wirthjason

    You’re going to have to grind Leetcode. Yes, even the dynamic programming problems.

    You will have to interview for jobs where you will use a language you despise. Maybe even Java. Definitely Javascript.

    You might need to commute to the office again. Perhaps every day!

These were the best lines of your article. I laughed at the dynamic programming quip. :)

    AMC+, which costs $8.99 a month for a subscription, does not run ads.

How many of these are there going to be? I don’t want a $200 cable bill but I also don’t want dozens of subscriptions. I’ll subscribe to a few streaming services (eg Disney+ which my daughter watches) but outside of that I just don’t care. I also don’t have the time for stuff on the fringe.

About 5 years ago I tore my ACL and had it repaired a few months ago over the the summer. I’ve done a lot of PT rehab over the past few months and my PT mentioned that ice reduces blood flow, heat increases blood flow. It wasn’t so much an as ice vs heat but more about the importance of increasing blood flow to help the tissue repair. Other things increase blood flow too, like exercise. There isn’t really a strict dos-and-donts to treatment.

Interesting. My wife worked for APA. I never heard about this before, I’ll have to ask.

I’m not sure about the off the beaten path as general advice. There’s people who will always go off the beaten path because that’s what they do. Getting around and finding things to do in large cities is much easier than rural ones.

I love going to onsens and the best ones are off the beaten path and usually vary hard to get to without access to a car. (If you’re into driving Japan is a lot of fun. I particularly like driving along the coastline through the Atami Ito area. Mountain driving with steep incline/declines and switchbacks is also fun.)

In small towns there’s often just one central train station and everything else is by bus, taxi, or car. Buses and taxis are terrible options so it basically leaves driving. While it’s easy to rent a car I don’t think it’s a realistic option for most travelers.

While there’s things to do in small towns it’s often a lesser experience. Shops and restaurants close earlier and there’s less variety. It’s a lesser experience than what you’d get in a major city.

Moreover there’s tons of things to do on the outskirts of large cities. Take Koedo (小江戸) as an example. You often don’t have to go very far out for a different experience and still have all the accessibility of the city.

Niche items are pretty much a miss on Amazon. I buy a lot of things on Amazon but as a hobbyist cook and knife collector something like whetstones are much better purchased at a specialty retailer. I trust a shop like japaneseknifeimports.com a lot more than Amazon. These shops cater to the community and the mutual success of the community and the businesses are important.

Japanese phones get left out of the conversation because these topics spin into nostalgia and the Western audience doesn’t have any experience with them. Likewise the JP discussion wouldn’t fondly remember all the Nokia variants.

On a side note I have a pet theory that Japanese cell phones helped push display technology forward. The English alphabet can be displayed very easily with limited pixels but kana and kanji cannot so there’s less pressure for Western manufacturers to innovate displays. For a phone to first be successful in Japan it needs a very high resolution display.

Software has been in cars for a long time but I worry about its pervasiveness, especially as it applies to the lifetime of cars. I have a 1997 car that I keep for sentimental reasons and I like its “rawness” compared to my 2017 daily driver with auto-braking, lane assist, infotainment, directional headlights, etc. I made sure to buy an extended warranty on the new car because anything that goes wrong wrong will be an expensive fix that I can’t do myself. 20-30 years later how will these technologically modern cars fare?

I’m not sure the Chicago reference but if you’re talking about C++ the Units library is a good option.

https://github.com/mpusz/units

Now if someone can build something to track ghost trains. I’m looking at you CTA!

Any number of resumes on LinkedIn with “Python 2 to 3 migration” will say yes.

If you visit Chicago in the winter, the absolute worst part of the year, you’ll miss what makes Chicago great.

The beautiful summers are so great it makes the winters tolerable.

For example I always take visitors on a river/lake boat tour. Even though I grew up here it always blows my mind mind. The problems is those are completely shut down in the winter.

If someone wanted to visit me in the winter and “act like a local” I don’t know what I would suggest, maybe stay indoors where it’s warm.

Why is it that Google Analytics is often listed in “strictly necessary cookies”? I’ve never known that to be a requirement for handling cookie based seasons or logins.

This is a great topic. I really like that many approachable and accessible (read: non-textbooks) have come out in recent years. Examples like Thorsten Ball’s Writing a Compiler/Interpreter in Go books and Bob Nystrom’s Crafting Interpreters. NoStarch Press has one coming up too.

