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  • Also, nova is a Latin word, so obviously it means nova is Spanish. Saying it gets read as "no va", is like saying English speakers read carpet as "car pet".

  • Apple, where thinking different means not being able to customize.

  • Club seating is pretty controversial. A large percentage of passengers absolutely will not accept a rear facing seat. Chrysler had Swivel 'n Go seats in the center row, that could optionally rotate to club seating as an option from 2008 through 2010, but dropped it due to low interest.

    Also, accessibility requirements are about compliance, not market interest. Obviously, they don't matter to most users, and generally the extra usage from complying isn't cost effective. Theoretically, a company could do market research on users who would use accessibility features, but the results won't generally match legal requirements, so it's a much safer option to ignore accessibility needs and instead defer to accessibility regulations.

    Clearly Zoox hasn't done the market research, or as is more often the case, did the research then ignored it, so any party of more than two is far more likely to use their competition.

  • I'm going with a group of friends to go see Project Hail Mary. It's the first time in years that most of us have planned ahead of time to see a movie, because it's mostly been garbage. I think the last time was Avengers Endgame, but we were all pretty disenfranchised in the series by that point.

    Having a good home theater does mean I watch far more movies at home than in the theater, but almost none of them are new releases, and the ones that are are usually released straight to a streaming service.

  • Oh great, another method to make screen readers and keyboard navigation impossible.

    At this point, bots are better at getting data out of web pages than people are. (And have been so for at least a few years: https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity23/presentat...)

    All we're doing now is making it easier to get data from a web scraper than to browse to the web page ourselves.

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