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SenHengon Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout

There’s a high chance that whoever is in charge thinks they look nice.

After all, someone somewhere thought the PT Cruiser was worth manufacturing.

SenHengon Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin

https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/sunsetting-react-nativ...

Article is too long to summarise but basically they outgrew it tech- and org-wise.

SenHengon Bending Spoons buying Miro for $1.355B

Whimsical is my favourite tool for that.

SenHengon Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly tariff controls

The way ecocute works is that it heats water at times when electricity is cheap and stores it in a highly insulated tank. So if you’re having a soak in the evening, it’s cheaper to use the water that is already preheated at cheaper rates and stored, than to reheat it again using the expensive to peak time rates.

My rates are 36yen from 6am to 10pm and 19yen on the other end.

Re-reading my earlier post, I should’ve said cost and not energy.

SenHengon Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly tariff controls

> Our Mitsubishi has other nice features like it can recirculate the water in the bath through a heat exchanger after you already filled it and got in, so it will keep the water from cooling down to lukewarm

I've also got the ecocute but I was told that it's cheaper to just pump fresh hot water into the bath than recirculate the cooled down water. It uses less energy to pump the already boiled water into the tub than to heat it back up.

SenHengon iPhone Duo

Duo is such a boring name.

SenHengon Netherlands pulls gold out of the US for fears of 'geopolitical unrest'

Too bad that MUSGA never caught on then.

SenHengon .name Termination

It used to be that only Japanese corporations could register a .co.jp while anyone else anywhere could register for a .jp. So I had several .jp domains registered through Gandi.net.

The issue is that .jp registered outside of a few Japanese registrars are legally not allowed to offer Whois privacy.

SenHengon Hacking IKEA Furniture

I've got the Ikea PLATSA wardrobe and none of their organisers fit properly in the drawers. My wife instead got some of the MUJI organisers and those fit much better because they're made of cloth/canvas thus bendy/squishy.

SenHengon Suica, Japan's First IC Transit Card

I don't know about the iPhone but the Apple Watch definitely doesn't work when the battery is dead.

SenHengon A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare

Ukraine is fighting a defensive war. The US isn’t.

SenHengon Norway became a global salmon behemoth. Now it's facing the consequences

Nagano, Japan does land farming of salmon. It's a landlocked state far from any coast so the farming is done in inland rivers and lakes. It's a crossbreed of rainbow trout and brown trout that produces a sterile hybrid called Shinshu Salmon so I don't know if it's actually real salmon, but it tastes like the same thing.

https://www.pref.nagano.lg.jp/suisan/jisseki/salmon/english....

SenHengon Ask HN: MacBook vs. Dedicated GPU for LLM

And he wouldn't be wrong for that era. Prices also dropped pretty quickly while specs would almost double within a span of months. Whatever he could've bought in Jan would be easily outclassed by anything 12 months later.

We don't have that anymore. Specs have more or less stabilised and what you're buying now could easily last you years.

SenHengon The Doorman's Fallacy in action

The doorman of the Raffles Hotel in Singapore was so iconic that he was written into the textbooks of my time. I’ve often wondered if he’s well paid considering his significance to that institution.

https://mothership.sg/2017/11/raffles-hotel-doorman/

SenHengon The AirPods Effect

It’s been a thing since the Prius allowed driving with the engine off with parents complaining that the Prius is a silent killer of kids because they couldn’t hear them coming.

SenHengon The AirPods Effect

It works especially well when switching between devices, from iPhone to iPad to Mac and so on. I’ve never had the same seamless experience with other brands which often require you to re-pair just to switch.

I used to be a huge Audio Technica fan but I can’t go back anymore.

SenHengon The AirPods Effect

So you want your magical EarPods to be always listening and recording everything from the past, say 5 seconds?

SenHengon What happened to nerds?

You may be right. Ut that’s just pointless bike-shedding.

harrall is right that to the general populace, nerds/geeks are interchangeable terms for people who prefer to study/play with computers rather than socialise with the rest of us.

That doesn’t necessarily mean they have a better moral compass and will always do the right thing. Those are images that nerds put onto themselves.

SenHengon Show HN: Kyushu – A self-hostable WASM sandbox for JavaScript workers

Kyushu:

- 九州: Largest island mass of southwest Japan comprising 7 states. Currently undergoing a real estate boom (and agricultural worker shortage) because of TMSC opening factories

- 吸収: absorb

- 急襲: ambush, surprise|sudden assault

SenHengon How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown

A common problem I have with Linear is that repeated writes sometimes overwrite themselves. Consider this flow

1. type

2. stop to ponder for a split second

3. type some more

4. Linear reverts data to step 1

It's bad enough that I'll use Linear to create issues with a single sentence description. This is what Linear is good and fast at. Then I'll switch to GitHub to fill in the details.

SenHengon The worst job interview I ever had

The product is old school PHP. They want to convert it to Go but none of the young engineers are interested in touching the codebase. My friend is the reverse instead, uninterested in learning new languages/technologies.

So neither of them want to hire each other.

SenHengon The worst job interview I ever had

My friend has been contracting at $STARTUP for a couple of years now with a revolving 2 month contract. His managers have not attempted to hide the fact they would likely end his contract once they've managed to hire a full timer into the team.

Sadly, their CEO has veto-ed every single full time hire they've tried to bring on for past 2 years now.

SenHengon Did moving to new place have intended effect?

I moved from Singapore to Japan in expectation of a better, free-er life and those expectations have been met. I have a house on fairly large piece of property that belongs to me. I have two cars that I often go for long drives on. Things that would be close to impossible back in Singapore.

I've also moved internally within Japan multiple times each time for better job prospects and those have also turned out well.

The one thing that hasn't changed much is myself. I'm not a social person and take time to get used to people. Particularly, I don't enjoy alcohol and thus do not frequent the local drinking holes. That has definitely had an effect on my social circle.

I have only one advice for you, if you're expecting change, you have to be prepared to change yourself too.

SenHengon Care homes and hotels in Japan shut as expansion strategy unravels

20 years ago Singapore was handing out PRs and citizenships to Chinese students like candy. All of my classmates got PR a few years out of school, then citizenship again 2 years later.

And so many of them immediately moved on to the US.

SenHengon Care homes and hotels in Japan shut as expansion strategy unravels

It used to be 5, it’s now 10. It’s a very recent [0] and sudden change.

O: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20260327_11/

SenHengon Care homes and hotels in Japan shut as expansion strategy unravels

It was always ridiculously easy to get Japanese citizenship. 5 years of residency, don’t break any laws including traffic, pay your bills on time. Done.

It has recently been changed so that you now require 10 years of residency.

https://www.turning-japanese.info/p/misinfo.html

SenHengon Care homes and hotels in Japan shut as expansion strategy unravels

Better passport for their kids, better and more reputable, internationally connected banking system to store their wealth. The latter bit is particularly important as China limits the amount of money one can send out of the country.

SenHengon Ask HN: Anyone feel like they're just opting out of tech these days?

I think I understand what the OP is feeling. It’s not that RF is actually a difficult subject, but that it is hard to find the motivation to learn it something new.

At least, that’s the feeling I’ve gotten about a lot of things I wanted to do, it when I got around to it, couldn’t really be bothered to.

SenHengon Snowball Earth may hide a far stranger climate cycle than anyone expected

Not everyone reads TFA before coming in to the comments.

The title is ambiguous enough and anime is something that a lot of nerds enjoy.