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lattalayta··on DoorDash Spent $1.4M Trying to Stop Mamdani from Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why
Depends on the restaurant, but each food item is typically more expensive in app (10-30%). And that's before they add fees, service charges, tips, tax, etc.
lattalayta··on macOS 27 Golden Gate – Review
I think people are referring to the speed improvements touted by Apple https://www.newegg.com/insider/ios-27-performance-boost-ever...
lattalayta··on iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
They discussed it in the Keynote https://www.newegg.com/insider/ios-27-performance-boost-ever...
lattalayta··on Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo
Similar idea to the discontinued Light L16 camera https://petapixel.com/2017/12/08/review-light-l16-brilliant-...
lattalayta··on AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog
I wonder if this sentiment will endure, or if younger generations that grow up around AI will be less discerning?
lattalayta··on Claude Opus 5
this feels like the perfect example of an LLM producing a long text document. And end users just using an LLM to summarize it without actually reading it
lattalayta··on Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample
Maybe it's just me, but does anyone else feel goofy speaking to a computer this way?
lattalayta··on 42% of adults rely on their parents for financial support
Cell phone companies incentivize this, though. It's a better deal for both the parents and children (often 50%) with no difference in service
lattalayta··on Steam Controller Auto-Charge – pilot to magnetic charging puck using CV
Similar idea to this, right? Cycloramic app for the iPhone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV8UkuD4gig&t=1
lattalayta··on Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months
You can now reportedly book a hotel from the Uber app...which is totally a useful feature that I'm sure everyone will start to use /s

https://investor.uber.com/news-events/news/press-release-det...

lattalayta··on Goodbye to Sora
I’m curious if you’d still feel this way after watching this video series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ttG90raCNo
lattalayta··on AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says
I've heard another version of this is that AI can speed up some tasks, but then employees still need to wait for meetings, approvals, other users to chime in, etc. that the net effect isn't as pronounced
lattalayta··on Logitech Options+ not working on macOS due to expired cert
Official update posted by Logitech here: https://support.logi.com/hc/en-us/articles/37493733117847-Op...
lattalayta··on The case against social media is stronger than you think
I’m finding that social media is less “social”. Fewer of my friends and family are posting and more and more businesses, ads, and “creators” are filling the gap
lattalayta··on Universe expected to decay in 10⁷⁸ years, much sooner than previously thought
In video form: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD4izuDMUQA
lattalayta··on The $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen
there is an interior rendering in the image slider in the article https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/202...
lattalayta··on Microsoft's Weather app now shows more ads
Just a small correction noting that Disney is not involved with the Minion movies
lattalayta··on Apple's bad faith 27% tax on web purchases
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39020365
lattalayta··on Pixar to undergo 20% layoffs in 2024
I'd be careful just analyzing reported budget and box office numbers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
lattalayta··on Challenging projects every programmer should try (2019)
Ray Tracing in One Weekend is a popular tutorial series for those interested in trying this out https://raytracing.github.io/
lattalayta··on Apple TV Plus is getting a price hike – and other Apple subscriptions are, too
The have something similar currently available https://www.apple.com/apple-one/
lattalayta··on GaussianDreamer: Fast Generation from Text to 3D Gaussian Splatting
There are currently implementations for Unreal and Unity, but mainly just for visualization. There are some demos for doing more with the data

https://twitter.com/_kzr/status/1714214841265856932

lattalayta··on Antarctic Ice Shelf Demise
I'm reading that chart as depicting the amount of mass lost per year, not the total remaining mass. So that means it's consistently losing mass every year
lattalayta··on Google.com tests a news-filled homepage, just like Bing and Yahoo
I have not visited the main google.com in years. I'd imagine the target audience is for people who have this page set as their homepage
lattalayta··on The ozone hole above Antarctica has grown to three times the size of Brazil
And it's huge! https://www.royalalaskanmovers.com/how-big-is-alaska-compari...
lattalayta··on Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and Nvidia form alliance for OpenUSD
From the Collada wiki page: Initial release October 2004; 18 years ago Latest release 1.5.0 August 2008; 14 years ago

USD has more layering and referencing capabilities

lattalayta··on Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer
I always get suspicious when someone describes performance as "feels snappier"
lattalayta··on 17.1 Salesforce Towers worth of empty office space spread across SF
How much longer do you think property managers can hold out?
lattalayta··on 17.1 Salesforce Towers worth of empty office space spread across SF
Boston is implementing massive tax breaks and partnerships with developers to make it happen. https://www.bostonplans.org/news-calendar/news-updates/2023/...
lattalayta··on Multi-Layered Calendars
I agree with you. I'll probably get some flak for this, but this use case is one of the only times where I'll use Siri.

Create a new event called <name>, on <date>, from <start time> to <end time>

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