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Same is true for maritime racon navigation marks which transmit a morse code letter as identification in response to the reception of a radar pulse...the morse code is then visible on the radar display.

We had to learn morse code for Hong Kong's "grade 1 pleasure vessel certificate of competency" -> a credential required to operate pleasure vessels greater than 15 meters in length.

It's pretty easy to pick up and there are a few phone mobile phone apps that make learning morse code fun.

I found setting the environment immersion to around 50% lets me see enough of my keyboard so I’m not groping around for it.

I’d also like to see app re-render your iPhone, Apple Watch and ipad screens which are pretty blurry in pass through. Also some sort of workaround for Face ID on iPhone when you’re wearing Vision Pro. Seems like things Apple is uniquely positioned to do.

I wonder what it will do to our skin after long time use. I get red goggle rings around my eyes. Is it going to crest more wrinkles?

One improvement vs phones is there’s no more bending the neck down to look at something in your hands.

Interesting times!

Yeah I changed the default to day which in hindsight wasn’t a great idea especially since I’m trying to recover from North America -> Asia jet lag.

It ranges from okay to not that bad. It’s not as good as the “retina” screens in Apple’s other products.

I can definitely see pixels on the device if I’m wearing contacts unlike what most of the early reviewers claimed.

But it’s not so bad as to be unusable and you don’t really notice them in most contexts - the main place I notice pixels is using it as a screen for macOS. VisionOS apps are rendered very large by default so the resolution deficiencies aren’t as apparent.

Overall it is very impressive but there’s also much room for improvement in resolution.

“Active noise cancellation for your eyes” is a great way to put. I also have found myself using the mount hood environment set to daytime as the setting for macOS + visionOS multi-window set up.

I took it off yesterday before some friends came over for dinner and I was kind of shocked that it had gotten dark outside because my mind felt like it was still day time since the sun was out in mount hood. I had actually been sitting on my office in darkness for a least an hour.

304 also rusts - especially in the presence of salt water which is why we don’t use it on the exterior of boats (unless you want rust stains) but instead use 316.

Same with cutlery..cheap cutlery uses 304 (18-8) and will develop rust spots and better cutlery uses 316 (18-10).

Government policy and moneyed interests have been aligned since the british to restrict land use to keep property prices high and buy political support of ancestors of indigenous residents through free handout of tiny plots of land for low density housing to the male descendants. All of the people that bought into the overpriced housing market also want prices to stay high.

Hong Kong land use is fascinating and the government's Planning Department provides a great tool to explore how land is used and for what purpose: https://www.pland.gov.hk/pland_en/info_serv/open_data/landu/

The total area used by transport (71 sq km) is very close to the total area used for all types of residential (80 sq km). Hong Kong has 733 sq km of woodland and forest.

sure!

For those of you not familiar with Jameson Lopp's extensive writing on the topic of email centralization, I recommend reading this post from his blog:

"The death of decentralized email: A historical review of the multi-decade centralization and capture of the email protocol."

https://blog.lopp.net/death-of-decentralized-email/

You're not "running your own mail server" if you're using Amazon SES (or some other service) to send your email. Which is the point the post on Twitter is making.

Try out kagi...they have a filter for "smallweb" posts: https://kagi.com/smallweb

The list of sites is on github: https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb

From reports online the UDM-SE won’t actually NAT close to 10 Gbps and the manufacturer doesn’t provide any NAT performance numbers…so it becomes a bottle neck if you have 10 Gbps internet which is widely available and not that expensive my part of the world. (Hong Kong).

The only reasonably priced router I could find about 6 months ago that would NAT at line speed was the TP-LINK Onada ER8411. I ended up going with an all Oanda network which seems to work fine but ubiquiti had originally been my first choice.

Strange. I'm running Llama2 70b on Chrome Canary on a 64GB MacBook M1 Max...~1.5 older...and seeing better performance.

It's slow but usable!

prefill: 2.1963 tokens/sec, decoding: 3.4708 tokens/sec

Ha! Nice riff on Seinfeld’s seedless watermelon bit! https://youtu.be/ZB39jT0qq3Y

Only Facetime Audio calls are disabled. Normal Facetime calls with video work fine with mainland china purchased iphones....so you have to call people using those phones with video even if you just want to talk to them and not see them. It's kind of silly because it's really unclear what actual problem this solves for anyone including the government. Perhaps the goal is to just make enough friction so that no one really uses it.

IIRC it's something to do with needing a license for audio-only telecommunications services. But I also might be entirely wrong about that.

7-Eleven seems to be doing well since it was acquired in 2005 by Japanese company Seven & I Holdings.

A bit over a decade ago, I met the founder of a company called EarPeace [1] that makes volume-reducing earplugs for music festivals in a bar in a suburb of Guangzhou. He gave me his pitch about the irony of how people who love music end up damaging their hearing by going to loud music festivals, concerts and bars. I've always been sensitive to keeping the volume of headphones low, but had never thought about the danger of loud environmental noise in entertainment venues. I guess I always assumed that making your best customers slowly deaf surely wouldn't be very good for business. I mean, they're already poisoning our livers and making us hungover, they certainly wouldn't also make us deaf, would they?

Ever since then, I've carried a set of EarPeace around on my keychain and used them religiously in loud environments. When I owned a Vespa for ~5 years in Hong Kong, I'd always put them in before driving....motorcycle forums are filled with bikers who have destroyed their hearing from wind noise.

