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Yes but both the Maurya and Gupta empires have been estimated to have reached over 30% in their time.

But were you trying to learn CSS in the first place?

it may not be meaningful for you (the user), but usually has benefits for the provider, from binding arbitration clauses in the ToS to deeper commercial suveillance.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/27/shit-shack/#binding-arbit...

> Remember, an app is just a website skinned in the right kind of IP to make it a felony to add an ad-blocker to it

the museum is small but excellent; it has a wall covered just in Dire Wolf skulls found there

Interesting collection but mostly focused on western world and mixing different eras so feels incoherent, like a low-effort ‘content creation’

Can someone come up with a conversion factor for context window sizes to glacier depletion?

> So it seems like Apple was looking to build their own processors even before the iPhone became huge (the original iPhone only sold around 7M units while iPods were selling around 50M/year at the same time).

This is almost certainly true once they decided that iOS was going to be based on MacOS. Those software design choices had to have been based on a very aggressive hardware roadmap

The acquisition of PA Semi was announced in April 2008, so it is possible discussions were already in progress by the time of the first iPhone launch

> The third AR thing I saw was the loading screen of Super Fruit Ninja, which allows you to throw a strawberry at a pig that’s running around on your floor. This seems slightly less historic.

That seemed to me the most historic if true!

embedded systems/firmware where the same code may need to be built for multiple HW platforms/cpu architectures.

Gruber had a fun take on this

https://daringfireball.net/2023/07/translation_yaccarino_x

Does this have anything to do with decline in public education?

> you could assume that people of color simply didn't exist back then

Places where people of color have been making art for a few thousand years would beg to differ.

There are also multiple issuings of the same recording, sometimes from multiple remasters, or from different new labels for historic recordings (like Furtwanger’s pre-1945 recordings). Often those have significant differences due to different types or generations of noise-reduction techniques used.

> well it can’t do my dishes or clean the house

the correct response would have been "yet"

Yeah that was weird. How were we using vim for 20 years before that book ?

vim has had these keybindings/controls as primary features for decades, and people that have these in their muscle memory the benefits have accrued over a long time and a number of different platforms.

Banff has quite a few of them so sounds like LA should be able to afford more than one

https://canadiangeographic.ca/articles/as-banffs-famed-wildl...

Agreed. A related point: it is often hard for someone who’s not into some specific interest, to know which attributes make something better. Like most people don’t have the same standards of freshness for coffee beans as coffee needs (and wouldn’t know to care)

A similar dynamic seems to play out for apps of health insurance companies, where the typical user with employer-provided insurance doesn’t get to choose the provider

There are Japanese curry places in SoCal that charge extra (~25-50c per level IIRC) per spice level. Since I couldn’t handle any more than 2/10 I found that a win-win :)

From the Atlantic profile of MBS earlier this year:

“What struck me was that Neom’s vision is really an anti-vision. It is the opposite of the old Saudi Arabia. In the old Saudi Arabia, and even to an extent today, corruption and bureaucracy layered on each other to make an entrepreneur’s nightmare. Riyadh has almost no public transportation. No matter where you are, you cannot walk anywhere, except perhaps to your local mosque. No one in Neom mentioned religion at all. Even Neom’s location is suggestive. It is far from where Saudis actually live. Instead it is huddled in a mostly empty corner, as if seeking sustenance and inspiration from Jordan and Israel.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/04/mohamme...

Yes there was an extract in NYT comparting the issues with baby formula in 2008 China with 1850s New York

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/opinion/30wilson.html

> The police officer who visited Kuppalli after a second death-threat call suggested she should get herself a gun.

Welcome to the South

That’s a pretty old idea, but Intuit and H & R Block have spent substantial money blocking that legislation

> So she began to talk to the team’s engineers, to learn about the metaphors they used to describe the nature of the machine. That’s when she remembered her hypercube logo, which became the model for her industrial design.

What a poor piece of writing!

Going by his tweet it sounds like at this point he’s mainly riled up about how Apple is presenting the case in public, rather than whatever settlement they reached in private.

Do you have a recommendation for an rss reader that works with youtube?