"Carlito" [λ]

I wish more people understood the difference between criticizing something because you want to fix it and criticizing something because you want to destroy it.

Sophie Wilson?

summarize: One, after trial, the Court found that Apple's 30 percent commission "allowed it to reap supracompetitive operating margins" and was not tied to the value of its intellectual property, and thus, was anticompetitive. Apple's response: charge a 27 percent commission (again tied to nothing) on off-app purchases, where it had previously charged nothing, and extend the commission for a period of seven days after the consumer linked-out of the app. Apple's goal: maintain its anticompetitive revenue stream. Two, the Court had prohibited Apple from denying developers the ability to communicate with, and direct consumers to, other purchasing mechanisms. Apple's response: impose new barriers and new requirements to increase friction and increase breakage rates with full page "scare" screens, static URLs, and generic statements. Apple's goal: to dissuade customer usage of alternative purchase opportunities and maintain its anticompetitive revenue stream. In the end, Apple sought to maintain a revenue stream worth billions in direct defiance of this Court's Injunction. In stark contrast to Apple's initial in-court testimony, contemporaneous business documents reveal that Apple knew exactly what it was doing and at every turn chose the most anticompetitive option. To hide the truth, Vice-President of Finance, Alex Roman, outright lied under oath. Internally, Phillip Schiller had advocated that Apple comply with the Injunction, but Tim Cook ignored Schiller and instead allowed Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri and his finance team to convince him otherwise. Cook chose poorly. The real evidence, detailed herein, more than meets the clear and convincing standard to find a violation. The Court refers the matter to the United States Attorney for the Northern District of California to investigate whether criminal contempt proceedings are appropriate. This is an injunction, not a negotiation. There are no do-overs once a party willfully disregards a court order. Time is o…

GodDAMN this ruling against Apple in the Epic lawsuit is brutal. This is a judge who is outright furious at a company and it is not going well for them.

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It's that time of the year where I find myself considering a return to Emacs after years away.

Perhaps this time I should take the time to follow a more systematic approach by implementing stow+git to manage my dotfiles...

I am having a stroke trying to purchase an experience for an upcoming trip at some booking site. Never before have I seen so many obvious UI/UX/logic bugs. It's like whoever made this hell site never actually used it.

8 Easter eggs, half are reddish brown, two are blue with golden sparkles and two are purple with golden sparkles.

Turns out you can easily de-amazon a kindle.

Always love a good, truly alien-looking robot. This is for inspection, and can unfold to manipulate its environment and open doors.

Balkan? I thought they drowned in Lithuania.

Are you making a course on the 6502?

More traditional stuff. Chunky retro tech PT 2!

Awesome. Did you style it purely by tweaking the color configs? I've never managed to make it look this sleek.

I've been thinking a lot about that bumper sticker which says "everything looks like a conspiracy theory when you don't understand how anything works" and folks it's pretty obvious to me that the people in power right now have absolutely no desire to understand how anything works.

something that I feel would help people understand why llms are so terrible at anything is the fundamental disconnect between syntactic proof and semantic truth. llms are purely syntactic ways of organizing information, which has sharp limits and difficulties

there is no semantic understanding, only syntax. the llm models heat on a space whose basis vectors are (approximately) the alphabet of that syntax (viz tokens). thermalization fundamentally destroys detail, precluding semantically correct answers to questions encoded in syntax

"arm64" and "amd64" are basically the same word, so I use neither. it's aarch64 and x86-64.

Most compilers still don't support #embed so importing my file as binary data is more annoying than it should be, this should've been available at least two decades ago. Lack of proper bool type until C23. Ugly syntax at various places. Funky implicit/undefined behavior.

what’s the most annoying thing about writing C

No properly type-checked sum types with pattern matching, and perhaps also the lack of a straightforward way to implement custom allocators. Additionally, lack of support for constexpr functions.

Programming is understanding. If you don't understand what you are doing, you are not programming. You are generating text.

For that price you could literally buy a plane ticket to Europe (~€700), enjoy a nice holiday, buy your medicine (€53) and go back to the US.

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My hex color picker disagrees 😂. Btw, can you confirm if they were in heaven the whole time?

@zylinski.se Hi, appreciate you writing the first Odin book. Do you know if there any working groups focused on embedded Odin? Or any plans to support embedded targets, like Cortex-M ARM CPUs?

@lemonaid83.bsky.social why did you permaban an artist claiming her art was AI-generated when that wasn't the case?

100%

Watched Straume. I don't get it. Everyone talks like I'm supposed to understand it yet they also can't explain it.

"it was a dream"
"it was afterlife"
"it was about climate change"
"it was about animal rights"
"it was about indigenous habitats"
"it was about preservation"
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The Baltic ethnolinguistic landscape is complicated to say the least.

p.s. Are you aware of any other weird language connections from your Latvia WW2 research?

Oh, and German's everywhere if you know where to look - "būvēt" from "bauen", "svarīgs" sharing roots with "wichtig", even the basic "ja" for yes. And then there's Estonian next door doing its own completely different thing despite sharing all the same historical mess.

It gets even more interesting with the German and Russian influence. Like to my ignorant mind "draugs" (friend) in Latvian feels just like Russian "drug" (friend), but they actually share some ancient root instead of one copying the other.

Curious how everyone sees words like "dators" in Baltic languages and thinks they must be super similar but asking Latvians, I've been told they are actually way different beasts - like yeah, they're related, but in the same way Italian and Spanish are, except with way weirder grammar.