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tpmx··on Melting in W. Antarctica 'unavoidable,' potentially disastrous sea level rise
Northern Europe: (Likely) neutral to negative, due to land rise (from the latest ice age).
tpmx··on Off-duty pilot allegedly tried to shut off engines on Alaska Airlines flight
Current regulations:

https://www.faa.gov/pilot-mental-fitness

The FAA’s regulations require airline pilots to undergo a medical exam with an Aviation Medical Examiner (AME) every six months to five years, depending on the type of flying they do and their age.

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-D...

Mental standards for a first-class airman medical certificate are:

tpmx··on Off-duty pilot tried to crash Alaska Airlines SFO flight, officials say
That post was flagged away from the front page for some odd reason. The comments from that post would ideally be merged into this post.
tpmx··on Melting in W. Antarctica 'unavoidable,' potentially disastrous sea level rise
Some scientists sounded a note of caution about the study. Tiago Segabinazzi Dotto, senior research scientist at the National Oceanography Centre in the UK, said it should be “treated carefully” as it is based on a single model.
tpmx··on Triton – Into the Shadows (1995) [60fps] [video]
This represents an alternative history timeline - instead of shooters, we'got sword-fighting games.
tpmx··on Amazon bestselling "bitter lemon" energy drink was bottled delivery driver piss
Odd timing. I just come across this story (in a mainstream newspaper in my country):

Tsingtao Brewery factory worker caught peeing in malt container

https://www.shine.cn/news/nation/2310213869/

tpmx··on How to protect my authenticator app?
Don't use any "accounts". Backup the QR codes on paper. (Literally, buy a cheap laser printer and use the browser print action when presented with one of those QR codes.)
tpmx··on ArXiv receives $10M for upgrades
"mildly"
tpmx··on Show HN: Hackreels – Animate your code in HD
Reminds me a little of EMF - Verses (a 1994 demoscene production).

https://youtu.be/oT1_zcosmPg?t=32

tpmx··on Apple's use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 17
One such example:

In macOS 13, the system settings was rewritten to use SwiftUI instead of UIKit. I had a 2019 Intel MBP. Before the rewrite, it was super swift (sorry). After the rewrite it took almost a second to go from section to section.

Now I'm on an M2 machine so it's fast again. Congrats Apple.

tpmx··on On Stewart's Apple TV Plus show ends, reportedly over coverage of AI and China
You don't have to pick a team.
tpmx··on ArXiv receives $10M for upgrades
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental,_social,_and_cor...
tpmx··on ArXiv receives $10M for upgrades
This needs to be turned into a tshirt print:

You can't live a "normal" life of the standards of 20 years ago with less than $500K+ in salary.

tpmx··on ArXiv receives $10M for upgrades
$10M seems way too much - if it's per year. Call me paranoid, but that kind of money invites the ESG crowd.
tpmx··on On Stewart's Apple TV Plus show ends, reportedly over coverage of AI and China
(... and the story is flagged.)

In case anyone missed his Colbert appearance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSfejgwbDQ8&t=171s

tpmx··on Apple's use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 17
Judging from SwiftUI uses in macOS: various things will become noticably slower for older devices for no apparent reason. This is bad for the planet and consumers but great for Apple.

Edit: I see much interaction with this comment, but no response.

tpmx··on My 82 year old mother found out that fraudsters had emptied her HSBC_UK account
Thanks!

In the Swedish supreme court case I quoted above:

Background information:

- Sweden has a public personal identification number for every citizen (except for like 10k people with protected identities)

- The four main banks in Sweden have collaborated to create something called "Bank Id". It's often used as a secure authentication tool combined with the personal identification number (something you have - the cert in the mobile app, something you know - PIN or face id).

Someone convinced an elderly person over the phone to authorize the creation of a new Bank Id on the attacker's phone. This was fairly complicated and required the old person to use their physical RSA SecurID token. The court found that the elderly person had behaved reasonably well and that the attacker was very competent.

Still, the supreme court felt that the bank should have been more careful about letting strangers steal their money.

tpmx··on My 82 year old mother found out that fraudsters had emptied her HSBC_UK account
Since you seem to have a grasp on those regulations; which are those very clear standards that need be met for payments to be "authorised"? A brief overview would be much appreciated. Please include a link to the actual law text if you're able to.
tpmx··on Google's 21-year deal with Apple is the "heart" of monopoly case, judge says
The "web search industry" back then wasn't very large. AltaVista was kind of a PR project at DEC. It took Doubleclick's supposed reverse take-over of Google to crack the nut of how to make money from web search.
tpmx··on Just paying Figma because nothing else works
It's extremely meh. It's iOS-ified. There are no files, just some proprietary database of your drawings. You can only export to PDF. You can't import vectors. There are no dimensions inspectors where you can enter numbers, because that feels weird in iOS.

You will draw your thing by hand and you will be happy.

tpmx··on My 82 year old mother found out that fraudsters had emptied her HSBC_UK account
Back in June 2022 there was a landmark decision in the Swedish supreme court (https://www.domstol.se/hogsta-domstolen/avgoranden/2022/1155...) that made the banks responsible in most of these kinds of cases. The same thing needs to happen in other countries.

I love the British comedian David Mitchell's long time campaign against this kind of bank behavior:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/25/identi... ('’Identity theft’? It’s daylight robbery by the banks' - 2018)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E (Mitchell & Webb - Identity Theft, 2007)

tpmx··on Just paying Figma because nothing else works
I really want Apple to repurpose a subset of the Keynote codebase into an awesome drawing program. They could name it MacDraw.

But, no, instead they'll do something involving 3d emojis or something similarly useful.

tpmx··on Google's 21-year deal with Apple is the "heart" of monopoly case, judge says
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/25/technology/apple-google-s...

(https://archive.is/loAMx)

Apple expanded the deal for its big upcoming product: the iPhone. When Mr. Jobs unveiled the iPhone in 2007, he invited Eric Schmidt, Google’s then chief executive, to join him onstage for the first of Apple’s many famous iPhone events.

“If we just sort of merged the two companies, we could just call them AppleGoo,” joked Mr. Schmidt, who was also on Apple’s board of directors. With Google search on the iPhone, he added, “you can actually merge without merging.”

tpmx··on AMD Introduces New AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000/Pro 7000 WX
Good catch. I hadn't seen such extreme differences before within the same product series.

Base frequency:

7995WX: 2.5 GHz

7945WX: 4.7 GHz

tpmx··on AMD Introduces New AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000/Pro 7000 WX
Yes, that's a bit odd.

The 96 core 7995WX: 3.6W/core

The 12 core 7945WX: 29.2W/core

tpmx··on Sweden reports damage to Baltic Sea cable with Estonia
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russias-medvedev-says-m... (June 14)

Russia now has free hand to destroy undersea communications cables, Putin ally says

tpmx··on Science is bringing historic Apple varieties back to life
It's great that you're both smart and stubborn!

Here are some UX basics in case you really want understand the topic:

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ux-basics-study-guide/

tpmx··on Tech CEO sentenced to 5 years in IP address scheme
In terms of law enforcement: I disagree. It's like 97% national still.

In terms of civil disputes between citizens from different member countries - well, we don't have any phone/internet/post police.

tpmx··on Science is bringing historic Apple varieties back to life
FYI, that is not how humans work.
tpmx··on Free IRS-run tax filing pilot to be available in 13 states
Please consider punishing the marketing guy doing this submission. This was not done by chance or mistake.
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