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I wouldn't say I'm the most knowledgeable in this regard but as far as I know it's not super common. Buddhism in Thailand is strongly tied to making merit[1] which is more or less doing good deeds. And generally, this is seen as something to be done regularly as a part of daily life as opposed to taking a break out of normal life for it. That being said, I'm sure there are still plenty of folks who do so, but at least in my experience it was primarily non-Thai folks doing so.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merit_(Buddhism)

There are pretty strong overlaps in certain areas, but that isn't the case though. Autism is caused by physical neurological changes that have to do with brain development before or near birth and while meditation (to my knowledge at least) can alter overall brain structure it won't alter the more fundamental structural changes which are seen in folks with autism.

I'm not sure where your experience is from, but Buddhism is an integral part of Thai life and culture and I've seen this play out on a pragmatic level in many ways.

I’m an autistic person and it sounds like in some way this person achieved exactly the point of certain forms of meditation like this which is to open up awareness. And I think as many autistic folks will tell you, being very aware is extremely difficult and is mentally and physically taxing. If you aren’t prepared for it I could indeed see it being extremely disturbing. Being exposed to all your inner workings and thoughts constantly is not for the faint of heart.

That being said, I think mindfulness in western countries skips a lot of Buddhist teachings, which are in large part designed to help deal with this kind of experience. I highly suggest that anyone that is going down this path seek out teachers that have experience and can be of aid. There are pragmatic aspects of it that go beyond meditation and in my opinion are just as important if not more so.

And just to contextualize this, I’m a Buddhist. I live in Thailand and it’s something that is part of my normal life. As such, it’s rare the I’m meditating outside of a temple and I have easy access to a whole host of teachers. I would urge caution around retreats and other intensive practices. Mindset and setting are extremely important and should be considered carefully.

I’ve had a lifetime to learn to live like this and I would not want to see anyone dropped in the deep end without proper preparation.

Which is true, but they're much less prominent overall. Mobile Safari is quirky to say the least and is truly the IE of the present day.

I work at Grafana Labs, and this isn't an official statement by any means, just my personal perspective, but we pretty much need some type of tracking to hold us accountable and get a general idea of how widely Grafana is deployed.

You can actually see exactly what is tracked here https://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/main/pkg/infra/usage... and beyond basic statistics we collect an anonymous ID which is a random UUID which we have no way to correlate back to the running instance (and which can easily be reset).

So apparently we're still discussing this and you can find variations on this article stretching back a long time https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Like everything engineering it really depends though, and Ruby is sadly quite slow. Twitter was rough before they replaced Rails. Most Ruby devops tools I've used have been substantially slower than tools built in other languages (e.g. Puppet vs Ansible). Ruby certainly still has value as a tool, but it should be understood to be one that isn't very performance focused.

Thanks for sharing this and I've been certainly thinking along the same lines.

To add to this, I've known many folks that can accomplish certain tasks almost automatically and creatively. If you asked them to recall exactly what they did to achieve it they couldn't. And this usually isn't action on concrete information either but on intuition alone.

If humans worked primarily on memory we'd have been toast a long time ago. There's too much variation in the natural world to confront it solely on the basis of memory. I'd say we're more experientially oriented as opposed to memory oriented

It's in a strange spot because practically every other single engine jet aircraft is military, and I imagine it's tricky to drop a bigger engine in the vision jet without sacrificing cabin/cargo space. I liked the other comment comparing it to a turboprop. I'd say it's performance is something like turboprop+ but it's clearly not in the same category as other small passenger jets.

I can't help but feel like article kind of beats around the bush with the answer, i.e. that there are tradeoffs between artistic freedom and streaming performance/compression. I'm guessing Netflix did their best to find cameras that worked well with the compression and streaming infrastructure that Netflix has. There's probably no perfect answer, and I can understand why they'd want to specific hardware for their productions.

It's kind of fascinating that it's ended up forming a certain style, but I wouldn't be surprised to see engineering concerns start to permeate other streaming services in terms of style.

I'm autistic and it definitely doesn't cause a lack of self-awareness. If anything I'm more aware than most neurotypical folks.

I can't speak for every autistic person, but at least in my experience when people do point out our mistakes it often tends to be lacking context. Indeed we don't see ourselves the way others do, but what is sometimes flaw in communication with a neurotypical person is exactly what I would want to do with another autistic person. Pointing out mistakes of this nature in a blunt way is unpleasant, and I've often been expected to be able to intuit the feelings of neurotypical people in these situations even though I literally think and feel differently.

It can be quite frustrating, and I've found that many autistic people will become defensive about personal qualities because of past poor experiences in giving/receiving feedback.

I wish neurotypical folks could see the other side and experience what it's like to be around mostly autistic people. I have no doubt many would become defensive when they've been told again and again that they're being too loud, that they're not discussing they're ideas in enough depth, that they're not being calm enough, or whatever autistic predisposition they'd end up accidentally bumping up against. Thinking and feeling differently from the majority of folks is difficult, but it's even more difficult when folks expect you to know and understand where there mind is at.

