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imwm··on Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors
Disassemble*
imwm··on Ask HN: How to Price a Product
The book Monetizing Innovation, to me, has been the smartest approach to pricing I've encountered: https://www.amazon.com/Monetizing-Innovation-Companies-Desig...

Basic idea is that you should design the product around the price. Do price discovery before you do anything else.

Podcast ep here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6veeCbKIzw

imwm··on The Objects of Our Life (1983)
"The author of this article" is Jony Ive, who very possibly has dipped into other chapters of computer history
imwm··on Ted Chiang has won the PEN/Faulkner Foundation's short story prize
evidenced by the huge variation in word count among his short stories. some are a couple pages, while others are essentially novellas.
imwm··on Meta Open-Sources Computer Vision Foundation Model DINOv2
As Ben Thompson pointed out recently, unlike Google and OpenAI, Meta benefits from open source AI taking off because that makes everyone better content creators, which accrues further value to their social media platforms.
imwm··on Show HN: Names
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imwm··on NeevaAI
Google has the same answer tbf
imwm··on Link: Simple, secure one-click payments by Stripe
Expired in 2017 which led to the recent rise of one-click checkout startups
imwm··on Norm Macdonald website with every ep of Norm Macdonald Live and more Norm stuff
I didn't even know he was sick
imwm··on Facebook Renames to Meta
meta.com – used to be a Chan-Zuckerberg initiative to discover scientific papers. Now it's Facebook's corporate home. Hmm.
imwm··on The daunting task of writing longhand and why you should do it
"I still like writing things out in longhand, finding that a computer gives even my roughest drafts too smooth a gloss and lends half-baked thoughts the mask of tidiness"

-Obama

imwm··on Daisugi, the 600-year-old Japanese technique of growing trees out of other trees
I wonder if there's any metaphorical value in this phenomenon
imwm··on OpenBSD Adds Support for Coordinated Mars Time (MTC)
"mars can't wait" lol
imwm··on What’s expected of us (2005)
Didn't know this story was originally published in Nature. I read it in his excellent short story book Exhalation and loved it like I did many others in that collection.

Chiang is like Kafka and Borges in that he writes plain prose that blows your mind.

imwm··on Civil Liberties in Times of Crisis [pdf]
This would explain why NYC flattened and then reduced the first curve relatively quickly.
imwm··on Beg the Question
"Assuming the conclusion" has a clear meaning distinct from "non-sequitur."

"Non-sequitur" evaluates a statement's relationship to a previous statement.

"Assuming the conclusion" evaluates a statement on its own.

imwm··on Memristor Breakthrough: First Single Device to Act Like a Neuron
Fitting this article was written by a fella named Moore
imwm··on The Era of Visual Studio Code
Not a problem I've encountered, but one that will be solved by the robust extension ecosystem of VSCode. You can apply this to any UX problem you might encounter with VSCode.
imwm··on When you browse Instagram and find Tony Abbott's passport number
I can't believe how funny this writer is
imwm··on Bardcore
lit
imwm··on Ventoy makes making bootable USB drives easy
"makes making"
imwm··on Tesla Model 3 Driver Has License Suspended After Adjusting Wipers via Touchscree
"It didn't help that he crashed while doing so."

...is the subtitle. Might have been nice to say in the headline, which is clickbait.

imwm··on Travis CI acquired by Idera
We switched from Travis CI to Circle CI because Circle CI was (a) significantly faster and (b) a little cheaper