To me, Bangkok feels very much like a developing country.
If you go to Chinese cities, the EV adoption has incredible positive effects to the vibe, though. Shanghai’s French concession is so quiet and peaceful now that most cars are EVs.
I take a different approach, I use an email client called Shortwave and configured it to deliver most messages on schedules - once a day, once a week, all at once. And then whitelist certain senders and keywords to deliver immediately. That way I don’t feel overwhelmed but I also don’t feel like I’m missing out on important things.
As well as auto closed captioning, and commenting, and automatically cutting out filler words and empty silent portions, and auto summarization of the contents, and many other features that I use all the time and find useful. But that’s fine, OP probably just doesn’t use that stuff.
Fwiw I don’t even think shadcn is good, but our app is built on top of those components already, so we can’t change it without changing everything, so we’re stuck with it.
Not true re #1, yes creating a glut of housing beyond demand in the market would reduce home prices, but other markets like Tokyo that do build a lot of housing still see increasing home values despite stable prices. Land value goes up, but units per unit land goes up too, so each individual unit does not necessarily go down. Maybe the value of your physical single family home goes down, but the value of the land it stands on goes way up when the density and infrastructure around it intensifies, so it does not follow that the homeowner loses out (most likely they make money)
Subsidizing first time buyers does increase prices overall but you have to consider the effect of such a policy relative to its cost. It has potentially positive externalities so that’s worth considering while balancing it out eg with the previous policy.
I agree philosophically though there is a lot that can be done short of upending the entire American wealth structure like removing barriers to housing construction (to dramatically increase supply) as well as subsidizing first time buyers eg with preferential mortgage rates and tax write offs.
Could homeowners be convinced with truckloads of money? As in, yes if you increase density beyond demand the value of each individual home decreases, but the value of the land dramatically increases if suddenly your single family home with a lawn could be converted to a 9 story tower renting out units to 20+ households with infrastructure spending diverted to your area to improve it. Are landowners unaware or just do not care about the profit potential?
That means the American Dream is unsustainable, and until people can break through the entrenched interests and do something rational, American cities will continue to decline.
Hard disagree, without any ads the only way to find out about new things is via word of mouth, which would make many valuable products never get off the ground. Ads done badly are poison but ads done well educate people about new things they can benefit from and drive the entire economy. I have had many experiences where I’ve seen an ad that I genuinely think is interesting and was enlightening to find.
I live in Tokyo, most people live in tiny spaces and can't just have a bunch of dirt cheap weightlifting equipment lying around their homes simply because there isn't space for that.
Well I couldn't do my workouts without a gym of some sort. Hard to find hundreds of pounds of resistance attached to cables I can align with muscles I want to work, just lying around the house (though now I transitioned to a home gym with a Beyond Power Voltra, and now that is lying around my house! But as I mentioned in the other comment, living spaces in Tokyo are small, so I paid a lot to get the most space-efficient setup I could come up with, and even with this I still envy some of the specialized equipment available at good commercial gyms).
It really depends on what kind of workouts you're talking about and what your constraints are outside the gym. Though I acknowledge many people are just on autopilot, get gym memberships they won't really use effectively, and waste their time and money.
Yeah, basically people here think that their experience is the only experience there is with phones. I wager not that many people are actually physically going to stores in many markets anymore like this commenter, and definitely next to nobody is switching their SIM cards literally every month like a sibling commenter is doing, but for people like me who live and travel abroad, eSIMs have been great.
Really? I live in Japan, eSIMs made it very easy for me to switch carriers 3 times when I was shopping. Just had to click the “agree” checkbox in the ts and cs for each carrier when I switched, provide the transfer code (which is always in an easy to find place in their management dashboards), and then plug that into the form when signing up for the new carrier. Then my butt did not have to budge from my couch as the eSIM was provisioned and my old service was cancelled automatically. Definitely beat schlepping it to the physical stores of each carrier in ye olde times.
Anything sufficiently useful will be productized and packaged up by somebody out there so that the masses can use it, the rest will be niche and only relevant for the most hardcore enthusiasts, so I’m not so worried.
We do this, preview deploys, and migration dry runs using Neon Postgres’s branching functionality - seems one benefit of that vs this is that it works even with active connections which is good for doing these things on live databases.
There’s another school of teaching, which bans all reading, writing, and speaking altogether in favor of exclusively native speaker verbal input for the first 6-12+ months of learning. Some YouTubers seem to like the idea of this, though sounds pretty extreme.
For what it’s worth as a long time learner of Japanese, none of these ambiguities has ever confused me nor hindered my ability to be perceived as natural to native speakers, so I think that this ambiguity is not such a big deal.
To me, Hepburn’s strength relative to the old government romanization is that it increases the likelihood that an English speaker will make approximately the right sound when reading some Romaji, and that people seem to prefer it in general.
This is the true big benefit, the others talking about over fetching are not wrong but overfocusing on a technical merit over the operational ones.
My frontend developers had their minds blown when they realized that because we’re using Hasura internally, the only backend work generally needed is to design the db schema and permissioning, and then once that’s done frontend developers aren’t ever blocked by anything (which is not a freedom that I would want to give to untrusted developers, hence emphasis on internal usage of GQL)
(Unfortunately Hasura has shifted entirely into this VC-induced DDN thing that seems to be a hard break from the original product, so I can’t recommend that anymore… postgraphile is probably the way)
I agree though worth noting that data loader patterns in most pre-RSC react meta frameworks + other frameworks also solve for most of these problems without the complexity of RSC. But RSC has many benefits beyond simplifying and optimizing data fetching that it’s too bad HN commenters hate it (and anything frontend related whatsoever) so much.
Agreed on fragment masking. Graphql-codegen added support for it but in a way that unfortunately is not composable with all the other plugins in their ecosystem (client preset or bust), to the point that to get it to work nicely in our codebase we had to write our own plugins that rip code from the client preset so that we could use them as standalone plugins.
In fact the majority of the electorate in Australia supports this, so that is exactly where you’d go to be in a community that shares your values. Social media has an addictive and infectious nature, even people who hate it end up using it because of the crippling network effects.
I disagree. It’s easy to say this from your armchair, but when your kid is the one kid not on social media because you’re such an righteous parent, and that kid is getting bullied by all the other kids for not knowing what’s going on in TikTok or Insta, you start seeing this as a problem that requires the coordination of large numbers of people who you may or may not know, many of whom are kids who lack executive function.
If you just disdain children in general, you can go ahead and say that instead.
Wondering where you think the extreme inefficiency is exactly - apparently Elon Musk fell on his face when he tried to root them out as part of DOGE.
If anything it seems inefficiencies tend to occur when people interfere with the government funding things, like CA high speed rail having their federal funding appear and disappear erratically depending on who's in power, throwing off all the construction plans.
What if cooldowns were implemented by a package manager somewhat randomized, so that it’s more of a gradual rollout instead of a fixed cooldown period?