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supermatt commented on Uncomfortable Questions About Android Developer Verification   commonsware.com/blog/2025... · Posted by u/ingve
supermatt · 4 hours ago
They know the days of the app-store monopolies are ending so they are now implementing apple-style notarisation - which they could have done years ago, but never seemed to need to until now...

IMHO, thats is them still having an unfair control over the android market so the EU will come for them eventually - and no doubt they will implement some other devious bullshit.

Ideally the world will wake up and realise multi-sector megacorps simply should not exist and split them all up accordingly - but I'm not holding my breath.

supermatt commented on Show HN: I Built a XSLT Blog Framework   vgr.land/content/posts/20... · Posted by u/vgr-land
nashashmi · 2 days ago
A few HN posts ago I commented this

> I want to see XSL import an XML. I want to see the reverse. XSL will be the view. XML will be the model. And the browser will be the controller. MVC paradigm.

It then dawned on me that the MVC framework for XML is where XML is the model (or data or database table). And XSLT is the viewer in the rear. Meaning the web browser can browse database information.

I never appreciated this very much before. The web has this incredible format to see database information in raw form or a styled form.

I still want to see development of it in reverse, and I hope to find better use cases now that I understand this paradigm.

supermatt · 2 days ago
It would not make sense to start from an XSLT. An XSLT is only a set of transformation rules (a transformation stylesheet). If there is nothing to transform, then the stylesheet produces nothing.

But you can kind of achieve what you want by treating the initial XML as a "view definition/configuration", and the referenced XSLT as a "view builder", and referencing your "model" as an external document via XPath document and applying to the XSLT template(s). i.e. you create configurations of your view that apply external data.

supermatt commented on The Fancy Rug Dilemma   epan.land/essays/2025-8_F... · Posted by u/ericpan64
cma · 3 days ago
It takes a long time to make small scale reproductions of movie scenes out of popsicle sticks, the time spent doesn't make them valuable on its own.
supermatt · 3 days ago
Yeah, value was a poor choice of word. I probably meant cost, and where I say cost I probably meant price.
supermatt commented on AGI is an engineering problem, not a model training problem   vincirufus.com/posts/agi-... · Posted by u/vincirufus
energy123 · 3 days ago
What will it scale up to if not AGI? OpenAI has a synthetic data flywheel. What are the asymptotics of this flywheel assuming no qualitative additional breakthrough?
supermatt · 3 days ago
What will shouting louder achieve if not wisdom?
supermatt commented on The Fancy Rug Dilemma   epan.land/essays/2025-8_F... · Posted by u/ericpan64
yegle · 4 days ago
Mentioning the man hours would make sense, if the ones producing the product taking the majority cut from the purchase price.

Otherwise, it's more of a strategy to set a higher price tag, and the reseller and all the middleman taking all the extra revenues.

supermatt · 3 days ago
Not really.

Irrespective of price, the inherent value of the rug is much greater - it still takes over 100x the labour to produce.

That it still costs less than 100x basketball shoes to purchase is more circumstantial, yet further demonstrates the fallacy of the argument.

supermatt commented on The Fancy Rug Dilemma   epan.land/essays/2025-8_F... · Posted by u/ericpan64
supermatt · 4 days ago
I can’t speak for the rugs you viewed, but some products take literally hundreds of man hours to make.

My partner recently picked up some fine crochet bedspreads. These intricate bedspreads each must have consumed multiple weeks of labour. I understand this is also true of hand crafted Chinese and Afghan rugs - around a month per square metre for an Afghan.

In contrast, those basketball shoes you collect are mass produced and apparently consume around 3 hours of direct labour. You could have many tens or even hundreds of those basketball shoes for the labour value of a moderately size Afghan rug.

supermatt commented on Google admits anti-competitive conduct involving Google Search in Australia   accc.gov.au/media-release... · Posted by u/Improvement
SilverElfin · 9 days ago
Why aren’t these discouraged with such massive fines that the board and shareholders oust executives? Just another example of how weak the laws are from stopping unfair competition by mega corps. Small businesses and even rich startups have the decks stacked against them.
supermatt · 9 days ago
Because 55m is a rounding error.
supermatt commented on Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world   pcgamer.com/games/steam-p... · Posted by u/mrkramer
jackvalentine · 13 days ago
Own currency storefronts display in local currency and charge in USD.

I was extremely surprised to see the international transaction fees my bank charged.

supermatt · 12 days ago
That is definitely not the case for me on the EUR store. I am billed in EUR.
supermatt commented on Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world   pcgamer.com/games/steam-p... · Posted by u/mrkramer
dankwizard · 13 days ago
Transactions done through steam not in USD are 1.1% of all transactions. Not even a noticeable drop.
supermatt · 13 days ago
That seems like it cannot be true, given the percentage of customers from countries with their own currency storefronts. What is your source?
supermatt commented on Search all text in New York City   alltext.nyc/... · Posted by u/Kortaggio
andsoitis · 14 days ago
> There's a lot of PIZZA in New York City!

New York is consistently rated alongside Naples as having the best pizza in the world.

supermatt · 13 days ago
Rated by who? There is no way on earth anyone who has tried both would rate them similarly.

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