I think they do, my kids play Roblox and Minecraft and buying in app is more expensive (probably to the tune of the Apple fees) than buying it outwith the App Store.

I don’t think app developers were allowed to show that it was x price in the app via Apple and x-fees via the developers own site.

I used to play the games on that when I was a kid at my grand house.

I particularly liked on called bamboozle if I recall. It was a kind of quiz game.

Loved Bamboozle.

I also booked a holiday from Teletext. It shows you the prices then you call to book.

From what I have been told, one of the other services supported by the software I used has Bamboozle still, but I haven't tried the others myself yet.

This was definitely a tradecraft code word when two dudes passed a briefcase between each other in a cold park one day in Moscow.

Heavy, heavy pronunciation going on to near comical effect.

Psst! Tovarisch! Next meeting at 11:00 p.m. Tuesday under the bridge just after Gorky Prospekt! Wear a grey checked coat, with a copy of Pravda under your arm. Da?

Oops, too many spy novels plus a bad sense of humour ... ;)

Or maybe, too many bad spy novels :)

I think there used to be a kebab place in Glasgow called bifteki.

It generally signalled the end of a night when you headed there.

English beefsteak -> French bifte(c)k -> Turkish biftek -> Greek bifteki

Thanks, that makes a good deal of sense.

I guess there’s probably been a few places called bifteki around the uk and other countries then.

Ooft, that turns my 15 pro into a tall, tall boy.

I love the idea of it but I don’t think it’s practical for me.

There I was all excited to show off some of my electrical chops on HN.

Not today.

Does mystified math lie beyond behind how the ratio of input and output voltages is equal to the ratio of the primary and secondary windings? Can it be derived from Maxwell's equations?

Off to a search...

Not really mystified in any sense of the word but for more precise calculations of circuit diagrams with transformers you can formulate a system of coupled ODEs which can be written in matrix form leading to the very nice mathematics of matrix differential equations.

Or just read Wikipedia, which I'm sure it will crib from poorly... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformer

I seen an LLM, or maybe another variant of “AI” [0] a while back that could aid design of electronic circuits by having a pool of data sheets added for referencing.

As you were querying specs for a board at component level it could give you a schematic, I think, with citations to the actual data sheets.

I suppose the same scale up could be used for systems that needed a varying number of specific power supplies.

[0] https://www.flux.ai/p

Actually, in my experience chatgpt knows quite a lot about electronic components so I wouldn't be surprised if it was fed datasheets.

I think for me it was due to hearing about made up citations being used, I think for legal stuff.

So being able to load a boatload of official datasheets and have them referenced in the design was what caught my eye as being useful.

W-86 for the win.

I had an f91w until a friend broke the strap, he bought me the 86 as a replacement and the illuminator function was game changing (spent a lot of time in the dark due to work so it was welcome).

My son uses it now, he’s young so it’s a great watch for him.

Oh nice! I may put this one under the Christmas tree for myself :D

Blindsight by Peter Watts and I’ve just finished the sea of rust by C. Robert Cargil.

Both are good, sea of rust was a quick read, informative on the world building with a fast enough plot that kicked in early enough to keep me read more.

Blindsight, is a bit unique so far. Definitely interesting but it’s the two parter firefall im reading which combines the second book too.

I thought Firefall by Watts was a very interesting read.

Day’ymcdayface. That’s how that will go down.

Referring to “boaty mcboatface”

Is this a case of can’t get it to work or won’t work on it yet?

With some businesses the drive for features may be driven by the number of users using that feature. I wish my Apple TV could add Netflix to the up next based on which profile we were using.

But it’s not a deal breaker, would be nice.

So I wonder if the work required to get it on there would take resources from areas that more customers are using?

It previously worked till Netflix decided Apple shouldn't see Netflix library or usage and pulled it.

It sort of worked with the app..

https://www.digitaltrends.com/movies/netflix-apple-tv-app/

Then with TV+ it didn't...

https://bgr.com/business/netflix-apple-tv-new-service/

Of course, now most smart TVs fingerprint what's on screen and sell that data so the data is out there.

Meanwhile, here's who plays (literally) nicely:

https://support.apple.com/en-nz/HT208083

The 'channel' subs are most seamless, but heads up Apple doesn't let 'channels' list some of their less family oriented content while apps can.

Yeah, it's very much a case of Netflix thinking they're more important than Apple or the end users and deliberately not playing nice. The end result in this house is that we barely watch anything on Netflix because new episodes aren't tracked along with literally everything else that we're watching. Doesn't help that 99% of their output is lowest common denominator garbage; compare and contrast Dopesick on Disney+ and Painkiller on Netflix - the former being one of the best, most moving dramas I've watched in years, the latter one of the most superficial, turgid things I've watched.