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The joke is there in the name. It is wrong (on purpose): it should be "Mañana". That term means "tomorrow" in your Spanish class, but it can mean "later/future/morning" or even "later this afternoon".

In English, you might think of "procrastination" or "we'll get to it."

In Portuguese, you would say "proxima semana", literally "next week", but it means "we'll get to it" (won't get to it).

Zed is our office 8 months ago

Haha: Can't find a good Windows laptop.

It's true, most of them are bad. Galaxy Book5 Pro or Microsoft Surface are OK.

They used to! Anyway, Iceland is really easy to travel to. Everyone speaks perfect English, and the coffee is good. I know a little bit of Icelandic because they think I am Icelandic for some reason (I can read the signs at least, so maybe I don't look lost). There's a street with hot dog stands and stuff right in the middle of the capitol, which they seem to like. There are good hamburger places too, but they are expensive.

Greenland is another level.

No kidding. It is /so/ fast. It has remote development like VS Code, and most of the features I use, so it's my main thing now. Claude Code was the only thing that made me wince, since I wondered if I was living in the dark ages. VS Code of course has many more extensions, but I don't use that many.

It helps to avoid timezone details within a day or two. I agree "a month ago" is pretty bad, but I haven't seen that.

But it's good to say "1hr ago" if I send an email from New York to San Francisco.

I think it's because you have to think it through when they get too big for one machine. A lot of those so-called "NoSQL" databases are really meant to represent graph databases (think DynamoDB) in an adjacency list. I've had success with Gremlin and JanusGraph, but it's a really messy space. It's not a programming language problem in my opinion, but a distributed systems one.

Oh, interesting. I'd probably never use something like Nolly. So, out of my range. I do use the synth stuff, and I can get the Intel mini to like 50% with some effort, but it's never been a real problem.

The SSD matters for picking the sounds, in my experience. So you're going through listening to a bunch of drum hits, for example. If the drive is slow, this stalls.

Plus, isn't he simultaneously playing 70+ tracks with a CPU-intensive filter on each one? That's not a realistic workload.

It is the English term. It collapses the definite article into one word: "the Port" -> "o Porto".

Nothing modern uses this name anymore, though. I always see "Porto", even in American English.

But, it's a recent enough fix that you can still find signs of it. For example, you can book a flight to "Porto (OPO)". Just like you can book a flight to "Beijing (PEK)".

If you look at the history there, you'll see "naranj" in the Arabic. This is still the word in Spanish: Naranja (البرتقالي).

The wikipedia article is pretty good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_(fruit)

That article says sweet oranges originated from China or Myanmar, and made their way west. Introduced to the Iberian Peninsula by the people then called the "Moors".

This is a pretty fair comment, but also not scratching the surface in some ways. Firstly, any decent boss will give you days off if some gnarly on-call stuff happens. Anywhere from "you can come in at 2pm and leave at 5pm" to "take Monday and Tuesday off, no one will track it". This is because they know it is a retention issue.

Secondly, there is a cultural divide sometimes. Generally, iOS programmers aren't on call, because they can't ship anything in less than a day or two. So, you get this phenomenon where they say "I'm an expert in Apple user interfaces" (a fine thing to know about!), but everyone resents them, because they are not on call.

Ableton Push 3 3 years ago

If you really want one of these things, and you use Ableton, get this one. I've used a Native Instruments Maschine and and Akai APC, and they just don't integrate that well with Ableton. But I've found I end up using a keyboard (Native Instruments Komplete) most of the time, even for drums, and that does integrate well.

Have you read "Designing Data-Intensive Applications" by Martin Kleppmann? I'm sure most of it will be old news to you, but it does add multiple computers to what you've described here. You will have to read like 80% of the book to get to that part though.

The trend is just to have you use an iPad or iPhone with local video and games available from the plane's Wifi. This pretty normal on US shorthaul US flights now, since those things are way better than anything built into the headrest.