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by mercutio2 13d ago
Digital transit passes work fine for under 13 year olds with iPhones. Matt Yglesias wants digital transit passes to work on Apple Watch for Kids watches. This is a much more niche feature, but I agree it’s an annoying Apple Wallet gap. It
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by mercutio2 16d ago
That raw statement is completely and totally false. “Not as fully staffed as some people might hope” or “Developer Relations isn’t as responsive as I’d like” are both at least not obviously false.
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by mercutio2 16d ago
I’m doing the same! Do you find that CoreML manages to fill up your drive with so many tiny files that a reboot takes hours to clean them up? I keep meaning to get my friends still inside the spaceship to file a radar about that. What game
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by mercutio2 20d ago
Of course! About plot, not scenery.
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by mercutio2 20d ago
For me, just different, not harder. But maybe the problem is you got some gray blobs, and I got nothing? If anything, my sense is that the absence of imagery makes book reading much easier for me. At least for plot and abstractions. I'
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by mercutio2 20d ago
I have a strong sense of the geometry of things, which helps a lot with navigating in buildings. So when people describe a flattened dodecahedron wrapping into its regular form, I have no trouble conceptualizing (I was going to say visualiz
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by mercutio2 20d ago
“Just” is doing a lot of work in your argument. The government grocery store tender is filled with exceptionally bad ideas. When he’s a normal politician doing normal things, he seems great. When he’s sticking to his guns on naive populist
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by mercutio2 2mo ago
You don't need to pay Apple $99. You can make perfectly good apps that run great with a free account. They expire in a week instead of 3 months (for TestFlight builds). That's it. You can redeploy with minimal effort. You have to
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by mercutio2 2mo ago
Have you gone around and surveyed Apple corporate employees to gather this insight? I’m amazed that your manager didn’t get a call from Apple security, if so. They weren't handing out dev fused AVPs in sufficient number for anyone to d
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by mercutio2 2mo ago
Wow. The reactions here. So negative! I skimmed various sections. I found the animations pleasant, the text readable, and the content clearly not slop. The historical context of the telegraph was interesting, and the treatment of bandwidt
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by mercutio2 2mo ago
LEO is not the place to worry about Kessler syndrome. Mostly, Kessler syndrome isn’t something to worry about at all; there are just a lot of orbital planes available. But in LEO, the mechanics don’t even apply.
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by mercutio2 2mo ago
For agentic work, you just cache the prefill kv cache of the relevant system prompts. TTFT is a little slow (10s of seconds, oh no!) the first time you boot up a new harness. I keep hearing people make this claim that TTFT is a problem, and
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Ways to think about token pricing(ben-evans.com)
46 points by mercutio2 2mo ago|22 comments
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by mercutio2 2mo ago
This is one of those questions non-parents ask. Kids come out as a person, with strong opinions and desires. You can shave off some rough edges, and maybe bend a few branches of their experience. But if you present a kid with the opportunit
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by mercutio2 3mo ago
Yup. $1/year is a great price point for avoiding squatters and proving there’s someone paying attention, truly de minimis. I’m happy with my .xyz domain for my homelab. Setting up split horizon DNS was more of a pain than I expected, b
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by mercutio2 3mo ago
The pacific northwest’s vast hydro capacity makes it maximally attractive to own an EV. The rest of the country isn’t nearly so lucky.
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by mercutio2 3mo ago
Before I drove an EV, I drove a 50 mpg Prius. At California prices of ~$4/gallon, that’s $.08/mile. My post wildfires NEM2 off peak rate for electricity is $.40/kWh. My Bolt gets 4.5 miles/kWh. That’s $.1125/mile. I
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by mercutio2 3mo ago
As a committed market-socialist, the extent that the HN commentariat has turned into a reflexively nihilistic anti-free-enterprise is a fairly astonishing turn. It’s like my belief system turned into the maximally idiotic version of itself.
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by mercutio2 3mo ago
The idea that 1:1s with devs adding very little value to the team is… pretty wild. If you think 1:1s don’t add value, your slice of the reality of what even modestly sized teams need to operate smoothly is so far from my experience I don’t
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by mercutio2 3mo ago
There are many projects where one shot is the right answer! But surely you aren’t suggesting literally every software project is composed of one-shot-able building blocks, or that the building blocks never require modifications to previous
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by mercutio2 3mo ago
This is orthogonal to the Interchange Fee Settlement. The settlement allows stores to decline different *classes* of Visa cards. It was always possible to accept Visa but not MasterCard, etc. What was not previously possible was to query, b
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by mercutio2 4mo ago
Yes, but you’re perhaps missing OP’s point? Incidence is very much on customers, but (high interchange fee) credit card users are getting a rebate of most, if not all, of that. It’s the cash users who AREN’T getting a rebate, and thus the i
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by mercutio2 4mo ago
This used to be true. But the 2025 Interchange Fee Settlement abolished the “Honor All Cards” regime. Perhaps, I know it’s crazy, but… perhaps segmenting the market into extremely high-spending customers, normal pay-every-month-relatively-l
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by mercutio2 4mo ago
Normies very bad at the concept of statistical calibration. News at 11! But yes, I agree with you that it's surprising to hear people on Hacker News having the 180 degrees wrong impression that the general population appears to have ta
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by mercutio2 4mo ago
This is The Way.
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by mercutio2 4mo ago
I wasn't in the room when it happened, but this is very different than the story told internally about why Apple became allergic to Nvidia. Arguably more petty. SJ has been dead for almost 15 year now, I imagine the C-suite might get o
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by mercutio2 4mo ago
Cmd-W closes the current *document*. In tabbed apps, the document is the tab. It is true that Finder is always running, you can’t quit it or kill it.
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by mercutio2 4mo ago
A 486 in 2003? Pentiums were shipping by the mid-90s, did you just have super old hardware lying around? I retired my 486 in ‘95 or thereabouts…
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by mercutio2 5mo ago
Huh? Your conclusion does not follow. A large fraction of the interchange fee is kicked back to customers. The size of the pie being so much bigger means the issuer’s tolerance for fraud is much larger, but it’s orthogonal to whether there’
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by mercutio2 5mo ago
Because adding friction will deter many impulse purchases. Americans use credit cards constantly . The equilibrium would be perturbed in a way very much not advantageous for the credit card issuers if consumers became more cautious about u

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