I’m going to Japan soon. Should I just use the iPhone Suica version or get the physical one?

I was in Japan last year. iPhone version was super easy and worked flawlessly for me.

Agree! Just a heads up for folks that you’ll likely want to download the Welcome Suica app which is aimed at tourists.

The regular Suica app is separate and is not English-friendly (this may be worth it for you only if you’re staying long term, ok with the language barrier, and want a card that doesn’t expire).

Is it the Apple Wallet version or the actual Suica app? I'm wondering about the Apple Wallet one.

Apple Wallet version is enough for 99% case. You do need the suica app for things like purchasing green car ticket etc.

I was in Tempe/Phoenix region during the peak of summer (August I remember). It was 115°F+ everyday. Even after dinner, when I wanted to stroll around outside the mall near ASU, it was 90°F. It was insane how hot it was. I’ve lived in Houston and the heat was not even that high. But Phoenix has almost zero humidity in the summer which makes the heat a lot more bearable comparing to the sauna in Houston. Anyway, would not go there during summer again!

The amount of concrete and lack of green cover is a major problem.

We’re currently away from home in a city that has waaaay more concrete than where we live and the temperature increase is horrible, even when the reported temperature is the same.

The US has built horrible cities for a couple of generations now. The incoming increase it temps will hopefully force them to redesign ie the tree plan for NYC

Is the lack of green cover really problem? Seems like the lack of green cover would be natural for that area.

Are most cities naturally occuring?

Yeah, NYC's tree plan would be quite the disaster in Phoenix, I would think.

Phoenix and Tucson are in the main swath of the Sonoran Desert, which to the unaccustomed eye (as mine was, initially) is all just burning hell dirt and rocks. The undisturbed state of the Sonoran Desert is actually pretty amazingly green. Not like a forest. But cast an eye on the Mojave Desert, which is what Eastern CA deserts are. Or, for the biggest contrast I've ever seen, the irrigated lands next to the Nile and then the utterly barren dirt and rocks beyond.

So in Tucson where I live we lightly irrigate several 50' heat happy trees with a nice canopy providing great shade. Next door, providing great morning shade for our backyard, is a 50' mesquite tree with upper branches at least 3' in diameter. No irrigation. In the alley behind our house is an old Palo Verde maybe 30' tall and it does a nice job shading the front part of the yard in the afternoon. Also no irrigation.

To sum up, lack of green cover is a choice, and I don't know but suspect people will value that more as things heat up ever so inexorably. The Sonoran summer sun is a mutherfucker, and shade helps a lot (but doesn't fix it).

So I think the permissive license like Apache 2 without opening up for upstream contributions would be the way of future open source development. In a very similar way of SQLite. It definitely will help shield off a bunch of AI generated contributions first and foremost and then, aligning mental model with the human contributions with Mojo leader team.

Jeez, llama.c++ is becoming the ffmpeg cargo cult CLI now

For the things it does, what tool is better than ffmpeg? Really struggling to see the cargo cult angle. Similar for llama.cpp, as it is literally the only framework I can get to run on my multi-Radeon rig. It is the most portable runtime out there.

-funroll-loops

I use Bonsai 27B ternary on my 24GB MBP. But, I believe you definitely can run it with 18 or even 8GB.

I have had 2 encounters with Dr Norvig, all online. One, I randomly reach out for him to get a referral to a hiring manager at Google. He gave me a couple of email leads. Two, I emailed ask him about a writing piece regarding fuzzy logic and why it was not popular in the US academic landscape. I got a very long, specific and detail response back. I need to print that email out and frame it lol.

I use coding agent but still don’t see the need to manage a swarm of them like this. Is there an actual use case for this or this is just for tokenmaxxing?

It's useful for running multiple long running tasks alongside your "primary" work. As an example I currently have 3 tabs open running a PR review, 1 tab running "autonomous development" for a small time feature and then my "primary" window for working on a feature.

Hah tales as old as time. what’s next? Distillation of Disney theme park?

I agree with Odin creator here. I am not sure when or why we have come to a conclusion in our professional industry that "real software engineer uses vim/emacs/insert your CLI editor here" type of mental model. Is it just the testosterone level speaking here?

Decades ago, really. Before IDEs were remotely as capable as they are now, it was just generally assumed you'd advance from a basic text editor like notepad or nano into vim or emacs.

This must be an online thing. In 15+ years of career I haven't yet heard "real software engineer...". If you get your work done no one cares how the hell you accomplish it

I read “how to win friends and influence others” many times but didn’t realize the main lesson is not to argue. That is until I reached 40. So, some lessons will take certain age to understand. I bet the OP is not in their 20s or 30s even.