I’ve never taken organic chemistry but I always hated classes where the discussion after getting test results went like this:

“Aw man, I got a 40.”

“That’s great, most people got 20s, that’s the highest score”

Interesting article! However I hoped to get some recommendations, or at least “it doesn’t matter what you buy”, and maybe some comments on the performance of multi-blade razors.

Given that the angle of cut matters is it better to shave certain parts of the face with the grain or against?

The minidisc was for many things right for portable music. The audio quality was great, indistinguishable from CD to me, and any minor detail gets washed out when riding on the train or walking on a street. CDs are great but not a portable media. They scratch, break etc. It can be hard to load a new disc when standing it in crowded places. Portable CD players were awful at skipping. The couple seconds buffer was fine for a small bump but that was it. MDs were bulletproof.

Ah yes, I remember the bulge! I had one with that until getting a Japanese one which had the “gum stick” sized rechargeable battery which eliminated that and say flat.

The Walkman was cool, I had several. Then the Discman. But the coolest of all was MiniDisc—-super slim, ultra portable, indestructible media, no skipping. It was popular in Japan but niche technology in the US. I really wish it caught on. One of my favorites features was the inline stick remote with an LCD display screen. Put the player in your pocket and clip the remote to your shirt, bag, etc. with full controls and a display of the current track.

This article is extremely thin but aren’t prices supposed to do the job of rationing?

I like the idea of concepts, categories, and data but I had trouble seeing how it fits into the traditional knowledge graph structure of tuples that I am used to.

Say you are building an app or service, does anyone have rules of thumb to setting subscription amounts or tier levels?

As a consumer I like subscriptions because I can easily calculate, “how much time and effort do I spend doing X, is it worth $_____ a month for that?”

My career has been enterprise software for internal apps so I’ve never sold software before. Setting costs feels like a WAG (at least initially).

And after debating gun violence all week with my friends in the wake of the 4th of July shooting in Highland Park I made an example of Japan and it’s low gun violence. Now this happens.

Crazy stuff still happens in Japan but it’s usually a knife or ax. But guns and Abe are on another level.

The first edition of this book was a game changer. I still have my hardcopy paperback but haven’t turned to it in years. It’s probably largely out of date but I look at it fondly. Glad to see the material updated with new APIs and Python 3.10. The open access is very nice because it can easily be used for teaching and reference.

I would like to see some of Wes’ cautionary tales included into the book. Pandas feels so magical at times that you can uses it to solve anything. That can create problems. Ideas like this should be some appendix to the book.

https://wesmckinney.com/blog/apache-arrow-pandas-internals/

Lots of tools in the data space. It feels like choosing JS web front ends. I use pandas quite a lot but less frequently, as my data has gotten larger I turn to spark more. I’m also impressed by the work DuckDB is doing.

42 as well. Once you got a “base” it wasn’t really an issue. And I’d be out all day riding bikes and playing 8 hours a day. Everyone had a farmers tan. That said, I now use sun screen like crazy but it’s mainly about vanity as I confront aging. I also make sure my daughter is protected with sun screen, it’s like being bilingual, she’ll thank me later.

The VR was really cool! Totally unexpected.

    > Everything in Japan is next level. 

    > Here are some user experience (UX) based designs in Japan that make people's lives easier. 

Their UX is awesome, especially in train stations. I really appreciate the attention to detail — the little things you never notice until you look for them.

I hurt my knee one summer. Spending a couple weeks getting around Tokyo on crutches was a blast!

One hasn’t really “done Japan” until they’ve navigated the train stations in a wheel chair or crutches.

To me the F-14 wasn’t a matter of fact but just a chance to do a cameo flashback and put Maverick back in his trusty F-14 again.

In a movie like this so much is bringing back old cast members. The F-14 being one of them. I also felt the same seeing Penny drive a Porsche, Maverick’s motorcycles etc.

I don’t get it. How do you buy fake sandpaper? Was it on Amazon and you couldn’t feel it?

I see what you mean. I totally agree. It’s a bit like a bait an switch.

I’m not aware of any consumer protection laws against something like that. The only thing I could think of is either regulated products, like buying 2% milk that isn’t 2%. Or where it’s a obviously counterfeit.

In the former case of regulation Bryers ice cream changed their labeling to remove “ice cream” because it doesn’t meet the USDA definition of ice cream and instead call it “frozen dairy dessert”.

https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/is-your-favorite-ice...

The best people could do is vote with their dollars but it’s not always obvious.