That’s… surprising. Here in Japan, over 26,000 km of the 30,000 some-odd km of track is electrified. Most of the fueled trains are for freight, which only accounts for less than 1% of rail traffic.

What prevented the UK from deploying electrification to that extent? Is it politics or logistics?

Anything read by LeVar Burton.

The letters correspond to the physical connector. The rectangle one everyone knows is A, B is the square connector usually used with printers and other accessories. C is a small, oval connector, and the first one that can be plugged in “upside down” because it’s symmetrical.

C is now common on phones and tablets and other smaller devices. If the connector is ovalish but even smaller and weirdly shaped, that’s one of the mini/micro USB variants and you need to find the right cable to match.

(If you have a USB C cable and i won’t fit into the oval connector because it’s too big, that’s Lightning made by Apple before C existed and is only found on their devices. You have to get a cable with Lightning on at least one end.)

“Please stop asking me!”

His tombstone had better say “Goodbye.”

Imagine being such a legendary part of computing history just because you recorded a few voice lines for some upstart that sold internet access by the hour.

That was more like a DDoS attack, but yeah.

Looks like we got ourselves a Rockstar Standoff.

Jerry Lewis: “All the voting, and the screaming of the orange man, and THE NICE LADYYY!”

I said “Hagrid, no!” In my mind right before looking at the title.

He would, too.

I’ve been served worse meals.

There is a user setting that delists communities you’ve subscribed to from All, so that you get different posts in your All and Home feeds.

“Row, row, fight the power!”

“The roads must roll!”

Someone in Japan is a Heinlein fan.

The most amazing part was the claim that the in-game soundtrack was reencoded as lossless audio.

I looked at the new audio as a spectrograph and compared it to the original MP3s. Not only were they the same level of compression as the originals, they were the same exact graphs. The same files, renamed from .mp3 to .flac.

That’s some proper gaslighting!

Sanders: “I’m still alive, you know.”

“Sometimes I can still hear his voice…”

Yeah! He had a heart attack and died!

And then Obama’s daughter took his place!

They think we can’t tell, BUT WE CAN TELL!

(This is sarcasm, because SOMEONE will take this seriously.)

The story about how Apple got its name is basically that.

The original employees were brainstorming what to call the company. Steve said just call it Apple. Everyone hated that idea. Steve barked back and said if none of you can come up with a better name than that, we’re calling it Apple. And the rest is history.

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