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# Rant

It all started with Tesla. Everyone thought Tesla was a load of BS. But post 2018 the sentiment became Tesla will keep growing until the last short investor held their breath.

Tesla showed that classical economic value means squat when ultimately market sentiment determines the price of an asset. I with hundred of people created bots to track the CEO twitter feed to determine a stock price. And it worked to some extent. Head down to dogecoin subreddit, and you will see everyone there is praying and hoping a car manufacturing company CEO shitpost about their coin which might trigger another spike. And this time they will sell for sure. If you are in your 30s you would remember Facebook games like Barn Buddy or Farmvile. The fucked up thing is that now you have similar games where you harvest NFT game characters which are supposedly worth thousands and millions of dollar equivalent money.

I sat through the GME senate hearing and politician interviews. Even a US senate member acknowledged that what makes Tesla's valuation fair but Gamestop's valuation unfair? Based on the accounting numbers they are exactly the same thing. GME has its own meme leader a, a guy who sold his dog toys business to amazon for a billion dollar. I remember people talking up patent, innovation and charismatic leadership of Tesla. I see the same passion in GME people when they talk about GME and some they were NFT deals.

Rant over.
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> The expat community in Tokyo is kinda obnoxious. There are a lot of lazy, burned out guys who complain about everything

How is that unique? Sounds like the expat community in any other Asian city.
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> That said, what do I have to offer at this stage of my life either, to a stranger? I'm unmarried, so I don't have kids or the mortgage to talk about. I'm not a CEO or someone powerful. Also I'm single -- what are people supposed do with that?

Uh, you're single? That's amazing! The world is your oyster! If you think you're boring now, just wait until you're a cleaning, feeding, peek-a-booing family machine.
Yours does not include an English dictionary word or name though (unless sh counts, but that's shorter and less common than 'max'), but yeah 5-char words being available, I'm also not too surprised by.
> suffering COVID-19 outbreaks.

The word choice foe describing covid over these years (!) is quite exaggerated.

If you read the article, where is the suffering?
You don't really have real cities in the US = there are a few exceptions but most of the time it's just a very tiny center and a lot of people living away from the center. That's not what a traditional city looks like.
A teacher in IT, so someone who didn’t have the chops to get a higher paying job and settled. Maybe because you spent too much time tinkering with your WM.
I will add - many people have intellectual hobbies or read books. Just not exact same intellectual hobbies, because there are hundreds of those. And not the same books. So, that does not constitue common point to talk about.
> The collapse (from our point of view, at least) of the wave function is pretty necessary in the math of QM.

The measurement results are mathematically necessary. The Copenhagen interpretation, that this means there is a physical collapse in the wavefunction, is not.

> To me, it seems that other theories are just disputing what the "collapse" fundamentally means.

If you substitute "collapse" for "measurement" this is pretty much true. What else could "different interpretations of a theory" mean?
Don’t care, got Retina, they still look better, regardless of nerd words.
> As prior art, there’s a draw.io/diagrams.net format which embeds a source string without file name. The source string is encoded in base64 (i.e. unconstrained by PNG), wrapped in XML, then incorrectly encoded as an iTXt chunk.

Anyone know what might be incorrect about draw.io iTXt chunk usage?
I used the GIT GUI, and it seems easy enough for me, though I haven't pulled things out of repositories yet, just stage/commit | push to github

What's needed is better documentation, nothing more.
People really nees to understand web development before they start making analogies. Checking view source is not like unlocking a door.
GLADOS – Generic Life Activity Data Organization System
I like this. I've struggled with going to the gym consistently because I don't lifting something heavy repeatedly very fun, so I don't look forward to the gym as much. I prefer something like pick up basketball with some friends. But recently I have been a little more strategic about the way I approach weightlifting because I would like to be less scrawny, more athletic/toned, so that helped a bit. But what you said is a different way to look at physical activity and I like that new perspective. Thank you for sharing :)
And if you are educated, you have an even wider gap with your average person.
Education starts with school and parenting, when school is averaging to the lowest students and parents are busy with their own work, what is left to your "high IQ kid"?

School would just provide a less-than-average knowledge, parents won't guide, and you get an uneducated kid surrounded by "idiots".

As a parent, you provide guidance to your kids, high IQ or not, you still get a large gap with their peers. Yesterday, we were drugging kids with TV, today, with tiktok and the likes.
Today I learned that all my beautiful, insightful 1 karma posts are just for my own vanity.
You can probably make more in China than Japan as a dev, assuming you have some talent that can’t be found easily locally. Of course, it might be impossible now given how the Chinese government has shifted, but that isn’t because of demand.
True, I could imagine snacks to be among the places where you have problems going as a foreigner. It probably just depends on the owner.

