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I was just reading about candy bars for a trivia night, and the internet tells me the UK Milky Way is the same as the US 3 Musketeers bar. As in, it omits the caramel. Also, the 3 …

Every year when DST transitions out, I say “next time we should move the cats’ dinner time gradually leading up to it”, but never remember. I now have reminders for the 5 days lead…

I’ve thought it’d be fun to find the chip used in those clocks, and integrate it into an offline microcontroller driven clock, but haven’t found the will to do so yet. I haven’t ev…

Ah, but that’s something different. “Agentic commerce”: using agents to buy things. I suspect there’s a different team working on monetization via affiliate programs, and it’d be e…

Servers make it easier to keep & maintain duplicate data in separate locations, which’ll be unlikely to be affected by the same fire.

Nope, I’ve never needed to know, sorry. AFAIK the amount of the “+” is dependent on payment volume, which is why the quoted page says that it can be lower cost for merchants with h…

"1% to Stripe and 2% to card companies" is the grandparent estimating how the Stripe fees that you're quoting are divided up. Stripe isn't keeping all of that "1.5% - 3.25% + 20p",…

Awesome project. The video moves a little fast to fully appreciate it, but I did like how it was short & to the point. It could be fun to implement a scientific notation result dis…

And, if YC is paying attention, this question might make a good filter for the unethical folks who’re willing to admit to their misdeeds.

> Then, when it was time to review or merge something, we spent even more time digging through the code just to understand what the commit or PR was supposed to do. > Now I delegat…

It’s certainly not a new phenomenon. I appreciate this XKCD [1], with a chart of “How long can you work on making a routine task more efficient before you’re spending more time tha…

They’re also very toxic to cats, which is why dogs & cats have different flea & tick medicines.

>> physical menus are hard to update > How often does a restaurant update a menu? Those that need to update frequently already solved that by having a chalk board. One advantage of…

It also reduces the DDoS effect of telling all your customers to repeatedly hit your web servers at a specific day & time.

> I’m sure there’s a technical Unicode word for this process of matching codepoints for e.g. search and uniqueness of rendering That’d be Unicode Normalization. I don’t have an opi…

I don’t watch baseball (maybe a couple games a year), but I think it could use some sound / audio, so you can have it running while doing something else. IDK if there’s an easy way…

From this article, it does sound like it’s a newer development: > Goals for Hacking for Defense > A decade ago, our goal for the class was to teach students Lean Innovation methods…

I think the difference is in the scale. I think Apple’s asking you to index / share all of the data from your app. Virtually no user is going to copy & paste every single message i…

I think the server-side stuff will be a mix of users & developers paying. I have seen this info in several places: > PCC delivers a powerful server model without compromising priva…

> Maybe you missed the 'or sent to private cloud' part of the announcement, it's not just local-llm only. I saw that. Maybe you’re unfamiliar with Apple’s Private Compute Cloud? It…

I haven’t been able to find a cost for larger developers. Is that published yet? Their presentations talked about how it was based on the user’s quota, with higher quotas for iClou…

I don’t have the EU perspective, which might be changed by things like GDPR, but I prefer Apple’s stance that “no one should have this data, not even us”. One reason is that the da…

I’ve got a 2023 Mac Studio M2, and was dismayed by the M3 & later. So I’ve been trying to track down more details. That specific device list is only for: > Apple’s most powerful on…

They’re actively asking developers to index all the content in their apps, to provide Personal Context that Siri can use for user requests. And to create/index the actions availabl…

Sounds like Apple offered to implement that, but it didn’t fit the EU’s requirements. I suspect if you paid apple enough money, and were willing to prove that your personal Private…