. Gigahertz and core counts are far from telling you everything, but it doesn’t mean it should be abstracted into some weird unit.

What? They draw power, not energy?

Energy is just the product of power and time. And just like amperage, the power draw of a device varies.

And this should be obvious, but what makes more sense to an electronics engineer doesn’t matter one bit to the end user. And the end user doesn’t know anything about milli-amperes or volts (except maybe their wall outlet voltage).

Yes. I really wish all batteries used watt-hours. All it’d take would be for someone to design a phone that runs at a different voltage and their battery numbers would stop being comparable.

I disagree. Joules are really hard to understand to laypeople. Watt-hours directly relate to the power of a device without conversion, and can even be really translated in terms of power bill.

3.6 megajoules? Eh, I guess that’s maybe a lot? Or not?

1000 watt-hours? Oh, like running a microwave for a whole hour? Dang that’s a LOT!

It saves an amount of money so minuscule it literally makes no difference.

As for thickness, the iPhone 15 is 7.8 mm thick. You cannot in good faith believe that a 3.5 mm headphone jack can’t fit in it.

I’ve always wondered. Is there really a benefit to a ton of redirects like that? Like, do they gain anything by making it harder to back out?

Or is it just extremely incompetent website programming?

I’m surprised that happens! Seems like a complicated mistake to make.

If I order an Americano and you serve me a filter black coffee, I swear …

I kinda wish we’d kept the name chariot. It sounds more epic.

Sorry. Did a direct translation of the French name without thinking.

I’d never questioned it before now, but … How come the towers move? Who had that idea?

The jesters moving diagonally because they’re whimsical I guess but the towers are quite odd.

Oh spam email I absolutely get a lot of. But spam calls, thankfully, are a relatively rare occurrence.

It took me an embarrassingly long amount of time to get it.

In case you don’t get it: autism and autumn are similar words.