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by mdasen 2y ago
I think there are a few other benefits (even if that was the main benefit/driving force behind the decision). When you have low-paying (or zero-paying) customers, you need to make your system easy. When you're enterprise-only, you
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by mdasen 2y ago
It seems like Toyota is going big on hybrids lately using the powertrains they developed through the Prius line. Every new Camry, Crown, and Sienna is a hybrid. The Corolla can be upgraded to a hybrid for only $1,500. Both of Toyota's
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by mdasen 2y ago
As you note, it would be defeatable by putting your phone into airplane mode. However, if you're having a party with 30 people, I doubt you'll be able to get a majority of them to turn off their phones. If the owner gets ping&#x27
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by mdasen 2y ago
It's not on par with the best TSMC has in Taiwan, but most companies are still using 4nm. Yes, 3nm has been shipping for over a year - but only if your company is named Apple. Intel just launched a small portion of its products using 3
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by mdasen 2y ago
Is YouTube playing a bit loose with the DMCA's requirements here? * YouTube has no liability for incorrect take-downs (17 USC § 512 (g) (1)) * That limitation on liability only exists if they restore access to the disabled material wit
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by mdasen 2y ago
Yea, I don't want to defend Visa, but a lot of their dominance came from network effects. Merchants want to accept Visa because it's what people have in their wallet. Customers want Visa because it's what merchants accept. Th
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by mdasen 2y ago
That's always a possibility, but let's say you're running a cluster of 100+ machines. One dies and it'll be 24 hours to get a replacement. That's not such a big deal - your capacity is only down 1% and you aren&#x27
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by mdasen 2y ago
I'll add that it isn't just data egress. It's also inter-AZ transfer which costs $0.01/GB. But it's really $0.02/GB since you get charged 1 cent for the traffic leaving and 1 cent for the traffic arriving on th
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by mdasen 2y ago
I think Apple likes having a bit of a premium, low-pressure position. One of the reasons I love Apple products for my relatives who aren't tech savvy is that I can just send them to the Apple Store when they have problems. I know the A
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by mdasen 2y ago
It should be the future, but it won't be. Roku's ARPU (average revenue per user) is around $40/year. If a company sells you a TV and there's a 50% chance you end up using the built-in smart platform and you keep the TV a
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by mdasen 2y ago
Buying an Apple TV has been one of my best purchases. It's amazing having a box that just lets me get to my content rather than bombarding me with ads. It's also amazing how much better the box is. The UX is fast and responsive gi
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by mdasen 2y ago
If it were malicious, they would have increased prices in Europe as well. They could try and extract money from European customers just as much as American ones. And the bandwidth pricing is still quite cheap, $0.001/GB. Major cloud pr
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by mdasen 2y ago
It's definitely surprising that Qualcomm didn't. Not only does Windows have a longer tail of software to support, but given that the vast majority of Windows machines will continue to be x86-64, there's little incentive to do
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by mdasen 2y ago
The thing is that cheap cars don't sell well in the US. Are you buying a Nissan Versa for $18k? Are you willing to drive a manual transmission to save $1,500? Car companies have tried selling cheaper cars in the US. The Suzuki Dzire is
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by mdasen 2y ago
> Nor have I had any desire to upgrade I never thought I'd see a processor that was 50% faster single-core and 80% faster multi-core and just shrug. My M1 Pro still feels so magically fast. I'm really happy that Apple keeps pus
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by mdasen 2y ago
The issue is that Qualcomm wants to switch to ARM chips where they don't pay ARM much money. When you're making ARM chips, you can either license the instruction set or you can license whole core designs. Most people license whole
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by mdasen 2y ago
It's not simply that certification costs money. It's that a lot of modern UNIX-like operating systems don't adhere to the UNIX spec. For example, the OpenBSD man pages specify the ways in which they diverge from POSIX and UNI
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by mdasen 2y ago
It should be pointed out that OpenBSD is not UNIX certified. You might retort that I'm being pedantic, but you didn't say that it offers "the UNIX experience". You said it offers "the UNIX(TM) experience". h
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by mdasen 2y ago
They probably can't change the license for WordPress. It's under the GPL and it looks like WordPress doesn't require a contributor agreement assigning copyright to someone else. They'd need to get every contributor to ag
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by mdasen 2y ago
It does send the message and number to your carrier (and I think Apple as well). With AT&T, you can also manually forward the messages to the short code 7726 (it spells SPAM), but that functionality is integrated into iOS and Android so
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by mdasen 2y ago
It might vary. When you get a spam text, you can use something like Twilio's number lookup to find the carrier. If you ever get a suspicious/spam text, looking up the carrier is a good first step. Most of the garbage I get comes f
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by mdasen 2y ago
I'm not sure there's a lot of SEO-friendly back linking juice. They're marked as rel="nofollow sponsored"
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by mdasen 2y ago
I think a big issue here is that it looks like Automattic (WordPress.com) is controlling the independent WordPress Foundation to harm one of Automattic's competitors. If a commercial entity is allowed to control a non-profit and direct
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by mdasen 2y ago
I think this is part of the greater problem where companies eventually pivot from creating something new and meaningfully better for customers to figuring out how to extract a marginally larger share of the pie - having people work on redir
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by mdasen 2y ago
I think a difference there is that Postgres doesn't have a for-profit semi-attached to it. There are certainly companies that do work on Postgres, but Postgres wasn't founded by people looking to make a business and its developmen
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by mdasen 2y ago
Earlier this month, WordPress explicitly said that their trademark didn't cover "WP" https://web.archive.org/web/20240901224354/https://wordpress... The abbreviation “WP” is not covered b
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by mdasen 2y ago
You might be right, but I'm failing to see how this is less evil mustache-twirling. A PM/engineer decided "I bet we can create an ML model that will find suckers we can charge more," is basically the same as "I bet
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by mdasen 2y ago
It looks like 1-way pagers sold in the US are powered by AA or AAA batteries: https://pagersdirect.net/collections/1-way-pagers . That's not to say that they couldn't have put a lithium AA or AAA battery into
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by mdasen 2y ago
Not really. Graviton chips just use off-the-shelf core designs from ARM. The Graviton used Cortex A72 cores, the Graviton2 Neoverse N1, Graviton3 Neoverse V1, and Graviton 4 Neoverse V2. Apple designs their own cores and Qualcomm is startin
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by mdasen 2y ago
The problem with choosing Nvidia is that they can't make an x86 processor with an integrated GPU. If you're looking to maintain backward compatibility with the Playstation 5, you're probably going to want to stick with an x86

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