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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • I was on vacation recently and Apple Maps gave a weirdly circuitous route from our hotel to a restaurant. I checked Google Maps and it showed the direct route I expected, so I went with that.

    Google Maps routed me on to a street that was closed due to construction, Apple Maps was smart enough to route around the construction.

    I expect general parity between Apple and Google Maps, I had not expected Apple to have better data.















  • It’s really flat here compared to California, you can’t just drive a couple hours to get what you call hills and we call mountains. The Great Lakes are great but they’re not an ocean.

    Flights from DTW are more expensive than from big cities. It’s funny that Detroit is 2,000 miles closer to Europe than SFO, but flights to Europe from SFO are cheaper.

    We started getting wildfire smoke from Canada this year, but I imagine we’re still doing better than SoCal.

    California is still more progressive than Michigan, but we also don’t have as much craziness around ballot initiatives.

    I adore Detroit, but it’s no LA or SF. Chicago is about 4 hours away.


  • A lot of people in Michigan are expecting the state population to boom in the coming decades. No earthquakes or hurricanes, minimal wildfires and tornadoes. Lots of access to fresh water.

    We passed a ballot initiative in 2018 that made an independent committee draw up congressional districts and wouldn’t you know it, the state suddenly went blue when no one could gerrymander anymore! Legal recreational weed, legal abortion, free school lunches, the progressives are moving fast with the new majority.

    What area all depends on how much winter you can take. Detroit-Ann Arbor area is probably the mildest, followed by Grand Rapids-Kalamazoo (great cities, lake effect snow storms), Up North (even worse snow) and da UP (Marquette is amazing but if you don’t like snow sports you’ll go insane).

    $500k will but you a great house in some suburbs or a decent house in a hot market.






  • I’m on board with collaboration being a technology. Most people would agree that the internet is a technology, but then ask them to say what the internet is.

    Is the internet the routers and cables that connect them? Those could easily be replaced and the internet would still exist. At its core, the internet is an agreement that when another machine sends a packet that looks like this, we will interpret it as that. It’s a social agreement, implemented in code.

    Because it exists outside of code or machines (in the RFCs), you can use technologies like “pen and paper” and “homing pigeons” to implement IP. It’s just a set way to collaborate, like democracy or money.