It's hard to say, but sanctions violations are often heavily penalized. I don't think I go as far as saying it's simply CYA, but it is playing it on the safe side. Banning a few developer accounts is way less costly then the potential hit from violating sanctions.

I believe the Hubble shot is more in the visible spectrum whereas the JWST images are in infrared so there are structures in each shot that don't necessarily show up in the analogous image.

I've had this same experience as well! Wrapping your head around the concepts at first can be a little tedious but it makes application logic and behavior far more predictable. The ability to visualize them is the icing on the cake as well and is a nice extra tool that eliminates the need for arrows and boxes in a sketchbook or a Google Drawing.

This has generally been the case with Nintendo relative to Sony/Microsoft. Nintendo console are typically cheaper and geared towards a more general audience. But it may not end up that way, the switch has been out for longer than the PS5/Xbox Series X so that accounts for a decent amount of the higher cumulative sales.

I was about to say, it's the comment that never dies.

In my experience it tends not to be done because there's an inevitable drift between the system as it actually operates and the relevant visualizations and diagrams. I have seen them used as a starting off point at times, although that's also been infrequent.

There is however a growing movement of being able to visualize how a system is functioning at various levels. XState/Statecharts are a good example (https://xstate.js.org/viz/). Another example in the Ops space would be https://github.com/spekt8/spekt8 for K8S. I work at Grafana and we're more or less trying to expose these things in ways that make sense. Our bread and butter is timeseries data but we're adding more in that regard (it's possible to build node graphs from running systems).

Hey there! I work at Grafana on many of the dashboard components. Beyond dashboards as code and alerts where are you feeling the pain?

I can say that a lot of effort is going into improving dashboards in a number of different dimensions and there are definitely some exciting things on the horizon.

It’s illegal because it’s common for criminals to use other parties to make their money clean. This allows governments to go after those that assist in committing crimes that otherwise would have not be considered to be breaking the law.

It’s similar to knowingly trading in stolen goods. If there are no laws against that then black market trading is far less risky and far more lucrative.

Hey Ian, thanks for all the very thoughtful content over the years. I started reading Anandtech shortly before Anand left and I remember being worried. However, in hindsight there was clearly nothing to worry about.

Your analysis helped convince me to go all in on some AMD stock purchases that ended up really saving me over past year. It’s beyond appreciated, and I’m far more knowledgeable about semiconductors thanks to you! Best of luck in your new journey

Normally I would agree, and there's been talk of it for an extended period of time. However to my knowledge it's already been approved https://thethaiger.com/hot-news/visa/10-year-visa-gets-appro...

I can't speak for your situation, but I spent 3 months in Thailand and folks were hurting badly from everything related to the pandemic. Tourism is way down, and lockdowns have hurt there like everywhere else. I'd never rule out Thai government incompetency, but they're in between a rock and a hard place at the moment and looking for ways out.

And as far as I know will not be true at all soon. The new digital nomad visa being introduced (along with a few others) appears it's also going to allow ownership of up to 1 rai of land for residential purposes.

At least in Thailand visa runs are commonplace for a whole host of different folks. Some people I knew got into a little trouble, however by and large it wasn't frequent.

That being said, in Thailand there would be no need to for retirees as they have a retirement visa scheme that allow for renewal in country.

That's true, although I do miss the memory! And realistically, when it comes to heavy compute or multi-tasking the 3900X really shows its power. I'm honestly very interested to see AMD tech at 5nm. I think the next few years are going to be fairly mind-blowing in terms of CPU technology.

It would be an interesting comparison. Non-apple silicon has definitely not been great and lags behind significantly. Would be very interesting to see what Android would be like on more modern CPU tech.

Oh very cool! I had no idea about this. I'm traveling for awhile but I'll definitely check that out once I'm back and working with my desktop machine again!

This certainly makes a lot of sense, and it's a brilliant strategy to improve overall performance. But it doesn't account for the full picture either. My M1 Macbook Pro feels about as responsive as my desktop system with an AMD Ryzen 3900X, which is impressive to say the least. It doesn't quite have the raw computing power of the 3900X, but given that it's a portable device that's something else.

I'm going to take a guess that you've not lived under an actual regime of censorship. This is not it, and quite honestly basically all speech which threatens others is restricted. There are always limits, and just because other crossed them does not necessarily mean that restrictions are going to tighten further.

Thanks for the story. I got to hear a lot about Tony through a colleague of his from the LinkExchange days and was able to meet him briefly once.

Sounded like and seemed to be a very singular human being. Makes me think about how much he shaped the landscape of the internet and the world.

I believe that remains to be seen. I'm not sure if they were able to effectively take advantage of the new process right away, perhaps not. It looks impressive, but it's hard to say until we have some kind of more direct comparison.