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Though that's like the opposite of how most media operate.

I'm guessing they're doing some aggressive caching since it's read-heavy?

>retained enough of a child's sensibility to spend all of his life on animation

I think most passion projects come from the inner child to some extent.

But living with poop and dysentery accustoms you the inevitable sufferings that is the human condition.

My parents' Ford Edge (mid-sized SUV)'s ride quality is much worse than most sedans I drove. I don't know if it's the big rims/thin tires or crappy suspensions; probably a combination of both. In any case, being an SUV is no guarantee of smoother rides, especially with modern SUVs trying to be more "sporty".

Happened to us in Berlin on my visit. We were seated with two elderly ladies. Their English wasn't great but they were very friendly.

Looks like their documentation site is down. Any idea what kind of bandwidth we're talking about here?

>I don't know why MS went ahead with this soulless design for so many years after Windows 8 came to be.

My guess is they need it to feel different enough to justify the price tag of a major upgrade.

In reality the changes behind the scene since Windows 7 have been incremental.

I'm generally curious if there are any numbers about this. Something like managers per employees over the decades.

I remember coming across a video of a product from Europe where the entire wall assembly is sold as one piece (outer wall, insulation, inner wall). I'm not sure if this type of product is common in Europe.

If you then have wire conduits and junction boxes built-in, you are a lot closer to a livable home. Perhaps floor assemblies with hookups for plumbing.

I'm not sure why these things aren't standardized to be the point of plug-n-play. A lot less work for the tradespeople maybe.

Don't know about the others, but I think Godot's editor is built using its own in-game UI system.

The Song Dynasty (960–1279 AD) was actually close to industrialization with high steel and coal productions, but apparently never took off due to the lack of a middle class to purchase the manufactured goods.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Industrialization_of_China#/Hist...

Also I think many tech fabrics like Gore-Tex aren't sold to individuals.

I think Volvo is one of the few car makers that investigates every crash (involving a Volvo) in Sweden.

My guess is that due to earthquakes and typhoons, there's a lot more pressure to keep building codes up-to-date with state of the art.

In North America so much of how we build is dictated by traditions.

This was popular back then (2011) when screens had lower resolutions, and more emphasis were on visual design as opposed to UX.

Pardon my ignorance. How does it get passed down in the case of regular births?

Maybe a lidar would've prevented these types of issues.

Is it mostly automobiles? Does it get better outside the cities?

I wouldn't read too much into that narrative, as I find it often overstretched and coloured by stereotypes.

Maybe it's a good thing - cars used less for social signaling and more for getting from A to B.

The perception of reliability still has an affect on price and depreciation. So maybe it's a good idea to buy them used.

Another complaint I've heard of Alfas is ergonomics sacrificed for looks, which is kind of a deal breaker for me.

As a single guy and a software engineer, I would pay full price for a pod housing if the area is safe convenient. I'd rent a co-working desk nearby and save a ton of money.

These types of housing just aren't available in Vancouver (or NA in general), but I can totally see a market for it.

Honestly $100M is not bad considering a single Boeing 737 costs the same amount.

But realistically you'd want winged drones, otherwise you'd need a large number of bases (power hookups, maintenance, etc.).

My guess is growing use of new growth forests and ever-increasing harvesting of younger trees to squeeze profit.

You could potentially use a turbine engine as a generator in a hydrocarbon-electric setup. It would in theory be lighter, simpler, and require less maintenance.

For now there's already a lot of momentum with ICE and they are very polished products. But I think the potential for turbine is there given the shift towards electrification.

Some hurdles include working with materials that can tolerate very high stress, and finding ways to improve efficiency from significant heat loss.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Microturbine

Or even a light helicopter. You can get a Robinson R22 (2-seat) for around $300k new, or R44 (4-seat) for around $500k.

I suspect at the same time Oscar will gradually become less relevant as people's attentions will be divided between Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes.

Some things to keep in mind:

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Western expats in East Asia tend to be quite polarized about their country of residence, and expats in poorer countries even more so. Over time, the tint of novelty wears off and the warts begin to stand out. Poorer countries have more warts.

For folks like myself who are extra sensitive, the negatives get an outsized representation, while the positives and neutrals get filtered out. It took me years of to develop the habits to compensate. I'm far from where I'd like to be, but I'm learning to accept that as well.

This is especially true in places of higher density. If you encounter 1 bad apple in a place of 100 people, vs 10 bad apples of 1000 people, the ratio is the same, but subjectively the latter feels ten times worse. It’s the price you pay for living the city life.

And when you have an under-stimulated career, the idle mind becomes the devil's playground.

We let collective narratives plays a greater role in colouring our opinions (as opposite to direct experience) than we'd like to admit. In this day and age, I don't think it's especially controversial to say that we get more dopamine hits from internet discussions than having a stroll down the street. Ultimately, unless we consciously intervene, the chemicals get to decide what we let ruminate in the back of our minds.

The idiosyncrasies you used to brush off or find amusing are now small but cumulative signs of impending doom. What we get right in direction we get wrong in magnitude. The sprinkles of verifiable truth can often as easily fuel our biases as they moderate them.

I'm surprised there doesn't seem to be more interest in type-checking in the Rails community at large (maybe I'm wrong). TypeScript has been make-or-break when choosing a company I apply for.