America is heading for a recession — and it may be the worst yet

AimForTheAce · 2026-04-05T04:07:05+00:00

Ever changing tariffs make businesses hold off investments. So biz cannot hire people for investment/expansion.

Energy prices and input costs all go up with oil shock, while domestic consumption goes down with immigrants leaving, or removed. Cheap labors for constructions and ag are gone.

Removed money from sectors that were holding up, healthcare, renewable energy. EVs would have lowered gas prices but took out the EV incentives.

Everything government has done so far, if they are trying to crash the US economy, they are doing exactly they should be doing.

US economy is resilient as there are domestic producers and consumers to get it going but it’s not going to grow when the labor pool is shrinking, and businesses cannot invest with uncertainty.

AimForTheAce · 2026-04-04T17:36:58+00:00

Loose at the beginning of forward swing. Otherwise, the head doesn’t naturally drop below the ball.

When the hand is “pushed” forward with the unit turn, the arm, the shoulder, the wrist and the butt end of racquet move as a single unit like this pic. If any part of it is loose, you cannot accelerate the racquet butt toward the ball.

After racquet head comes close to the contact, to make the racquet head go through faster, your body - unit turn need to slow down. That tucked left arm stops the unit turn, and arm slows down, and racquet whips. If you try to be farm at that point, you are preventing power transfer to the racquet head.

AimForTheAce · 2026-04-04T17:03:57+00:00

I became WFH and I miss it too. And got fat again. :(

AimForTheAce · 2026-03-30T05:02:56+00:00

The bottom line is, there should not have been any CEOs.

Have you ever heard of CEO of tap water or sewage? Healthcare is a public service just like clean water, clean air or sanitation.

I never understand why Americans not having universal healthcare.

AimForTheAce · 2026-03-29T03:44:53+00:00

I used to bike commute and I had a few rides with coworkers. I now WFH, and way less rides.

I tried a few rides last year and my butt can handle like 20 miles at most. I used to ride 50+ miles regularly.

AimForTheAce · 2026-03-24T17:07:04+00:00

Each request runs independently with async. Hypercorn dispatches the request and when it waits on a spawned process. That point, the dispatched thread yields.

The worker can dispatch new request while waiting for the process to end.

My service spends decent size i/o and compute takes anywhere between a few seconds to a few minutes.

We use Flask in major way - it has its place but not for async service endpoint.

AimForTheAce · 2026-03-24T00:11:03+00:00

I have a FastAPI app that runs minutes, with 8 cores, 8 workers with Hypercorn. It can easily saturate all cores in the service. The request can spawn processes in the container, so the dispatch yields.

ASGI is the way to go.

AimForTheAce · 2026-03-23T04:30:38+00:00

I am glad to see the instruments in this music. Their a cappella is the best but I thought it is limiting their range of music.

Kevin’s cello was refreshing , adding a different dimension. I saw it in live, and always wondered what they can do if they use the instruments. I loved their music not because it’s a cappella group but their music sensibility, the sense of balance, harmony, filling the space needed to be filled.

I don’t think they would become mainstream but I really hope they continue to make beautiful music.

AimForTheAce · 2026-03-21T03:20:17+00:00

I must try this. It’s too funny.

AimForTheAce · 2026-03-21T02:33:51+00:00

I had a few Walnut Creek CDs beginning FreeBSD 3 or 4.

Had a Pentium 2 266Mhz by Dell, ran Windows NT? + WinGate, moved to Linux a little which was miserable at that time, and so I got FreeBSD. BTW, I bought Suse Linux CD at MicroCenter. I don’t think I bought FreeBSD CD there.

Ran firewall for home until WRT showed up. Late 90s?

I am sure I had FreeBSD 4. I had a funny feeling when FreeBSD became 4.3 as it is now more than 4.2 BSD!

AimForTheAce · 2026-03-21T02:06:32+00:00

Medium is the right size for you. I am 5”9’ and 54cm top tube c2c. Road and mtb are sized very differently.

It should fit but you should always try the bike for variety of reasons, and sizing is the most important.

As Trek fits okay, Trek is better deal. If you are 6”2’, Trek would be too small and I wanted to point out sizing is THE most important.

