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I expect the average human mother maintains a higher level of sanitation than the average cow.


That will vary by person. My father-in-law bred and milked pedigreed Holsteins. They had a 1 gallon pasteurizer and would just dip a gallon out of the bulk tank for household use when needed. So, most of the time they had pasteurized, non-homogenized. On occasion, the pasteurizer would break, so for a while they would drink raw milk. But of course understood the risk, and also knew darn well where the milk had come from and how clean the milking facility was.

In addition to the incredible engineering work here the OP casually flexes by showing the development happening _in an economy class airplane seat_.

This is the most incredible part. I cannot even use a laptop adequately in an economy class seat, I cannot position the screen so that I could see it, and the keyboard so that I could type on it, at the same time. (To say nothing of connecting a Wii.)

I struggle so much to even comfortably play a handheld video game system on a plane, let alone use a laptop (I have also tried that) that I've mostly given up on even trying and just line up a few albums on my phone to listen to and close my eyes as much as possible.

I can't imagine trying to program on a laptop with an external device, even something as portable and small as a phone, on a plane. I expect my frustration and frequently bumping things about would mean I'd get nothing done aside from having a bad time.


Get a pair of XR glasses. I bought some Viture glasses a few years ago and they have been perfect for flights.

Indeed, the cost of decent good XR glasses is less than the cost of upgrade to the business class on a flight!

And the guy next to him is just staring at his phone, probably thinking, "I'm not even gonna ask".

Although if it were me I'd probably annoy the heck out of him asking why he had a Wii on the airplane!


Looks like a Switch 2 actually.

You're totally right, it's a Switch 2.

I don’t get it, how is he getting OS X running “on a Wii” on a Switch 2?

It's what the guy next to him has.

Which means no access to Claude.

Can’t wait for his sequel “I received a Cease and Desist Letter from Apple; Feeling encouraged, I registered the trademark ‘Wii subsystem for macOS’”.


"I've now received my Cease and Desist letter from Nintendo over their Wii trademark. Feeling encouraged, I've written a full seven-world Super Mario Brothers sequel for macOS on the Wii that I've titled 'Newer Super Mario Brothers Wii Subsystem for macOS'"

Why would there be no access to Claude?

I mean, you need WiFi, and that's definitely a roll of the die on flights. But the last flight I had had WiFi, and the gal who sat next to me was vibe coding something.

Meanwhile I was taking photos of the seat back infotainment system's map, which showed our ETA as being before we left. Sadly, we did not time travel.


I was on a flight next to someone vibe coding on Cursor via Starlink the other day. It was my first flight with Starlink.

You and GP must live in the Bay area. Not once in my life have I seen someone coding on a plane, let alone next to me.

I’m east coast but I just use LSP and a local environment - no need for WiFi or anything like that to get work (or fun) done

Nope. The flight was from California (not the Bay) to a popular resort destination.

I can't imagine concentrating on a complicated project like that on the go, but I went back to stare in awe at said picture and I think its a train or bus. Still a flex.

Still looks like a plane to me, with rows of 2-3-2 seats.

There are definitely no buses that wide.


My Wii has been on many planes and trains - and yes, there is a photo of each in my post.

There are buses that wide, for example those used in airports.

The picture with the black seats in on a train and the one with the green seats is on a plane.

It seems a bus to me, just look at the size of the windows. Airplanes don't have windows like that..

because of the mix of boredom, very shoddy internet that drops constantly and ANC earbuds removing distractions, I often find myself getting in the zone while riding the train back home from the office. As the kids say, I lock in

I think it is a bus maybe? I can see out a window over some seats, and the overhead compartments don't really look like ones i've seen before.

That being said, that is absolutely amazing they brought a wii where ever they were going to write and debug this while traveling! That is dedication!

EDIT: nvm, there are multiple pictures of them traveling. First one looks bus like, second one look like an airplane.


At first I thought it might be a train. “Surely he’s not doing that on a plane“.

Once he showed he went to Hawaii my idea made slightly less sense.


Apple had a commercial about this a million years ago, where a guy decides to edit a video on a plane.

https://youtu.be/LQWjxAdSsHE


Huh - I know Apple’s first PowerBook 100 had an ad with Shaq on a plane, and then later one with Yao Ming… I guess Apple really wanted to crack the “I’m working on a plane damn it” market?

That stood out to me as well. Specifically: how did he power the Wii?

Many planes have AC power outlets, the Wii uses <20W.

