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by nikanj 1y ago
Bought out by Broadcom, who realized if you increase prices by 10x and lose 75% of customers, you end with more revenue and less support costs
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by nikanj 1y ago
Average startup team replaced all zippers and buttons with experimental fasteners three sprints ago, because a tech that doesn’t get quarterly upgrades is clearly obsolete
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by nikanj 1y ago
With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. Eventually you can overcome any issues by throwing more CPU at the problem
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by nikanj 1y ago
They didn't stop there, C++23 brought contains() to strings too! You can do some crazy stuff nowadays like say if(username.contains("hello")) Absolutely incredible, definitely worth the wait
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by nikanj 1y ago
Or more likely nobody gives a damn about performance while doing testing.
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The average American adult travels more than 40 miles per day https://www.replicahq.com/post/the-average-american-adult-tr... In the UK, an average car travels 19 miles per day https://www.nimblefins.co.uk&#
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by nikanj 1y ago
My go-to example is Al Bundy. He was a loser, but most zoomers can only dream of having a house, a few kids, a car project in the garage et cetera
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But maybe in a week you will change your mind. Better ask you again in 7 days!
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by nikanj 1y ago
Android is the Windows of the phone world. The whole ecosystem is built around selling hardware at margin and making profits with forced installation of McAfee, Candy Crush etc
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A bug, or a dialog box that says ”Windows has reviewed your photo settings and found possible issues. Press Accept now to reset settings to secure defaults” This is how my parents get Binged a few times per year
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by nikanj 1y ago
$180m seeds make sense if you remember to say AI lots. See Thinking Machines for example.
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4/5 times when Claude is looking for a file, it starts by running bash(dir c:\test /b) First it gets an error because bash doesn’t understand \ Then it gets an error because /b doesn’t work And as LLMs don’t learn from their
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by nikanj 1y ago
I wonder how many API users needed the attribute to be an integer (instead of just treating it as an opaque handle string), but didn't mind the integer turning negative
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Microsoft forced to make Windows 10 extended security updates free in Europe(theverge.com)
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Now you just need a legal system that will pursue anti trust cases
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Remember when FB really took off, and places like Lowes tried to make their site be a "social hub" too? Like you'd add your friends there and follow their shoppings or whatever
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by nikanj 1y ago
For so many people, option A is chatgpt lawyer and option B is no lawyer. When the hourly billing of a lawyer approaches the weekly pay of a worker, something’s gotta give
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Hike prices for thousands of orgs, revert for the ones that make it to front page of HN. End up with way more money than not hiking prices for anyone
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Automated scans have detected 72251 out of the previous 3 supply-chain attacks
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by nikanj 1y ago
It doesn’t matter that the consumer/gamer laptop is a piece of shit, because all of the competitors are too. Consumer hardware is a volume business, and the actual end-user experience matters very little compared to endorsement deals a
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by nikanj 1y ago
I strongly suggest you disable ipv6, as nothing will break by disabling it but many things break with it enabled.
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At some point "Premature optimization is the root of all evil" morphed into "optimization is evil". Your PR will always get shot down if it tries to improve perf by making code less clean. Imagine applying this handbrake
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by nikanj 1y ago
The goal of the laws is that you have to obey the laws. Here the case is that you have to obey the people holding the badges.
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by nikanj 1y ago
That's not the key precedent they are setting. They are working on a much more important case: Making the population understand that disobedience will result in punishment
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Most Electron software doesn't follow accessibility guidelines and exposes nothing over UIA
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It's from the modern "rewrite it in Electron every 6 months" arm of Microsoft, not the "With a clever manipulation of the registers, we can eke out another 4 bytes of saved memory" arm of Microsoft. The former has b
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by nikanj 1y ago
Either all phone companies are stupid and leave money on the table, or nobody buys small phones.
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Vetocracy and nimby are ensuring the country barely shambles on until the boomers croak off. No point in putting up with construction and paying for the investments, if the current infra is juust barely good enough to last until the average
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Same reason as with the housing stock: In a vetocracy, infrastructure does not get built to keep up with a growing population. Not building a single new reservoir for 30 years is bonkers, when the population has grown about 20% and migrated
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What happens if enough people want to exchange USDT for actual USD? Tether goes down the same way SVB went down: Unable to offload long-term government bonds for full dollar value

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