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New comment by cavemandaveman in "WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding"

cavemandaveman — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:25:15 +0000

Apple's MO has never been to make junk that breaks. They're as valuable as they are largely because of their reputation for high quality products.

New comment by cavemandaveman in "How LLMs work"

cavemandaveman — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 02:14:41 +0000

My understanding is that the Inuit snow claim is a bit of a myth. Beyond English words like slush, sleet, powder, hardpack, flurry, blizzard, etc you can also say "fluffy snow", "wet snow", etc. The Inuit language is just smooshing the adjective so you get something like "wetsnow" as one word.

New comment by cavemandaveman in "Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers"

cavemandaveman — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 20:58:55 +0000

Berkshire Hathaway doesn't pay a dividend yet the business has steadily grown more valuable