Probably because in 12 years of developing iOS applications, developing PWAs does not meet their needs. Bear in mind, Grab is spend lots of money for their infrastructure. If PWAs was the best option, they would have chosen it.

Why are you assuming Grab is still using 12 year old technology? They are developing iOS which means tablets and phones. I seriously doubt anyone is still using 12 year old phones or tablets to use Grab apps.

Maybe you should do some research. I would venture the #1 reason PWAs are not used is they require a constant internet connection. In the case of Grab that means depending on reliability of Malaysia's mobile networks. While Malaysia does not have the worst score in the world compared to the likes of Pakistan, it is the worst in the region. A native app would only need internet to connect periodically whereas PWAs would never really work.

Let's summarize: You still don't know why a computer with 12 years of experience is doing something. But you're sure you know better. Again, have you presented your ideas to Grab?

If you REALLY want to you can set this in pavucontrol in about twenty seconds. Should last until the browser restarts.

Might even work with pipewire if the planets are aligned.

With a decent SSD and a decent CPU. I would not put it past some companies to still be running with CPUs that barely pass minimum requirements and using the slowest HDDs.

Considering that Grab has building iOS apps for over 12 years instead of developing PWAs, I would guess they know more about their business than you. Have you presented your ideas to Grab?

1) Commercial pilots have to be certified to fly models of aircraft. No rules say pilots can only certify on one type of aircraft for their entire career. Some pilots certify on multiple ones. 2) UPS and FedEx fly more than the MD-11 as mentioned in the summary that it was a small part of their fleet.

Also (outside of California) wrongful imprisonment is a legal justification for the use of deadly force.

But California is intentionally destroying their former high-trust society as a pretext for totalitarianism, so ... whatever ... get out like everyone else with a brain.

Not too long ago U-Haul was offering free one-way hauls TO California because the escape rate was so lopsided.

First, Lego sets were never "generic". They were exactly what they were, be it a truck, a house, a castle, a space ship, or a dog.

Second, today you build anything and everything. There appears to be one new/unique part in this set and it's a very useful one. Take a look at Rebrickable.com and you'll see that there's a truly massive trove of other things people are making out of today's Lego sets. There was a brief period around the 1990s where there were a high number of elements that could only be used for what they were. Bows of boats, noses of airplanes... whatever. But for a very long time that mistake was remedied and things tend to be brick-built now, out of smaller, more useful elements.

Yes, there is a newish adult collectable trend where people can buy things like this for display purposes but I absolutely guarantee tonnes of these sets are going to be ripped apart and incorporated into other things, and in many cases the parts sold on the secondary market to become something completely different. I have personally bought tens of thousands of elements that are now on display at home and in my company office as completely different creations. I'm in my 50s and I've got multiple projects on the go, and I'm frequently dabbling in Stud.IO, designing stuff digitally.

The nostalgia you're kind of yearning for is absolutely, positively alive and well, rest assured.

As for price, well, yeah. But this is a 3,600 element set that is licensed. Parts on the secondary market go for between $.10 and $.15 Canadian and this comes out on the upper end of that, but again, it's a licensed product so it's not just LEGO who gets a slice of the pie here. It's still not abnormal. It's just a high quantity of parts. The per-part value is high but not abnormal.

I was curious about your point. You've provided an interview where the alarming headline is basically "crime isn't being reported". But I read it and discovered that's not what happened. The interview actually contained "in 2021, a bunch of cities didn't report crime statistics to the FBI".

Those three words change so much.

Just for fun I looked up crime statistics for NYC because they're the biggest one the interview picks on. Now... maybe NYC didn't release the 2021 stats until today. Maybe what your referenced article implies happened really happened. Maybe it wasn't just the FBI that didn't get stats. Maybe it was all secret. Maybe.

But it turns out NYC has crime stats available today for the last 24 years. Including that alarming year four years ago that your article gets so upset about. Know what? Take a look https://www.nyc.gov/site/nypd/... The city put out the stats. You can look for yourself.

Major felonies in 2000? 184,652. Major felonies in 2024? 123,890

Go ahead. Pick a category. Sure, stats are generally up since COVID but are still way down historically-speaking. Bottom lines:
1} Your article sucks.
2} Crime is trending down country-wide.

I find it amusing that the most iconic purpose behind social media was basically "let grandma on the East coast interact with her grandkid on the West coast".

> but how much does it really happen?

A lot. Like, a LOT a lot.

Maybe you would like some other videos if that's your preferred media?

Roblox Situation is Worse Than You Think
Roblox: How to Destroy Your $83,000,000,000 Company Overnight - A Deep Dive
Roblox, Take a Seat (ft: Chris Hansen)

Roblox has had problems with child exploitation too, for years now; Investigation: How Roblox Is Exploiting Young Game Developers and their follow-up, Roblox Pressured Us to Delete Our Video. So We Dug Deeper.
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You are discussing - ranting about, really - what should be.

The rest of us are discussing what is.

The original claim is that people aren't buying the F-150 Lightning because (paraphrasing) people want mid-size trucks and not fill-size trucks. That claim is refuted by pointing out that mid-size trucks already exist, they do not sell very well, and in fact full-size trucks are overwhelmingly popular.

Now you come in with your righteous indignation that because, in your view, people don't actually make full use of full-size trucks, they should not be buying full-size trucks. Notwithstanding that the majority of these trucks actually ARE used as trucks - because the cultural bubble that exists entirely up your ass along with your head is not representative of the entire world - the very real popularity of these vehicles is not dependent on what people actually do with them.

I'll say it again just to be crystal clear: It does not matter if you think they should not be popular, the fact is they are popular. Reality does not give a shit what your opinion is.
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what's wrong with choice? if Apple wants to have system icons looks a certain way, fine but i sometimes want my UI to look a certain way , not Tim Apple's way

1. Wresting was on TV long before video games. 2. Brothers and cousins were hitting each other slingshots and rocks long before TV was invented. 3. Your anecdotal evidence does not "discount" everyone else. It only reflects your ego that you think that it does.

Yes because wrestling never existed before video games. . . oh wait it did.

Well, he renamed it and made minor changes around the edges so he could claim that it was broken and he fixed it. And then, of course, proceeded to violate the agreement he signed.