"Non-vegetarian" is such a nonsense word. If it were then so are non-ovolactovegetarian, non-vegan, non-paleotarian, non-ketotarian, non-pisceterian, non-porcetarian and non-cococolaterian

While I'm here: Bring back the headphone jack!!!

The software doesn't feel different. The Nothing flair is missing, but that's about it. There are minor differences, but moving to the 9a doesn't register as much of a change. Except the camera. The camera is great.

What I miss (cont'd)

* Still adjusting to the colourful icons. The Phone 1 is very grayscale
* On paper the Pixel is lighter, but it feels heavier
* Charging speed. Pixel is sloooooow

What I liked

* Brighter screen
* Better ringtones
* Camera. Huge step up

Everything else is about the same!

Mini review of the Pixel 9a coming from the Nothing Phone (1) 🧵

What I miss

* Physical dual SIM slots. The Pixel has an eSIM and a physical slot
* Being able to long press and uninstall an app from the app drawer
* The screen is smaller. Doesn't bother me a lot tbh

Ted Chiang's Story of Your Life features a book on the Heptapod language. I imagine it would be very interesting!

The Harry Potter ones will find a mention I suppose. The titles are absurdly childish ("Newt Scamander") but I still can't help chortle. There is H2G2, which has classic lines like the description of the pan galactic gargle blaster.(1/2)

I solved the daily mini! www.nytimes.com/badges/games...

Wordle Bot: Your Daily, Personalized Wordle Score First, play today’s Wordle. Then come here.

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In a capitalist enterprise, the incentives of the owner and the labour are seldom aligned, which affects productivity. True alignment can only happen when everyone is the owner.

This is partly why startups innovate and large companies can't.
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There has been a lot of critiques about capitalism. But a die-hard capitalist isn't going to understand these, because they don't talk about incentives. Maybe the convincing argument is one of misaligned incentives.
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Podcasts are a thing in India, officially. I just heard an ad for the Kerala State lottery (കേരള സംസ്ഥാന ഭാഗ്യക്കുറി) in one.

Strands #355
“"To infinity and beyond!"”
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Probably used my knowledge of Debian codenames more than my knowledge of Toy Story

There's a PM in Microsoft whose OKRs are tied to the number of times a user has to type in a number on Microsoft Authenticator in a day

Indian Grandmaster D. Gukesh became the youngest World Chess champion at 18 years after beating title-holder Ding Liren of China in the 14th and last game of a thrilling showdown in Singapore.

www.thehindu.com/sport/indias...

I remember a time when I wasn't 100% sure you weren't Tay Tay

This poem, entitled 'Needles' is presented in the form of a Christmas tree. These words form the shape of the tree: I wrote a poem in the shape of a Christmas tree but then forgot to water it and only a few days later there And these words are distributed around the base of my poem 'tree' as if they've fallen off it: were words all over the carpet

Today’s poem is called ‘Needles’.

NGMA. Memories 😊