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by benoau 5mo ago
The upside is it avoids the power, cooling, connectivity, location, environmental, staffing and physical security complexities of terrestrial data centers.
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by benoau 5mo ago
This is the kind of problem I think only UBI solves because there is no apparent business model that can sustain ~20 employees working on software like this, they need to make at least a couple million a year to pay those people!
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by benoau 5mo ago
Isn't their revenue just sponsorships and donations? This seems like a company destined to scrape by despite their popularity, like Tailwind. You don't get $50 million for that.
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by benoau 5mo ago
...and yet this sparked a revolution called netbooks that took over a full 20% of the laptop market at their peak. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netbook
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by benoau 5mo ago
It actually was done in the Intel days, and it was also wildly popular - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asus_Eee_PC
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by benoau 5mo ago
> the parental authority over a child's information diet is being transferred away from parents to tech companies These companies not only wanted that but they exploited the shit out of it for obscene profit! In many ways it was th
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by benoau 5mo ago
On the iPhone, where they go out of their way to prevent Steam or anyone else eating into that market. On Mac it's probably closer to 0% of all revenue, and they seem incapable of competing for it.
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by benoau 5mo ago
Wow that brings back some memories, but I was playing those games on a 386 running them on any hardware from this century must be absolutely trivial.
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by benoau 5mo ago
There's about 2 million apps so fundamentally all of the featured ones are outliers. Flighty is created by an ex-Apple employee, has surely paid millions in IAP fees, and probably spends a million bucks a year on ads, lot of reasons fo
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by benoau 5mo ago
There's only two ways to get flagged: automatically via defence mechanisms, or submitting something HN users deem inappropriate. There already are moderators and mechanisms for HN users to "vouch" for flagged posts too, your
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by benoau 5mo ago
> Retro gaming What they say is "we will keep a subset of Rosetta functionality aimed at supporting older unmaintained gaming titles, that rely on Intel-based frameworks" which sounds like OS X games. But even if it is all-inc
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by benoau 5mo ago
This is why Rosetta 2's looming retirement sucks.
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by benoau 5mo ago
Apparently 300 GB/sec so basically on par with the M5 Pro but half the M5 Max. It'd be alright with Linux, probably better than a MBP if you're working heavily with AI (but no other reason to buy it TBH). https://w
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by benoau 5mo ago
I think that might be common enough these days through sound horizontal scaling principals and especially services that scale for you, but Whatsapp launched in 2009, pretty much the turning point for the tech that enables "web scale&qu
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by benoau 5mo ago
I just don't see how that's worth cutting off the ability to run Windows versions of Steam and games and software through Crossover and WINE. So much more software is being affected than just Mac apps that haven't been updat
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by benoau 5mo ago
"Promise" is doing a lot of heavy lifting, this whole theory is extrapolated entirely from a single remark during the iPhone 5 introduction in 2012, "this connector is a modern connector for the next decade". https:&#x2
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by benoau 5mo ago
As a counter-point, look at WINE on Linux and Crostini's containerized software on ChromeOS, clearly it is possible to support varied software without over-complicating the OS. And that's what Rosetta 2 does as well, if it's
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by benoau 5mo ago
It's $599, and they validate students for discounts now so for the vast majority of people $599 is the price. https://www.theverge.com/tech/926675/apple-education-discoun...
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by benoau 5mo ago
Every generation of Mac has its own requirements that Asahi has to support through a painstaking process of reverse-engineering, so it lags behind quite a bit. Realistically it will probably be 2030 before you can use it on any current-gen
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by benoau 5mo ago
As nice as Apple's hardware is it's all undermined by who they are as a company, intentionally limiting their devices more and more while they relentlessly argue in courts and to regulators that we owe them more and more for using
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by benoau 5mo ago
Tech industry's standard playbook for subverting the DSA/DMA and maximizing their profits through wildly inappropriate checks and balances within their own platforms. > In theory, the system gives EU users a free way to challen
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by benoau 5mo ago
This is the same wall everyone runs into: product market fit - chances are very good you'd encounter this issue on Envato's marketplace if you published something unknown today too. There's no easy answer, you can optimize a
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by benoau 5mo ago
I think Stripe started it long ago with "pk_" and "sk_" prefixes for public key and secret key.
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by benoau 5mo ago
It's on Reddit - https://old.reddit.com/r/whoathatsinteresting/comments/1tp3u...
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by benoau 5mo ago
That link says the customer's undisputed transactions 4 - 12 months ago with you may establish their disputed transaction was actually legitimate, but the article is about someone who only made disputed purchases within a week or two
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by benoau 5mo ago
> Our operating systems and apps don’t collect personal information, profile children, inject targeted ads, or create addictive design patterns. Really this was a preventable problem all along, if Google and Apple had any standards. Th
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by benoau 5mo ago
Big Tech not having a great month in the Supreme Court.
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by benoau 5mo ago
> Still wild to me that people advocate for making platforms responsible for user-submitted content on a website that consists entirely of user-submitted content. In both Meta and Google's case, it has been found that it doesn'
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by benoau 5mo ago
This is why ultrawides are very comfortable, you can focus on the center region where 2x monitors likely have their edges meeting.
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by benoau 5mo ago
Apple's dream... that if the contempt can't be unwound so they can obstruct third party payments with a 27% fee, then every developer wanting to use third party payments should have to sue them individually - a process they will m

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