> you're supposed to be able to squeeze buttons on either side of the phone. But it only works with the volume buttons on the left

I don't recall there ever being any official language about "squeezing both sides of the phone" to make emergency calls. Doesn't the feature description in Settings explicitly reference which buttons to press?

Federal cases are generally at least partially unsealed once the defendant is arrested. Especially since the charge is supposedly workplace related not terrorism etc, then someone should be able to pull the case in PACER and at least find out the basic details.

> Plenty of cutting-edge science needs hobbyist-level EE, it's just not work in EE

But aren't there a lot of actual hardware products that are "simple circuit blocks connected to a microcontroller"? Like a toaster, shaver, keyboard, etc. If that's not "work in EE" then what is it classified under? It's not CS either.

That would be Computer Engineering. Its somewhere between EE and CS.

The actual electrical engineering involved there is the sort of thing that an early-career engineer could bang out in an afternoon. Maybe a day or so for the PCB designer. The more time consuming part might be managing the regulatory compliance testing.

Most of the orgs I worked in building simple circuit blocks connected to a microcontroller either farmed out the actual EE work to contractors or design houses or had 1 EE for like 20 different projects.

It would have been better phrased as "research in EE." There's no research involved in building a toaster.

Another commenter pointed this out, but those products take about 1-2 days of engineering time.

Computer engineering is the degree for that.

Also, it seems to mistake some definitions as causes.

A coronavirus isn't "claimed" to cause SARS. Rather, SARS is a name given to the disease cause by a certain coronavirus. Or alternatively, the name SARS-nCov-1 is the name given to the virus which causes SARS. Whichever way you want to see it.

For a more obvious example, saying "influenza virus causes influenza" is a tautology, not a causal relationship. If influenza virus doesn't cause influenza disease, then there is no such thing as an influenza virus.

Yes, I agree there are a lot of definitions or descriptions masquerading as explanations, especially in medicine and psychology. I think maybe insurance has a lot to do that. If you just describe a lot of symptoms, insurance won't know whether to cover it or not. But if you authoritatively name that symptom set as "BWZK syndrome" or something, and suddenly switch to assuming "BWZK syndrome" is a thing, the unknown cause to the symptoms, then insurance has something it can deal with.

But this description->explanation thing, whatever the reason, is just another error people make. It's not that different from errors like "vaccines cause autism". Any dataset collecting causal claims people make is going to contain a lot of nonsense.

Presumably this won't apply to Chinese OEMs, since even though their devices do ship a disabled by default Google Mobile Services (without the user facing Play Store APK), it obviously would not be suitable to require Google involvement for developing internal apps. The OEMs could set up such a debug licensing service themselves, but each of them would have to do it themselves, and then it would be impossible to debug Google-based apps on the devices.

Many Chinese OEMs are not Google certified, so it won't for sure apply to them. Some (Huawei) even had to implement their own app store and replacement for Google services. They are basically de-googled devices, though, sadly, often loaded with spyware from the other camp.

But some, like Oppo and Vivo are--they ship with a Google-OKed copy of GMS, and redistribute the Play Store on their own app store as a way to install it (ostensibly for use when traveling outside the mainland, though it can also be used with a VPN). So clearly they are on some level Google certified.

However, they also contain switches to disable background GMS, which makes them almost de-googled. All of them, not just Huawei, have their own app store/updater, and have some sort of push notification to replace Firebase Cloud Messaging (as I understand, Tencent provides a one touch service so devs don't need to hardcode each OEMs notifications). Otherwise, it would be impossible to get apps or notifications without a VPN/proxy.

But ethics class doesn't tell you what is ethical. If it was universally agreed what was ethical, there wouldn't be a class in the first place. There are a variety of theories and frameworks that themselves are based on different assumptions and beliefs, before you even get in to how to apply them.

Most reddit comments are rather sarcastic though, certainly not sycophantically answering the OP like the way the GPT model has become over time.

Eh, some of the "AITA"-type subreddits do seem to have a culture of, ah, giving the asker _way_ too much benefit of the doubt.

But Chrome is paying more as a percentage of their browser units' income, no?

Virtually all of Mozilla's income comes from the browser (via the Google search agreement). The vast majority of Google's revenue comes from ad revenue on search, YouTube, and Adsense. Not from Chrome directly. So they had less incentive to reward its security, but did so anyway. And they also do some of the best work in the industry, free, for competitors via Project Zero.

The browser totally has zero to do with google ads. Totally no connection at all.

the browser did limit the capabilities of adblockers quite drastically lately, but this is surly a coincidence.

Don't forget about YouTube!

What about YouTube?

uBlock Origin Lite blocks YouTube ads just fine.

Not for everyone.

Do you really think Google wouldn't do anything about as blockers? Especially now that no ads is one of the selling points of YouTube Premium?

Have you tried? There's a strength setting to the extension. At max strength it's been blocking all YT ads for a while.

And it doesn't matter what I think about it. I'm giving you facts not opinions.

Well, maybe.

Personally I believe that the browser is intended to defend against e.g. Facebook's apps. Google wants to make sure that if you buy a new device and it comes with a Facebook app preinstalled, it also comes with a browser. And that the browser isn't controlled by anyone who'd like to disrupt any of Google's many nice income streams.

You can't put the lithium itself out with water, but presumably water would still keep everything around it from burning?

It's not the lithium that's burning - it's first the electrolyte, typically ethylene carbonate, which decomposes the cathode - a process that releases oxygen, which in turn fuels the fire.

There's actually very little lithium by weight in li-ion batteries.

No idea where GP lives, but in lots of places there's simply no other option. Your best bet is to discharge the battery as far as you can make it, and then dump it with the rest of the trash. I don't have anyone willing to accept any batteries for recycling withing a few thousand kilometers. And yes, Amazon ships here just fine.