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Two years ago they would have been finding a way to add blockchain.
I'm sure somewhere on Earth right now there is already a startup based on block chain storage of convolutional neural network learning face recognition.
https://depressingfinland.tumblr.com/post/59672293951/234937...
Any improvement to airline seats is welcome, but this won't address the biggest comfort issue for me which is the prolonged pressure on the posterior caused hours of sitting. I feel like airplane seats could benefit by using elements of office chair design.
I have found this is very seat dependent. I am very heavy and the Emirates A380 seat is by far the most comfortable for 10-14+ hour flights. Most planes are OK but the new Qantas 787 Economy seat for some reason is not. The new Qantas 787 Premium Economy seat however is amazing. Among other things the whole seat tilts back slightly (including the base) and it has an adjustable height foot rest. It was a dream to slee…
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FAA regulations require the ability to evacuate the cabin in 90 seconds .
90 seconds as measured by non-realistic volunteers in Toulouse and/or Everett who aren't actually afraid for their lives :(
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Boring meetings have the same effect on me. The main challenge is, not to snore.
In my senior year at Caltech, I flew out with some others to interview at HP. HP made a group presentation to us. I fell asleep halfway through the presentation and woke up halfway to the floor, and hit the floor with quite a crash. I inspired quite a bit of laughter with that. I didn't get the job offer :-)
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When my house was built, I considered adding a wired intercom system. I could never think of a reason why it would be better than just yelling.
Many DECT phones have this functionality without being wired. Also there probably is a way to use SIP locally as an intercom between smartphones. Unlike an intercom they're portable. The main thing missing is voice or sound activated pick-up and hang-up, sometimes automatic loudspeaker mode.
I did install some speaker wires, but the times when I wanted to play music in one room and hear it in another are just about never.
Guess I'm just not finding any point to home automation. Even if I had installed a home automation system, the intervening years would have turned it into expensive obsolete junk anyway. I've heard of people, when they try to sell their homes, having to rip it all out and put in conventional wiring.
What did pay off was running Cat5 and RG6 cables in a star configuration. Wifi has improved greatly, but it's nothing like a wired connection for smooth, problem free operation.
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Two years ago they would have been finding a way to add blockchain.
I'm sure somewhere on Earth right now there is already a startup based on block chain storage of convolutional neural network learning face recognition.
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How so? There is already a button to get the flight attendant to come over without having to move yourself, and you are going to talk aloud all the same. In fact with video calling you may disrupt a larger number of people since the flight attendant is also going to talk aloud in a different part of the cabin, creating two disjointed pockets of noise.
Using a call button, the flight attendant has to come over twice - once to find out what you want, and then again to bring you the thing you asked for. Any form of remote communication (video chat, text message, whatever) reduces that to a single interaction. Fewer trips down the aisle, less time spent leaning over other passengers, etc. If I were the PM on this project I probably would've used a standard menu of ser…
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This is actually a serious problem to me. Regardless of how interesting I find them, meetings at work trigger something deep inside me that cause me to sleep. It’s like a biological switch has been flipped. Cavemen talking around a fire into the night, getting ready for the long rest for the day ahead... Sometimes I fall into a fugue in which I am semi-aware and a dream fills in part of the speech of meetings. I hear…
I thought I was the only person with a serious case of useless-meeting narcolepsy. Keeping relatively active helps, just like taking walks roughly every hour at minimum during work. If I'm absolutely going to sleep I'll stop paying attention and focus on my work, but then I'll miss opportunities to talk when needed. I'll owe my career to anyone who can find a solution.