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A generic name for a collection of things used to gain access to something.

That’s not really helping explain it, so here’s some examples:

Airplane tickets, library membership barcode, sports tickets, loyalty cards for your local coffee shop, conference tickets, etc.

Essentially anything with a barcode first and foremost. The website that this blog is about allows you to generate your own passes.

In the video you show a 2D mask to blur diagonal lines. How is that mask applied to the DFT? Is the mask also converted to a DFT and the two signals get combined?

The summary of the post says that lambdas/procedures/etc. are another type outside of composition and inheritance. I’ve always thought of lambdas as composition though. You’re assigning a function just as you would any other data, right?

Thanks for the link! I read through it and agree with most of your points, especially the parts about presence and separation of tasks.

I personally liked the intellectual aspect of it, though I also agree that the emotional component should be there as well.

I've been reading through the book The Courage to be Disliked recently. I'm not a big fan of the writing style of the book, but some of the ideas in the book appear in this post too.

One of the concepts in the book is being comfortable with being disliked. If instead you're trying to avoid being disliked, you're effectively subject to other people's whims.

When you look at it from that perspective, that's a pretty stressful experience!

There was another reply here earlier that was saying it isn't a trade deficit. I wanted to steelman the parent post:

Foreign investment into USA companies reduces the USA trade deficit but it isn't tracked in traditional methods.

I've heard that foreign investment in real estate generally isn't counted as each country owns properties equally between the two, so it nets out. I wonder if investments into companies is the same?

I put down $50 to reserve one. I grew up with an old car that I tinkered with endlessly. Mostly because it was simple enough for me to get my head around! This car reminds me of that time.

I'm hoping that they go with a lot of "off-the-shelf" electronics and mechanical parts. Standards are a blessing.

It feels like they're going with a different business model to traditional car manufacturers. AFAIK most manufacturers make a lot of their money via servicing. I'd love to take a look at what their long-term business strategy is.

Do you have a doc or article that describes more about this? I’ve worked with relational algebra before but I’ve never heard it described with an API before. Are the responses all table based? I suppose you could wrap all calls with a SQL style API?

For all my GTD-style note taking I'm using Things. I stuff everything that I need to remember into its inbox as soon as I think about it. Adding context + sorting happens at a later date once I can sit down and give more details.

The one thing I don't have is a general "reference" system. Once I've finished with a task / project / etc. I want to be able to archive it into a wiki-type system. But I also want to be able to query structured data out of it too.

The closest thing I can think of is writing mini-wiki pages. Because they're mini wiki pages, a screen should be able to show multiple pages at once. There's something there, I'm just not sure what.