Yes, to comply with regulations. Because apple's forced solution isn't enough. So it's apple's fault.
This is just more an extension of the DMA lolly gagging they are doing where there's a clear solution that Apple takes its sweet time strolling towards.
> Third-party publishers "cannot rely on the ATT framework to comply with their legal obligations," so they "must continue to use their own consent collection solution," the French agency said. "The result is that multiple consent pop-ups are displayed, making the use of third-party applications in the iOS environment excessively complex."
It's not harder at all. France are just mad that their small advertisers have to ask for permission again which is their own choice.
Complex software usually has some undefined behavior lurking that at higher or even just different optimization levels can trigger the compiler to do unexpected things to the code. It happens all the time in my line of work. If there's an extensive test suite you can run to verify that it still works mostly as expected then it's easier.
This is one where I suspect we don't disagree. But "all the time" can have a very different feel between people.
It also used to happen that just changing processors was likely to find some problems in the code. I have no doubt that still happens, but I'd also expect it has reduced.
Some of this has to be a convergence on far fewer compilers than we used to encounter. I know there are still many c compilers. Seems there are only two common ones, though. Embedded, of course, is a whole other bag of worms.
I agree with grandparent commenter that it's shocking a lot of people (also here) think DOGE is a serious endeavour and not some slapstick bunch of people. The realization is that even in here, plenty of people's emotions cloud their ability to think.
In my experience the highly intelligent are simply more able to find and generate rationalizations and justifications.
It's similar to a science-believing schizophrenic, their brain finds physically possible but implausible ways to deceive them. This split demonstrates that intelligence and being grounded in reality are two orthogonal psychological phenomenon. Being grounded in reality is simply the ability to be open to being wrong. That's largely independent of being smart.
I've seen that zombie behavior too when my kids watch too long. I think there's definitely value in some shows, and some of them are actually very educational. I think there's a lot more variety these days than when I was a kid.
As a rule we don't allow Blippy because the man creeps me out, and something about his childish behavior rubs me the wrong way. OTOH the other day my 5yo kid asked me if I knew why the sky was blue. I genuinely wasn't sure and he somewhat explained what he learned on TV from a show about sunlight and particles in the air.
100% agree on Blippy, the vibe is very off for me. Especially once I learned about his history as a shock youtuber[0], I'm glad that he says he's grown past that and regrets making the content he made but his content is tainted (pun intended) forever for me and I'm not interested in exposing my kid(s) to that.
The fields didn't fully allow knife fights. High speed impacts the shield would repel but slow but strong movements with a knife could penetrate it. The way the movie at least justified disabling the shields was that the Fremen were seen to use laser weapons which in the Dune universe would cause a mini nuclear explosion if they hit a shield.
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