Where?
Is this article about USA or UK or the whole world?
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Personally I would like them to switch to a modular approach. They should create compute boards the size of the pi zeros with solderless connectors and then you could buy the standard or 3rd party accessory boards which would have the combination of ports you desire. Then you could upgrade your system by only replacing the central module. Having to change all your cables and cases for every new version is really annoying. especially switching to micro HDMI so you can fit two on board when most people only want one full sized connector.
To me the solution is simple, a good, old fashioned checksum.
If the app displayed a checksum, the user could read out the three words and then the checksum number 0-99 and the operator would type it in to their app and immediately know if they've heard correctly. If it doesn't match, ask them to spell out the words.
The checksum wouldn't stop the standard 3 word combinations from working, just provide the additional confirmation that's needed when using the phone. I think users would find it easy to understand too.
It's also kinda hard no to follow him.
When you create a new twitter account it forces you to choose one person to follow and the top of that list is Elon Musk.
I had to scroll a long way down to find someone I wouldn't mind following before it would let me proceed.
I chose stevenage football club
When I was a teenager I memorised 100 digits. It wasn't that hard, there are a few near repeating patterns. I still know 54, because it's nice to end on a zero so you can stop without rounding problems
Whenever anyone says pi is 3.142 I get very upset.
Try designing a new CPU without accidentally infringing someone else's patents, it's impossible.
There are millions of patents in CPU design and mostly they are trivial , overlapping and unavoidable.
Intel and AMD both have so many patents it's basically a MAD situation. (Mutually assured destruction). They both agree not to sue each other because otherwise they would end up wasting billions on lawyers fees. With a new entrant with small coffers, they can just wipe them out.
Laptops themselves are the problem.
Most people treat them as disposable items you throw away after a few years.
When you do throw them away you are usually throwing away something that is 90% working, ie screen, cpu, motherboard etc. It's normally only the hard drive that's the problem, either hardware or sofware.
You get less performance for your money, they are easy to nick, easy to break, they are very hard to repair, they are very hard to upgrade, apart from the RAM or HD. They also give you RSI if you don't buy external devices.
Yet everyone wants a laptop and the government is even giving them out for free.
Since masks were made mandatory, just a few days later I was in a queue in a shop with someone literally breathing down my neck.
Mandatory masks completely destroyed the 2m rule compliance.
Risk Compensation it's called. When seat belts are mandatory, the number of car crashes goes up.
Some were, some weren't
The problem with the news media in this country is that they don't give a damn about science.
If 100 scientists say one thing, they'll find the 1 scientist who says another and lead with a headline like "Top scientists says oppositee of government"
People should really just ignore the media and their lies