As promised, I've revived my blog. No guarantees on how frequently or regularly I will post, but it will be more than once a year.
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Still looks better than modern BMWs
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BREAKING NEWS: USPS Intends To Deploy Over 66,000 Electric Vehicles by 2028, Making One of the Largest Electric Vehicle Fleets in the Nation.
bit.ly/3PJv4CB
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2022 was the year my family upgraded from DSL
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Porting my blog over was quick enough, a bit of work but fairly straightfoward:
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OH MY GOD
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SvelteKit 1.0 merged
youtube.com/watch?v=N4BRVk
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always so jarring to see bodies attached to the people you only know through video call
trying to keep up with tiktok memes by watching youtube makes me feel like an old boomer
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This fucking guy
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just had the spiciest bowl of chipotle of my life
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hardware drivers on Linux: was written by a dentist in Flagstaff in his free time, works as long as you recompile your linux kernel 83 times with libre-ssl-forked-2 and sacrifice a chihuahua to Cthulhu
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hardware drivers on Mac OSX: hasn't been updated in three minutes, completely incompatible with latest version of OSX.
hardware drivers on Windows: was written by neanderthals shortly after the ice age, works until the sun becomes a black hole.
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this is the kind of crap that makes me want a fully analog car from the 80s as my next car
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More car hacking!
Earlier this year, we were able to remotely unlock, start, locate, flash, and honk any remotely connected Honda, Nissan, Infiniti, and Acura vehicles, completely unauthorized, knowing only the VIN number of the car.
Here's how we found it, and how it works:
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Damn I was just on a Fleetwood Mac kick yesterday 😢
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Missing the crazy Taiwanese election vibes this time around but so cool to see all the coverage!
Maybe when the official results come out I'll have to play with it too...
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We’re watching the tight races of #TaiwanElection.
Follow our live updates from Taiwan.
cw.com.tw/graphics/2022-
#Taiwan #dataviz #ddj
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mistakes a human driver would never make: stop randomly for no reason perfectly in the middle of an intersection
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y'all I just took a fully autonomous waymo (for research purposes of course) and it was smooth sailing until it got stuck in the middle of an intersection downtown....phoenix is truly the wild west
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if anyone wants to add me on venmo I'm Daniel-Kao
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if only there was a decentralized currency that would've prevented this FTX meltdown
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alternative caption: California moving left real fast
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A Bad Map: Day 10 of the #30DayMapChallenge
My bad map is what happens when you mess up vector tile polygon winding order: 
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Reuters, Bloomberg, New York Times - all using #Svelte for their midterms coverage. Svelte, the official framework of election graphics?
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And our frontend marks our largest outing with the new @sveltejs framework, SvelteKit, which is helping serve ~2.5K pages of configurable, embeddable graphics, translated into 11 languages, for our media partners.
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what if instead of furiously switching to m*stodon you just..::crosses arms smugly::..read a book
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this Jay Chou and Jabbawockeez collab is really messing with me
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I'm a couple years late but just watched Tenet. Too many plot holes and possibly the most frustratingly unsatisfying Nolan film I've seen. Gets worse the more I think about it.
if this whole fiasco actually forces me off twitter, I'm going to enjoy my newfound freedom and not dive headfirst into another social media replacement. I need some time to recover all the brain cells I've lost to twitter
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anyone have tips for buying a snowboard? I've only ever rented and I'm ready to get some of my own gear
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I could care less about a blue checkmark but I'd happily pay to get rid of all ads and tracking
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Probably like 8, my dad was too cheap to buy a copy of windows for me
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At what age did you start using Linux?
I was 22, your turn 
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Four years ago I messaged this random dude on Twitter and asked him about working and living in Taiwan. Four years later, I'm still his fake boyfriend (I think)
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Three years ago today, I cancelled a trip to Zurich to meet my ex at the time and replaced it with a trip to DC to meet my current partner, despite only having met him twice in Taipei. Three years on, we are figuring out how to cohabitate peacefully in Taipei.
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I really don't understand why anyone would want an air fryer over a deep fryer
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I wonder if this is why we're seeing a huge price inflation in cars from the late 90s / early 2000s that are still relatively DIY-able. It also makes me wish for a car built on fully open source hardware + software components for maximum repair-ability.
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Refreshed the UPS tracking page on a delivery every hour in the past few days and now I'm getting UPS ads on Instagram
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But I feel like it's not just the iPhone, I feel like my Android devices have gotten worse too as phones got bigger. I would've thought that bigger phone = better typing but I made noticeably fewer typos on my <5inch phones (with bezels)
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A whole thread on HN about how typing has gotten worse on the iPhone, I thought it was just me that was never able to type whenever I picked up an iPhone. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=332561
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And yet, at the same time, many important issues are being ignored by tech because they seem unsexy. Specifically, I'm talking about things like housing, public transportation, education, sustainable agriculture, natural resource management, healthcare, etc.
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