There at least the giant lily needs to be pollinated by hand as they are lacking the specialized beetles https://www.botmuc.de/en/audio_tour/202.html so I'd assume some gardens do think about these matters.
I was on the receiving end of numerous support cases caused by what has to be on the sub-dollar cent savings (per single sku) region when multiple mainboard manufacturers chose to use capacitors with slightly worse tolerances all of a sudden (~25 years ago).
So if the whole process of spec'ing and validating the quality of sourced materials was within their action space, ofc they'd choose (potential) fault-tolerance over price, as it was mission critical.
So there might be a reason why we refer to it today as space race and not race to the bottom.
It is the bridge that provides the REST API, not the bulbs.
Having a REST API means the complete setup is easier to tinker with through a defined protocol and not having to resort to hack with the bulbs or any zigbee/low-level things.
I used this to play a bed time indication sequence on multiple bulbs in the living room from MIDI notes.
At some point it makes sense to update even if the content itself is "complete": supporting newer screen resolutions natively (instead of going with some kind of fallback behavior), making sure all the outdated and long since sunset 3rd party SDK calls don't cause crashes etc.
Also if you managed to build, prepare (App Store metadata in different resolutions etc), submit and finally get your app shipped to the end user that was no small feat a couple of years ago. Probably not a very useful skillset to have if you only do it very infrequently (read: waste of time).
Requiring additional screenshots, icon sizes, universal app (iPhone+iPad, also supporting split view), new copy for different types of meta (e.g app sub title) for all the locales you probably had translated externally at some point, new privacy guidelines etc.. all not very attractive to get into even if not forced to update like this, especially if you lose your ratings in the process.
Wondering if there are certain individuals/institutions/organizations that would have vested interests in any of this?
Looking at the amount of money that is spent on nation-level campaigning (for a term length of ~4 years) the sum short would be minuscule when compared to near-global reach to be gained, so maybe the total of folks chipping in one way or another weights in much more p.a. than what currently is "on the table".
Might be true for running stuff in different regions/AZs but if the provisioning region is down (e.g. deploying lambda@edge) one does not really have an alternative
Thanks for taking the time to write about the book. As someone who had a hard time applying their school-taught knowledge about vectors and matrices when trying to understand OpenGL and Direct3D back in the early days ("why isn’t there a proper 'camera' object I can use") I really appreciate when people make an effort to offer alternative POVs to get deeper into topics they might not be familiar with.
Sometimes the right kind of intuition is all it needs to make it click. Sometimes it's that tiny bit of knowledge one is missing to get the whole picture and suddenly everything makes sense.
(Btw I think we might have met ages ago at a conference or two in Cologne)
Not relevant for the broader content and brand marketing approach discussed here but I repeatedly and decisively clicked on ads on readthedocs, resulting in conversions a couple of times (mostly eBooks).
Never really thought deeply about the why, but probably related to some of the offers appearing more relevant to me (in terms of context and not browsing history/social graph) .
There at least the giant lily needs to be pollinated by hand as they are lacking the specialized beetles https://www.botmuc.de/en/audio_tour/202.html so I'd assume some gardens do think about these matters.