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IMO this kind of thing adds work and stress for the best students. If I'd been faced with something like this while I was in school I would have felt the need to basically curate a…

It probably is.

Yes, that's why they're still doing it. It just doesn't fill up a 40-hour week.

Oh, I see. Yeah, good point about splitting a 240V outlet. Not as convenient as having them everywhere, but it'd certainly be possible. NG may be 100% efficient, but heat pumps are…

I'm not clear what point you're making about PDUs. Re 120V outlets, while batteries don't need to supply the full peak load, they are more effective the more of it they can supply.…

I assume plug-in batteries are considerably more workable in the UK on 240V, since they could charge and deploy at double the rate of a plug-in system here. Of course 240V plugs ex…

But you're implying that they could use non-destructive means and choose not to.

We're talking about browsing history, not cookies and cache.

We've got a fly-pollinated bush in our yard. Smells like rotting death when it's wet to attract them. (I did not plant it...)

I also explicitly save stuff I plan to use later, but you can't always predict that in advance.

The practical argument I can understand. From the abstract argument though, it sounds like you'd be opposed even if the anonymization could be guaranteed, which I don't understand.…

You're right about explicitly set preferences. What do you see as the harm in website owners using aggregated analytics data to improve their sites?

My understanding is that any front-end analytics solution will require consent. You're right about explicitly set preferences. I was mixing that up with inferred preferences.

You're right; I haven't looked into this in detail in some time. You can't save inferred preferences, but can save things that the user has explicitly selected to save.

I'm torn on this. Not infrequently, some random page I saw months ago will come to mind, and I'll use browser history to find it. More infrequently, I'll go even further back than …

You can't even save user preferences (like language or other settings) without showing a cookie banner. Edit: I was mistaken. You can't save inferred preferences, but can save expl…

Aggregated analytics do, and you can't run a serious website without some kind of analytics. Preference-storing does as well, despite any reasonable user expecting that, if they se…

"I didn't read it," sure. But, "A reasonable person would not read it?"

I've found Gemini to be one of the better ones as far as disagreeing.

Even if it weren't lighter, it might be faster to set up and take down.

Agreed, that was a great line. The whole comment made me wish I could upvote more than once.

Literally a true statement, I guess.

And in fact, a significant subset of users will pester you to make an app, even if your website can and does do everything an app could do.

Yeah, I mean obviously. Who among us hasn't received a casual £5M from friends now and again? Why would it have anything to do with his political campaign?