Really depends on the restaurant.

The smaller or local places where we are have all mostly switched to the handheld mobile devices.

The fast food places are all still front register POS style.

The larger chains or fancier restaurants are mostly still take your card away and run it then return for a signature.

I imagine the holdouts either don’t want to make the technological and cost investment to update (big chains) or they feel the mobile device is too “low class” (fancier restaurants).

You might be the reason for my story. I helped a bunch of other people cheat but I didn’t, and it was not directly intentional.

We had TI-89s too but we were required to erase all memory and show the output message to the teacher to be allowed to use it.

I was really into some game on my calculator and didn’t want to lose it from wiping my memory. So, I wrote a program that would mimic all the steps as if you erased it and return the same output at the end. Everybody was asking me to share it and they used it on the next test. I did too but I didn’t have anything saved to use to cheat.

I’m not the person you’re replying to but the one thing I’ve found them helpful for is targeted search.

I can ask it a question and then access its sources from whatever response it generates to read and review myself.

Kind of a simpler, free LexisNexis.

When it comes to LLMs, they cannot do any work that you yourself do not understand.

And even if they could how would you ever validate it if you can’t understand it.

Uniforms aren’t part of the culture in US public education.

Also, while uniforms aren’t standard in public schools there is typically a dress code students are expected to follow.

Please don’t engage in a straw man argument. I specifically said “if they had their freedom of choice and autonomy suddenly stripped away”.

Uniforms aren’t part of the culture for the majority of students in the US. If that switched overnight then yes, they would reasonably “freak out”.

Your generalized statement is “delusional”. There are plenty of private schools in the US that require uniforms, numerous jobs that require a specific uniform, and pretty much all businesses have a dress code.

So yes, going from a standard where no uniform is required in a school to having to wear one, especially if it was mandated without warning or input from those it affects would constitute “having your freedom of choice and autonomy taken away”.

Freedom of choice is the ability to make decisions and take actions based on one’s own preferences and desires, without undue external constraints or coercion.

Freedom of autonomy refers to the capacity of an individual to make their own choices and be self-governing, free from external constraints or coercion.

I don’t. Please explain it.

I found that as I got older I got more confident in general. I think mostly it’s just about being comfortable with who you are so you can be your genuine self around others.

I feel like anyone would freak out in the most incredible way if they had their freedom of choice and autonomy suddenly stripped away.

Uniforms aren’t part of the culture in US public education. There’s also conflicting studies on whether uniforms even make a difference so it’s not like there’s a clear argument for them.

Also, while uniforms aren’t standard in public schools there is typically a dress code students are expected to follow.

As a non-Californian I used to like him but that’s because all the news coverage I saw was positive and focusing on thE “talk the talk”.

Then I started to see more that was critical of his actions and my opinion changed.

It seems like the increased attention since January over his posturing seems to have highlighted his shortcomings too.

I"m pretty sure Apple’s DND lets you set separate options for calls and notifications.

Assuming you’re talking about the US, this is correct.

In the US you need to both actively acknowledge acceptance of the T&Cs, which simply opening a package typically doesn’t meet.

Also, and arguably more important, they need to include the entirety of the T&Cs for you to be able to review before accepting. This means on the packaging or presented at time of purchase, not requiring you to go elsewhere to find them or having to search them out.

Now even though it’s not legally enforceable, I’d say it’s still scummy and companies that do it should be avoided.

It’s crazy to me that needing a heart transplant doesn’t make you eligible to enroll in Medicare but needing a kidney does.

As an alcoholic whose life was barely under control.

The long story short version is that, over 10ish years I drank myself almost to death, ended up hospitalized with liver and kidney failure, got discharged and went through treatment and the ended back in the hospital in pretty serious need (so they told me) of a transplant.

Fortunately for me I got listed and was transplanted 5 days later. After that I realized I was given a second chance most people don’t get and worked to turn my life around.

I’m now 8 years sober, good credit, married with a house, 2 dogs, 2 cats and I wake up every day grateful to have this extra time.

I thought it was weird that the first time I saw the story the headline was about the prosecutor in the Diddy trial being fired but then every time after that her name was included and it was the Epstein trial instead of Diddy’s.

I would use an OS called “IInix” (tunics) but not “IIvix”.

Are… are you Captain Janeway?

Or Heinz 57

Many parents in the US have to make a decision to both keep working and have one persons income essentially only pay for childcare or have one person stop working to be a stay at home parent until their kid(s) are school aged.

Things like this are a big contributor to population decline in the US.

Looks like one of them shark coochie boards

I think you’re right though it varies by locale. I live in Minnesota and here police officers are required to have a college education and part of that is learning and being tested on both the criminal and traffic code. You’re not expected to have it all memorized but you are supposed to have reviewed it and understood it.