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From what I understand, the Chinese Exclusion Act is one of the big reasons why Chinese food is more Americanized compared to other Asian cuisine.

The Chinese in the US at the time had to tailor their dishes for American tastebuds.

Previous Chinese immigrants were mainly from Southern China, where the cuisine is more rice based. The more recent Chinese immigrants come from everywhere, so you’ll get people from Northern China, where the cuisine is more wheat based. There’s even some Chinese dishes that uses goat milk and cheese in their dishes.

This might be a bit off topic now, but after watching Watchmen recently and learning about the Tulsa race riots, I was surprised by how much of US history I wasn’t taught. For example, I was surprised by how involved Chinese immigrants were in American history and learned of some of the more tragic events like the 1871 Chinese massacre in Los Angeles.
Most of time, I use GPS not just because I have zero clue how to get to places. (Time to time, I have to do this, but I would actually look up the place on a map to get a general idea of how to get to places.)

What I find useful from GPS is generally unexpected detours, avoiding traffics, and getting lane guidance information (though instructions given by GPS software are not perfect, it gives me general sense of having to do multiple lane changes last minutes with agony...)
Stumbled across this phenomenon after reading NPR. https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=789864201
It took a while for my horror feelings to subside - my “trip started out as a horror trip actually, i simply at somepoint accepted the possibility of maybe not coming back from this - i went to meditation retreats before taking LSD, and i confronted terrible feelings in what people call “dark night of the soul” - so i was primed for letting go and openning up.

You only really need to contemplate it longer, because truthful death awareness, i found, made me appreciate my time better, and the time of those who spend theirs with me.

The initial reaction is fear and a terrible thrashing, like a scared child would experience, which is what is at the center of what we think is the adult self. The child never actually “grows”.

So it’s ok man, you’ll feel ok about it eventually. PM me if youd like to talk about it
Then buy the black ones for 1/5 of the price and the same exact feature set. Apple is not king of audio hardware, they are the king of turning decent quality, well-packaged and integrated hardware into commodities and fashion statements. And what convenience? They're just selling a bluetooth thing online, same as everyone else.

I agree with GP about the tech journalism. I find it funny that the usual cast of journalists that write these articles have been doing so for years and stand to gain a lot from Apple's success, and are deeply embedded in Apple's press organizations.
The nude photos in Stephenson's catalog would have been NSFW in 1974 too. You wouldn't put one in a frame and keep it on your desk at work!

Not even if your boss was one of the cool people you might invite over for a hot tub party.
Cheers for my development, I'll do that :)
It is no wonder, that young people are growing up with more authoritarian beliefs. All through their life, into early adulthood, a greater power is monitoring and controlling what they do. They then expect the government to have the same power over citizens.

Treating people like babies, results in people acting like babies. Treating people with respect and autonomy like adults, makes adults.
For these purposes, all we need is to get rid of (or at the very least properly control) violent tendencies. We don’t need to make it so everyone’s singing religious rock songs around a fake camp fire to celebrate everyone getting a participation medal in cooperative soccer.
This previous thread suggests that Jabra's are pretty terrible: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19095576

Do you know if the product line has improved since then?
For different definitions of all those terms you've used, yes, but basically, no.

Breathable means water vapor can pass. If there's no way for vapor to pass, then it's not breathing. If the surface of the material is saturated with something (water, oil/dirt) it's probably not gonna breathe.

The closest thing I can think of to what you're asking for is a trench coat. It's baggy and has ok airflow, but the outside is mostly water proof, depending on the fabric. My leather trench coat keeps me dry and warm in hours of pouring rain, and the cotton one does a decent job too.

Of course then someone asks about an "active" version, but I'm fairly certain that if your skin is emitting its own water, you just aren't going to be dry. My suggestion then is wool base layers, so even if you're wet, you're warm.
I treasure this chain of pedantry.
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The Google apps will still probably work but will harass you till you can't take it anymore and just allow it access. Just now I updated to Android 10 and Google play prompted me 3 seperate times with pretty serious warning that it needed acces to my SMS to work properly. I turned it down everytime and it still works, though I expect to receive more prompts. I knew there is a notification settings somewhere to turn these off.

I find it really troublesome that Google is allowed to blatantly lie to their consumers about the required permission by implying the app is utterly broken while it actually still works. Next year I'm going for an iPhone but as I can see it's not the promise Land yet.
I remember when I went to university, that in first year the biggest difference was between those who went to private schools and public schools. In private schools, the schools were stricter on attendance and teachers, helped you in such a manner that you didn't know how to help yourself. Whereas at public school, teachers didn't care if you attended class. teachers would help you if you didn't understand something, but in a manner that helped you be more self sufficient.

