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Nintendo drops X support from the Switch via a new firmware update, following Sony and Microsoft doing the same in 2023 after X began charging for API usage (Wesley Yin-Poole/IGN)
https://www.ign.com/articles/nintendo-swit

Nintendo Switch Update 18.1.0 Pulls X/Twitter Support, Bringing It In-Line With PlayStation and Xbox - IGN
Nintendo Switch firmware update 18.1.0 is out now and pulls X/Twitter support. Check out the patch notes.

Which of the following symptoms proves that I have a cold?
🤚 Runny nose that doesn't seem to be affected by allergy meds? No.
🤚 Fatigue and nausea? No.
🤚 Chills and fever? No.
👉 Sleeping over snack time? Definitely yes.

Live Updates: Hunter Biden Convicted of 3 Felonies (Glenn Thrush/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/06/11/us/hunter-biden-trial-verdict
http://www.memeorandum.com/240611/p53#a240611p53

Just looked at that “vitals” feature that the upcoming Apple Watch OS will have: Apparently it'll be based on if 2 of your physiological metrics are outside the 'normal' range.
This seems like a good validation of my own "heuristic" approach that I made back in December 2022 (I’ve written up here later): #personalscience wiki here: #quantifiedself

Dallas Cowboys sign second-round pick Marshawn Kneeland following minicamp https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/dallas_cowboys_sign_second_round_pick_marshawn_kneeland_following_minicamp/s1_17236_404…

Dallas Cowboys sign second-round pick Marshawn Kneeland following minicamp
The Dallas Cowboys sealed the deal on the last of the 2024 draftees this week, inking rookie Marshawn Kneeland to a four-year deal on Tuesday. Kneeland’s was the final signature the team needed after mandatory minicamp wrapped up last week. The other seven rookies signed their deals before rookie minicamp last month. Per Spotrac, Kneeland is expected to earn $6.79 million over his first four seasons, or just shy of $1.7 million per year. His deal comes with a signing bonus estimated at $1.75 …

Starling Formation-Flying Optical Experiment: Initial Operations and Flight Results
Justin Kruger, Soon S. Hwang, Simone D'Amico
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.06748

Starling Formation-Flying Optical Experiment: Initial Operations and Flight Results
This paper presents initial flight results for distributed optical angles-only navigation of a swarm of small spacecraft, conducted during the Starling Formation-Flying Optical Experiment (StarFOX). StarFOX is a core payload of the NASA Starling mission, which consists of four CubeSats launched in 2023. Prior angles-only flight demonstrations have only featured one observer and target and have relied upon a-priori target orbit knowledge for initialization, translational maneuvers to resolve tar…

Raiders players speak to media following minicamp practice https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-players-speak-to-media-following-minicamp-practice-3066778/

Raiders players speak to media following minicamp practice
Several Raiders players, including Maxx Crosby, are expected to answer questions from the media after their morning practice on day one of minicamp on Tuesday.

Its good to have many tests in your R package, but it can be a pain to debug some failing tests when it happens. {lazytest} for the rescue: only rerun the failing tests, until they pass: #RStats

Optimal Preprocessing for Answering On-Line Product Queries
Noga Alon, Baruch Schieber
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.06321 https://arxiv…

Optimal Preprocessing for Answering On-Line Product Queries
We examine the amount of preprocessing needed for answering certain on-line queries as fast as possible. We start with the following basic problem. Suppose we are given a semigroup $(S,\circ )$. Let $s_1 ,\ldots, s_n$ be elements of $S$. We want to answer on-line queries of the form, ``What is the product $s_i \circ s_{i+1} \circ \cdots \circ s_{j-1} \circ s_j$?'' for any given $1\le i\le j\le n$. We show that a preprocessing of $Θ(n λ(k,n))$ time and space is both necessary and sufficient to…

Filings: Michael Dell plans to sell 10M Dell shares worth $1.3B, after selling $1.6B in shares earlier in 2024; Dell sold $1.7B in 1999 before the bubble burst (Diana Li/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20