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“No steel cruise ship has ever sunk, why would this one?”

rektide 4y ago
There's tiny tiny little problems if you really really really dig in - you can find issues - but using rank cowardice as a shitty excuse to avoid the obvious solution everyone else uses fine is just pathetic. And more so, it's not like Apple's cables never wear & get scary either. The magnitude of experience we have with cables versus cruise ships in 1912 is pretty different, don't you think? How many years had humanity been making rolled steel cruise ships before the Titanic? How many years have we been making cables? How many cruise ships do you think we'd made? How many cables do you think we've made? Your scare-quote just doesn't seem applicable. It's not even a bad analogy in some ways. Some cables probably do, like the Titanic, spend their time at sea with their coal bay accidentally on fire, do spend their time with some mild internal fault sapping some power. But wow it like just doesn't matter. I'm trying to think of something combustible at incredibly low temperatures that might compound this situation, to make a 130 degree cable a potential threat, to imagine a real case for this other-people's-cable-phobia. The risk is so mild. As soon as a there's a real fault, the system shuts down; phone and charger both have a role actively agreeing to keep the power flowing, both have fault detections. The Titanic lacked these plural safeguard, it's coal bay was on fire & they couldn't put it out, greatly heating the hull. Apple's defense is an entire religion around Fear Uncertainty & Doubt. It's the least brave, least exciting Think Different view of the world that I can imagine. I appreciate & get the value that Apple people say, that they like having well-defined paths & not having to think about things, but it seems always applied with zeal, even in cases like this, where opening up is obviously fine & better for everyone.
bell-cot 4y ago
Trivia-buff comeback: SS Norge ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Norge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Norge ), sunk 22 June 1904 after running aground on rocks in foggy weather in the North Atlantic. More than 630 lives lost.

There's tiny tiny little problems if you really really really dig in - you can find issues - but using rank cowardice as a shitty excuse to avoid the obvious solution everyone else uses fine is just pathetic. And more so, it's not like Apple's cables never wear & get scary either. The magnitude of experience we have with cables versus cruise ships in 1912 is pretty different, don't you think? How many years had humanity been making rolled steel cruise ships before the Titanic? How many years have we been making cables? How many cruise ships do you think we'd made? How many cables do you think we've made? Your scare-quote just doesn't seem applicable. It's not even a bad analogy in some ways. Some cables probably do, like the Titanic, spend their time at sea with their coal bay accidentally on fire, do spend their time with some mild internal fault sapping some power. But wow it like just doesn't matter. I'm trying to think of something combustible at incredibly low temperatures that might compound this situation, to make a 130 degree cable a potential threat, to imagine a real case for this other-people's-cable-phobia. The risk is so mild. As soon as a there's a real fault, the system shuts down; phone and charger both have a role actively agreeing to keep the power flowing, both have fault detections. The Titanic lacked these plural safeguard, it's coal bay was on fire & they couldn't put it out, greatly heating the hull. Apple's defense is an entire religion around Fear Uncertainty & Doubt. It's the least brave, least exciting Think Different view of the world that I can imagine. I appreciate & get the value that Apple people say, that they like having well-defined paths & not having to think about things, but it seems always applied with zeal, even in cases like this, where opening up is obviously fine & better for everyone.

bell-cot 4y ago

Trivia-buff comeback: SS Norge ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Norge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Norge ), sunk 22 June 1904 after running aground on rocks in foggy weather in the North Atlantic. More than 630 lives lost.