Once apple watch added the ability to warn us about loud noises, level and time allowing me to quantify the potential damaging sound levels I'd been avoiding all of these years, it was pretty shocking. Bars and club can easily come in over 100 dbs and 110 db isn't really that rare.

I highly recommend some sort of volume reducing earplugs - not only do you protect your hearing, but it also makes going out much more comfortable. By reducing the volume of instead of blocking the sounds, you can make out more detail of the music and what other people are saying.

Edit: on the same note, does anyone know if earbuds with active noise cancelation like airpods pro offer similar hearing protection benefits?

1: https://www.earpeace.com/

Hong Konger here:

Or four times: Acquisition price, usage price, storage price, and disposal price

Hong Konger who rents here:

Or five times: Acquisition price, usage price, storage price, moving price and disposal price

I've also used for dvorak for a long time...over 15 years. I've never changed keycaps. If you're looking at your fingers while typing qwerty, learning to type dvorak on a qwerty keyboard might just be useful in that it will force you to stop looking at your keyboard and you'll find a speed up in typing just from that!

For me the learning process was very similar to learning a foreign language. At first it was hard, but once I started to get fluency in dvorak, typing in qwerty was hard for a while...but then at some point my qwerty typing ability came back and switching between the two layouts is as easy as switching computer or human languages. (when you know them fluently).

To address your fear, yes, there will a period in the learning process where your fingers get confused switching back and forth but once you get past that it goes away and switching becomes second nature.

Cool! I made an effort to study Cantonese about 10 years ago and wish I'd come across these sites!

At the time, I heavily relied on another great Cantonese dictionary/resource site: http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/

In addition to the Jyutping Cantonese pronunciation, it also shows corresponding Hanyu pinyin pronunciation for Mandarin. There are also number of learning resources on the site. I love how you can mouseover any character to get a pop up to learn more about the character - it's meaning as a single character, pronunciation, etc.

Same problem - blocked in Thailand. The site owner probably configured blocking by country.

Yes, it does assume someone writes a client that enables this.

If you get kicked off a mastodon server, you lose your followers and posts unless you're able to move your account before you're kicked off - which requires the cooperation of the server that wants to kick you off.

> If nobody wants to hear you spewing your stuff then you'll soon be screaming into the void but what you post will still be viewable on the web and to those that subscribe to you.

People who are de-platformed are almost always people who others WANT to hear. Think of all the famous people deplatformed from big tech social media...10s of millions of followers each. It wasn't that "no one" wanted to hear them, but that the people that controlled the platform didn't want others to be able to hear them.

> So I don't get what Nostr is trying to do.

It took me a while to get my head around it as well. The intro and faq on the github repo really helped me.

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr

> If the problem which Nostr is trying to solve is being censorship-resistant and allow for dissemination of information which is actively being suppressed, relay safety considerations become important. Less safety means fewer relays, and a need of a personal connection / trust to be admitted.

Because almost all of Nostr logic is in the clients, you can always run your own relay or pay someone to run it. There will always be someone shady that will run a relay for you if you pay enough for it. And people that follow you will still be able to see your posts.

I agree that the current state where there are hundreds of open relays and people people posting to 20 of them at a time isn't likely to be what the network looks like in the future. But that's fine - it's good enough for now.

All this stuff might true, but from both a user and a developer perspective it actually works today and has a vibrant community of motivated, talented and interesting people building on it AND using it.

There are ways to address all of these problems if and when they occur.

I think one of Nostr's biggest contributions is its culture of pragmatism and speed. Do something simple, quickly that works instead of sitting around worrying about every edge case (which is a what a lot of "decentralized" projects do). If you have no apps and no one using them, none of the problems you mention exist. If you come up with something ridiculously complicated (think some recent w3c proposals), you've built a massive barrier to contributors and to developer and user adoption.

The relationship to bitcoin besides being created by bitcoiners is that it uses Schnorr Signatures for the secp256k1 curve - the same curve as bitcoin.

https://bips.xyz/340

A Nostr account is identified by a public key, you follow accounts by following public keys and the ability to post as an account is controlled by the corresponding private key.

My favorite Nostr client (web or non-web) is Damus for iOS by jb55:

https://damus.io

It looks great, works well, the code well-written and super easy to hack on.

The best introduction to Nostr is on the Nostr protocol github:

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr#very-short-summary-o...

>Everybody runs a client. It can be a native client, a web client, etc. To publish something, you write a post, sign it with your key and send it to multiple relays (servers hosted by someone else, or yourself). To get updates from other people, you ask multiple relays if they know anything about these other people. Anyone can run a relay. A relay is very simple and dumb. It does nothing besides accepting posts from some people and forwarding to others. Relays don't have to be trusted. Signatures are verified on the client side.

The FAQ on the same page also answers questions about why Nostr instead of other options like Mastodon, Secure Scuttlebutt, etc.

There's also a recently launched podcast that talks to some developers building on the protocol:

https://nostrovia.org

Former American here...grew up in Ohio but haven't lived in the country for a while (2007).

When did coffee shops in the US start asking for tips? It must be a relatively new thing. Never saw tips asked for at coffee shops when visiting until the ipad checkout thing (square?) appeared. Is it a nationwide thing now or just confined to certain regions (coastal metro areas?)?