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Me too! Except it’s the tuba. Whomp whomp.

I miss this design ascetic.


> His half marathon is still 2nd all time.

Rough that his Marathon time is also 2nd!


Always a bridesmaid, never a bride!


Truer than you'd think just from the information I provided. He has two world championship silver medals over 10,000m.


Thats my sprinting speed - which I can sustain for around 30 seconds.


$40B. Numbers mean nothing anymore


tech is the biggest sector in the world. We're seeing what happens when those war chests for rainy days get brought out


Yes, and it's incredibly wasteful.


Yup. You can actually buy several European airlines with that kind of money.

For example, you can buy KLM Air france for less than $3B.

It is a profitable business that does $30B in sales and $1B in profit. (and has been profitable since for the past 4-5 years)



Airlines are down there amongst cinema chains and video game retail stores in terms of being terrible businesses


Want to know the easiest way to become a millionaire?

First, become a billionaire. Then, start an airline.


"$30B in sales and $1B in profit."

This margin seems terrible.


4% seems reasonable, it's pretty much standard across the board in Europe (median sits around 6% if I recall correctly), not many companies can pull 10% profit. For example in Spain, major conglomerates like INDITEX have a 11%, Iberdrola has a 10%. We also don't use the same metrics and parameters as the US for profit, so the values are skewed.

That said, certain sectors like software (as in custom enterprise grade software dev) pull revenues that are much much higher sitting around 35%, but it's not that common.


yep, you know what's better than billions? trillions.


The same issue applies to fastfood, coffee chains and taxi services. Capitalism.


LONG PRESS????!?! you legend. How does one find these things out.


Like this, by word of mouth. That’s how Apple has done UI design since they stopped printing paper manuals.

- ctrl-shift-. to show hidden files on macOS - pull down to see search box (iOS 18) - swipe from top right corner for flashlight button - swipe up from lower middle for home screen

Etc, etc


It's so intuitive, how could I have missed that?


Good old iOS and hidden features. Great discoverability. Long press those, swipe that, gesture this.

I have a gesture for whoever decided "find in page" should go under share.


> I have a gesture for whoever decided "find in page" should go under share.

You can also just type your search term into the normal address bar and there's an item at the bottom of the list for "on this page - find <search>". I'd never even seen the find-in-page button under share.


That would be so much better if Find in page was the first item not the last.


Not restricted to Apple, but TIL: Double-clicking on a word an keeping the second click pressed, then dragging, allows you to select per word instead of per character.


Long press is a shortcut, the longer way is to click on the icon beside the url and tap/click the enormous "reader mode" button.


That's what I've done for years.

Long pressing is much more pleasant.

I wish Apple would give us a hint rather than requiring us to chance upon this recommendation on HN.


That’s a nice use for AI - pop up hints when it sees you using the long way a few times.

The problem is Apple’s hints keep popping up even after you say no thanks or it’s fine.


So that’s why Reader mode sometimes shows up directly when I click on the icon, I must be long clicking it by accident.


cmd+shift+R for reader mode if you prefer a keyboard shortcut


Drives me insane that to see my existing Google library and shared albums I must allow Google photos access to my phones photos - at which point it turns auto back on.


yup, this is how I 'type'


This might be how Apple will start to see even more sales, the M series processors are so far ahead of anything else, local LLMs could be their main selling point.


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