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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 t…

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.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/16/apple-acquires-video-editi... "MotionVFX, a Warsaw-based company"

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 m…

2017-2019… it sounds like maybe he did quit.

“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 on…

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.

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 ha…

Apple in China is a great book and shows how good China is on focusing on quality when that is the given objective.

> 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 a…

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 …

Can you expand on this? Having used two different Newton models, even squinting, I don’t understand what you’re getting at.

ET is frequently used to describe Apple’s Executive Team.

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…

We used to describe our startup as having 5 8’s of uptime

It’s rare in the US and very common in London

In SF, I commonly see homeless people with cell phones

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Waiting may not be “unwise” but acting now may be optimal. Even though tooling may be much better in 12 months, if it can improve quality or time now, that’s a net benefit. Bikers …

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