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There's no plausible way to even encode any arbitrary idea into 10 bits of information.

There's no particular reason for every app to search the web, though. There's plenty of reason for a wide variety of apps to need maps.

Maps are a broad value tool. Searching the web isn't. A web search engine is just a search engine. It's not a meaningful value add to any arbitrary developer who wants to build apps for iPhone.

Maps is core to privacy and utility for their whole software ecosystem. They offer maps free to devs on iOS so they're not forced to leak a boatload of data to Google or pay big API fees. It's a built in that thousands of apps use.

Thousands of apps aren't using search.

I don't notice normal LEDs generally.

But anything moving in front of Christmas lights gives me a giant headache. It's incredibly obvious.

It's the same for the wallpaper; just not visible really. But it bounces between a variety of my other pictures, too.

The fact that 99% of LED Christmas lights are mini strobe lights.

Yeah, I never really have anything I want for gifts because it's either way over the top and not something I'm going to have someone buy for me, or it's reasonably cheap and I just buy it way before anything anyone would give me a gift for.

But I've been buying myself a bunch of books lately, including some of the nice versions of Brandon Sanderson books. They're expensive enough that I can't just buy them all. I got a signed leatherbound copy of Elantris for Christmas.

A lot of travel ones aren't really intended for anything but hand washing.

Reputable places won't print shit that infringes copyright.

IDK. Goodreads said I'm in their top 1% for the year lol, and I only track the books I haven't read before.

Not a game, but I don't look at game high scores and other people are doing random stuff too.

lol flour is the only thing I care enough to weigh. Volume is just so insanely inconsistent.

I'm not talking about the amount.

I'm saying they're much less predictable, so nonsense like having obvious signs saying "don't be stupid" can affect their ruling regardless of how necessary it should be.

Lawsuits often go in front of juries.

Civil juries do whatever the hell they want.

Every step a company takes to make sure that a reasonable customer will avoid hurting themselves makes it more likely a jury will blame an unreasonable one who hurts themselves being unreasonable.

Wishlist vs purchase is already a signal that maybe you'd benefit from a sale. Seems like it's enough. "Suggested prices" from gamers would be way too noisy to mean anything.

Well, they let me order my lists (and actually display the order). That's good.

No way to bulk add books to a list? Not so good.

Worth keeping an eye on, though.

The title is pushing the narrative that "real companies" doing hostile bullshit isn't "real malware".

When companies ship malware, it should be called malware.

If it's unwanted, disruptive, and (allegedly) impacts performance, that's not "malware-like". It's malware.

YouTube is the one pushing them to clickbait. Their metrics are designed such that if you don't bait clicks a huge percentage of the time you're shown, you won't even show up in the feeds of your actual subscribers.

lol yeah that's all nothing.

Except the bottle openers, "you can't bring that on a plane" is perfectly fine. But you don't need to play make believe that it's some big bust either. Just let her throw it away or leave and get someone to take it for her or whatever and move on.

Astro's playroom comes with it, but there's also a full game.

The plucky squire is a really cool concept of a game that I enjoyed as an adult, but is written and presented like a story book (you literally jump out of the book and manipulate pages for some stuff), and it's definitely appropriate for kids both in terms of complexity and the writing.