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ABeeSea··on Bitcoin Block 840000
Hopefully it means waste goes down as more miners become unprofitable and shutdown.
ABeeSea··on Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union
>Developers can choose to adopt these new business terms, or stay on Apple’s existing terms. Developers must adopt the new business terms for EU apps to use the new capabilities for alternative distribution or alternative payment processing.

You don’t have to pay the fee if you stay on the existing business terms.

ABeeSea··on Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union
Or they stay on the App Store and none of those fees apply.
ABeeSea··on Alaska CEO: We found many loose bolts on our Max planes
> Instead of simulating an entire mission from launch to docking, “the team decided they would rather run multiple tests with chunks of the mission,” Mullholland said. “Going forward, for every flight, we will do launch to docking and undocking to landing in addition to the other tests we were doing in our qualification testing.”

Given the amount of money and lives at risk, this level of process short-cutting is mind boggling.

ABeeSea··on Minnesota middle school students 'seem happy' after cellphone ban
Schools should just be allowed to have cell jammers.
ABeeSea··on Smart mattress CEO reminds everyone his company collects customers' sleep data
My cpap has a cell chip in it. Sends my sleep data to the company, my doctor, and insurance. It’s hipaa protected since it’s a medical device so I don’t worry about it. Would not be as ok with a random tech startup collecting the same data.
ABeeSea··on Linear Algebra Done Right – 4th Edition
Terry’s book is good, but it’s tedious and wordy. It takes a lot of pages to get anywhere interesting.
ABeeSea··on The death of a public intellectual
Maybe read the works of actual accomplished academics and not videos from YouTube grifters?
ABeeSea··on Life on board a British nuclear submarine (2012)
This comment says more about you than the work environment.
ABeeSea··on Zoom CEO says employees can't be as innovative or get to know each other on Zoom
Those conversations now happen in slack DMs in my experience.
ABeeSea··on Nvidia announces financial results for second quarter fiscal 2024
Inference and training are not the same things. AMD has basically no market share in training.
ABeeSea··on SEC Sues Binance and CEO Zhao for Breaking US Securities Rules
I’ve heard this referred to as the “green eggs and ham test” for written communication. [0]

>Would you like this in the press?

>Would you like this at Brand X?

>Like to read it on the stand?

>Like it in the government's hand?

[0]: https://www.legalethicsforum.com/blog/2006/12/over_at_white_...

ABeeSea··on AI Canon
Reminds me of this tweet[0]:

>Sick of people calling everything in crypto a Ponzi scheme. Some crypto projects are pump and dump schemes, while others are pyramid schemes. Others are just standard issue fraud. Others are just middlemen skimming of the top. Stop glossing over the diversity in the industry.

[0] https://twitter.com/patdennis/status/1518637225789042688

ABeeSea··on The EU suppressed a 300-page study that found piracy doesn’t harm sales (2017)
They also used unit sales instead of revenue. Pirating a $60 new release and buying a $5 steam game we’re both counted as 1 unit.
ABeeSea··on NYT/Bellingcat investigators find Pentagon leaker through Instagram photo
Apparently he was a network tech for the classified network. The real scandal here is there weren’t alarm bells ringing somewhere that a low level network tech was printing and viewing top secret documents.
ABeeSea··on Type system of Fortnite's Verse language
The pitch for SPJ to leave MS research on Haskell for a video game company must have been pretty compelling so I’m very interested to see how this evolves.
ABeeSea··on Senate Bill to Ban TikTok
>TikTok isn't even mentioned in the text of the act.

Because that would make it a bill of attainder which is unconstitutional.

ABeeSea··on Senate Bill to Ban TikTok
That’s just being pedantic. The constitution explicitly bans bills of attainder so any law targeting a specific person or company will be struck down.
ABeeSea··on Police sue rapper Afroman for using footage of home raid in his music videos
And then get hired one county over. So not really any accountability.
ABeeSea··on What is REM sleep and why is it important?
I almost wanted to start smoking again after I quit just to stop dreaming. Quit 3 years ago and the dreams are just so vivid and intense versus the dreamless sleep when I was smoking.
ABeeSea··on LocalBitcoins will discontinue its service
Probably because of all the obvious money laundering.
ABeeSea··on Wind chill on Mt. Washington NH minus 108, temp -46, wind 98 gusting 107
No experience, but this story of the “Maine hermit” who lived in a tent in central Maine for decades is still amazing to me.

https://www.gq.com/story/the-last-true-hermit/

ABeeSea··on Amazon Smile Gets a Frown
Amazon affiliates referral payments are based on the last referrer within 24hours of an order. Eg, you can click an affiliate link, not buy the item and then buy something unrelated 12 hours later and the affiliate will still get the commission. (As long as you didn’t click a different affiliate’s link).
ABeeSea··on Ask HN: Math books that made you significantly better at math?
David Bressoud’s 4 books on calculus/analysis are the most engaging math books I’ve ever read. He uses the history of mathematics to drive the narrative and it’s an enlightening approach. However, this means certain theorems often taught in undergrad analysis are delayed until his “graduate” book and his graduate book would not be sufficient for passing many universities analysis quals. But the context and history he gives is fantastic.
ABeeSea··on Ask HN: Math books that made you significantly better at math?
The classic, How to Solve It by Polya.

A lot of the advice seems obvious in retrospect but being systematic about a problem solving framework is enormously helpful.

ABeeSea··on Amazon Closing AmazonSmile
The entire point of the url restriction was to save money on google search ads and boost costumers starting their search from Amazon first. The search ads savings was what went to charities.
ABeeSea··on Crypto.com will delist Tether in Canada to comply with Ontario regulator
They did an attestation which is not an audit.
ABeeSea··on Crypto.com will delist Tether in Canada to comply with Ontario regulator
I’m ok with this.
ABeeSea··on Understanding Convolutions in Probability
Nice jazz pun.
ABeeSea··on Twitter 2.0: Our continued commitment to the public conversation
Forgiveness usually requires some level of admitting fault and contrition. I have not seen that from the hateful accounts Elon unbanned.
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