I’m not sure what you’re saying. If you write software for Apple mobile devices, you’re creating it for iOS. If you write for basically any other smartphone, which represent nearly 75% of all devices worldwide, then you create for Android.

In the US they probably have a huge number of potential customers on iOS, so bringing experts and designing for their iOS experience makes sense, as you point out. But saying that platform is the most popular worldwide would be factually incorrect. You don’t write apps for hardware (there might be some small tweaks to take advantage of available hardware like on Pixels), you design for the platform.

Also, it appears that the design for iOS is sound, and OP just fundamentally misunderstands how to share specific sets of photos with Google Photos.

None of this is to defend Google’s data collection policies.

we aren’t in college to learn a specific skill so much as we are there to learn how to be taught.

I really like this idea, but prefer one small change: I think it’s best to learn how to learn.

Learning how to be taught is part of that, and a large part. Understanding when to absorb information, rely on experts, and apply yourself until you improve is fundamental. You won’t get any arguments from me there.

But being taught is only one facet of learning. Sometimes experts aren’t really experts, or don’t have the learner’s best interests at heart, or omit things to protect their own interests or ideology.

Learning how to learn involves fostering fundamental curiosity, not being afraid to fail, asking all the questions even dumb ones or those with seemingly obvious answers. Finding out “why” something works instead of just “how”. Fundamentally curious people who learn as a habit tend to also develop a scientific method-like approach to evaluating incoming information: “Ok, this is the information I’m presented with, let’s assume the opposite, can I prove the null hypothesis?” This acts as a pretty good bullshit detector, or at the very least trains learners to be skeptical, to trust but verify, which is enormously important in the age of misinformation.

Being taught generally tapers off as someone gets older, or becomes an expert. Learning never needs to taper off, so long as your brain still works.

singular most popular smartphone

In the US, but worldwide Android leads 74% to Apple’s 25%

Sauce

Pro is free for personal use for up to 5 machines. Is there a problem with activating it?

I guess it depends on what you consider passable.

It’s loud enough on 25% to disturb my neighbors, it’s clear and defined enough for me to watch normally and hear everything at 7%. There’s no observable delay, and the installation is clean enough to make my wife happy. It wasn’t cheap, but I wouldn’t consider it expensive.

Some films are meant to be watched in large formats with insane audio that just can’t be replicated at home. The Dune movies and Oppenheimer are a few recent examples I can think of that looked incredible in 70mm IMAX. I live in a major metro area and there are only 3 screens within 50 miles capable of showing 70mm properly. I choose to go out of my way to these theaters once or twice a year, if a great film is showing.

Short of films shot and shown in a true large format there’s no way you’ll find me in a theater.

I’ll watch content on small screens if I’m on a plane. Otherwise it’s my 80" living room TV with passable surround sound.

This is our time to shine Hydro Homies!

Why would right wing people come out to protest ICE? They all voted for exactly what is happening.

Maybe this question should also request the responder’s general location, because I imagine the situations vary substantially.

I’ve lived in California for most of my life, and we go on frequent drives between LA and SF, usually a few times a year.

In the 80’s and 90’s bugs would cover the front of our vehicles and the windshield would be difficult to see through even with wipers and washer fluid. We’d actually have to stop to manually scrape them off.

In the 00’s and 10’s we noticed that we’d get basically zero bugs on a long drive, and that sparked many conversations about California environmental law.

I just got back from a drive up the coast and I can happily say that we’re back to insane numbers of bug strikes on the highway. Just north of Ventura I drove through a cloud of large bugs that hit like rocks and instantly covered almost my entire windshield. This situation has been noticably turning around since COVID, which I think is a good thing

I don’t know if this is common, but in my family Legos are a common gift for children, and they never get thrown away. When kids age out (usually because they move out or go to uni) the bricks get tossed in a big mixed bag and handed down to the next round of youngsters. After at least 3 generations of this, the kids now inherit literal full sized trash barrels of mixed Lego. It’s awesome!

When it was my turn I got a big bucket, but two of my cousins got all of the Technic stuff, I was very jealous.

You can still wear glasses, and not need them.

I live in a sunny place, so I’m never outside without wearing my sunglasses. As you’ve pointed out they’ve saved my eyes from traumatic injury at least a dozen times over the years.

I wear safety glasses when I’m working around the house with anything that could be considered a power tool (kitchen mixer, drill, etc…) and those have saved me a few times as well.

But not needing glasses, now that could be a lifesaver. I have a close relative who is basically blind without his glasses. He’s told me that if he’s in an unfamiliar place and is woken up by the fire alarm, there’s a good chance he can’t find his way out without his glasses.

asshat with a scuba tank

3000 meters beneath the Weddell Sea

Good luck

This is how you cook with stainless. Get a high smoke point oil, get the pan and oil plenty hot, the put the food in.

This is not, strictly speaking, true for eggs.

I’ve cooked eggs in stainless nearly every day for the last couple of decades. I can crack a few eggs in a properly prepared cold pan, and still get non stick effects, such that the food will slide right out without using a tool.

The level of heat which would require a high smoke point oil is generally much too high for cooking most styles of eggs anyway.

People should use whatever method works for them, I’m not judging, but high heat is not required for most styles of eggs.

I was influenced greatly by Robert Axelrod’s short essay about the Prisoner’s Dilemma titled “The Prisoner’s Dilemma Computer Tournaments and the Evolution of Cooperation” (link PDF warning)

tl;dr The essay explores an iterative game of Prisoner’s Dilemma, and demonstrates how cooperation can emerge from a group of self interested participants. It has implications for the statistical emergence of morality, and even remarks on politics.

Luddites.

AI might not be producing the best content, and it will change the nature of how humans work (or don’t), in good and (many) bad ways. But every culture which has resisted the inexorable march of technology has lost in convincing fashion.

I may not like it, but the current gen of AI is one tiny fraction of a step in a direction which cannot be stopped. Instead of fearing the machines we need to figure out how to best use them.

Reduce the natural resource consumption, and put the thinking rocks to work so humans can focus on what’s valuable and important to us. If people are freaking out that their memes aren’t drawn by hand, they’d probably be better served by not wasting their time on memes at all.

it is the unluckiest day of the year

Today is the day that my local area shut down for COVID in 2020. I live near the ocean, the beach was closed, the golf courses were closed, the stores had cops out front stopping looting. It was wild.

I’m guessing that search would turn up results for any instance LW is federated with? If not that would be disappointing!

There will be a detracted argument

Probably meant protracted

Great Bush recession

I’ve literally never heard it called that, is this a non-US term? I’ve heard “great financial crisis”, “great recession”, or “housing crash” before.

The third one is definitely rooted in coastal Southern California, but has tinges of other accents. As you pointed out, this accent could be from anywhere in the US as the sound has propogated via popular media.

As a native Los Angelino it sounds to me like a guy in Northern California or maybe PNW who spent a lot of time on the east coast.

It’s different enough from the beachy LA or Orange County sound for me to pick out that there’s some other influence there.