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by tiffanyh 6mo ago
Cool, but wow - my iPhone heats up super fast while on that site.
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by tiffanyh 6mo ago
I use to listen to podcasts to fill in time (while driving, showering, walking) … and also realized it was info overload for my brain, making me feel exhausted & tired. I’m now so much more relaxed and mentally rested by literally havin
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by tiffanyh 6mo ago
I’m reminded of that time 10-years ago when Apple rewrote parts of its networking code (discovery/mDNSResponder), and it caused so many issues they had to revert the code. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9026192
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by tiffanyh 6mo ago
FYI - I loved reading your blog posts ~20 years ago about how you were building your server infrastructure (hardware, dedicated, onprem, etc). If any more recent post exist on similar topics, I’d be fascinated to read more. https:/&#x
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by tiffanyh 6mo ago
That’s what’s needed when you go from $9B in ARR … to $30B in ARR literally just one quarter later . That kind of insane growth & demand is unprecedented at that scale. https://www.anthropic.com/news/google-broadco
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by tiffanyh 6mo ago
I do think Ternus being at Apple for 25-years (2001) is getting lost in the story. It's also the year the iPod was launched, which capitulated Apple from near bankruptcy a few years before to then having the cash it needed to invest in
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by tiffanyh 6mo ago
I see Lua was included, wish LuaJIT was as well.
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by tiffanyh 6mo ago
For all the hate on star systems, whether it’s GitHub/Amazon/AppStore, I’d still take having one over having nothing at all. They make it easier to sort through options, help with search and discovery, and at least give you a base
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by tiffanyh 6mo ago
Pro. It even gave me $20 free credits, and exhausted free credits nearly instantly.
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by tiffanyh 6mo ago
I was using Opus 4.7 just yesterday to help implement best practices on a single page website. After just ~4 prompts I blew past my daily limit. Another ~7 more prompts & I blew past my weekly limit. The entire HTMl/CSS/JS was
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by tiffanyh 6mo ago
If this interest you, Proof of Corn might also interest you. 300+ comments, 3 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46735511
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by tiffanyh 6mo ago
- AirPods - Apple Watch - AirTag Those are a few that come to mind. All do multi-billions in revenue per year.
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by tiffanyh 6mo ago
I don’t think they do. Netflix uses FreeBSD specifically for their custom-built CDN/streaming servers, which are hosted directly with ISPs … not on AWS. Their user-facing catalog app, however, runs on Ubuntu servers hosted on AWS. At l
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by tiffanyh 6mo ago
A lot of people seem confused about how they raised the money, but it’s actually a pretty easy VC pitch. - It’s from one of GitHub’s cofounders. - GitHub had a $7.5B exit. - And the story is: AI is completely changing how software gets buil
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by tiffanyh 6mo ago
Amazing work. If you like this story, you might also like the story of how Mac OS X was ported to Intel as well. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4091216
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by tiffanyh 7mo ago
I wonder if the mountain had a landslide in the past since they unexpectedly stop and what appears like a terrain change. https://maps.app.goo.gl/LFMS6uVg3V3agVZc6?g_st=ic If the case, wonder how far this Band of Holes went
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by tiffanyh 8mo ago
Aren’t we talking about a company being “virtually integrated”.
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by tiffanyh 8mo ago
Product Positioning... Apple is doing everything they can to ensure it doesn't appear as a premium product. A decade ago, they had the 12" MacBook (not Air, just "MacBook") it it felt super premium because it was lighter
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by tiffanyh 8mo ago
I'm not sure why the negative tone in this thread. The MBA is an amazing value, and appears to have only gotten slightly cheaper . This is a solid product, that continually receives incremental improvements and delivered at a lower pr
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by tiffanyh 8mo ago
Why does Claude require my phone number. It's honestly a reason why I don't use the service.
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by tiffanyh 8mo ago
> Are they doubling down on local LLMs then? Apple is in the hardware business. They want you to buy their hardware. People using Cloud for compute is essentially competitive to their core business.
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by tiffanyh 8mo ago
I can't find it either. Which means they don't have a 32" display option if true. Maybe it will also be updated, but on a different day this week?
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by tiffanyh 8mo ago
So Apple essentially introduce a new (middle) price point in their displays: $1,500 Studio Display $3,300 Studio Display XDR <-- NEW $6,000 Pro Display <-- DISCONTINUED ??? Apple is amazing at "laddering&qu
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by tiffanyh 8mo ago
Would you mind explaining more. “Difficult” because of lack of documentation? Or difficult because of purposefully obfuscating things?
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by tiffanyh 8mo ago
It's Operations Management 101. It's cheaper to use an old generation CPU, than the effort needed to design and manufacture a custom iPad-only chip. Same reason why the Studio Display uses binned iPhone chips.
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by tiffanyh 8mo ago
Does this vindicate Destin from Smarter Every Day? 2-years ago he presented concerns to NASA. https://youtu.be/OoJsPvmFixU
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by tiffanyh 8mo ago
Keeping track of the different AI product names is so confusing even from a single company. Why can't Google, for example just call: Gemini Image = Nano Banana Gemini Video = Veo ...
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by tiffanyh 8mo ago
Re: PHP vs a rendered index.html … your story brings back fond memories of my college days (around 2001–2002). I was a full-time student but also worked for the university’s “internet group.” We ran a homegrown PHP CMS (this was before Word
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by tiffanyh 8mo ago
Would love to read more stories by you toast0 on things you've optimized in the past (given the huge scale you've worked on). Lessons learned, etc. I always find your comments super interesting :)
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by tiffanyh 8mo ago
Aren’t these optimizations less about PHP, and more about optimizing how your using the database.

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