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tedd4u··on How the Claude Code team does code review
It's probably considered a promotional marketing cost (but I don't have any insider knowledge).
tedd4u··on How the Claude Code team does code review
"Anthropic told investors that it will profit on a measure called adjusted operating income.

"According to the report, adjusted operating income excludes stock-based compensation, which is not unusual for technology companies. However, the report also quotes its gross margins - above 80% - exclude revenue shared with distribution partners, as well as the cost of training its models."

From https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/2026091414/the-...

tedd4u··on Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts
Buying your hardware wallet from random 3rd party no-name distributors in China is kinda asking for trouble, isn't it?
tedd4u··on Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery
Say goodbye to Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
tedd4u··on Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage
The Fireball one is concerning. 1.5 million gallons a day?

"More improper redaction shows that the data center using the most water annually is Fireball Group LLC, the Google Data Center in Papillion. Fireball LLC reports 547.88 megagallons for their 2025 Annual Water Consumption."

tedd4u··on Find the flattest route between any two points in SF
Cool! Any way to toggle on street names on the map?
tedd4u··on Shed Etching 3D Transistors for Homemade RAM [video]
His first livestream, see first video in the channel where he sets up his fab shed!
tedd4u··on FTC is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies over product risks
And maybe put a Trump or Witkoff kid on the board.
tedd4u··on Virus Stole a Human Gene and Won't Let Go of It
I like that idea but aren't we supposed to read the article before voting?
tedd4u··on Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows AI vision, surging costs
“ … according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.”
tedd4u··on OpenAI agents tried to bruteforce a UN website's API fields
“It’s not our fault!! We begged you to regulate us and you didn’t!”
tedd4u··on OpenAI agents tried to bruteforce a UN website's API fields
Wouldn't a company responsible for an escalating frequency and severity of cybercrime normally be sanctioned by law enforcement? Wouldn't such a company normally stop these activities for fear of civil and criminal liability?
tedd4u··on Salesforce Global Outage
The other thing people miss is change velocity. NTP server doesn't change much. Salesforce teams are under enormous pressure to constantly deliver new features and ship changes every day. 99.95+% with constant change, millions of customers, 1e10-11 requests a day is challenging.
tedd4u··on The engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Do they really have brine storage tanks for enough brine to pump out all the oil? If true, they would have just exectly the right volume of above-ground tanks to just store the oil in the first place and not mess with all these caverns and brine and whatnot.
tedd4u··on America's Driver's License Breach Is a National Security Disaster
I would draw the comparison to malpractice insurance for doctors. Gun owners should be required to buy something like it. And police departments.
tedd4u··on google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update
Another solution is to take over the web browser where you can capture all kinds of information.
tedd4u··on Room 641A
Covered many times before.

How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt] (https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-whistleblower-who-unc...) 710 points | the-mitr | 4 months ago | 254 comments

Room 641A (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A) 333 points | hourislate | 6 years ago | 70 comments

Room 641A (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A) 248 points | llambda | 13 years ago | 44 comments

Room 641A (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A) 207 points | mimsee | 10 years ago | 75 comments

Room 641A (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A) 51 points | jihadjihad | 2 years ago | 5 comments

tedd4u··on Neki – Sharded Postgres
We went as far as we could on GCP before PlanetScale. Spanner is amazing but also amazingly expensive. And CloudSQL, also amazing as long as you don’t need write scaling. PlanetScale (Vitess+MySQL plus their branching / deployment and monitoring tools) is just not a combination offered on GCP. And while I didn’t use Aurora, from talking to and exploring AWS it doesn’t really have this combination either.
tedd4u··on Neki – Sharded Postgres
That is what the “regular” PlanetScale is all about. It uses the Vitess open source project to do write scaling through shading. It is very powerful and customizable and stable. It was built to run YouTube. Former happy user here.
tedd4u··on OpenAI's rogue agents used at least 10 more sites
Has OpenAI made any assurances that customer workloads will not result in agents posting on the internet?
tedd4u··on Apple Unveils iPhone Duo
Bigger phone = bigger battery = more time between charges
tedd4u··on iPhone Duo
Probably true but they might have a better hinge, i.e. crease takes longer to appear due to superior folded geometry.
tedd4u··on iPhone Duo
And the Apple case is $129.
tedd4u··on IBM Bob
Agreed. Note, that is at ~50% gross margin and ~15% profit margin which I guess is pretty typical of computer hardware vendors.
tedd4u··on Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
Less frequent context truncation, too, leading to better scores?
tedd4u··on Tell HN: 1Password 7 final retirement notice
I'm still on 1P7 (personal, not team) and still using Dropbox for sync. Hope it never breaks. Never wanted to research the new 1P8 server sync model. Of course I saw that nasty Dropbox unverified IdP account takeover disclosure, so maybe it's no better than whatever 1P is doing on the server.
tedd4u··on Fal.live – AI television directed by everyone
Other "live" generative video model channels to check out:

https://live.reactor.inc Generates infinitive stream of 1 minute episodes based on user prompts

https://infiniteslop.ai Generates infinite stream of 10-second vignettes based on user prompts. very curious what the prompt-upsampling prompt is on this one.

tedd4u··on SOTA Apple Silicon Inference (August 15, 2026)
Apple is rumored to have released updated models of the Mac Mini and Mac Studio "off-schedule" in part to respond to unexpected local-model driven demand. Hopefully they will invest more in the software side.
tedd4u··on Re: S&P 500 index funds, there may be a smarter way to invest
"When everyone indexes, what is the market?

"At some point, it raises the question of what actually is the market. If everyone is buying stocks based solely on their market value, how is that value actually being set?"

…

"According to research by Hendrik Bessembinder, professor of business and finance at Arizona State University’s W.P. Carey School of Business, over the 55-year period from 1971 through 2025, an equal-weight strategy beat the traditional value-based index approach by an average of 1.3 percentage points a year, or 12.6% to 11.3%. As the proponents of index funds repeatedly argue, such differences really make a big difference over time."

tedd4u··on Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI
Instead, we got Universal Paperclips ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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