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by benoau 5mo ago
Their ecosystem netted them over $130 billion profit last year, I don't feel sorry for them at all...
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by benoau 5mo ago
> “The goal is to have a medicine that stroke patients can take that produces the effects of rehabilitation,” said Dr. S. Thomas Carmichael, the study’s lead author and professor and chair of UCLA Neurology. “Rehabilitation after stroke
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by benoau 5mo ago
On the flip-side, there's an expression "fair-weather friends" for people who are only friends when you don't need anything. Which is perfectly reasonable, but you're not really friends just because you can enjoy d
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by benoau 5mo ago
What they approved was very limited, unofficial 3rd party drivers with very limited application. It's the first positive sign in a decade but also almost entirely unrelated to what people would consider supporting AMD and Nvidia cards.
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by benoau 5mo ago
I think so, Macs can run software written for Android, iOS, Mac, Windows and Linux, everything else is incapable of running the iOS and Mac stuff. Virtualizing macOS from a Linux or Windows sucks for arbitrary reasons, and both macOS and i
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by benoau 5mo ago
BNPL is kind of back for apps subscriptions, but not in the US for some reason. https://www.macrumors.com/2026/04/27/app-store-monthly-subsc...
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by benoau 5mo ago
I think this conflates "old" with "killed". Most of the stuff is just old. I would say the Mac Pro was "killed", left to languish after the trashcan model, then isolated from third party GPUs when it finally g
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by benoau 6mo ago
You're looking at this space from the wrong angle. Getting sales is a function of your visibility on marketplaces that are overwhelmed with minimum-effort works. The problem you need to solve is not "how can 5 days work be done in
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by benoau 6mo ago
If YC had a chance of being a "religion of sorts" it would have been about Paul Graham, that ship sailed a decade ago.
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by benoau 6mo ago
No longer developing new features or offering new contracts, but eVerYtHinG iS FiNe.
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by benoau 6mo ago
What amazes me is how Heroku absolutely nailed what most web apps need nearly 20 years ago.
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by benoau 6mo ago
> However, I was talking about the customer experience, not the developer one. There's no question at all. People pay a premium, and have no issues with the walled garden. You can't even conclude that since lots of customers ar
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by benoau 6mo ago
> Apple's not making any money on developer subscriptions. I think we're going to find out in a couple weeks, as Apple will be in court arguing over a reasonable commission to charge developers for using third party payments an
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by benoau 6mo ago
> I am sadly now addicted to OLED and I fundamentally disagree with the Apple position of not having a touch screen on a laptop Both of these are reportedly coming to the MBP this year (lately rumoured to be next year), although there&#x
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by benoau 6mo ago
The alternative to this was continuing to optimize Rosetta while simultaneously processors improve, soon enough the performance gap wouldn't matter in the slightest. By the end of the decade you'd probably be comfortably running
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by benoau 6mo ago
They were facing fines [1] for blocking usage of NFC a year ago and are still [2] fighting integration, so pretty explicit refusal. [1] https://www.macobserver.com/news/brazils-antitrust-authority... [2] https:/&
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by benoau 6mo ago
Surely Microsoft would already be doing this extensively across GitHub, NPM, NuGet etc...
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by benoau 6mo ago
Job listings usually have a fair bit of detail on the infrastructure being used. Technical blogs by the companies too, especially if they've actually blogged about reducing these costs before.
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by benoau 6mo ago
Interesting read but it doesn't really seem likely. Aside from the issue they mention of "the enormous backblast" the ceiling they refer to as "very easy to remove" seems like the kind of "easy" where it o
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by benoau 6mo ago
He owns hospital ships as part of his fleet so presumably they are equipped for literally any medical issues that might befall him.
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Supreme Court denies Apple breathing space in Epic fight(appleinsider.com)
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by benoau 6mo ago
We let kids gamble so much money in games that they don't have to nickel and dime the adults.
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by benoau 6mo ago
Jeez what an amazing month for premium Linux laptops.
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by benoau 6mo ago
At that point you wouldn't care what the ingredients were. I guess we go back to basics since the main reason to use frameworks and stacks are the benefits of like, consistent structure, knowledge shared across teams, hiring people wit
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by benoau 6mo ago
They watched Silicon Valley and really liked Slice Line's business model lol...
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by benoau 6mo ago
It is luxurious seeing a movie in an empty theater.
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by benoau 6mo ago
For me there's definitely a trust factor for random app developers and an indifference for non-subscriptions where the one-time fee is irrelevant, but I wouldn't pay an extra $20 - $100 a year in fees to avoid a company like Netfl
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by benoau 6mo ago
There's only a handful of sources for the services revenue which is growing like crazy, I wonder if they've been able to negotiate a higher ad revenue cut with Google which was revealed to be 36% in Google's antitrust trial,
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by benoau 6mo ago
Looks like 122 when it's all installed
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by benoau 6mo ago
Concerts and performances as well. Taylor Swift fans could have saved the device by themselves lol.

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