I haven't been to many, so I can't really speak to that. I tried a few times and had no trouble getting in, but I was with Japanese friends. May have been a different story if I had been alone.
>This is not censorship resistant

I think the good thing about Nostr is that all the network / account / content seems to be stored in the data, not on the servers, so if the relays become a problem at some point it would be trivial to add new channels to distribute the data.

>Secondly, this just does not scale, at all

I think it does very nicely, in the sense that because the network IS in the data you could have different relays only distributing some of the data for some of the users and by connecting to different relays you could still rebuild the complete conversations in your client.

This also solves one of the annoying things of modern internet: when a video or an article gets taken down all of the websites that reference it get a broken link that is very difficult to recover. This is one of the reasons many accounts respond to screenshots of tweets rather that no tweets.

With something like Nostr should be easier to recreate all the references in a post as long as at least 1 person has archived them.
Worse is when the OS does follow POSIX but people haven't read the fine print that certain POSIX APIs are implementation dependent, e.g. signal handling and threads.
> I grew up in Stockholm and it too sadly is very, very car centric compared to Tokyo. Amsterdam, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Paris and others are much better...

I’m really glad to see this because I moved from central London to central Stockholm 20 years ago and no one believes me when I tell them I find this town more car-centric even than London.

Away from the tourist areas, everything in Stockholm is arranged around the free-flow of traffic - from the phase of traffic lights, the dimensions of the roads vs pavements, to the sheer design of the street layout.

Unfortunately the car-mania of the 1960s and 70s still survives here, which is dangerous for kids and enervating to live with, and such a contrast to other European towns.
I made friends with some Yakuza while I was there, and after awhile I would get invited to some of these places sometimes. You REALLY need to be careful hanging around them though, and don't get dragged into their shit. They usually keep that separate, but it's not guaranteed.

Also, you're expected to be on your BEST behaviour. DO NOT EMBARRASS PEOPLE, because the responsible person will suffer for it (not you, but please, don't be a dick).

Actually, if you want to get a peek at what the underbelly looks like (with a lot of creative license of course), check out "The Naked Director". It was quite refreshing compared to the regular pablum of Japanese television.
Maybe it's just me but racism on the level of being kicked out of places for being non-Japanese a handful of times in 5 years sounds terrible. Even once is insane.

I'm white so don't have any personal experience, but my partner is a brown immigrant to the UK and has experienced nothing even remotely close to that anywhere she's been in UK or Europe.
The link specifically cites policies meant to allow limited capitalism while communism matures. Is the “sharp left” part claims that it’s “limited”?
HN is one of the only sites on the Internet where I was able to get my name in 2021.
Penang has some of the best street food in the world.
Little Bloke Fitness in Reservoir! They are absolutely awesome, very good, local product for a reasonable price.

Most of my gear was 360 Strength.

- 360 Strength Heavy Duty Squat Rack, with spotter bars.
- 360 Strength Olympic EZ Curl Bar (Nickel - Bushings)
- 360 Strength PRO Olympic 20kg Barbell (Hard Chrome - Full Black - Bearings)
- 1RM Commercial Flat Bench 1RM-CFB
- 360 Strength STANDARD Weight Tree with Barbell Holder
- 360 Strength Olympic Rubber Coated Weight Plate: 2x 1.25, 4x 2.5, 4x 5, 4x 10, 2x 20 kg.
- 8x 15mm Command Classic Rubber Gym Flooring Black
- 360 Strength Nylon Olympic Locking Collars (very quick and easy to lock one handed, moderate grip - great for curls, presses etc)
- 360 Strength 360 Strength Aluminium Olympic Locking Collars (harder/two handed, very solid grip - great for deadlifts)
- Since added: 25kg PRO HG Bumper Plates (1 pair)

I would have considered the more premium 1RM rack if I had the height in the garage, however the 360 is perfectly fine and a perfect fit - 1RM would have helped on chin ups, myself being moderately tall.

This is a very competent setup, and I still can't quite believe what a difference it makes especially as I WFH. All the best!
And 36^5 is even a bit bigger. (Numbers are allowed. Think that's it though - case is recorded, but I don't think you can sign up Dheera, because dheera exists.)
And you too, sir. Have one yourself. On the house.
Unlike most developed countries including China with a saturated infrastructure, India has a great potential to be a store of value in the form of road, rail, bridges and ports.

Burdening India with unfair co2 restrictions while the developed countries continue to emit ginormous amounts just to maintain an unsustainable lifestyle.

People who flush their toilets with drinking water pointing fingers at people who are struggling to get safe drinking water.
Very fair and straightforward advice. Noted and appreciated! Thank you for sharing :)
My mp3 days are over I think. I did move to them exclusively for most of a decade, as I ripped my entire CD collection over a several week period about 18 years ago, and then used that. I went through various software players - Winamp and Xmms for a while, Quod Libet later. Various hardware players too, an Archos, car stereos, Sonos kit, various phones.

