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superzamp commented on Ask HN: Good resources to learn financial systems engineering?    · Posted by u/_1tan
superzamp · a month ago
Question is a bit broad, but out of all the concepts under the financial engineering umbrella you're bound to explore the concept of ledgering eventually.

I've written a bit about it on my own co's product blog in an attempt to demystify some core concepts [1], [2], [3].

Still on ledgering and expanding into less mathematical and more applied concepts, I can also recommend a book called "The Accounting Game: basic accounting fresh from the lemonade stand" [4].

[1]: https://www.formance.com/blog/engineering/how-not-to-build-a... [2]: https://www.formance.com/blog/engineering/debits-and-credits... [3]: https://www.formance.com/blog/engineering/ledgering-all-the-... [4]: https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Accounting_Game.htm...

superzamp commented on M5 MacBook Pro   apple.com/macbook-pro/... · Posted by u/tambourine_man
fnordpiglet · 2 months ago
Sad to release without refreshing the high end line on 16” MBP. I worry they nerfed the 14” MBP to ensure the M4 16” retained better specs to not make the discontinuity worse. Otherwise the 14” outperforming the more expensive 16” would be uncomfortable.
superzamp · 2 months ago
Isn't the screen size difference basically enough between these two? I can't see why the 16" would need more performance, some ppl just want / can carry large computers with them while some other prefer to have something as small as possible.
superzamp commented on Dotfiles feel too personal to share   hamatti.org/posts/dotfile... · Posted by u/speckx
superzamp · 4 months ago
I think it's even realistic to say that dotfiles are vulnerable to being used as a fingerprint mechanism by nefarious packages. One could easily create an inventory of github profiles <> dotfiles; then read local dotfiles when their package gets installed on a developer laptop.
superzamp commented on ‘No Other Land’ consultant Awdah Hathaleen killed by Israeli settler   latimes.com/entertainment... · Posted by u/_shadi
ml-anon · 5 months ago
This has been happening regularly over the course of decades on the West Bank but no-one is willing to call it "Terrorism" and therefore respond appropriately.
superzamp · 5 months ago
Well, France just took a stance and officially qualified this as terrorism [1] for the first time.

[1] https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/dossiers-pays/israel-terri...

superzamp commented on AccountingBench: Evaluating LLMs on real long-horizon business tasks   accounting.penrose.com/... · Posted by u/rickcarlino
vdm · 5 months ago
not a game on Steam? :(
superzamp · 5 months ago
If you want to treat yourself with an accounting game night, there's this one built by @patio11: https://keshikomisimulator.com/
superzamp commented on Precious Plastic is in trouble   preciousplastic.com//news... · Posted by u/diggan
superzamp · 7 months ago
PS: it's not highly visible in the link but this post is 6 months old [1]. Wondering where they are now, given that they seemed to have less than that in runway.

[1] https://community.preciousplastic.com/questions/questions-on...

superzamp commented on Apple and Meta fined millions for breaching EU law   ca.finance.yahoo.com/news... · Posted by u/Aldipower
mrtksn · 8 months ago
>the most easily agreeable part of what the EU has been after

It's also probably the most dangerous for Apple. It creates a cash incentive to push people outside of Apple's walled garden and show them what's outside.

I really really hope Apple gets its act together, they are the greatest "the user experience comes first" company and they actually have great hard tech but they show signs of rent seeking behavior which can destroy them.

If Apple just play nice with EU, open up and focus on bringing the greatest experience possible they will keep winning. If not, they will have blunders and they will lose Europe since people are willing to look for alternatives as USA gets increasingly unpopular among the Europeans due to politics.

The Apple's AI blunder is mostly a blunder only because they insist to do it all by themselves so to have higher margins on the services revenues. IMHO those blunders will be more damaging as the Americans no longer have the higher moral grounds than Koreans or Chinese.

I hope Apple is treading carefully.

superzamp · 8 months ago
I would imagine that getting the user out of the in-app purchase payment screen and attempt to redirect them at the website for payment, have them figure out how to enter credit card details etc would result in a drastically decreased conversion rate though.

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