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I've had jambu in São Paulo many times, although I admit that I visit the city multiple times a year just to eat. It's easy to find tacacá, pirarucu, chicken/duck with tucupi and so on.

I did a road trip from the extreme south to São Paulo (1500km+) last month and found jambu-infused cachaça in the four different states I've been to. Def a recent thing though. I even saw jambu risotto and pastel (stuffed fried crust pie).

I don't really need the car on a daily basis, mostly for road trips, and, like the US, Brazil has continental proportions (we think in thousands of kms). The BMW iX is very impressive, there are videos of it doing Sao Paulo > Rio, and half of the way back, without a charge, which is amazing, but that's a best-case path with a considerable number of chargers. Still very pricey though.

In emerging markets, hybrids are a much smarter choice. Here in Brazil there are few fast chargers (say 40kW+), and a great bunch of them are broken anyway. My next car will be a plug-in hybrid. Maybe an electric in 10 years.

I'm Brazilian, lived in Portugal, Germany and Australia for a few years each, and can attest that dental care in Brazil is at least 100x better in every way. It's much less bureaucratic.

Many universities offer free-of-charge consultations, although in a limited fashion. In big cities, I've seen mobile clinics helping the homeless. It's just part of the culture now. I'll even risk saying that Brazilians don't smoke because it stains the teeth. Lots of people do drink black coffee but they'll brush their teeth afterwards.

A private company called Sorridents has taken over dentistry in Brazil with more than 500 branches. It works like Subway/McDonald's. It's affordable.

Yes, there are many more dental professionals in Brazil, but the population also spends more on it (relative to income), so it balances out. You can even get dental insurance through your energy company, but I believe the vast majority of the population doesn't have any [1].

As an anecdote, I've waited TWO YEARS for Bupa (Australia) to tell me that my wisdom teeth extraction would cost 7000AUD and they'd need to move an entire team to a hospital to do it, and I'd need to pay for general anesthesia too (some 1500-200AUD more), which is absurd. I've also consulted with three other top-rated dentists in Sydney who told me the same. I flew to Brazil, paid 500AUD in a top-notch clinic, and the procedure took less than an hour.

In both Germany and Australia, dental cleaning felt rushed, polishing wasn't done properly, they always came up a thousand little things that added to the final cost. It's ugly, it's scammy.

In Portugal you can get decent dental care due to the large amount of Brazilian dentists.

[1] https://www.iess.org.br/publicacao/blog/brasileiro-ainda-tem...

Wow, this is very hard to read. It should be illegal to use light grey text on a white background.

It is absurd that some hosts will even consider high/club chairs next to a kitchen counter a suitable place for work. It is the most frustrating filter on Airbnb right now.

https://community.withairbnb.com/t5/Help/How-do-you-define-q...

I've done pretty much everything I could imagine to try to identify the root cause, no doctor could give a reasonable diagnosis. My tinnitus started after a night with earplugs, but it could have been a coincidence since I also used noise-cancelled Sony headphones. Who knows ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Yep, I joined the tinnitus bandwagon in the beginning of the pandemic. I was locked up at home and neighbouring dogs wouldn't shut up all day, so I resorted to earplugs and here I am now. Surprisingly I met at least 5 other people with the same problem recently, and they were all told by doctors that it was due to stress and not earplugs/headphones. I call it BS.

It's been flagged again. What a mess.

Github Copilot and Actions.

It is really next-level. I'm seeing a gigantic full-width ad every 3 or 4 paragraphs, plus a bottom-fixed ad (10 total). That's nuts.

I gave up on "smart" TVs and got one Chromecast for each at home. I also carry one when travelling.

Chrome Mobile (Android).

Just plain Chrome Mobile, nothing else, no VPN.

People need to stop with this Cloudflare captcha madness. I literally accessed nginx.com a few hours ago and now it hit me with a captcha again.

Each country has different compliance laws.

Loading instantly here (Sao Paulo).

It exists: https://developers.google.com/custom-search/v1/overview. Might not be cheap for search-as-you-type though.

I still don't get why AWS keeps using images to display textual content. It's inaccessible and it looks terrible on mobile devices.

I use Telegram with Voicy with my friends, it's pretty decent at transcribing voice messages from multiple languages. You can even hook it into the Speech-to-Text service from Google Cloud (however the integration doesn't support custom parameters).

Same here, tested dozens of images from our website (user avatars, product images and logos), and the vast majority ended up being larger and with much lower quality. We serve WebPs generated using the sharp library with quality=80.

That's right, and not only in New York or in the USA, you'd be able to find public bathrooms in many police stations across the globe.

Move somewhere you're much richer than the average.

Apparently there's a subset of American-English speakers that would pronounce "caught" as "kaat". I've always heard it like a longer/smoother "cot" though.

I'd say a good first guess is the "a" in "about" instead.

What a relief it is to see a snappy, lightweight native app.

How do we compare to workers in other industries?

Stripe has been releasing so many new products lately that I read this as "Stripe Game Engine". Damn Fridays.

Shanghai alone has a larger GDP than Argentina, and that's pre-pandemic data.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_prefecture-l...

Pretty common for me, but I've mostly lived in places with a huge variety of fresh ingredients. That "level of food" is actually not that high in places like Barcelona, Lisbon, Sao Paulo, Sydney, SF, LA, Guangzhou, Bangkok, etc. 60USD/day (~1300USD per month) is not that much compared to how much FAANG employees are making. At the end of the day it's a matter of priority. Tons of people spend more than that on alcohol/cigarette/drugs/cars.