It probably doesn't save lives, except maybe in some extreme scenarios. But it does save life. Time, the most precious resource, even more precious than money.
Saying 'it saves life' might sound less dramatic. Using a corporate windows machine certianly feels like self harming, and if I was at a low ebb, it could potentially be fatal.
My sisters iPad just bricked itself during an update, and nothing I've tried has been able to revive it. And it's an unrepairable disposable piece of tech, so it's going into a landfill.
> This article is equivalent to calling the Boeing 737 unsafe because it's had the most Full Lost Events while completely ignoring it's flown 238.84M flights (which is basically more than the entire rest of the list combined).
You don’t get many people calling the MAX a good plane.
If you include in the count a new model which arguable should never have been allowed to be called the same plane, then yes, your prior good record looks ok. Over various generations the hull loss rate had come down to 0.18 per million flights while the MAX is at 1.48 per million flight.
> iOS autocomplete for the longest time was just absolutely insane.
As well as what you describe, it starts to hate me uncertain words.
I have a colleague called An.
iOS hates this and changes it. It does it when you are a line away from the word too. It’s painful.
I have to type ‘TE’ regularly too, an abbreviation for echo time.
If you’re on iOS, try it.
I have resorted to typing TEE and then hitting delete to remove a E and then carrying on.
We tend to underestimate the progress we managed to make in the last 100 years or so. There was a small TV segment showing the earliest vacuum cleaners. Both vacuum and cleaning looks like wishful thinking compared to what we have today.
Heck, the rechargeable vacuum I have at home has more power than what I used to the one I plugged to the wall ~20 years ago. Reducing the cost of CFD via higher performance computers did wonders in efficient system design, and that's just one aspect of life.
We have 1.5L Turbo / Hybrid engines which can propel the vehicle quicker than a run of the mill V6 of yore, too, and I find this amazing.
I always wanted to have a bigger engine because of the agility in emergency conditions. Now the bog standard car has more agility than I even dreamed of.
We grew up with an '80s Victa, but it was one of the super 600 slashers with a newer 5hp engine. He probably didn't have a slasher, but the rest of their lineup used similar engines and weren't especially underpowered.
If his model was anything like ours, a hedgehog could probably crawl between the blade disc (not the blades but the thing they're attached to) and the chassis and get itself wedged in there.
I worked in an office with sketchy power.
The lights would flicker and the non-macs would turn off. The Macs just carried on. Mini, iMac, Mac Pro.
Yay for big caps I guess?
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