I agree. The fact that we go to such enormous lengths to prevent potentially nefarious items getting aboard an aircraft, yet we freely allow potentially explosive li-ion batteries is quite bizarre.
It is an idea that's for sure. I think we can all think of lots of reasons why having burning phones on an aircraft is something worth preventing though.
True. OTOH - if the incident rate is ~8/year, out of ~4e7 commercial airline flights per year, and designing seats capable of 0/year is proving difficult - maybe mere improvement would be a reasonable strategy? Available resources are kinda finite, and burning phones on aircraft are obviously not on the "World's Top 100 Human Safety Threats" list.
I'm based in the US, where it's spelled without the "u". Quite a few examples of this spelling difference - humo(u)r, behavio(u)r etc. Oh and "spelt" is "spelled". Isn't English fun! :)
Even weirder, as a Native American English speaker, I would have spelt that word this way in only this context, but in other contexts it’s spelled this way.
Maybe this is my own idiosyncrasy though and not what others would do. I’ve never even thought about it until just now.
Im not sure that's true. If something makes the news it's likely to be of interest to a large amount of people, that doesn't immediately qualify it as something rare.
Serious question here. What's the difference between not responding to the ad in any meaningful way vs blocking the ad entirely? Does youtube know when you've blocked the ad and therefore the content creator earns less ad revenue?
I cant really guage how serious this blog post is, either way it was an entertaining read. I thought by hardware they meant embedded systems but turns out they meant pretty much anything in the physical world.
He had me convinced until the list at the end. A lot of people confuse the different types of “impossible”: there is “impossible within NASA due to cultural/political reasons” versus “impossible because physical reality won’t allow it.”
However, the general point made by the author is valid.
Back at University I studied computer science, physics, and did a bunch of “small” courses in other fields.
Very quickly I realised that wherever the cutting edge was in computing itself, the progress of digitisation of everything else was about two to three decades behind.
Right now you can do amazing things by, say, 3D printing metal parts. That’s still rare in industry but is basically a superpower. You can use just about any alloy to make almost any shape! Part counts and labour can both be reduced enormously.
I’ve never seen a 3D printed metal part in real life. I’ve flown on a plane with a printed part in its landing gear, but that’s it.
The future is here, it’s just not very evenly distributed.
He's probably speaking figuratively when he says "stolen". I think he's referring to how we didn't really see it coming until it was too late and now a lot of people have been left without the ability to pay attention.
The original £56.7bn estimate was from London all the way to Leeds. Whereas the £53bn figure they quoted is just for London to Birmingham which is only about half way to Leeds.
I think for a lot of people stating their pronouns is seen as an act of solidarity with people who use pronouns other than those they were assigned at birth. I think there is a possibility that for Mr Sharf, being asked to state his pronouns too felt for him like he was being asked to show solidarity with a way of thinking that opposed his religious beliefs.
