aczerepinski

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by aczerepinski 9d ago
5% of iPhone sales is an enormous amount of revenue. Billions right?
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by aczerepinski 10d ago
I think the iPhone mini sold 5-10 million units per year. I don't view that as a flop, and I don't think it merits sarcasm around how "many" people wanted it.
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by aczerepinski 14d ago
They could swap in quality cushioning without changing the silhouette. They used the term “protro” when they did this to upgrade Kobe sneakers and people loved it. I assume the reason they don’t with dunks is because the margins on selling
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by aczerepinski 14d ago
I deactivated my account when Musk took over, and am not aware of anything I’ve missed since then. Is there anything big that I missed?
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by aczerepinski 14d ago
A huge percentage of Nike’s sales come from vintage shoes like dunks, air force ones, Jordan 1s, etc. By modern standards, they aren’t good shoes. They aren’t suitable for the sport they were originally designed for, and they aren’t comfort
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by aczerepinski 16d ago
I was prompted to accept binding arbitration in order to read this, so I didn't. Feel free to summarize.
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by aczerepinski 19d ago
Keep in mind the dimensions of the iPhone 1 were based on the most comfortable shape and size they could come up with. They weren’t targeting women specifically.
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by aczerepinski 19d ago
It’s crazy that the reason we can’t have a comfortable-to-hold one is that a product that only sells 5 or 10 million units a year isn’t worth their time.
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by aczerepinski 2mo ago
Surround yourself with tiny replica objects and look like a giant. You can skip straight to CEO.
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by aczerepinski 3mo ago
It used to be nobody could cancel online, and after my commit two states could. I think you may be overreacting here.
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by aczerepinski 3mo ago
All of my degrees are in jazz music. My education was not utilized for this particular task.
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by aczerepinski 3mo ago
I once wrote code that checks location before hiding/showing the cancel button. It’s really absurd that the nice experience exists on all subscription sites by now but you only get to see it if your state demands it.
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by aczerepinski 3mo ago
Can’t rule out hyperinflation doing some heavy lifting :)
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by aczerepinski 3mo ago
As an anecdote of how bad the naming is, I own one of these, but couldn’t tell you which one.
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by aczerepinski 3mo ago
My honest suspicion is that Musk will focus more and more on AI (and less on space) because he sees it as a path towards his immortality. I expect AI models trained on him combined with millions or billions spent lobbying to allow an AI to
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by aczerepinski 4mo ago
When you say you’re sharing with a SO, do you mean you’re doing the dance of re-authenticating with their two factor code every few days now that they clamped down on sharing a subscription even within the same household? This new change ha
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by aczerepinski 4mo ago
Jazz clubs book the same act for a week at a time. If there’s enough demand to fill a stadium for 4 nights in a row for a pop star, that sounds super efficient to me.
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by aczerepinski 4mo ago
The only real solutions to scalping are to impact supply/demand by increasing supply (extra show in each city) or lower demand (raise prices). As a jazz fan I don’t know much about shows that sell out and attract scalpers, but I’m curi
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by aczerepinski 4mo ago
Good call on lootboxes. I’d love it if video games that include them would be forced to do age verification to whatever extent casinos need to, and be 18+.
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by aczerepinski 5mo ago
Handing your phone to the guy working the gate at the parking lot is awkward. Will he need to hand it back and forth for face ID? Handing a credit card like everyone else does is better, but why is this heavy titanium card one of the few th
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by aczerepinski 5mo ago
As long as we're innovating, how about adding tap to pay to the physical apple cards?
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by aczerepinski 6mo ago
I used a photo of me in the car and it said my fashion interests include sweater and seatbelt.
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by aczerepinski 6mo ago
Book is better but they’re both good. I don’t think order matters.
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by aczerepinski 7mo ago
I believe that one day they will return to an ergonomic phone that is comfortable for one hand use and fits in pants pockets. Until then you need some other way to carry giant phones.
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by aczerepinski 7mo ago
As a parent, I think you’re understating how difficult it is to provide a specific amount of internet access (and no more) to a motivated kid. Kids research and trade parental control exploits, and schools issue devices with weak controls w
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by aczerepinski 10mo ago
Easy listening implies that there’s not much of anything there. Nothing surprising or unique about the song or the performance. No insightful message and nothing worth reflecting on after. I don’t think the alternative is “difficult” for it
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by aczerepinski 10mo ago
As a musician, I read my music from an iPad. A phone or a laptop monitor would be impossibly small for this.
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by aczerepinski 11mo ago
Same. I got so excited by the thought of a new iPhone that would fit in my pocket, but clicked on the link to see… phone socks?
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by aczerepinski 1y ago
I wonder if AI will eventually make faster languages (eg Rust, Crystal) nearly as simple to ship with, and therefore a better choice. Or maybe that will end up being a new language entirely.
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by aczerepinski 1y ago
Thanks for that suggestion - looks like you're right.

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