I'm sure an external version exists too, but USB-PD makes some amazing things possible: https://shop.giltesa.com/product/nintendo-wii-usb-c-kit/

In one of the pictures, the laptop is on his tray, and the wii is on the tray of the seat next to him, and that seat looks empty. So the wii got its own airplane seat?

Imagine if he was developing it on a laptop found at a refuse site that was still charged, just hiding in the hedge so that guards wouldn't see him.

What's flex-worthy about this? There's a lot of dev work that goes on in economy class airplane seats. Or are VC valley programmers so rich they fly business everywhere?

It's uncomfortable and awkward (the Wii was on his leg in the first shot), and often you need to break concentration and pack things up to let someone out of or into their seat.

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I didn’t think OP was saying it was performative, and I read that as they were just really impressed. And I would be too.

I agree that coding on a plane can be a good experience, but also it can be tough to keep that focus on some flights, or with some types of neighbors.


The bulk of those shirts have got to be pirated, but for a while they were selling them at Bandy Melville, a clothing store whose target demographic has seemingly very little overlap with fans of Joy Division. The ultimate triumph of the signifier over the signified.


Well, it was a public domain picture of pulsar, and I remember seeing it in Scientific American before the band used it. I had the shirt, loved it. Had tix to see them on their first tour of the states and then Ian had to go and off himself.


Congrats, OP has recreated a test/development bench, the bane of developers working on automotive software development all around the world. They're so close to being a real vehicle that you think you'll be able to get a lot of work done, but they're not, so you don't.


Honestly I love it. Few things develop a more fun camaraderie than a bringup bootcamp with two precious/priceless new samples on a large conference table, and everyone being very careful to keep cups/mugs very far away.

And a soldering robot with a specialist a few rooms away to beam down the latest errata into physical form, at times.

Tracy Kidder just died, and Soul of a New Machine was a favorite of my formative years as an engineer. Once I started in headunit ECU development it felt very familiar to me at times.

I'm a software guy, but the gear has a lot of allure.


Haha, don't forget your wristbands.


Soul of a New Machine, absolutely awesome book!


Can confirm. We are required to test all of our stuff on a bench, but no one really trusts this, because everything is mocked anyway (RSI).


EIR == Entrepreneur-in-Residence


so an employee at a VC? lmao


There are so many confounding factors that this can't be taken at face value. Immigrants go where jobs are in general and it's demand for workers that causes housing prices to go up. If there was zero immigration there would still be huge housing demand in SF and LA.


You think that a minimum of 35% of demand being artificial isn't a factor that can be seen to increase overall demand?

edit: I say "minimum 35%" because that is just the percentage of immigrant-demand that managed to secure housing. Hard to say exactly how many more immigrants are bidding on SF & LA-County housing but 35% is the absolute floor.


Framing foreign-born residents as "artificial demand" is definitely a thing you can do, but it doesn't align with reality. Some portion of the foreign-born population are naturalized or are family members of US citizens, so it's not like waving your magic racist wand would actually solve the problem.


It's weird that immigration and housing is an off-limits topic for you that you're not able to discuss it objectively.


I just said you're wrong, not that you're prohibited from discussing it.


You also threw a nasty insult at the person, instead of conversing in good faith.

What's artificial about housing demand growth due to immigration is that they arrive into the market as adults. The natural demand growth would in contrast be from births.


The foreign-born population of LA and SF hasn't changed significantly in decades. It was like 27% in LA in the 80s. Housing there is expensive because there's a lot of demand from a lot of people. Immigration is like reason 11 out of 10 for why housing is expensive in those areas.


Canada has pulled American liquor from sales as a tariff retaliation, so Kentucky bourbon sales have dropped considerably. Thus we have the senator from Kentucky trying to kill off domestic competitors for Kentucky liquor.


It's a historic quirk that the US is a single country. It hardly feels like one most days.


The same is true of Canada, but to a far greater extent since Toronto/Ottawa/Montreal have a permanent veto on whatever the rest of the country wants. The US political system, for all its other faults, has successfully avoided this problem.

It is not a surprise that region can't find anyone else (in the rest of the economic zone over which it claims dominion) willing to die for its interests, especially when their interests have been revealed to be nothing but "loot the rest of the nation".


We have the opposite problem, where if you live in NYC or LA your vote basically doesn't matter at the national level


Yet, that compromise means NYC and LA can still field an all-volunteer army of people who tend not to be from NYC and LA.

Toronto/Ottawa/Montreal, demonstrably, cannot do that.

Which of the two strategies do you think give the cities a greater chance of survival?


american: you're the historical quirk!

canadian: no, you're the historical quirk!

native american: you're both historical twerps.


Sybase and Ingres disagree.


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