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by lysace 1y ago
> [Update 29 March: See transcription correction here. Maestri said “App Store revenue”, not “absolute revenue”.]
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by lysace 1y ago
7% is the app store revenue. https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/01/apple-says-eu-represents-7... > Apple says EU represents 7% of global App Store revenue Europe (not EU, but close enough) represents about a
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by lysace 1y ago
Decent argument in principle. It still sucks for non-obvious types though: https://old.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/10zdidm/why_type_hi... Edit: Yes, one can sometimes go with Any, depending on the linte
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by lysace 1y ago
Not really open source, no.
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by lysace 1y ago
I suppose what I really mean is for the industry to agree on some benchmark or two. Like the 80s PC mag benchmarks. It obviously doesn't scale well if every potential end user has to benchmark every device.
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by lysace 1y ago
Is it really harder for CPU designers to game closed source benchmarks?
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by lysace 1y ago
We need modern open source CPU benchmarks. PassMark and Geekbench are closed source. I don't know why I should trust them to e.g. treat fundamentally different kinds of devices in a sane and fair way. They have vastly different cooling
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by lysace 1y ago
I enjoyed reading the initial part of their currently most popular story: https://www.the-londoner.co.uk/karl-marxs-labubus/ Karl Marx’s Labubus - The memeification of the communist grandee’s final resting place
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by lysace 1y ago
> A federal judge has tossed President Donald Trump's $15 billion defamation lawsuit against The New York Times and Penguin Random House, calling the complaint "decidedly improper and impermissible." There is some life lef
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by lysace 1y ago
Very slightly OT: My view is that Volvo got big in Sweden because they took moose accidents seriously, designing their cars to handle head-on collissions. Essentially strenghtening the A pillars a lot. (I have this memory from when I grew u
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by lysace 1y ago
Didn't see that, but they do tend to look that way after some real-world usage.
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by lysace 1y ago
Yep.
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by lysace 1y ago
My original iPhone (bought in June 2007 for competetive research) has started swelling and won't boot up. Still keeping it. Maybe I should store it in a bucket of sand though.
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by lysace 1y ago
Apple’s primary motivation is to sell hardware. Their brand is hurt if their direct customers suffer damages through malware. Google’s primary motivation is to sell ads. Their brand is not hurt if phone brand FlirpleFoo ships millions of An
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by lysace 1y ago
Yes, state actors will be able to breach into your iOS device if you're deemed important enough. Edit: Meanwhile your average Android device has multiple publicly known remote execution issues.
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by lysace 1y ago
Back when I had the iPhone 5S (7.6 mm vs the 5.6 mm of the iPhone 17 Air): It provided value in terms of feel. It felt like a piece of art meeting cutting edge technology. It wasn't about showing off. It was also so light that it felt
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by lysace 1y ago
Not exactly brand new tech, but now on a mobile device without the long-term security baggage that often comes from using Android.
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by lysace 1y ago
I don't see that. What I do see is an interesting thought experiment in the title and then zero delivery in the body text. The term clickbait comes to mind.
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by lysace 1y ago
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by lysace 1y ago
It's been a decade since I last tried it. Before that, a lot more regularly, starting in the late 90s. I always ended up writing it off as an unimaginative Microsoft Windows clone that primarily focused on adding more settings/but
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by lysace 1y ago
Got curious. Seems like they have been a heavy Perl shop from the beginning. Their backend developer job ads appear to be oddly programming language neutral which I assume means they're still using Perl a lot. (Been there, done that, w
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by lysace 1y ago
I only knew of one company with some kind of techie fandom primarily using Perl before reading this (Fastmail out of Melbourne, Australia). Now I know of two. Still, two is a small number. And we're probably talking about like 20 Perl
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by lysace 1y ago
"Ooh, self-DDoS! Those are rare!"
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by lysace 1y ago
Hasn’t Slack had per user pricing for a very long time? And wasn’t the free version made kind of unusable through very limited retention like a decade ago?
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by lysace 1y ago
Is it too cynical to assume that their goal is to get more data for their LLMs?
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by lysace 1y ago
That's not possible. I saw a video yesterday where Greg Joswiak (SVP worldwide marketing at Apple) assured me that Apple has the best design team in the world.
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by lysace 1y ago
Waiting an extra year to jump on new macOS releases has been the norm for sane people for quite some time now. It sucks if you buy a new mac which isn't supported by older macOS releases though, so maybe don't do that for a year o
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by lysace 1y ago
Bullshit. What voltage is UHVDC at those numbers? Who is supplying the equipment? Where are the demo installations? What's the cost? Again, the goal is economic very long distance transfer of electric power. Not a Chinese university
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by lysace 1y ago
They currently most efficent method is called HVDC and it's not really efficient enough to be anyhing resembling economic at those distances. Ohm's law is a thing. Edit: I again made the mistake to comment on a thread dealing with
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by lysace 1y ago
Edit: It can probably be argued that Apple is a acting like a monopolist in one or a few areas though? The current web monopolist (Google) was coincidentally founded 2 months after the US antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft was decided (jul

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