I think, at least with my group of friends, those from private schools had more growing up to do in a shorter period because they came from schools that over-supported them, so they weren't prepared to be self sufficient.
Unless they are Scrooge McDuck and storing their money in a pool to swim in it, the rich do stimulate the economy. How did the first person get paid? Perhaps because they work in a company the rich person invested in...
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Is this sarcasm? (Seriously asking.)
Quality fade?
Well this fake account will grow with fake data untill it's a pretty real account, right?
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On of my old bosses said he dropped a scope probe and shorted 120VAC onto the 5V bus. On a system with an 8008 emulator (cost $25k) plugged into the processor socket. Smoke poured out of the emulator and the breaker tripped.

Fortunately a heroic 7400 quad nand gate sacrificed itself to save anyone. He said all that was left was the leads sticking out of the PCB.

My cousin hooked up VCC and gnd backwards and blew up a prototype RISC processor. Only a dozen working ones in existence. Please sir may we have another?
In a job, you are being paid to perform a service. If you take the money and do not perform the service, you can expect negative consequences.

As a college student, you are paying to receive a service. The college fulfilled their obligation that you paid for. Your only obligation is to pay the bill that you agreed to. You are not obliged to make use of the services provided.

It's not the same situation at all.
Reading your comment, it sounds like you haven’t really used them to understand how practical they are.

IIRC people were mocking the first generation of airpod because of their ridiculous look, and people adopted them in spite of their look. Now that they are more mainstream it’s easy to forget.
We don’t know how much we don’t know about consciousness works yet.
Sounds like a glorified daycare
So much love! I worked on A/UX's original Unix port, wrote many of the drivers,the AppleTalk stack, made the thing field configurable so you could write your own drivers (at a time when kernels had drivers compiled in), and wrote the original event manager. I also got to debug the original Mac II hardware, and help fix it.

Our internal code name for the project was "Pigs in Space", Apple's was "Eagle", when theirs leaked to the press we were in the clear
About 10 years ago I accidentally made some spanish-only-speaking friends online, then had to learn spanish! It takes so much work, you can really only last the distance if you have to speak it, something I've heard others say. I've since had many thousands of conversations in spanish with friends in many countries, which has been amazing. Constant chatting every day; most of my communication every day was in spanish for years.

Also I joined 2 free language-exchange sites (This was 5-10 years ago, I think those sites are different now, but I'm sure others have taken their place) - where they matched me with spanish-speakers who wanted to learn english, we taught each other. One when I'd just started, another about 5 years later. Both people became very dear friends, and we chatted a lot, about everything, not just our languages. I wouldn't try that for a second with my other online spanish-speaking friends–being matched with people who want to teach and learn the right language is invaluable. Both times I met the perfect teacher within a few days of being on the site, and so left. Also I have my computer set to spanish (so the internet thinks I'm a spanish speaker!), watch lots of spanish-language movies/tv series.. and in the early years especially I studied spanish grammar a lot.

I feel I've learnt as much about english as about spanish! (and latin, french etc) Good luck!

(p.s. One unfortunate side-effect has been that using capital letters for languages/nationalities now seems super-weird to me)
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I was browsing for bird feed recently on Amazon DE and FR sold by Amazon themselves as I mostly don’t trust third parties. Some reviewers said they received just a transparent plastic bag with different seeds in it.

All those reviews were from 2019. So my guess is that they’ve started to commingle in Europe too.
This maybe true, but it's irrelevant in my estimation. The gap between the rich and the poor should not matter as long as the quality of life for both rich and poor has been improving over time, which appears to be the case.
Citing the wealth gap is purely manipulative and shields the lie that the rich are rich because they take from the poor and the poor are poor because Uber rich people exist.
I never use a GPS because I just look on the map, remember where my destination is, and drive to it.

But even before GPS there were a lot of people who could not navigate. For those people it is really great to have a navigation system.

So I feel this article sound like 'sell your car because walking is healthier'.