But now the collection lives on a file server and is rarely ever touched, I don't even bother putting it on newer phones because I have spotify.

I have recently thought that I miss the careful-curation aspect of things. A collection used to be yours and yours alone, having access to certain music was somehow special and meaningful. But that was a side-effect of scarcity and the physical nature of music; money was limited and each album was a chunk of cash.

Now I can listen to anything, whenever. My experience is different... but I don't think it's worse. I can listen to anything I can think of.
Or some asymptomatic carrier administering a set of the test, or some of the cleaning staff coughing in the room before the tests.

That they focused on the person action (quarantines, tests) and not the environment (transfer shuttles, testing rooms, bathrooms and dressing rooms) kids hints the latter as a source. After all, you drop your mask during testing, and I've seen places doing it in a small, unventilated room with no pause between each person.
Tokyo, and most big Japan cities, are probably the only cities I could visit regularly without getting bored. Whether it's cuisine, the shops, or the people, it felt like a home away from home. It's surely super crowded in some areas, but you don't have to go there either. There are plenty of areas where you could enjoy a quiet (literally) afternoon sipping a good coffee without having to queue up. Also, it's so damn clean compared to other major cities in the world.

Just avoid the train during peak hours, and you'll enjoy every moment staying there.
You need 200 karma sadly
Sounds about right. The “direct” part being key. I think the framework I was using (Vue 2) was adding some “async” intermediary stuff the way I was using it between the DOM click event and the msal.js window.open call. Once it’s in a callback, it’s not “direct”.

I simplified some code, restarted everything (WebPack hot reloading has been quirky too) and it’s working now. Still took an hour or two of my evening in reading a debugging though, and not exactly sure WHY it went from broken to fixed <shrug>
Was the account frozen?
The ones in resort towns seem to always have “no foreigners” signs in English…I guess to avoid having any awkward denials at all. Seems perfectly legal to not serve foreigners, in any case.
That date formatting is horrible
I really like this site, it’s a blast for me. Please keep at it as this stuff deserves to be remembered.

I realise the book is still in draft and so open to change but it might be worth noting that in its current form you’re only covering the American 8-bit market.

To my European eyes it looks weird to talk about the 8-bit scene and not mention Acorn BBC Micro, Sinclair and compatibles or Amstrad.

I can also see the abscess of MSX references.

That’s fine if that’s the goal but does leave out a lot of world changing developments.

E.g. the design of the BBC Micro led to the design of the first Arm processor.

Running BBC BASIC at the speed of 6502 assembler was one of its design goals.
Seems like a lot of testing and no quarantine before the departure and on the arrival.

What can go wrong?

Edit: I missed the 10 day quarantine in South Africa. So it is not so bad.
Gee, fuck all these other cities that are all obviously shitholes? I guess?
> was when endogamy took hold in Indian subcontinent?

Nope. Gotra is exogamous not endogamous. You can't marry within the same Gotra. That would become incestuous. You can only marry a person from another Gotra. Even Gotra combinations are created based on Vedic Astrology to ensure only the best match is possible.

> Where does 2500 years come from when genetics shows around 1200 BC

Vedic History is far older. Oldest surviving manuscript of Rig Veda dates to 1800 BCE [1]. Other Vedas dates to 1200-900 BCE. However the Vedas are themselves eternal having passed down through generations by word of mouth since start of Creation. Brahman/God transmitted this knowledge throughout the Creation which was heard by enlightened beings called the Rishis. They then transmitted that knowledge down to their disciples. That knowledge was only recently written down in manuscripts (those that survive are dated 1500 BCE-900 BCE). I say "recently" because the timelines are huge in Sanatan Dharma. But that is for another topic.

The Rishis mentioned in the Vedas are as old as the Creation itself through whom the respective lineage started. If Abrahamic Religions believe Adam and Eve to be the progenitors of human race, Dharmic Religions have Manu as progenitor (the word Manushya is derived from his name). The difference is that in Dharmic Religions the details of the Gotra is passed down through generations (starting from the Saptarishis: Agastya, Atri, Bhardvaja, Gautama, Jamadagni, Vashistha, Vishvamitra and Jambu) including information on who started the lineage. So we know which Gotra we belong to. That makes it easy to not enter into incestual relationships unknowingly.

[1] https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/rig-veda-manuscrip...
I guess that's true. It wasn't really kicked out (just edited it to clarify) but rather not being allowed in - It's probably also important to note that most of these places, except one, were what you would call nighttime establishments a bit on the shadier side. So we're not talking about restaurants or anything like that.
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We should make an IceBear fork!
Not helping others when you are able doesn't make me an asshole; it makes me self centered. Yes, it is quite normal, but I disagree with your next clause: we should think harder about it and not dismiss it so easily.

