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My ex-boss completed his PhD thesis with author of this doc as his advisor. So some of the ideas seem relevant since they popped up in few of the work related conversations with my boss.

Citation for Reagan comment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Air_Traffic_Contr....

I can totally relate to points articulated in first and second paragraph.

It took me something harsh and physical event to realize how much I've not been myself. It prompted me to give up everything dear but unncessary and unproductive things for a short term as a punishment for myself.

It worked. It showed results (albeit in short-term) and then I started journalling reports about myself. Having a honest conversation of what works and what consequences I have of acting from impulsive thinking and drifting away from my real life goals.

This is 4th month since I made the pivot and so far things are definitely better. I think its mainly a battle between your brain's system 1 and system 2. You gotto do things that system 2 has thought and planned out. Because system 1 can be irrational and get us into doing things that only have short term benefit.

Brain systems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow#Two_sy...

Thanks for sharing this. I am always fascinated by projects that use C++ for low-level or OS stuff and some how, I've never come across this project.

This may not be news to everyone. The Economist have started sharing their data on Github [0]. I wonder if this is one-off publication of data or it is general trend to share their data publicly. A welcome move.

[0] https://github.com/TheEconomist/the-economist-gdp-per-hour-e...

[1] https://github.com/TheEconomist

I have been holding out as well. I will be upgrading from iphone8plus in 2017.

in case, any one looking for F-1 (F1) for ARM, it is here.

(S-1 is for domestic corporations and F-1 is for foreign ones)

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1973239/000119312523...

> while the world attempts to recover from a pandemic that is still ongoing but ignored by global media.

I wonder what parts of world are still going through the pandemic. Without citations, some of the facts in article come up as alarmists.

I have noticed that this website is blocked for some reason in India. For affected users, here is the archived copy: https://archive.ph/HmDQz

The concern among many eastern countries regarding cloud usage is location of data storage. ADAS system could rely on cloud for - Getting updated maps (HD in some cases) - Storing/uploading camera data for analytics/replay among other things...

JFYI, Apple CarPlay never have been an OS. People often get confused between the foundation SW that OEM provides and consumer overlay that companies like Apple, Google provide. Both are not the same. One cannot replace another.

You can refer to this blog about more popular misconceptions among consumers. https://blogs.blackberry.com/en/2022/10/the-top-9-misconcept...

Disclaimer: Worked for a Teir1 SW provider in past.

> There are no cars or electronics, or chip fabs in this country.

This is only partially true.

India has factories that provide inter-mediate parts required for creating final product. For example, a car needs axles, engine, dashboard plastics, alloy for body, brakes and electronics. You are more likely to find an Indian name in top-10 vendors for above parts sorted by marketshare. With the exception of engine, transmission, they have expanded.

What it does lack is tack of exporting finished products such as iPhone or smartphone or cars or jets. And I think this will be a long process. Someone with deep pockets like Apple is willing to bet and here we are.

Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharat_Forge

This post should have (2013) in the title.

Text book blame game now after realizing the cost. Often, the builders and contractors have dealings with politicians to get favors and perks.

I am not accusing or calling that there is corruption between politicians and builders. But one of the criterion that Turkey is measuring for its inclusion in EU is corruption. It would be interesting to see impact of this on corruption scores in EU progress report. It has already been noted that there is no progress in fight against corruption [^a]

a. https://web.archive.org/web/20220121110007/https://ec.europa...

b. https://web.archive.org/web/20201218132551/https://ec.europa...

Sadly this has been a norm in countries/places with a mix of corruption and ineffective enforcement of laws.

Back in my home town in India, tons of my relatives have built huge multi-storey buildings all the while ignoring the city code about spacing between adjacent buildings or distance of structure from main road.

That's not to say that everyone ends up kicking the rules, but the number of people who have done that in past 20+years makes me wonder how is it that easy to not follow municipal building code.

Hope, that it doesn't take a natural calamity for people to realize the importance of code and the local civil enforcement starts using its power!

nit: This article should have (1999) in title.

Interesting read nonetheless.

Anyone has any links or good intro videos about what is Hydra-mode?

Reading through the article, it seems the domain name is not publicly exposed and a new domain (?) is created on-the-fly? I am not sure if I understand how it works. But every user who logs in with a inter-mediator would get his own domain and that's their strategy to keep shop open for now.

That's different from the situation noted in linked article. That happened before the airspace was closed.

Shoutout to fellow Civ player!

Just curious: Is Civ something very popular at FB or something? I know Zuck himself plays Civ [0].

[0] https://www.facebook.com/civ/posts/thanks-mark-zuckerberg-fo...

This is a year old article. Should have (2021) in title.

https://archive.ph/uJL4j

Sounds like having support for interpreting human gestures will solve some of the problems. But how do we distinguish real emergency scenario from fake one?

Such kinds of problems will only scale up as we apply L5 cars take on more public roads, but I wonder how long or what changes will have to be done in current road signs, critical city infra to support them.

While the article points out alternatives people use in modern era, I always had a pull towards paper maps. My father had a collection of atlas of India and its different cities. I spent lot of time parsing through them, even though I haven't been to upper half of country yet.

On recent vacation, while we were trying doing street shopping, I came across Lewis-Clark map [original size] and then I thought I might as well use maps as wall art. I ended up buying following two classic replicas.

a. Hindoostan map of 1827: http://www.davidrumsey.com/maps4000.html

b. Western North America of 1846: https://digitalcommons.csumb.edu/hornbeck_mex_1/7/

Next lookout: Hydrological map of North America.

I read about Mogul. It solves some of my problems related to keeping in touch with friends. During Covid, I got into more VC calls with friends to stay in touch. Once Covid lockdowns ended, I wanted a system that would remind me of touch basing with XYZ friend, based on last sync up date.

Over several years, my image as a good friend has tarnished since I didn't keep my side of bargain in enforcing good relationships. With older age, it's bit harder to make new friends. The least I can do is, reinforce older ones.