But I must also agree with the article. When I tried GPS I had no idea where I was. I believe this is because we trust the system so much that we forget our own 'responsibility'.
When Samsung phones had a well publicized issue. Airlines prohibited their phones and called them out by name before every flight. You bet that's going to encourage them to never make that mistake again.
A bit off topic but I’ll go up to Scotland in February and still need a hard shell. My old Mountain Hardwear won’t make the cut anymore. Any recommendations for good deals? I only need it for a week every other year for some Alpine climbing so I don’t want to spend crazy money but also don’t want to get soaked when the weather is bad.
> Another thing to note is that they are still a substandard user experience compared to 3.5mm jack and decent headphones ($50+ with non tangle wires)

No, this is your assessment of user experience. It’s opinion, not fact. Perhaps some $50 wired headphones sound better but different people value different things.

For a long time I thought “pft what’s the big deal with AirPods, I’m fine snaking the headphone cable down my shirt when I go for a run”. Then I bought some on the recommendation of a friend. For me the user experience is far from substandard — it’s great. The charging case means they rarely run out of juice, the tap to stop/start and Siri is great for running, they sound good, I can walk around the kitchen while cooking with them paired to my laptop, I find them comfortable, etc.

Fashion: I don’t care. What I’ll look like didn’t factor into the decision to buy them at all. As it happens I can easily afford them but didn’t buy for a long time because I don’t like to spend frivolously.

In short: just because you think AirPods (or Apple?) sucks doesn’t mean others don’t find them valuable.
Which wireless buds have the same exact experience as AirPods Pro? The seamless pairing with Apple devices is something only those buds have, and you really need to experience it to give it credit. My wife used many different headphones but absolutely fell in love with AirPods just because they are so easy and seamless to use.
Wow. Amazing work. Bring backs lots of memories of early "Personal computer" programming days.
Kudos for actually finishing a game project at 12.
Thanks for reminding me of happy childhood programming computer memories.
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This author is certainly building on his own dreams. As with many other promises and hype he gave..

There has been research on escape analysis, static memory management and all. Even not considering equivalence to halting problem, it has proven basically impossible to manage memory at compile time except very simple programs. This is a reason why rust ownership semantics are so complicated. And still anything complicated will use reference counting for many shared references. (Eg: Linux kernel).

But this guy is not even good at marketing he is doing -- some promises look very shady and comparisons are not apples to apples.

I see how big efforts zig and odin authors made, and the languages are impressive. V is a hyped piece from beginning and this makes the author seem more shadier.
> People are wearing them because they are a signal of how rich/successful they are.

They are 150-250 bucks a piece. If people are wearing them as status signal then we have real gone downhill a lot.
I've been in a motel and had my audio source in my room play music while I head for the vending machine without loss.

I've been on a morning tram and lost connection between my pocket and head with the same device/headphone pair.

Newer versions of Bluetooth have made great improvements to reliablity, but they can't defy physics and interference.
That description reminds me a bit of Powershell's Show-Command. It doesn't seem as rich as you've described Commando to be and it's not the same as three "..." but it's something.
Asking the right questions starts with looking at the wrong candidates. Is a central-control domain system a good idea? What else is there? What else can one think of? Is trusting anyone good architecture? Is there still hope to implement something else? Are domain names the first kind of e-coin? Are the keepers innovative companies or just rent seekers? Do the customers have any influence or are TLD's an unavoidable monopoly?
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> No, this is your assessment of user experience. It’s opinion, not fact. Perhaps some $50 wired headphones sound better but different people value different things.

Ok, 3.5" headphones are objectively: cheaper, simpler mechanically, more reliable, easier to use, easier to connect to different devices, never run out of battery or require charging, you can't lose 1/3 of them, and oh, yeah, they tend to sound better at the same price point. They tend to sound much better at the same price point since all you need to focus on are coils and membranes, not bluetooth stacks and batteries and inductive charging coils. A set of Shure SE315s will blow AirPods Pro out of the water on sound quality and noise isolation.

Yes, wireless headphones are wireless. That's all though. You can achieve all the rest with the jack, but you could achieve all of that wireless while the phone still had the jack.

None of this makes AirPods Pro a platform. They're neat wireless headphones. Among the best wireless headphones probably. But that's still all they are.

I've used AirPods Pro, and I've used me SE535s with an inline mic. It's gonna be SE535s by a country mile for me, even to the extent I have to go through the additional hoops of stupid dongles to hook them up. [1]

[1] https://www.shure.com/en-US/products/earphones/se535
The people who used to search for the philosopher’s stone are common ancestors of both our cultures. If you aren’t aware of it it’s because you’ve stopped reading history, not because it’s some new idea of ours.
More like rant against dressing standardized components a thousand different ways to make it seem there's more options than there are.

