How long does it take to get from a helipad to the terminals at JFK?

Even at 15 Euros I bet its way cheaper than a helicopter or electric VTOL aircraft

Oh, yeah, and it can and does handle a scale of traffic that a helicopter service obviously couldn't. I think each train takes about a thousand people and they're every ten minutes or something.

The "use helicopters for airport access" thing seems, at best, extremely niche.

Joby plans to expand way beyond airport access, it’s meant to be basically flying rideshare. The key enabler is they designed it to be quiet enough to not annoy everyone around like a helicopter, so that it would be reasonable to have this thing taking off from residential neighborhoods. JFK access is just a very visible first test run.

This thing will not be taking off from residential neighborhoods. Regardless of noise, like any manned VTOL aircraft it requires a large open area free of overhead obstructions (trees, wires).

And the notion that landing pads will be installed on the roofs of tall buildings is mostly a fantasy. Commercial or high-rise roofs are mostly already occupied with other machinery, and aren't designed to support the extra weight.

> The UK does not have a good, cheap solution plentiful cheap electric in the next decade or two, so any major increase in demand will mean even higher costs.

Of course it does… the UK has tariffs that change by electricity demand and supply capacity

As we build out more renewables there will be more times of excess supply and hence cheaper electricity during these times

The buildout of battery storage and north-south inter-connectors will reduce this fluctuation but it’ll still be there

Over time the UK is going to switch it’s pattern of electricity consumption

The old "cheaper electricity is coming due to renewables, any day now"

An almost guaranteed reply

Nope…

People who receive PIP can choose to use to lease a car from Motability which is an independent scheme

Those people could equally choose to have an ICE car

Yes… but (from memory) someone recreated it but can remember who

Just introduce a charge per mile for EVs as the current government have already done

ICE cars are already hugely subsidised by ignoring the health issues they cause e.g. air pollution

What we really need in the UK is better mass transit systems in cities and their commuter zones to remove cars from the roads

iOS (and MacOS) now use Google’s BoringSSL instead and have for many years

Do they? Based on what I’ve seen with a quick search, this doesn’t seem to be true

See e.g. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/network/creating-a... where the logging output makes it clear BoringSSL is what is used.

Or comments such as: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/Security/blob/rel...

Unsurprisingly, given BoringSSL doesn't have a stable API (yet alone ABI), it isn't exposed as a system library.

Seems like they use BoringSSL on their open source distributions, but their own library on their own platforms: https://forums.swift.org/t/native-implementations-and-boring...

CryptoKit isn't relevant to `goto fail`, which was the origin of this thread, given CryptoKit merely implements primitives and not TLS.

If you really are doubting what gets used for TLS, open up Console.app, start streaming, run `nscurl https://example.com/` (or load it in Safari, etc.), and you'll see logging like:

    default com.apple.network boringssl 18:11:46.229209-0700 libboringssl.dylib nscurl boringssl_session_apply_protocol_options_for_transport_block_invoke(2360) [C1.1.1.1:2][0x1008cef10] TLS configured [server(0) min_version(0x0303) max_version(0x0304) name(redacted) tickets(false) false_start(false) enforce_ev(false) enforce_ats(false) ats_non_pfs_ciphersuite_allowed(false) cc_mode_enforced(false) ech(false) pqtls(true), pake(false)]

It really is boringssl which is nowadays used for TLS by the Network framework.

iOS Safari definitely used BoringSSL last time I checked it with Frida

The Spruce Mine story was a classic case of this hysteria as there were other sources of pure silica e.g. Norway

What evidence is there than industrial customers want general purpose humanoid robots over specialist ones?

There are plenty of positions were you have normal humans doing only a handful of tasks.

Checkout youtube on some chinese factories building like rice cooker and co. They have like 10-50 stops were one person only does like 1-5 things. Putting tape on, screwing something together etc.

I can see it as the last niche were the real big specialised and for purpose build robots are just not economicly