zumu

It allocates 2 collections for every compare call and obfuscates the comparison logic. Personally I find that extremely inelegant. Different strokes I suppose.

I've been on and off thinking about this problem for years. Very excited to see an ecosystem popping up.

But I wonder, why JSON if the web is already built on HTML documents? Is it possible to just store our data in a web of authenticated html documents and have the protocol be built on that? Are there other open standards we can leverage to reduce the amount of new infra / protocols? I wonder if there's a less complex "good enough" mvp version.

If you like these, check out the INFOBAR phones from a few years prior. https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/cho... People like the multi-colored one, but I've always been partial to the green. I believe there's been a few newer homages to these over the years.

the bold sexy orange color of the iPhone 17 Pro

The color line up reminds me of the au MEDIA SKIN phones (Japanese carrier) circa 2007. Maybe it's because I had one back in the day, but I can't help but think they took some influence.

having spoken with US colleagues, much higher than state-side (although I imagine that varies from state to state).

You know, it does vary but relative to any other developed country it's pitiful in every state. The reality is we just hand out driver's licenses to whomever.

Yea, Intel has been in Hillsboro since the 70's. People moved from all over the world to work for Intel in office in Oregon. This has nothing to do with remote.

Fair enough. But keep in mind cars only solve this last mile problem when there's high throughput roads connecting all possible trip starts / destinations. In American we have this infrastructure (at a great cost in city design and tax payers dollars), but cities in many other countries don't have this and don't want it either.

If every car on the road was synced then they could drive more closely to each other and at much faster speeds. This would optimize road space, decrease congestion, and reduce transit times.

So like a train?

It's more like space / cosmos.

In my experience, learning a second language to a high level involves some amount of disassociation. Only people I know without this experience spoke both languages from a very early age usually at home. So this tracks.

But there can be other factors as well. For example in social contexts can change sharply between languages. The way I talk with my family is very different from the way I speak professionally—at home I'm the youngest and at work I'm the boss.

Winston Churchill would be represented by hanzi that would be transliterated Wensuteng Chuerqilu.

If we actually used Chinese characters, we would write Churchill with meaningful hanzi and not strictly transliterate. Though there'd of course be variations as there are variations in spelling.

The only Chinese I know is through Japanese, but I imagine Churchill would look something like 教丘

In my area they recycle 1, 2 and 5, so that's what I do.

PET #1 is very recyclable in general. Not so sure about 2 or 5.

My biggest frustration is all the recycling labels smeared on things that aren't recyclable leading to everyone calling it a 'scam' when in fact some recycling of plastics (namely PET) is much better than the alternative (burning or landfill).

Temporal

They are well funded, but do they actually make money? Seems like the odd one out in your list.

I know a few people who have gotten in through Customer Support. Worst case scenario, you get experience working at a tech company, working with engineers, PMs, designers, etc. It's all very valuable. I suggest against the remote angle while you're still learning and making connections in the industry.

Hide the dock, make it 1 pixel and max the delay.

Make finder quitable and quit it.

Disable as many other mac bloat features as possible.

Install a keyboard-driven window snapping program (formerly Spectacle).

Install Contexts for window/app switching.

Install MacPorts for OSS and unix-y stuff.

Setup Fish, iTerm2, Firefox and VSCode.

Then add programming language SDKs / build tools / IDEs as necessary.

Hah, you might have beaten me to the punch! I submitted it nonetheless. Soon the world will know about all the geki-action.

If you could get into his Discord (a gaming-focused chat app), you could probably figure it out by looking though his DMs and finding someone close to him to notify.

He may also be playing emulated EverQuest, such as Project1999 (which has separate forums).

Discourse for online games these days is mainly done via Discord, however. So there's a good chance you won't find them on the forums.

After reading this, I was left with the impression Google is full of under-utilized talent, has poor product vision and has systems in place that discourage innovation and risk taking.

So if this is a PR piece, then it is not a great one.

The Chinese influence works a lot like the Latin influence on English. Japanese is written in Chinese and some extra derivatives (hiragana/katakana are derived from Chinese characters). English is written in Latin characters plus a few extra (j, w, etc). Words you speak to express emotions, words that move you, words that you speak with your children, etc. are mostly native words (English/Japanese) but open a text book or newspaper and you're met with a wall of passionless loan words (Chinese/Latin) tersely describing precise phenomena.

The English is only for very modern stuff. Think computer technology or business buzz words.

Half of English is medieval Latin (French) and half of Japanese is medieval Chinese is a better analogy.

Did Elon just play a lot of X-COM or something? His love of "x.com" makes no obvious sense to me.

There are multiple operators

This is because there's just a lot more rail. Tokyo has 3x the density of stations (0.61 per mile vs 0.2) and 10x the amount of track (2929 miles vs 248) as NYC. Tokyo is just a much much bigger city.

You need to either purchase a special card from a desk, or pay cash

Japan has been on the train card system for over 20 years. The same card works for all the operators. You can put it on your phone (if you have a Japanese phone). People don't use credit cards in Japan at nearly the same frequency we do in the West, so the train card acts as a debit card in a way.

Buying a card is slightly more inconvenient than using a contactless credit card, I'll give you that. But you get cleaner, safer more timely trains, way more stations, and way more destinations.

Ok, so my memory is a little foggy. Looks like the laser one didn't come out until 2000, but the hockey puck was USB at least!

ignoring the hockey puck mouse!

The mouse was the first laser mouse I ever used and I believe it connected with USB, which was novel at the time. It was probably the most impressive thing about the iMac for me personally.

I'd love to see some data from Europe. The American education system is very limited and seems to reward obedience above all else. College graduation rates for graduates of all boys high schools would also be interesting to compare and contrast. 'Redshirt'ed boys is another demographic to look at.

That source quotes a study from LA county (not SF) in 2018, which discloses no methodology. So not a bullet-proof statistic by any means.

I've decided most homeless social programs are a trap. By locating these programs in the centers of the highest cost of living cities, we can't reasonably expect them to succeed, assuming success is actually getting people housed and back on their feet. We need to encourage people to move some place they have a chance in hell of getting out of poverty.

Centering these programs in rich city centers is a failed policy and needs to be scrapped.

Those stats are outdated and generally somewhat dubious—what was the methodology here? Nonetheless, it is clear CA generates a lot of homeless. The linked study from 2018 claimed 52,765 homeless in LA county, while the count by the same group performed in 2022 tallied 69,144. Either there's a been a massive influx of people on the streets or their methodology is improving. Perhaps both. Pretty wild to think about.

I'd like to welcome our newest team member, Cloud Prod!