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New comment by zhengyi13 in "Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick"

zhengyi13 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:55:29 +0000

Old Ryobi, or new Ryobi?

Serious question, as I understand the ex-Japanese market rights were sold to a Chinese corp over two decades ago, and the in-Japanese consumer device market rights went to a different Japanse company several years ago too.

Apparently they've gone back to focusing on their roots?

New comment by zhengyi13 in "Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI"

zhengyi13 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:45:19 +0000

The way I learned it was:

"99 bugs in the code, 99 bugs in the code... Fix one bug, compile it again, 101 bugs in the code!"

(To the tune of 99 Bottles Of Beer)

New comment by zhengyi13 in "Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber"

zhengyi13 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:02:25 +0000

"Your new models are great, but uh... How exactly am I supposed to use them?"

That is, given a lot of users' contexts, the way they can and the way they want to use these models are increasingly disjoint.

New comment by zhengyi13 in "Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)"

zhengyi13 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:21:55 +0000

I believe it's much to do with blue light emitted by screens:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9424753/

New comment by zhengyi13 in "How to Write an Email"

zhengyi13 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:53:35 +0000

You've probably got a certain level of trust or delegated authority, but you want input and you're giving your leadership the opportunity to steer the decision if they feel they need to, and you're balancing that against the urgency of action.

By very direct analogy, I think there's a dictum in the US military to the effect that a bad plan executed quickly can be better than a perfect plan that's executed too late.

ETA: ... and you're potentially speeding the decision/action by giving leadership the opportunity to confirm/redirect on receipt of the email.

New comment by zhengyi13 in "The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war"

zhengyi13 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:56:14 +0000

They literally gamified it? Amazing.

New comment by zhengyi13 in "John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement"

zhengyi13 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:58:38 +0000

> they are the most repairable.

That's a really weird way to spell "incumbency and network effects".

In fairness, you're not wrong, but that seems to be a very specific framing that hides a lot of what this whole discussion is about.

New comment by zhengyi13 in "OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router"

zhengyi13 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:27:19 +0000

Yes, perhaps they do allow for greater flexibility, but that's complex and difficult to do well/reliably, and doing it well/reliably requires signal analysis gear and software modeling that's out of the reach of normal consumers.

New comment by zhengyi13 in "Sequoyah’s syllabary created a written language for the Cherokee"

zhengyi13 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:37:16 +0000

I think your point about the loss of case generally stands, but surely the genitive isn't lost?

New comment by zhengyi13 in "Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor"

zhengyi13 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:28:25 +0000

As opposed to relying solely on engine braking (or the EV equivalent thereof)?

I'd personally prefer a belt-and-suspenders approach.

New comment by zhengyi13 in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

zhengyi13 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:53:04 +0000

If your server is Indian, they'll likely react positively, and get you what you want.

New comment by zhengyi13 in "DeepSeek-V4-Flash means LLM steering is interesting again"

zhengyi13 — Sat, 16 May 2026 18:38:59 +0000

"I'm just asking questions!"

Probably for a number of reasons, starting from our desire as a society to ensure they are as broadly applied as possible, which is in turn driven by our desire as a society (read: "collective") to ensure that they're as effective as possible, which means driving for herd immunity and even things like permanent eradication.

For those who aren't aware of any "blanket liability immunity", I found https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation/faq a useful starting point. I hadn't heard of such before.

New comment by zhengyi13 in "A History of IDEs at Google"

zhengyi13 — Wed, 13 May 2026 19:47:30 +0000

Probably not in the way that you might mean it, but for me (Xoogler, 2010 - 2023) internalizing bazel means:

"Hey, where's your tool's code in $MONOREPO?" ""

Cool:

    g4d my-citc-client # moral equivalent to `cd ~/repos/stuff`
    blaze run path/to/stuff:target

... and you get a running version of whatever $stuff is, immediately built from head, quickly - no matter the set of dependencies, or which language they were built in. I can just try your thing out immediately with a common interface for all the builds, and I don't need to understand the build at all, unless or until I do, and then OK, absolutely every single build is always expressed in exactly the same way, same idioms, same patterns...

New comment by zhengyi13 in "Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight"

zhengyi13 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:41:39 +0000

Wild to see the usenet/uuencoding model reproduced on the web w/ jpegs.

New comment by zhengyi13 in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

zhengyi13 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:58:12 +0000

That's a feature, not a bug /s

New comment by zhengyi13 in "IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm"

zhengyi13 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:07:26 +0000

Probably both, to respond to the risk tolerances of any given org.

New comment by zhengyi13 in "The Hateful Eight is 85% of S&P 500 Decline"

zhengyi13 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:51:36 +0000

... and the standard reply to this standard reply is "The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent."

New comment by zhengyi13 in "The Hateful Eight is 85% of S&P 500 Decline"

zhengyi13 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:50:52 +0000

It's been interesting to review my portfolio, such as it is, against this situation, and see that I'm down relatively little. Not because I've bet against anything per se, but I made a conscious decision years ago to diversify out of the SP500 ("VTSAX and chill!") into broader and exUS indices.

New comment by zhengyi13 in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

zhengyi13 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:57:32 +0000

I'm reminded of people inside Google arguing with Vic Gundotra to drop the Real ID requirement for Plus :(

New comment by zhengyi13 in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

zhengyi13 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 18:35:09 +0000

> There are outcomes where the US government seizes the company. Not super likely, not impossible.

Are there historical examples in the US specifically where we've nationalized a business?

Because we've certainly invaded countries and assassinated leaders over exactly the same.

ETA: I could have answered my own question with two minutes of research. Yes, we have: https://thenextsystem.org/history-of-nationalization-in-the-...