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– Shigeru Miyamoto
Making FIREWORKS in Tears of the Kingdom:
Happy New Year, folks! Let’s stay curious and commit to competency in 12024!
★iPhone 15 Pro Max Camera Review: Depth and Reach by Sebastiaan de With:
A very deep review of the camera system on the iPhone 15 Pro Max by Sebastiaan de With, creator of the Halide camera app.
All the photos are beautiful, but the blue jet plane photo shot with the 5x lens is just great.
★The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Main Theme Song[8bit] | @mamaTune via YouTube:
This video is so awesome, both the music and the retro art style.
Tears of the Kingdom is so good, it truly makes Breath of the Wild look like a tech demo in retrospective.
On the technical side, according to Digital Foundry and my own experience, Tears of the Kingdom runs surprisingly well on the inexpensive Nintendo Switch.
This latest installment in The Legend of Zelda series is both a gaming and technical masterpiece.
★Monoliths are not dinosaurs | All Things Distributed by Dr. Werner Vogels:
We always urge our engineers to find the best solution, and no particular architectural style is mandated. If you hire the best engineers, you should trust them to make the best decisions.
AI doesn’t plant trees | All Things Distributed by Dr. Werner Vogels:
Yes! More time should be spent planting new trees restoring forests or building new railroads, instead of talking about AI or colonizing Mars.
It’s an explanation so idiotic only an intellectual could think of it.
[...] the problem of runaway rationalization is not just a disorder of today’s woke intellectuals, but of educated people of any persuasion and any time. And that includes you. Since you’re reading about intelligence right now, you’re likely above average in intelligence, which means that you, whatever you believe, should be extra vigilant against your intellect being commandeered by your animal impulses.
There is only one thing that can motivate us to put our intelligence into the service of objective truth, and that is curiosity. It was curiosity that was found by Kahan’s research to be the strongest countermeasure against bias.
Curiosity is essential to directing your intellect toward objective truth, but it’s not all you need. You must also have humility.
Anyone who’s sure they’re humble is probably not, so I can’t say whether I’ve succeeded in becoming humble. But I can say that I always try to be humble. And, well, there’s little difference between trying to be humble and actually being so.
In the end, rationality is not about intelligence but about character. Without the right personal qualities, education and IQ won’t make you master of your biases, they’ll only make you a better servant of them. So be open to the possibility that you may be wrong, and always be willing to change your mind—especially if you’re smart. By being humble and curious you may not win many arguments, but it won’t matter, for even losing arguments will become a victory that moves you toward the far grander prize of truth.
I wonder if the author plays any Persona game.
This also helps to explain why changes are hard in the field of software engineering, a field in which includes a lot of smart people.
Elon Musk’s reach on Twitter is dropping — he just fired a top engineer over it | The Verge:
“As the adage goes, ‘you ship your org chart,’” said one current employee. “It’s chaos here right now, so we’re shipping chaos.”
“You ship your org chart” is the best summary of Conway’s law that I have ever seen.
The US is the most mindless country on Earth.
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Coffee vs. tea smackdown | The Washington Post:
The article is free, and it is a joy to watch read.
My prediction: Giving more time to researchers, the result score will change in favor of tea. I enjoy both.
I’m very fortunate that both are cheaply produced in Vietnam.
★Thomas L. Friedman | The New York Times:
Countries that forget their geography get in trouble.
The same is true with history.
★Ted Lasso is great, but Acapulco is the best show on Apple TV+ in my opinion. Finished the whole season in 2 days, and every episode looks and sounds great in Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos.
★Prehistoric Planet — Official Trailer | Apple TV+:
On a scale you’ve never witnessed.
Hahahaha 🤣 A must-see for sure.
★Apple unveils the best photos from the Shot on iPhone Macro Challenge | Apple Newsroom:
I am amazed with the quality of the improved ultra-wide sensor and its macro capability on the iPhone 13 Pro myself. However, the UX for taking macro photo in the Camera app is still janky, I prefer using Halide’s macro mode and its AI upscaling feature.
All the winner photos look absolutely great, congratulation.
BBEdit – free text editor | Google Groups:
Congratulations on still not suck after 30 (!) years 🎉
BBEdit is the only text editor I paid for with my own money, it is the first app I install on every new Mac. I miss it every day at work using the company’s Ubuntu based workstation.
ThoughtWorks Technology Radar Volume 26:
A bit late, but the new volume of ThoughtWorks Technology Radar is out, and it still does not suck!
It is also a chip painful since I have encountered 3 out of 4 HOLD Techniques (SPA by default, Production data in test environments, Miscellaneous platform teams) in my past projects 😂
Web version containing the latest volume can always be found here.
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A great video about cloth filter coffee tradition in Vietnam. Also very good storytelling from RICE.
★Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.
― Vince Lombardi
When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don’t blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument. That is my experience. No blaming, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.
― Thich Nhat Hanh
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