does that work out in their favor in the end? seems like that would really deter investment in the country. I'm not familiar with any large thai corporations.
Interesting to see the stats here. My total active library size is about the same as the author's (~50k cards), yet I performed less than 100k reviews this past year. That said, my overall retention is a good bit lower (~83%). Wouldn't have expected a 6% difference to make for a 3x higher review load!
1. My algorithm is probably inefficient, and a big Q1 2026 goal is to figure out where the inefficiencies are and (better) to get a better system for addressing and remediating them in an automated way.
2. A lot of my cards were also made in 2025 (and 2024), so I'm probably much farther to the left of you on the learning curve, on average.
I see folks saying no access to phones until 16, and others arguing how that will absolutely crush a kid's ability to do stuff socially. Why not just have a 'home' phone? you can use the phone in shared spaces at home, but cannot take it into your room or go to school with it.
unless you send your child to private school where all parents enforce such rule, your kid (that is 12+ year old) is going to be ostracize by majority of peers that have such phone. This is completely different environment comparing to times when we were growing up.
We are a “low screen” homeschooling family. We have a babysitting phone for my daughters to take to babysitting jobs and a landline. At our local pool in the summer, my kids meet neighborhood kids, exchange numbers, but my kids say, “it’s a landline, no texting.” The response: “You just have a landline?!? You can’t text?!?” in a tone of disgust. Every time. Fortunately, we have a community of homeschooling & religious community friends who are raising their kids similarly. But every time a kid’s friend gets a cellphone, texting becomes the medium of socialization, and they drop us. My kids will be the 1% of their generation who can talk on the phone.
I think a significant factor helping that to work is the mixing of all traffic on the street. I've noticed that in LA's Skid Row, where homeless people are constantly moving into the street on foot or on bicycle and they walk around in vehicle lanes pushing shopping cart armadas and so on, drivers are more cautious than usual and I see, if anything, less reckless driving and close calls there than in other parts of downtown, where pedestrians stick to the sidewalk and distracted or car-brained drivers don't look out for them. Just anecdotal observation, of course.
Different things. A country with lax rules is not the same as a specific environment with shared spaces, where according to known data it's safer to eliminate some specific kind of regulation and let the remaining part take over.
If something needs to be fixed, why is it just a log? How is someone supposed to even notice a random error log? At the places that I've worked, trying to make alerting be triggered on only logs was always quite brittle, it's just not best practice. Throw an exception / exit the program if it's something that actually needs fixing!
> If something needs to be fixed, why is it just a log?
What he meant is that is an unexpected condition, that should have never happened, but that did, so it needs to be fixed.
> How is someone supposed to even notice a random error log?
Logs should be monitored.
> At the places that I've worked, trying to make alerting be triggered on only logs was always quite brittle, it's just not best practice.
Because the logs sucked. It not common practice, it should be best practice.
> Throw an exception / exit the program if it's something that actually needs fixing!
I understand the sentiment, but some programs cannot/should not exit. Or you have an error in a subsystem that should not bring down everything.
I completely agree with the approach of the author, but also understand that good logging discipline is rare. I worked in many places where logs sucked, they just dumped stuff, and had to restructure them.
While it is fun to have your code run for 500 days without restart, it is a bad architecture. You should be able to move load around from host to host or network to network without losing any work. This involves graceful draining and then shutting down the old.
For impossible errors exiting and sending the dev team as much info as possible (thread dump, memory dump, etc) is helpful.
In my experience logs are good for finding out what is wrong once you know something is wrong. Also if the server is written to have enough but not too much logging you can read them over and get a feel for normal operation.
You know Lina Khan lead FTC blocked the deal, but if you check the thread, huge amount of folks aren’t aware of this fact.
As an owner of 2 iRobot Roomba I feel so “protected” now, they may become a brick or spy of a foreign company.
I wasn’t aware. It’s kind of useful to imagine a world where those products and the backing of Amazon. I’m not familiar with the market, but I can imagine availability of cheap competitors was the proximate cause of this company’s demise.
With Mac screenshots on the site they won't tell much. Plus the point is that it's worth to actively cater to Windows users even if you don't have many at the moment.
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