For a few years my wife and I were thinking of moving to Saigon, and this was one of the biggest reasons we chose not to. When we were considering it, they were even reducing the amount of green spaces, which is obviously the exact wrong direction.

EG this article from 2017 https://saigoneer.com/society/society-categories/10578-photos-a-bird-s-eye-view-of-saigon-s-remaining-green-spaces and this article from 2019 https://saigoneer.com/saigon-news/16954-saigon-s-urban-green-coverage-is-poor,-but-little-is-done-to-speed-up-park-projects

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Different companies have different broad cultures, and different subcultures within teams. Some companies just don’t have a sense of camaraderie built into their broad culture.

One thing that people don’t always understand, and I always point this out to people I work with, is that your professional relationships are much more important than the company itself. Everybody is going to move on from their current job some day. When that day comes, they will benefit from having strong relationships with past team mates, either by knowing folks who can help them get new work, or by knowing folks who they can bring in to tackle projects at the new job.

Your professional network is one of your most valuable assets in your career. The people you work with are real people, with real families. Relationships with great team mates are more important than the company you both work at now, and will outlast your time at that company. Camaraderie is key to that whole scenario. Make sure you reach out to people you respect and enjoy working with and tell them how much you value that professional relationship. You will both be better off for it.

At least he wasn’t wrongfully executed and lived long enough to see justice.

U.S. manufacturers’ EV cost $70,700

Yes, that’s been the problem the whole time! We don’t need self driving and we don’t need fake exhaust and shifting, we need an electric base line Honda civic!

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I am also on the hunt for a good self hosted journal for life journaling (not note taking like some other links in other comments). Here’s what I am trying to replace:

I’ve been using DayOne without subscribing. I’ve had a lot of ups and downs with DayOne over the years, but I’ve finally found a way to use it with the free plan that I’m happy with, that kind of fits into a self hosted setup. I journal on my phone, and also in my laptop. I love that it captures location, weather, music, step count, and activity. After a month or so, I export the journal entries as json, and put them into a private hosted view and search interface that I’m in the process of writing in Python.

The DayOne journal data does not need to be synchronized to the cloud, and can even be encrypted by you, but who knows how much of your metadata is sent to them.

This setup is far from ideal because it’s not entirely private (metadata is probably leaking to the company), but it does have solid data liberation, is free (as in beer), can be encrypted, and the format is just json so it’s easily inspectable and transformable. It’s been working fine for me for several years (I actually have over a decade of DayOne journal history). It’s kludgy and not turnkey, so definitely not for everybody.

Side note for anybody who is using DayOne: I highly recommend making sure your backups are working, and saving a copy of the backup periodically. I store my exported entries in git and over the years have observed lots of instances of corrupt data due to sync problems with their sync server, which is another reason I want to move to self hosted.

Oh nice! I may have to drive there just to check it out. One of my wife’s and my favorite restaurants in SF was a Burmese restaurant called Mandalay.

There are pictures of the food on a long table and on the wall above it. There are little squares of paper with the name of the food, and things like “extra noodles” or “add egg” and “here or togo”. You get one piece of paper for each item you want, and then fill it out, and give them your stack of paper.

There’s a Japanese place in Novi called Nagomi that is pretty great. When you walk in it looks like you’re in the wrong place because what you see barely looks like a restaurant, just an empty event hall that is a bit run down. The ordering process is confusing to everybody on their first time, but it works really great once you figure it out. The food is awesome. My family goes pretty regularly. I love the pork misoitame, the ramen can be amazing on the right day, and I love the chicken katsu curry with cheese. Their sesame balls are hit or miss. They have a rotating selection of Japanese drinks, with ramune always in stock, and sometimes suntori nonalcoholic beer. They usually play funny Japanese shows with pranks or fails. It’s pretty common to see groups of con-goers dressed up after attending a con of some kind. Also there’s a public access RC race car track right across the street by the water tower, which is great for families to spectate at, or drive on if you remembered to bring an rc car.

high price of public transportation

lol, compared to gas, insurance, maintenance, parking, parking tickets, tow fees, replacing broken windows, and the cost of the vehicle? Really?

Dude, yes. I loved wandering down random streets and photographing all the artwork I found, which was basically everywhere.

We also have those in Michigan. When I moved here I was so happy to see them at most of the parks.

Mindstorms is actually retired now :( https://support.apple.com/en-us/108963

EV3 had a microsd slot and usb ports. You can boot Debian on it and connect it to WiFi, which made it pretty wide open. https://www.ev3dev.org/

The kit that replaced EV3 is also really great. I have both and mostly use the newer one because even though it can’t boot Linux or connect to WiFi, it can be programmed from an iPad using a scratch interface, and the programs can be saved to the device and run without having to use any other device. This makes it really easy to quickly make a robot to perform a simple task like pressing a series of physical buttons in a timed loop, like for farming Xbox game currency or whatever. EG https://youtu.be/otAQqtLifCU

This kind of thing is seriously the best that life gets. Being able to recognize those moments and appreciate them is one of the best skills somebody can obtain. Mindfulness meditation and stoic philosophy have helped me immensely in being able to appreciate these types of situations for the real value that they have.

What episode is the intro clip of him eating ice cream from?

Bought an ebike. I’ve wanted one for over 10 years, and finally the circumstances were right for me to justify it.

Remember what they say though: a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich. I’ll be interested to hear a more thorough analysis of the charges. Sadly, this stuff is rarely as simple as it seems.

This is brilliant. Saved! Will definitely be sharing this.