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It's literallly impossible for there to be a valid reason for a website to be entitled to know that under any circumstances.

The 10k hours claim you make further down (popularized by Gladwell) is also an absurd overreach on what the research actually was or claimed to be. Read Peak by K Anders Ericsson instead of Gladwell's outliers and you get a very different presentation of what the research says from one of the researchers.

They were studying a very specific type of rote learning with a specific type of training (because being classically trained in violin is that standardized). The number of hours trained to reach expert status was not identical between practitioners. He made absolutely zero claims about the amount of time needed to learn different skills that fit the same pattern, and more importantly, really didn't make such claims about entirely different and unrelated types of learning like code that aren't formalized.

Gladwell's book was straight anecdote with no rigor. Ignoring that, languages aren't that different and an expert can very easily hop most languages with minimal impact.

The 10k hours claim (popularized by Gladwell) is also an absurd overreach on what the research actually was or claimed to be. Read Peak by K Anders Ericsson instead of Gladwell's outliers and you get a very different presentation of what the research says from one of the researchers.

They were studying a very specific type of rote learning with a specific type of training (because being classically trained in violin is that standardized). The number of hours trained to reach expert status was not identical between practitioners. He made absolutely zero claims about the amount of time needed to learn different skills that fit the same pattern, and more importantly, really didn't make such claims about entirely different and unrelated types of learning like code that aren't formalized.

Gladwell's book was straight anecdote with no rigor.

It's literally 100% exclusively about where the light is coming from.

Combined, those articles link to one actual bit of research where they tested in a dark room with participants 6 fucking feet away from a 24 inch dim screen. That's not even sort of representative of the real world.

Paper doesn't emit light. It's not even similar, let alone the same thing.

I use an ereader with black on white, but the lack of an option to use dark mode on a screen guarantees I never consider touch your app again. It's eye cancer.

There's a setting for notifications for any reply to your comments. You can also get a notification for any post in any subscribed magazine.

Notifications for upvotes is definitely not a normal feature and makes no sense.

Sexual assault in space is kind of a weird one, too, at the very least with respect to space tourism.

There are already loads of scenarios on Earth where even properly responding to an assault means that the victim and attacker are in the same vehicle for a meaningful length of time. Space doesn't change that.

Hopefully I wouldn't swear if you were actually 5.

DRM is allegedly "copy protection", but in reality is absolute control over how you access content. Want to stream a movie on the wrong computer/browser? Fuck you.

Want to browse a website without 100 trackers injected to make sure everyone who might want to knows your entire browsing history? Sucks to be you. Want to block ads because there isn't an (web) ad platform out there that does the due diligence to avoid providing a substantial vector for malware? Nah. Need help from accessibility tools that Google hasn't white listed? Maybe just don't be disabled.

I have a shared Apple photos album with my dad and occasionally share with a small handful of friends on discord or on a Pixelfed with zero followers for the sake of having them somewhere that isn't my apple photos album.

I've had a very small handful printed as Shutterfly's metal photo tiles, and I thought they did a pretty good job (though the mounting was not sufficient for a textured wall paint).

Antiquated laws/regulatory environment gives fax special treatment even though it's quite possibly the worst mechanism available to send a message.

Even if it's 17 year olds, the amount of liability you expose the school/municipality to is massive.