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He's not.

Executive function has limited capacity, but executive function isn't your brain (and there's no reasonable definition that limits it to anything as absurd as 10 bits). Your visual center is processing all those bits that enter the eyes. All the time. You don't retain all of it, but retaining any of it necessarily requires processing a huge chunk of it.

Literally just understanding the concept of car when you see one is much more than 10 bits of information.

There's no plausible way to even encode any arbitrary idea into 10 bits of information.

There's no particular reason for every app to search the web, though. There's plenty of reason for a wide variety of apps to need maps.

Maps are a broad value tool. Searching the web isn't.

Maps is core to privacy and utility for their whole software ecosystem. They offer maps free to devs on iOS so they're not forced to leak a boatload of data to Google or pay big API fees. It's a built in that thousands of apps use.

Thousands of apps aren't using search.

I don't notice normal LEDs generally.

But anything moving in front of Christmas lights gives me a giant headache. It's incredibly obvious.

It's the same for the wallpaper; just not visible really. But it bounces between a variety of my other pictures, too.

The fact that 99% of LED Christmas lights are mini strobe lights.

Yeah, I never really have anything I want for gifts because it's either way over the top and not something I'm going to have someone buy for me, or it's reasonably cheap and I just buy it way before anything anyone would give me a gift for.

But I've been buying myself a bunch of books lately, including some of the nice versions of Brandon Sanderson books. They're expensive enough that I can't just buy them all. I got a signed leatherbound copy of Elantris for Christmas.

A lot of travel ones aren't really intended for anything but hand washing.

Reputable places won't print shit that infringes copyright.

IDK. Goodreads said I'm in their top 1% for the year lol, and I only track the books I haven't read before.

Not a game, but I don't look at game high scores and other people are doing random stuff too.

lol flour is the only thing I care enough to weigh. Volume is just so insanely inconsistent.

It doesn't really matter, though. The only cause of companies pulling their content is Netflix's success. There was no way Netflix could have prevented it.

I'm not talking about the amount.

I'm saying they're much less predictable, so nonsense like having obvious signs saying "don't be stupid" can affect their ruling regardless of how necessary it should be.

Lawsuits often go in front of juries.

Civil juries do whatever the hell they want.

Every step a company takes to make sure that a reasonable customer will avoid hurting themselves makes it more likely a jury will blame an unreasonable one who hurts themselves being unreasonable.

Wishlist vs purchase is already a signal that maybe you'd benefit from a sale. Seems like it's enough. "Suggested prices" from gamers would be way too noisy to mean anything.

Well, they let me order my lists (and actually display the order). That's good.

No way to bulk add books to a list? Not so good.

Worth keeping an eye on, though.

The title is pushing the narrative that "real companies" doing hostile bullshit isn't "real malware".

When companies ship malware, it should be called malware.

If it's unwanted, disruptive, and (allegedly) impacts performance, that's not "malware-like". It's malware.

Almost through Kinsey Millhone. Getting to the end of R is for Ricochet (There's no Z as Grafton died before finishing it and didn't want anyone else writing in her name).

Ended up at the library and borrowed Tower of Fools by Andrzej Sapkowski (the author of the books the Witcher is pulled from) and The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold (an author my brother has suggested in the past) after some wandering. We'll see if I end up diving into those or spend more time re-reading Sanderson (either secret projects or Stormlight) with free time from the holidays. I made it a little into Tower of Fools and am not sure if it's going to catch my interest. After an info-dump prologue, there's a really oddly written sex scene, and it just didn't work for me. I'm not anti-sex in books. I frequently suggest Karen Rose and I think all of those have explicit sex scenes (it's probably more "most", but whatever). But IDK. Might see if the McMaster Bujold one catches my interest better, or just read the physical secret projects now that I finally got them.