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ymolodtsov··on JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025
In certain countries, financial of even private companies are filed publicly. The Czech Republic is one of them.
ymolodtsov··on Disney+: New user agreement allows ads before movies in all subscriptions
Except you can cancel it from the next month with a few clicks.
ymolodtsov··on The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art (2024)
I enjoyed playing GBA game the most on my Anbernic. They do feel good to play in the way the previous generation just doesn't.
ymolodtsov··on The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art (2024)
Good pixel art is quite difficult to make. This default pixel art usually isn't; it's just not that great.
ymolodtsov··on Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices
Final? If anything X seems to be more popular among users.
ymolodtsov··on The Summer of Open Weights
I consistently enjoy Martin's writing on LLM, this post in particular.
ymolodtsov··on Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results
Why would any publisher want them? Who exactly tried?

As a publisher, I'd want consistent subscription revenue. The goal is to convince users to pay after they hit the paywall several times.

ymolodtsov··on Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results
Do you imply that you never order anything online?
ymolodtsov··on Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results
The problem with micropayments isn't the tech really, it's that only the users want them but not any publisher. Which is completely reasonable.
ymolodtsov··on Where Human Sleep Went Wrong
And Earth's magnetic field is extremely weak
ymolodtsov··on The “mechanical miracle” that ruined Mark Twain’s life
The paper was still expensive and there wasn't yet as much demand for books.
ymolodtsov··on I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux
What do you suggest using this freedom for?
ymolodtsov··on “Gravity is worth asking about”
The same people who want minimalism here in the comments are angry at Microsoft for removing half the features in any control panel inside Windows with every release.

Shows how difficult it is to design and build software at scale.

ymolodtsov··on The Golden Age of British Ice Cream
However natural ice cream can be, it's still a buttload of fats and sugars. Fine in moderation but could be bad. Still, I highly doubt ice cream alone is the reason for high obesity.
ymolodtsov··on Investors in Situational Awareness deserved to lose their shirts
From everything I read it seems that they're only up on the Anthropic stock and that doesn't account for newer clients who invested later.
ymolodtsov··on Wikimedia Foundation refuses union recognition, hires union-busting law firm
$169 million is not too big for an endowment, especially considering how much they had been raising AND spending in the years prior.

Long-term it'd be best for Wikipedia if it was self-funded through this, like Harvard, for instance.

ymolodtsov··on Wikimedia Foundation refuses union recognition, hires union-busting law firm
So change the job if you don't want it.
ymolodtsov··on Wikimedia Foundation refuses union recognition, hires union-busting law firm
If a union would force companies to keep positions that no longer require a human I wouldn't agree with it anyway.
ymolodtsov··on Wikimedia Foundation refuses union recognition, hires union-busting law firm
I understand why factory workers or store clerks might want a union but I'd never understand why tech workers should.

I guess except the game developers but the most realistic threat vector for them is the studio shutting down, so a union wouldn't really help.

ymolodtsov··on Wikimedia Foundation refuses union recognition, hires union-busting law firm
Seems it'd be far more reasonable to direct the excess funds into an endowment of sorts instead of spending it on other areas.
ymolodtsov··on A directory of people who love RSS
What's esoteric is not the format specifically but whether people are knowingly using it.

RSS lost when browsers dropped its native support. Would be interesting to see a world where Chrome/Safari still had clients for it.

ymolodtsov··on Software for One
Your replies so far haven't been useful.
ymolodtsov··on Situational Awareness down 67% in July in AI stock rout
Rentech surely exists but you can't become their LP, which allows the median hedge fund to exist, yes.

As for the strategy, that's the idea but all of them market themselves on the returns first and foremost.

ymolodtsov··on A directory of people who love RSS
What does this mean exactly?
ymolodtsov··on A directory of people who love RSS
RSS is the only widespread enough name for this thing. Where you're correct is that it's silly to argue about the name of the format used by approximately three people.

I'm not too serious here but even many news media publications are just dropping it, or separate into dozens of unconnected feeds.

ymolodtsov··on Situational Awareness down 67% in July in AI stock rout
It was specific stocks and then he shorter some others very presciently. He was still up 80% after the collapse, you don't get that in 6 months with S&P 500.
ymolodtsov··on Software for One
Find out what? These apps are as protected as they could be. Always could be a zero-day or a package vulnerability but that's the same for everyone.
ymolodtsov··on Situational Awareness down 67% in July in AI stock rout
I mean, most of them underperform S&P, at least after fees.
ymolodtsov··on Software for One
Which is completely right. For my latest several apps I never even looked at the code.
ymolodtsov··on Software for One
For most people I believe it's a good exchange for the value of a more secure device.

But yes, I don't really want to pay Apple $100 a year just to run my apps. So I just have them as PWAs. Wouldn't work for many use cases, like when you need Apple Fitness data, but works for me and it looks fine.

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