Isn't this advice becoming dated now that most new cars have side windows with laminated glass?

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a28422725/car-windows-glas...

If the cause of being taller were internal, such as genetic changes: that would be a change in physiology.

- a century ago a greater percentage of people were "normal" weight

- human physiology has not changed much over the past century

- our current definitions of overweight/obese correlate with negative health outcomes

I think the classification is largely correct even if you can haggle over some of the smaller details.

(EDIT: That said, people shouldn't be downvoting you just for asking the question, sorry that happened)

Then apply the hard limit in the billing code. If it took a minute or two to shut off all the instances, maybe the customer's bill should have been $1.001M instead of $1M, but cap the bill to $1M anyway. Given their profit margins of x,000% I think they can afford the lost pennies.

You seem to have an awful lot of confidence that "iPhone" and "Kansas" are the only pieces of data any app can get from a device.

So can we say that you agree with #1: after decades of playing cat and mouse with advertisers and spyware authors, these latest updates from Apple and Google are the magical updates that finally completely solved privacy once and for all, and there will never be any bugs or mistakes or security holes ever again?

1. Do you believe that with these latest round of updates, our benevolent corporate overloads Google and Apple (both advertising companies to some extent) have at long last fully solved privacy, plugging every possible information leak and fixing every possible software bug, both present and future?

2. If you do, then do you think it's desirable that we expect every participant in modern society to enter into one-sided, legally-binding contracts with companies they've never heard of with every small action they take on a daily basis, and then use complicated technical measures to avoid fulfilling their end of those contracts?

I don't know about iOS, but here's the situation on Android:

https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...

> The QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES permission only takes effect when your app targets Android API level 30 or later on devices running Android 11 or later.

So I guess end users should just check which SDK level their weather app was compiled for! Simple, right?

And if the parking app was compiled for SDK level 29, people should just go find another parking lot with a more recent app?

You're suggest technical solutions to social problems, and those rarely work out in the long term, especially with adversarial parties. Better to solve the problem at the source.

- not knowing the weather this weekend

- knowing the weather and signing away their firstborn child in the T&C

- becoming an amateur lawyer and spending dozens of hours reading and comparing T&Cs between apps to choose which one to use (until they change the T&Cs again of course, which they'll do without notifying you)

2. There's strength in numbers. Between adblockers, foss clients, and youtube-dl/yt-dlp, there are probably tens to hundreds of millions of people watching youtube this way. If YT banhammers everyone for that they would end up banning a sizable fraction of the earth's population all in one day. Even Google isn't stupid enough to do that.

* https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=41873

I would have said the opposite.

Linux is organic - you get the bare essentials (whatever grew from the ground), and little more.

Windows is highly processed - you get the food, but also the chemicals and sugars and additives (AI in your taskbar! Candy Crush and political clickbait in your start menu!) designed to keep you addicted and coming back for more.

Are you sure Rust has variadic generics? Last I checked, the extent of progress was a draft RFC. https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/376