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mayama··on Splashdown NASA’s Orion Returns to Earth After Historic Moon Mission
What about lockheed martin, boeing and blue origin then. They also recruit from the same pool of engineers. LM/ULA gets paid even better with their cost+ contracts. LM/ULA even after getting paid handsomely are way behind in terms of cost/kg or human launchers.
mayama··on Apple to move 40-45% iPhone production to India
India has tricky labour laws, bureaucracy, land issues and labour unions to deal with when manufacturing at scale. But, it isn't unsolvable problem. Samsung, Xiaomi, Hyundai etc. manufacture millions of phones, tvs, cars etc. in India and are quite successful being #1 or #2. That Wistron issue seems more like coordination issue between different contractors when starting up new plant and there was no repeat of that issue.
mayama··on Jeff Bezos' 127M sailing yacht has completed construction
Exchanging bags of cash? Seriously though, there was an idea floated few years ago about a cruise ship floating at the coast of silicon valley in international waters without paying taxes for companies. It didn't take off though.
mayama··on TSMC to make 4nm chips in Arizona for Apple, AMD, Nvidia
That applies to Americans too. TSMC will have trouble sourcing good talent for their new plant.
mayama··on Sam Bankman-Fried, FTX Team Among Top Political Donors Before Bankruptcy
Is extradition from Bahamas to US achievable? I would assume SBF core team is in process of moving to countries that would deny US extradition requests.
mayama··on TikTok and the First Amendment
Minors can use Douyin only few hours a week. And the content in there for minors is largely educational or patriotic.
mayama··on India lifted 415M out of poverty in 15 years, says UN
This is based on multidimensional poverty index(MPI), developed pretty recently. It is a mix of both absolute and relative poverty. Though MPI is used mainly in developing nations.

> This figure considers both the proportion of the population that is deemed poor, and the 'breadth' of poverty experienced by these 'poor' households, following the Alkire & Foster 'counting method'.[1] The method was developed following increased criticism of monetary and consumption based poverty measures, seeking to capture the deprivations in non-monetary factors that contribute towards well-being. While there is a standard set of indicators, dimensions, cutoffs and thresholds used for a 'Global MPI',[2] the method is flexible and there are many examples of poverty studies that modify it to best suit their environment. The methodology has been mainly, but not exclusively,[3] applied to developing countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multidimensional_Poverty_Index

mayama··on India lifted 415M out of poverty in 15 years, says UN
And recent focus on manufacturing. New govt is heavily pushing local manufacturing(atmanirbhar bharat) for last 8 years. Progress is already being felt in some areas, for example in smartphone manufacturing India went from nothing to #2 in world in those years. They are now targeting more phone phone supply chains like pcb, modems etc. and other consumer electronics too.

https://tech.hindustantimes.com/tech/news/india-now-2nd-larg...

mayama··on Aluminum formate Al(HCOO)3: Earth-abundant, scalable, & material for CO2 capture
There isn't enough arable land and fresh water to meaningfully address climate change in the time necessary. Algae farming with sea water might be a good alternative if we could address disposing the the algae without emissions.
mayama··on Update on Supply of iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max
It's due to China's Hukou system, a type of caste system, due to which rural workers can't obtain any govt benefits or even housing in cities. This leads to this kind of worker dorm situation.
mayama··on Update on Supply of iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max
In India's case it was logistics issue. Initial decision was to keep migrant workers in place and provide them with daily necessities free. Some state govts didn't play ball and cut off electricity and rations. After that it took some time for central and various state govts to run special trains to the people. And it's not thousands of kms, 10s of kms.
mayama··on Virgil: A fast and lightweight programming language that compiles to WASM
Wasm doesn't yet have a GC. So, when you compile languages requiring GC like python or Go, they have to include that GC in the resulting wasm binary, their wasm GC implementation might not be as performant as native either. On the other hand languages like C or rust doesn't have this overhead. This makes wasm binaries from GC languages big in size and will affect their performance.
mayama··on Wayland is not ready as a 1:1 compatible Xorg replacement just yet
Cool. I'm using sway and might need screen sharing in a few weeks. Will check this out.
mayama··on V 0.3
I checked with valgrind too and see similar memory leaks. Is v compiler written in vlang yet? I see lot of warnings and leaks for the compiler.
mayama··on Vim 9.0
You can either use lunarvim or nvchad to get started quickly. It's easier to override default bindings, plugin config etc. in nvchad. Or you can use their configuration as reference and pick and choose what you need.
mayama··on Vim 9.0
> Lua, on the other hand, won't give me an error if I mistype a variable name,

Lua has pretty good lsp server and it gives me good warnings and completions.

mayama··on Vim 9.0
Also nvchad if you want to easily override builtin config from the starterkit.
mayama··on Vim 9.0
> The patch authors never replied. They may develop under aliases but I've never seen either of their handles in the neovim commit history.

So, who forked neovim and what does this timers patch have to do with forking if the patch authors weren't the ones forking neovim.

mayama··on Wayland is not ready as a 1:1 compatible Xorg replacement just yet
Does screen share work in firefox or chromium if you disable Xwayland and enable wayland rendering for those apps?
mayama··on Atlassian is 20 years old and unprofitable
Easy money being available after five years is also uncertain. With covid shock, then global sanction following Russian invasion, and deglobalization following in the wake of these two events, global economy is faces serious uncertainty in coming years.
mayama··on Increased Subscription Pricing for IDEs, .NET Tools, and the All Products Pack
After using vscode for years, I've tried nvim with lunarvim starter pack and am using it more. Using vscode without mouse is always a problem even with vim plugin. On the other hand, mouse is almost useless in nvim.
mayama··on New concentrator could help solar panels capture more sunlight without tracking
Is beaming power through atmosphere even feasible? If it is feasible, why aren't we beaming power at least across sea like Mediterranean for example, where laying cable will be expensive. I always thought space beaming power is just science fiction thing.
mayama··on Fresh is a new full stack web framework for Deno
What I meant was that you could emulate locked down version that deno or cloudflare provide in your local during development with the granularity of permissions. I though lambda was a full container running app, did they add isolate environment to it?
mayama··on Fresh is a new full stack web framework for Deno
Security makes more sense for deno when your host your app in serverless v8 hosting environments like deno. They don't even have a way to specify all permissions. v8 isolates are the new cool thing in serverless hosting especially with wasm providing way to run c/rust code on v8. We have to see how this will pan out compared to containers.
mayama··on Build a PinePhone App with Zig and Zgt
Is there an estimate on when they will freeze the core language itself? Are they still making core syntax or semantic changes? I'm planning to take a look at zig for hobby projects and can live with stdlib changing, but have to wait if they are still making wholesale changes.
mayama··on Deno raises $21M
Are there any hosting operators providing wagi now?
mayama··on Deno raises $21M
It's serverless functions. So they should launch those instances on the fly when a request hits that url and that instance will shutdown after some inactivity. Same with all the 50+ edge locations they provide. They only launch an instance instance in particular region, when user hits that region.
mayama··on Gnome has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked (2021)
I've had some weird issues with thunar too. Currently using spacefm after trying several options.
mayama··on Gnome has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked (2021)
You could do floating for all windows or for specific app in sway, that I'm using now, with for_window directive.
mayama··on Gnome has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked (2021)
I got used to type slash(/) which opens file input field when ever I'm pasting file.
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