What standardization could enable, in a better world, is customizability - the ability to cheaply compose standard parts and some dressing on top to match a particular demand of an individual customer. Instead, we get common customizations prebaked and deployed on the market in a shotgun fashion. It's extremely wasteful, and a reflection of the fact that matter is too cheap these days.
Where do individual contributors go once they peak?
In Germany you can also get paid to donate blood or plasma. So this definitely happens in Europe as well. However the pay is not that high, it’s basically just a small compensation for your lost time and nutrients.
>you could capture a near-earth asteroid and just tunnel your space station into it, using the material inside the asteroid for construction material

This is a cool idea. Maybe you could get the whole thing spinning and have really efficient gravity generation due to its mass.
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Exactly, figuring out how to increase happiness without growing the population exponentially, would be major progress. It has some hard limits in terms of resource consumption and distribution.
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Working to curtail the civil rights of LGBT Californians was unloving and discourteous. Working to exclude LGBT and nonreligious people from the Boy Scouts was unloving and discourteous.

Civil rights groups endorsed the Utah compromise because it was the best bill that could passed in Utah at the time. They don't consider it a model for the rest of the country.[1]

[1] https://thinkprogress.org/utah-bill-would-ban-lgbt-discrimin...
I've just come to accept that I'll get a bit wet one way or another; either sweat or rain ingress through hood or cuffs (this will happen eventually as you'll need to stop for lunch or to put up shelter). Keeping warm is more important than keeping dry.
The video claims the explanation is different. They experiments around things where humans have no priors and the humans still form beliefs more quickly than is justified by a Bayesian model - and they don't necessarily formulate correct beliefs.

The argument of the video is humans form beliefs to facilitate information exploration. In this context, any belief can be better than none.

The impression from the discussion I get is that human beliefs and behaviors tend to differentiate - people often have slightly different ideas about everything, "what is a bowl" was one example. People pick-up beliefs easily and change beliefs as they go along - as long as they have feedback.

This apparently works for groups of hunter-gathers and even for people driving cars but less well for people using the Internet to decide whether to vaccinate their children.
Cool.
In 1991 I built an ISP based on Macintosh hardware and A/UX. Especially the Newsgroups with uucp and nntp where fun.
We gradually added BSDi based routers and terminal servers but even this we initially did with A/UX and ARA modem banks (Appletalk over dialup 14.4K modems)
- Read atleast one book at month
- Write atleast one post a week
- Spend more quality time with family
- Exercise 5 days a week. Tracked via Fitbit
- Go to market and sell. Learn and iterate
- Meditate
- Do more selfless good
- Reduce drinks if possible

Kinda sorted I think ;-)
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> The real selling point of ear buds is the fashion part. People are wearing them because they are a signal of how rich/successful they are.

In Germany, it seems to be mostly a status signal of young teenagers, who wear them constantly. Was probably the most requested gift in my daughter‘s class, where everyone is around 12.

Don‘t see that many grown-ups walking around with them.
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LVMH (Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton) is one of the clients of the company where I work.
LVMH fights hard against counterfeits.

Amazon is so bad at handling counterfeits that LVMH decided to never give even one penny to Amazon, so you cannot find their products on Amazon.

And the funny thing is that we cannot use AWS because of this rule!
In cold, dry weather you shouldn't wear a waterproof jacket.
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Disabling SMS permission for Play Services will silently break transparent SMS autofill API for any app on your phone, so the message is more than warranted. It actually breaks a core component of you phone.

It's not a "blatant lie" if it actually breaks APIs.
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Uncomment? Could it use the current utc time instead?
I like the iOS policy where if an app prompts for a permission 3 times and is denied then it doesn’t get to ask again.
This was really nice when working with colleagues on an rfc “check out page n” instead of “search for this string” as anchors may be sometimes too broad when being specific.

What I’d love is some kind of line selection feature where a specific line can be linked to.
200$ is still a lot of money for the majority of the population.
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I see Chinese people in Tokyo wearing them all the time. Even when not listening to music and just talking to friends. It really is like some kind of fashion accessory.
Cowboy Bebop is a great show with nothing else like it. I feel the same, but I still enjoy CB, Princess Mononoke, Grave of Fireflies etc. My immediate association with anime is a over sexualized cartoon with way to many episodes (knowing that's not true for the anime I have watched).
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