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It could also mean 3 meters. Context is everything. The lowercase m would be more widely understood in this context.

Have you read the full article? It is using billiards as a metaphor for an intrinsic understanding of physics.

Cue ball control is the key. Anyone can pot balls when the cue ball is in the right place, but keeping that cue ball under control is what most people struggle with.

Class of 92 are indeed very special. Williams is still doing amazingly well - just got to the final of the Saudi masters, and nearly clinched the deciding frame. Not bad for someone nearly 50 years old!

English billiards does in fact have pockets, carom billiards does not.

A more difficult variant is snooker, played on a 12ft x 6ft table with tighter pockets and smaller balls.

It can be frustrating to play well, but when you "get it", it really is a beautiful game to play, and a real mental workout.

For anyone interested, Ronnie O'Sullivan is the best ever player, and his YouTube highlights are worth a watch: https://youtu.be/PE8XPHnCNpg - makes the game look incredibly easy, but I assure you, it's not!

HTML is often not flexible or capable enough. JS exists for a reason, and is an integral part of the web. Without it, you will struggle to express certain things online and lean JS sites can be really quite nice to use (and are generally indexed well by Google).

Bloated JS sites are a horrible thing, but they almost sideline themselves. I rarely visit a bloated site after an initial bad experience, unless I'm forced.

I only go to LinkedIn when I feel the urge to cringe. Everything about it is utterly cringeworthy.

Even the marketing tools (which I was forced to use by a marketing company we hired) were so bad they made my skin crawl.

The link related functionality only adds to the hell of this vile, spammy platform.

Cloud flare has it, they are aiming for it. Definite income vs possible income cannot be priced in the same way, assuming the CF valuation is justified.

Could it be possible to run containers within this environment?

I ask because I personally think we are headed towards a future where web browsers are just sandboxed container environments where we download and run containers for each app...

Eventually, even calling them "web" browsers might feel a little odd, almost the way in which we "dial" a phone number today, even though we now mostly key it in on a touch screen.

I don't know why I feel this will be necessary for EVs to become mainstream. Batteries simply don't last long enough, and even if they do, they degrade over time. Making them easily swappable seems to be a reasonable solution to this.

Swappable low cost sodium batteries are where I think cars may end up in the future.

Literally, pull into a swapping station, and have your battery swapped out for a charged one in a couple of minutes. Probably faster than fuelling up your car with petrol.

Perhaps, but you're missing my point. Governments are out of touch with what people need and even if they're trying to help, they'll get things very wrong (for example, those annoying cookie popups we've all had forced upon us).

People know what they want, and will vote with their wallets. As long as options are allowed to exist, you can trust a well informed public to gravitate towards the most optimal solution over time.

I would replace government with people: people should collectively demand what you have described.

This ultimately is a function of education, which will get better as technical knowledge becomes more widely and freely available.

As you say, it's only a matter of time before the walled gardens start to crumble.

I wish authors would include the full form in brackets after the first use of an acronym in a text.

Did you type words that are likely to be considered bullshit?

I remember back in 2013 when I first drove a Tesla, they were really pushing the self driving features at my local dealership. I can't help but feel like they were overselling their capabilities, and their staff could well have made a gullible person believe the car really does drive itself perfectly.

Perhaps, but in my experience, this is often what happens when you have too many cooks.

People like to build corporate empires by having more subordinates. Those subordinates need to justify their existence somehow. Bloated, inefficient software is one of the unfortunate outcomes.

Yes, we absolutely are there: https://youtu.be/D3oRN5JNMWs?feature=shared

My professor (Sir Michael Brady) at university 14 years ago set up a company to do this very thing, and he already had reliable models back before 2010. I believe their company was called Oxford Imaging or something similar.

Being a complacent market leader may come back to bite them in the backside.

The world is getting more technical. People will demand openness. If I buy a product, I should have reasonable flexibility to use it how I want. Even if I break it, repurpose it or improve it, I want the choice to do so, just like I have with pretty much every other thing I own.

People will vote with their wallets if Apple refuses to open things up a bit.

The app store and the Google play store are absolute garbage as far as I'm concerned.

Whatever protection they claim to offer is utterly bogus. If anything, they make it easier to leak personal information to random app makers, who, like you said, offer paid apps masquerading as free ones.

The amount of junk in the native app stores is just way too high for me to ever buy the argument that they're there to improve end user experience.

Does the second group also end up skewing remuneration in their favour? For example, a tech company where managers are paid over the odds, while the passionate engineers who do a lot of the technical heavy lifting are paid less.

I once went to that restaurant in 2001 as a 12 year old kid who was invited to speak at a children's charity event held there.

It was a cool day out with a teacher from my school and couple of kids from a few years above. Afterwards, they took us on the London Eye as well, which was also pretty great.

Not the sort of thing that usually happens to kids in a state school in Yorkshire! I think I still have a "certificate" somewhere to say that I went to the top of the BT tower!

For me, this shows fear and a sense of insecurity within Apple. They've built their walled garden and are doing whatever they can to protect it. They've probably even convinced users that it's in their interest. Yet, they know there is an inevitability that polished web apps will exist (and that time will come fairly soon, imo), and will match and replace their native counterparts. They also know, it's the correct and overwhelmingly more efficient way to deliver 99% of apps. Yet they want to stifle that future, all in the name of money.

Create all the titanium cased phones you like - eventually, the masses will be smart enough to prioritise openness and forward-thinking over almost anything else. If you start to hold people back with your decisions, questions will start to arise about your priorities and eventually your products. And people are fickle enough, that they won't be your fanboys/girls forever.

It actually is quite a grand building (I was born in Leeds!)

See https://www.expedia.co.uk/Leeds-Town-Hall-Leeds-City-Center....

Do you want native apps, or do you want polished apps, regardless of the type?

Impressive in that he was probably quite political and thick-skinned?

PWAs can absolutely be as good as native, however they aren't being given a chance due to reasons unrelated to technology. I personally believe it is the protection of Apple's fees that is driving its poor implementation of web technologies (even though their original plan was to only have web apps, with a small number of native apps for very specific things). The money they could extract from the app store made them change their tune re web apps, and they've managed to convince every Apple fan it's for their benefit. Unfortunately, this goes unchallenged by the average Apple user, who lacks the tech knowledge or desire to question Apple.

That is really terrible. I don't like the closed nature of Apple's practices anyway, but the way in which they are stifling PWAs is truly abhorrent.

I do feel they'll lose this battle eventually, even if it takes a few years. Cross platform apps without a required compile step or walled garden are almost certainly the end state I expect we'll reach within the next decade (probably sooner).

The little demo videos embedded on the home page are really sharp! How were they made?