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You forgot about how they have confusing setup screens for each major Windows update. Every one of my and my family’s machines have been swapped from Chrome to Edge. They can’t fin…

Check out the book “Apple in China”. Most of these Chinese competitors exist because they learned how to make phones by learning from Apple directly.

The book “Apple in China” delivers an amazingly detailed description of both, with jaw-dropping anecdotes.

I understand the criticisms presented here. But seeing a beautiful, whimsical image of my baby daughter in the Ghibli style was pure joy and brought tears to my eyes. I have no ide…

I moved to Mexico City from San Francisco. CDMX is cleaners and safer than Mission Bay in SF!

I literally can’t place Costco Mexico orders and perform other tasks on Sundays because payment gateways are down (?). It’s quite frustrating. If it fails every weekend, they shoul…

I have memories of my first dream or an early dream. Everything was white and bright, and I was just there, naked, with my younger sister. I’m guessing I was 2 or 3 yrs old. I woke…

My solution to this was to sell my home and leave San Francisco after living there 19 years. The moment I had a baby on the way, it no longer became tenable for me to deal with the…

But it’s fun and, besides, those tiny powerful flashlights have saved my bacon a few times.

Same!! My mom still keeps one of my micromachines on the windowsill in the kitchen, it’s at least 30-35 yrs old.

Gave away my original print copy but it was such an amazing read for 23-yr-old me. It changed the wiring in my brain to think about truly global-scale infra problems differently.

7-11 (the corporation) is owned by one of its own Japanese franchisees, Seven & I Holdings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7-Eleven

Chase in San Francisco told me that one factor is a handful of deposit box users who come into their branch multiple times/day to access their box. That’s a huge burden on their st…

My favorite museum in the whole world, but also an impressive museum in its own right, my opinion notwithstanding.

Pretty slick! Looking forward to using it.

And everyone wants to eat different things at different places at different times.

Also my exact setup! Have hundreds of tabs and in between Session Buddy and The Marvellous Suspender, I haven’t lost one yet.

This massive resurgence in generative AI has me interested in the AI space all over again. Going to spend the next 3-6 months just learning everything I can about it.