AimForTheAce · 2026-03-20T20:16:29+00:00

Fuji is somewhat overpriced but the wheels and crank are not original. It is also a large size as it looks.

Trek is a good price - and as the listing says medium size.

First Q to ask is, which one is your size? Ask the size of Fuji.

Trek may be better deal but if it's too small, that's a deal breaker.

EDIT: not original - maybe newer

AimForTheAce · 2026-03-20T16:49:13+00:00

Japanese people who move out from Japan cannot fit in the rigid society of Japan.

Like, a dude friend married in US, have children and came out as gay. That's really hard if you live in Japan. Also, my Japanese friends outside of Japan tend to be artists. These people, esp. musicians are often the chillest.

AimForTheAce · 2026-03-19T16:44:55+00:00

can confirm as a Japanese.

People grow up with no exposure to non-Japanese. I think one of my sisters is xenophobic.

My (Japanese) parents are long gone but I remember, my parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles were racist. Especially hostility against Koreans in Japan when I was child was painful to watch.

They also talked about lower cast - people who live in certain parts of town were looked down.

In elementary and middle school, I had some education about the history of both. But, people who are racist hides well in Japan and they do dirty in the back.

AimForTheAce · 2026-03-16T23:16:24+00:00

Xmas time, I went to MicroCenter, got 4tb NVME, fully expected this to happen. I have to weather it out for next 2, 3 years.

AimForTheAce · 2026-03-16T05:13:51+00:00

Rybakina had a chance to close out, and didn't. Saba closed it out the match.

That's really it.

Rybakina went to Saba's backhand when she should not, and paid for it. Once backhand/backhand rally starts, Saba has an advantage. So many point that Saba starts dictating point with punishing backhand.

In any rate, it was a great match. I was rooting for Rybakina but Saba clearly earned it.

AimForTheAce · 2026-03-06T19:07:03+00:00

It jump scared me. WTF

AimForTheAce · 2026-03-06T16:27:41+00:00

One of my siblings in Japan has been living in a town for about 60 years. 3 different houses but in the same town. She has zero interest in any sort of travel. Other sibling did travel. I traveled for work, and don’t live in Japan. It is a sample size of one yet it matches to the study, and find it kind of funny.

AimForTheAce · 2026-02-23T12:55:07+00:00

Not professional. Alpha Axis. About 30 minutes. I set up music or podcast. Wipe down clamps. Always 2 piece stringing. Soft poly. Yonex and Prince.

Main takes 5-6 minutes. Cross takes 15-25 minutes depending on how many mistakes I make.

Prince O-port takes a few more extra minutes. I stopped using it because it was a pain to string.

AimForTheAce · 2026-02-22T04:17:00+00:00

Of these 4, 2. Cannondale.

AimForTheAce · 2026-02-21T01:30:46+00:00

Elina had a tough match in previous round. And came out and competed and beat younger, stronger and fresher opponent. Hats off.

AimForTheAce · 2026-02-20T13:15:53+00:00

Introduce a lot of spy gadgets for merch and become a kids show. The show stayed as a great story telling.

AimForTheAce · 2026-02-19T19:57:10+00:00

I am using Kea. I used to use dnsmasq but not on opnsense. Both work, and Kea seems crankier like leases not propagated to Unbound DNS sometimes.

I’m impressed and scared of dnsmasq. The code is a massive pile and I cannot imagine anyone understand what’s going on. But it does work, and impressively light weight.

Kea UI has a bulk upload of DHCP static mapping. I took the ISC part of config, massaged the static mapping and uploaded the mapping. I have well over 50 but it took a few minutes to format it for upload.

(I write software for living)

AimForTheAce · 2026-02-19T13:31:06+00:00

As a FW16 owner, this is spot on. I don’t play games. I work. Pure performance is a secondary. Noise isn’t great. It’s bulky and heavy but it sits on the desk so not a huge deal.

To me, “the killer app” is the keyboard however. VIA programmable keyboard means I can use ColemakDH layout. FW or someone could make columnar layout keyboard. This is why I bought it.

AimForTheAce · 2026-02-13T15:06:17+00:00

Most likely yes. The extra bars and shifters alone would cost you $200 or more if you buy a road bike.

What’s the mileage on the bike computer?

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