I've pitched this one before, as it is a short book (pdf, or audiobook) and is one of the most impactful things I've read in a long time. It was Peter Singer's book, The Life You Can Save [1]

The book methodically and non-judgmentally addresses many objections and false beliefs people have about charity [2] and effective altruism. In a nutshell: ideally we'd have enough resources that everyone had everything they need, but we don't. There is a strong instinct to care more about people who are similar to you or live near you than for others, but we shouldn't. That is, the suffering of a person you will never meet is just as real as the suffering of someone you are friends with. Because we have limited resources to help others, the resources we do have should be focused on those who are worst off.

[1] https://www.thelifeyoucansave.org/peter-singer/

[2] For instance, many people moan about how much of the federal budget is spent/wasted on foreign aid. When asked to guess how much of the budget is spent, people (in the US) commonly guess 10-20%. When asked what they thing would be more appropriate, they commonly say 5-10%. The reality is it is well under 1%.
Not sure. There were no comments or submissions since its creation.

Edit: I just realised, heh. You cheeky fella.
Can't upgrade before macOS and iOS get proper Opus support. Technically there is Opus support, but not to a degree where you'd actually want to start using it.
As with many articles on IP they are conflating copyright and trademark.

The stories and illustrations will be copyright free, but the names of the characters (certainly the titular character) are covered by trademarks.

I'm no IP expert, so I don't know the repercussions of putting out a book titled Winnie The Pooh containing the public domain stories. Certainly you'd be in the clear if it was titled Fat, Honey-Loving Bear Stories.
I already severely dislike the interview process and I've only just started my entry-level, new grad job search, but there isn't much I can do to avoid it. I have also been looking into startups (ycombinator included) but haven't heard back yet, but I'm patient - it's a holiday break.

I have been slowly developing a study plan for data structures and algorithms since it's been a while since a took a class on that and that makes up most of the interview process for new grads from what I hear from peers. If you have any advice or resources on that, I would greatly appreciate it as well. Thank you!
FWIW. Learning the language (and popular culture) makes a huge difference in the people you’ll meet and how people react to you.

I worked in a Japanese company for years and made a number of good friends (of the same gender) who I’m still in contact with, and see whenever I go back.

Also the more you learn the language the more chance you’ll have of reaching a role of importance. That’s the same pretty much everywhere though. If people have trouble communicating with you or you cannot express a complex concept then you’ll be bypassed.
Replying to my own comment because I had a thought,

> Sitting in my house in the burbs I can hear the highway out the window, in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, there was a type of quiet I just wasn't expecting from a city.

I'm also wondering if it's because of the density of buildings. In the burbs, I can hear a dog barking a block away, and the highway is pretty far from me but I still hear it. In Tokyo, it can almost feel like the city is muffled, and I wonder if that's because of the intense amount of concrete, medium height buildings and narrow, sometimes winding, crosshatching streets. In the immediate space you'd expect some reflection, but there's no way you'd hear something a block away.
I've heard that the salary for game programmers is pretty low compared to other fields. Is this also true for graphics programmers in general? E.g. jobs in AR/VR.
Create an alternative, lead the way, show that there's a different kind of life out there that can exist. No-one else will do it for you.

Actually, there are a lot of people who do that, but they are not the majority. They are these people you probably look up to; they are these people who have said: "Ok, enough is enough. I gotta try this, I gotta face my fears, and just take the leap of faith, because it's the only viable way for me to live my life fully". Anyone who tries to do things a bit differently has to be able to stand alone, I would think, but not in isolation, but as a negation to whatever they are trying to fight against.
My mistake then. I read it as "we tried it as a Postgres replacement, even though many here suggest it was going to work".

I've toyed with SQLite as replacement for a client-server database for personal projects. While I stand by my overall dim assessment of SQLite, with a statically typed language and a diligently maintained data access layer (ie. one-man project), I would endorse its use on the server.
Thanks for the write up. I use roughly the same set up minus docker. My deploy is usually log in to ssh, git pull and restart the systemctl service.
There’s also the factor that some people have a longer incubation period. Early on in the pandemic there were reports of some people having 21-27 day incubation periods before testing positive and getting sick. I think it’s less common now with delta and omicron but likely still possible in rare instances.
Sorry, you need over 200 karma to create a poll.
The first SVG export's problem was just that it had a transparent background. Chrome's default background is white, and so it draws the transparency on top of white, which is why the SVG looks fine in Chrome. Eye of Gnome displays transparency as a checkboard pattern, just like Gimp, Photoshop and many other image editors.
Get in the habit of submitting interesting articles you read! It takes 15 seconds and adds a lot to the community to take a handful of shots at a submission each month.