You have to look up the maximum wattage for the given cabin configuration. I’ve found 30W to be about as high as I can go without it cutting out. Use a phone charger for your laptop.
This is where it’s helpful to have a multi-port charger where they’re not all high-draw.
IMO more important to go with something flat or light that won’t fall out under its own weight.
Assuming this is USB-C ports, they're supposed to negotiate a supported power limit with the device you plug in. If the port is saying "I can deliver 60W" and then cutting out if you draw more than 30, there's something wrong with their chargers.
Everyone wants to think they're the most valuable thing in the world, but economics doesn't care about how much people value themselves. It only cares about when both buyer and seller agrees to the value of their work.
You may think a farm worker deserves $500,000,000 a year, but that won't matter until someone else decides to pay them that.
Ultimately, it's OK to say some things are more valuable than others, including the value of your labor.
To recap: OP resigned because he feared what might happen in a meeting with USDS. It might have required him to kill someone, or explain his work to a contractor. Somehow these are presented as equally-odious propositions.
He openly refuses to acknowledge the legitimacy of USDS, referring to it as "a so-called 'department'", and neglects even a cursory investigation into whether it may in fact be a legitimate executive agency established by Obama, staffed by government employees with requisite clearances and authority.
It's wild to me that so many smart people think the White House should be boxed out of the day-to-day operations of GSA and OMB, whether by law or tradition, despite being undeniably responsible for their actions.
Being required to meet with private citizens, who won't even admit their own names, and being expected to subject oneself to them in violation of actual laws, is not a "what might happen". It is already potentially a crime. It is certainly a coup against the lawful governance of our nation.
Not wanting to collaborate with a coup is an entirely reasonable line to draw.
DOGE took over USDS and changed its name, so it didn't have to create a new agency.
Given the way they're operating, I would also question their legitimacy if I was working for the government and they came to my office.
But I wouldn't resign. Better to let them fire you and then you have standing for a lawsuit (whether you win or not, that's another story; probably not, but at least you can sue).
Right. I think the real risk here is that even a “positive” outcome at 18F would have still been negative in every other context that matters to him. Why stick around and risk a neutral-to-positive experience that could result in labels like “scab,” “collaborator,” and “traitor” by no other fault of your own?
Yes people don't want Trump corrupting the government.
Corruption is bad.
Power is easy to abuse.
Checks are hard when a president doesn't care about the law or the constituon kr the damage he does to the country.
There's a reason several departments are supposed to be at arms length from the president.
Many of these reforms happened after Nixon. Now assuming the country survives it's clear we need something more. Possibly some administrative agencies need to be placed under the judicial branch to avoid executive corruption. Also impeachment needs to be much easier, arguably we need something like a vote of no confidence where a malcious president can be replaced by the VP. Although even that might not work like a lot of problems relating to the trump disaster era its hard to overcome reflexive partisanship
I went to a USDS recruiting event in the Bay Area a decade ago. The whole pitch was that they were Obama’s elite squad of private-sector tech workers, on brief tours of duty, taking orders directly from the White House about what to work on.
In reality, they were embedded with federal agencies and worked on engagements for them. You gotta read what people actually do in practice, versus just the pitch.
They were not Obamas army or his personal servants. Sure some might have been excited to work with President Obama but unlike Trump its not like they were being abused to "go after" perceived political enemies and its not like they would have objected to say Trump telling them to make tech to improve rural access to government resources. They were working to try to improve the government for the good of nation
Unlike with "DODGe"which is an attempt to destroy many governmental institutions either to find places to hire loyalists or to remove opposition to corrupt and criminal actions taken by the executive branch or just because someone on one team once said something positive about gay people.
Does anyone else remember the online User’s Manual for early iPhones? It was web-based, but had a full JavaScript reimplementation of UINavigationController, UIScrollView, and UITableView.
I always suspected it was part of some bigger project that never panned out (maybe just prototyping?).
Setting aside the question of how we should evaluate content for being “in the public interest” and assuming the programming is as valuable as it could possibly be
How many people still tune in via OTA antennae? How does the value of broadcast TV compare to other possible uses of that RF spectrum?
You can get a lot of programming, at higher quality, over an antenna than Xfinity cable, which relays the same signals - with an upcharge - and more compression artifacts and latency
OTA is more important now with so many people cancelling cable TV service. Use streaming for regular shows, and antenna for live stuff. Also very useful during local emergencies. Add an HD Homerun and you have an app-like experience along with a DVR.
Thanks for sharing. I have the same “bright lights” hypothesis. If I see something bright I close my eyes until it feels like it’s passed. Seems to work, but who knows until I get my next one.
I’m also realizing in my late-30s that I have at least some form of dyslexia - I used to think Ambien made me hallucinate letters dancing on the page, but it’s my eye muscles and happens most when I’m tired.
This is where it’s helpful to have a multi-port charger where they’re not all high-draw.
IMO more important to go with something flat or light that won’t fall out under its own weight.