BYD have many models. The Dolphin is a small hatch, the Seal a mid size sedan.

It’s baffling. Coming from Australia, most schools have uniforms. With varying degrees of age formality from requiring blazers and ties to simple polo shirts emblazoned with the school logo.

When I was in high school, my school changed its logo, and at the same time made other updates to the uniform. Only there was a transition period, all uniform sales were the new version but the previous version remained conformity with policy for either 3 or 5 years.

There were also systems in place to help kids whose families can’t afford uniforms, typically via parents donating uniforms their kids grew out of.

Which is of course ludicrous. Why is education so insanely expensive should include all the materials?

My degree in Australia had some suggested text books, but none of them required it^, and all the content you actually needed was supplied in the course materials.

^ one exception, a computer network admin class had a book for lab instructions. But the library had a set of them sufficient for a lab and limited the borrow duration to 3 hours so you’d check it out, run to class and return it back afterwards every week.

Punished if ever they screw around? Already well behaved.

Hmm, what a coincidence 🤣

As with anything it’s even more “it depends”. Melbourne busses are slow an unreliable, the vast majority of tram routes share roads with cars and get stuck behind them making them painful in busy periods, and the train network is primary built around the idea of getting white collar workers from the suburbs to the city in the morning and back out again in the evening.

For example, without a car the 10-15 minute trip to drop the kiddo off with their grandparents would be over 90 minutes. It’s less than 10km but because we’re on different train lines it’s require either going all the way to the city and out again, or a train and a bus that runs 3 times a hour with no timing connection to the train.

Australian here, Melbourne specifically. I have never had to prepay. It’s always fill up then go in to pay.

Easy. Release the innocuous ones. And transcribe the incriminating the same way blind people can get descriptions of movies.

Describe the heinous acts, use anonymity for the victims, use the names for everyone else.

In my location in Australia the cost of usage and cost of grid are separated.

I pay roughly 25c kw/h, and each day about $1 for infrastructure. ie whether I use 50kw or 1kw my cost to connect to the grid is the same.

This is for residential, but I presume it may be different for commercial and industrial connections.

John Cullen in his Broomgate series said (and I’m remembering off the top of my head) the best teams might win $150k a season, split between 4 and that’s before expenses. So it’s not sport you’ll get rich even if you’re the best.

I upgraded January last year. My only regret now is not getting 64GB of ram

I always find the term eating the onion amusing. Especially as a Australian where we had a conservative Prime Minister bite into and eat a raw onion like an apple.

Reading Moore’s paper (which is the reference of the marketing person who coined the term), Moore’s law isn’t just miniaturisation, it was also an observation that’s the economics would improve. ie that building N transistors is cheaper on the next smaller node than the previous.

And without the economics working, the shrinking would never have occurred at the rate it did for so long.

So yes, it getting bigger would be against the spirit of the law.

Nah screw needing adb, that absolutely kills free and open source software stores like fdroid, and fdroid have said as much that Google’s then planned signing requirements would lead fdroid to stop.

The only way I’d even be remotely OK with another adb requirement is if

1. it’s a requirement to unlock the ability to install unsigned apps, ie it’s not to an install an app but set a flag
2. #1 becomes a requirement for Google certification so all manufacturers have to allow it
3. It doesn’t cause other types of attestation to fail that we see with unlocked, rooted and third party roms failing certain checks preventing some apps, most commonly banking ones from working

But the comparison is different now, Linux on the desktop is better and Windows is worse.

For example, if you turn off a bunch of telemetry options instead of stopping sending data it stops collecting it. That sounds subtle but it matters. It breaks functionality that has existed for >20 years, simple things like remembering what the last command was in the run dialogue when you open it.

I was on an Intel 7700k. With Windows 10 coming to an end this year my choices were:

A) switch to gaming on Linux B) build a new pc

Given its age I picked b), getting it in January this year. 9800x3d, 32GB ram. It’s been 11 months and no regrets.

(I could have gone c) and built a new computer AND switched to Linux, but I often play non steam games and didn’t want to deal with WINE myself)

In your opinion what game deserved the best rpg of 2025?

Basically the writing is separate from sounds.

And that’s how people who speak mutually unintelligible dialects of Chinese can communicate through writing. The word (sound) may be different, but the written character is the same.

What’s the issue with the push button on the toilet? Most toilets in my country are just a button to push on top?

I doubt they will. The market for NAND and ram is insane at the moment, RAM has gone up 100% in the last 3 months. Announcing a price too early could lead to having embarrassingly increase price shortly before or after launch, or take a loss on the products.

That’s not to say I don’t share your sentiments. I too hope they announce it sooner rather than later, but understand why they may be apprehensive.

Don’t liquor licences in your country require serving water?

In (all?) of Australia to have a liquor licence requires you also serve free water. That can be tap water, but it has to be available as easily as the alcohol. Typically from a bartender, waiter etc depending on the establishment providing it for you.