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nwborton Australian court finds Apple, Google guilty of being anticompetitive

This is unlikely for this particular case - lots of confidentiality claims etc. It's possible that the judgment will never be published.

nwborton Maximizing Battery Storage Profits via High-Frequency Intraday Trading

Yes, including because firms at one level of the supply chain (eg, transmission) are in many countries precluded from operating in another level (eg, generation).

nwborton Facebook uses Australian adults public photos/posts to train AI, without opt-out

Well yes, but if you're assuming that, then that other person who violates your privacy could also choose to allow the photos to be used for AI training even if there is an opt-in or -out.

nwborton Facebook uses Australian adults public photos/posts to train AI, without opt-out

Presumably, the opt-out is not to make photos/posts public

nwborton Australian employees now have the right to ignore work emails, calls after hours

Yes, but 'Employers should be able to justify contacting professionals after hours based on common contract clauses that say a worker’s high salary includes reasonable overtime'.

See: https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/workplace/the-right-to-...

nwborton PySkyWiFi: Free stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights

Believe you're referring to Flighty

nwborton Show HN: Memories – FOSS Google Photos alternative built for high performance

Yeah this was what my concern was basically

nwborton Show HN: Memories – FOSS Google Photos alternative built for high performance

Any suggestions on the best workflow to export out of Google Photos? I have ~200GB in Google Photos and would need to eg put together the weird Google Photos metadata into usable format for Memories

nwborton Apple announces ability to download apps directly from websites in EU

Look up 'turnover rent'...

nwborton Googlers told to avoid words like ‘share’ and ‘bundle,’ US says

Many of these words are terms of art in antitrust economics that also have common meanings (eg, 'bundle'). It seems uncontroversial to me that a company would want their employees to avoid using those terms.

nwborton The Economist – Is big business getting too big?

https://archive.li/8UXkv

nwborton Maths reveals the best time to add milk for hotter tea

https://archive.is/zYNKo

nwborton Show HN: WasmGPT – “ChatGPT” in the browser, no WebGPU and no server needed

Probably having too much fun with this, thanks

  Human: What is 3+3
  Assistant: 3+3
  Human: What does it equal
  Assistant: It is equal to the following:
  
  Assistant: It is equal to the following:
  
  Assistant: It is equal to the following:
  
  Assistant: It is equal to the following:Human: What does 3+3 equal
  Assistant: 3+3 = 4

nwborton Evidence.dev – Business Intelligence as Code

A bit like Quarto[1] for SQL?

[1] https://quarto.org/

nwborton This layoff does not exist

Almost buried the lede:

>After attempting to remove the delicious burrito from the system, we discovered that the only way to save the server was to layoff 15% of our staff. Though heartbreaking, this was the only way to prevent a complete system failure.

nwborton Dark Sky iOS app will no longer work from Dec 31

Still seems outrageous to me that BOM doesn't support HTTPS...

nwborton What do new Sudoku techniques teach us about real-world problem solving?

It's been pretty amazing to watch the evolution of sudoku theory over even the last two years, some truly genius work by eg Phistomofel, Aad van de Wetering, Totally Normal Cat as well as the enormous contribution of Cracking the Cryptic