This is very different from "I didn't read the instructions on the screen and now I'm calling support". Both scenarios exist. I have some sympathy for businesses facing the latter, and much less for businesses facing the former.

Edit: oops, I misunderstood. This seems to be more about contractual restrictions.

I'm not a lawyer, so I don't know what the law has to say about this. But I do have at least a small handful of brain cells to rub together, so I know what the law _should_ say about this.

I wonder if the difference is stuff they dogfood versus stuff they don't?

Yes there are absolutely some obnoxious "you should rewrite this in Rust" folks out there, but this is not a case of that.

Tangent: I've regularly been required to provide copies of my ID to all kinds of businesses simply to function in society — i.e. in practice there is no realistic option to opt out. Want to rent a house? X points of ID. Want a phone? X points of ID. Pretty much every real estate agency in town has copies of at least my driver licence. And they in turn share my details with tenant database companies, credit reporting agencies and so on. Do you think many of these businesses have good data handling practices? Of course they don't. And so all my details are available for purchase in bulk data sets on the dark web, and get refreshed by new data breaches every few years. And yet government still treats it as somehow unexpected each time this happens, or wags its finger and bemoans those naughty criminals, instead of developing any kind of policy that would start to address the underlying issue... which is that our personal details are spread so far and wide in the first place.

It's not that hard. Legislators around the world are consistently dropping the ball on this.

Make your purchasing decisions accordingly.

My Android phone prevents me from recording phone calls at the request of my carrier, even though it's totally legal for me to do so in my jurisdiction.

I'm not loving where this is all going.

There's no great reason for these to be Android/Apple specific. I'm just offering examples as requested.

My approach was to build a hex grid on a geodesic sphere. It's a very different trade-off.

So you can, for example, have blocks sloping down from the edge of the table by sandwiching one end of them between two other blocks with enough vertical distance between them, and enough weight on top.

Or they could just absorb that.

Any idea why it works that way? Have they offered an explanation?

I'm a Fastmail customer but I've never noticed this because I use my own domain.

I love this kind of writing. It feels like the author is excited to bring me along on a journey — not to show off how smart they are. In this way it reminds me of Turing's original paper that introduced his "computing machine". It presents a fantastically deep topic in a way that is not just remarkably accessible but also conversational and _friendly_.

I wonder why so little modern academic writing is like this. Maybe people are afraid it won't seem adequately professional unless their writing is sterile?