smugma

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by smugma 21d ago
Short-lived. Down to flat now.
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by smugma 22d ago
It appears up to 46 times.
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Epic Unhappy with New EU App Store Fee Structure(twitter.com)
3 points by smugma 27d ago|1 comments
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by smugma 27d ago
Apple will charge: • 20% fee on alternative in-app payment options • 15% fee on links to make purchases outside apps • 5% Core Technology Commission on payments made in apps downloaded from alternative stores or the web
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Anthropic revenue run rate tops $65B, source says(reuters.com)
4 points by smugma 29d ago|2 comments
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by smugma 29d ago
"Anthropic is projecting 2028 revenue of roughly $190 billion to $200 billion" A few months ago, people were decrying their May $47B MRR number as being gamed (up from $9B at end of 2025). That may be true but we're still se
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by smugma 1mo ago
It's not that rare for games to offer a "remove ads" option for a few bucks. That model doesn't require a lot of extra "maintenance". I think a few bucks for ad-free brings in more money for most developers, bu
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by smugma 1mo ago
The author had fixed the bug. Had he cloned the repo, that bug would have not existed in the ripoff version, which points to the simplest explanation being that it was Claude, as the ripoff author said.
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by smugma 1mo ago
Unfortunately, I’ve seen MA ads for kids games on iPhone as well. Possibly not as bad but not great. It seems to be better than it was two years ago.
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Google ordered to open Android and Search to rivals in Europe(theverge.com)
3 points by smugma 2mo ago|1 comments
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European Commission: Guidance to Google for AI Interoperability on Android(daringfireball.net)
3 points by smugma 2mo ago|0 comments
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by smugma 2mo ago
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/16/apple-acquires-video-editi... "MotionVFX, a Warsaw-based company"
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by smugma 2mo ago
I’d prefer a timer, but when it runs out of time, you just don’t get credit for the word. You click next and it goes to the next word. I don’t want hints but I can see how others might want that. But you still don’t get credit for hints. Or
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by smugma 2mo ago
2017-2019… it sounds like maybe he did quit.
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by smugma 3mo ago
“This semester, probably because of the new evaluation system, 86 students signed up for the class" "Of the 89 students who did the midterm exam, only 59 showed up for the final one. And of the 27 who did not show up" 59+27=8
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by smugma 3mo ago
Tim Cook recently likened memory prices to a "hundred year flood." Looking here, it looks like 1988 was at least as bad, with prices going up 3X+ from $160/MB to $500/MB.
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by smugma 3mo ago
My wife changed carriers and for a day had lost her phone number. She was texting our son (who is in middle school) and his response was “prove it’s you”. So digital native kids have learned to not trust people on the internet, don’t use yo
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by smugma 4mo ago
Apple in China is a great book and shows how good China is on focusing on quality when that is the given objective.
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by smugma 4mo ago
> The players are not buying or selling the code. Counter-point: many acquisitions are not for the code itself but for the engineers who designed and wrote the code. Acquihire is almost exclusively used to describe acquiring engineering
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by smugma 4mo ago
It was about the environment (response to wildfires). It’s just that shortly after it passed, the Supreme Court ruled that it applies to any project that needs government approval and subsequently became a NIMBY tool. CEQA + Prop 13 are the
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by smugma 4mo ago
Can you expand on this? Having used two different Newton models, even squinting, I don’t understand what you’re getting at.
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by smugma 4mo ago
ET is frequently used to describe Apple’s Executive Team.
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by smugma 5mo ago
Forward and rear collision warnings have saved me several times in 3 different cars, including slamming on the brakes as I was backing up and then a MUNI bus that I didn’t see flew by. I’ve also been in 4 accidents that were my fault (one o
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by smugma 5mo ago
We used to describe our startup as having 5 8’s of uptime
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by smugma 5mo ago
It’s rare in the US and very common in London
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by smugma 5mo ago
In SF, I commonly see homeless people with cell phones
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Is AI Making Us Stupid? Cal Newport Is Worried(chronicle.com)
3 points by smugma 6mo ago|1 comments
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by smugma 6mo ago
https://archive.is/QdPAy
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Cal Newport is Worried (put down the ChatGPT)(chronicle.com)
2 points by smugma 6mo ago|1 comments
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by smugma 6mo ago
https://archive.is/eaqCt

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