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Apple Maps suggests “your preferred route” as an option when you frequently travel an alternative path. In addition, all maps apps I know of have options to configure use of toll r…

Specific numbers aside, one possible reason is they want to increase adoption to gain user volume, in order to have an effect on the larger ecosystem. Once you have non-trivial net…

I think we need to rethink the whole "advertising as a way to support creators" model. Support comes in many forms, and decoupling knowledge of a thing from being paid for good wor…

In this example, assuming sequential steps, if step 2 must be performed before step 4, then it is step 2 which is the bottleneck. After step 2 has been optimized, step 4 becomes th…

It's not necessarily an either-or situation. It can be privacy, annoyance, and a general lack of effectiveness. Advertising isn't just the art of selling a product, it's the art of…

The objection to soldered RAM isn’t the RAM.

Unrelated to the article itself, but is it possible for this website to have worse ads on mobile? It starts automatically playing with music, and if I pause it to stop the music/so…

> Figuratively, it's nuts. …and literally, it may or may not be nuts.

I'd like to use this without a Google account, and at most using only sandboxed Google Play services. Is that an option? It doesn't seem to work.

There are non-ligatured variants included in the download.

Not if you log all terminal input to the production log server.