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Munich Court Proposes €1.05 Monthly Codec Royalty for Netflix Subscribers(streaminglearningcenter.com)
2 points by dabinat 2mo ago|0 comments
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by dabinat 2mo ago
I always thought the physical buttons Amazon used to offer were interesting. The idea is that if you’re at an office and you have reams of paper stored near the printer, you put a button next to them. Then whoever grabs the last one hits th
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by dabinat 2mo ago
Wouldn’t most of those effects also be in the control group too?
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by dabinat 2mo ago
The BBC should have put it in quotes in the headline; I kept the HN title faithful to the original article.
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Children's stunted lungs show recovery in ultra low emission zone(bbc.com)
417 points by dabinat 2mo ago|416 comments
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by dabinat 2mo ago
Isn’t that the purpose of running a study? To establish that a theory works and could be beneficial at scale?
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by dabinat 2mo ago
How do you remotely sing a duet with someone and have it be in sync? You don’t have a lot of leeway before latency becomes noticeable
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by dabinat 2mo ago
I think that a line-for-line rewrite in Rust like Bun did isn’t really getting all of the benefits of using Rust. A key benefit is utilizing the type system to make the borrow checker work for you by making certain checks happen at compile-
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by dabinat 2mo ago
Well you led with mentioning that you used AI and didn’t say what your personal contribution was. If that answer is zero or near zero, it’s not valuable as a project. In a world where AI can write code, your job as a human is acting as a qu
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by dabinat 2mo ago
In theory site owners could be more selective about the ad networks they partner with. They bear a responsibility for a poor user experience, but many don’t care. I remember hearing about a lawsuit several years ago from several news organi
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by dabinat 2mo ago
If you have the money for the surgery, an extra year of cognition is huge. Short-term quality of life improvements are totally worth it if you can afford it. (Disclaimer: the non-paywalled part of the article did not mention side-effects or
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Four Levels of In-Place Initialization (Rust)(blog.yoshuawuyts.com)
11 points by dabinat 2mo ago|1 comments
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by dabinat 2mo ago
> AV1 remains the practical choice for most deployments today because it has broader implementation and hardware support. Was this entire article written by AI? The spec was only just released. You will not be able to realistically use A
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by dabinat 2mo ago
This fee occurs when developers use another payment provider. So the 5% does not cover payment processing. You still pay the fees to your payment processor, then you pay 5% on top of that to Apple for essentially no reason.
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by dabinat 2mo ago
Human writing can often be more concise because humans are lazier and don’t want to expend unnecessary effort. An LLM does not care about word count.
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by dabinat 2mo ago
You’re already buying a Mac to develop on, one or more iOS devices to test on, plus the $99 developer fee. Why does Apple deserve a cut of revenue it’s not even processing?
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Apple Can't Delay App Store Fee Fight While Waiting on Supreme Court(macrumors.com)
5 points by dabinat 2mo ago|2 comments
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by dabinat 2mo ago
> Around 50,200 adults are living with hepatitis C, figures for England in 2024 suggest. > Estimates indicate 84.6% of those living with hepatitis C have been diagnosed - just short of the 90% target. How do they know there are that m
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by dabinat 2mo ago
The side-effects of any medication need to be weighed against the cost of the underlying medical condition going untreated. Sometimes that cost-benefit calculation works out in favor of the meds even when the side-effects are severe. (Also
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Bevy's Sixth Birthday(bevy.org)
6 points by dabinat 2mo ago|0 comments
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by dabinat 2mo ago
I was at a place recently that had a nude sauna. The year before a guy had been caught propping up his phone discreetly in a corner to film people, so this year their policy was that everyone had to declare their phones and switch them off
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by dabinat 2mo ago
> One possibility the abolition of the license fees reportedly due to Red from users of Apple’s ProRes RAW codec. This would be great but I’m not going to hold my breath.
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by dabinat 2mo ago
Email rendering is such a mess. It’s insane that the standard way to lay out an HTML email in 2026 is with tables. If you look at https://www.caniemail.com/scoreboard/ there are even different results for the same clie
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by dabinat 2mo ago
That’s the goal of every publicly-traded corporation in a mature market. Wall Street demands ever-increasing returns and they can’t grow their customer base much so cost-cutting and fleecing existing customers are the only levers to pull.
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by dabinat 2mo ago
iOS 15 is a really old version but if developers want to put in the effort to support old versions, why not let them? Sometimes it feels like Apple thinks I work for them and have the same priorities as they do (i.e. making more money for A
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by dabinat 2mo ago
I briefly tried R2 and there were so many issues and absolutely no way to contact anyone at Cloudflare about it. Backblaze weren’t much better - they at least have support but they won’t actually fix any issues even when you hand them scrip
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by dabinat 2mo ago
I think that if every app has to explain to the user how to use their own operating system, that operating system is not intuitive. I’ve been using Macs for a long time but I had to look up how to install an app the first time I did it.
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by dabinat 2mo ago
That’s less that China needs to buy from the rest of the world, so it’s still a win.
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by dabinat 2mo ago
It’s interesting that they’re using Blitz for parsing HTML/CSS, which is at an early stage with a lot of features still not implemented, which doesn’t matter for their use-case of AI agent-only browsing.
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by dabinat 2mo ago
This sounds like the kind of feature that ends up being quick to initially implement but takes up way more engineering time to maintain than everything else combined. The author concedes at the end that most genuine uses of the feature are

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