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Hah. I just reading this now on the train

“We're not quite back at the level of the 1950s, when cars would get completely new designs every single year“ Completely redesigned every year? That must’ve been wild for quality control.

jalopnik.com

It's Already Time For A New Kia Sportage - Jalopnik

The current Kia Sportage has only been on sale since 2022, and the next-generation model is almost ready to launch with an even wackier design.

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The current hold time for Alaska Air is 2 hours and 5 minutes. I don't think there's any unusual situations going on right now. Is this the new normal?

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hope folks brought their own noise cancelling headsets!

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ACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Explaincars Drama: reminder that the threat levels range from 1-4 with 4 being the highest. The guidance for level 3 is “life-threatening behavior or display of a weapon”, so this is quite a serious and relatively rare occurrence, most of the disruptive passenger reports we see are level 1 or 2.

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I only know of this wikipedia page from having taken BA Flight 009, which had this historical entry en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British...

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Is this a form of English Understatement? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English...

en.wikipedia.org

English understatement - Wikipedia

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I guess it should not come as a surprise given that the UA flights from SFO to LHR that I was looking at recently were like 70% premium economy / business class seats, and 30% economy.

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Alaska Air is introducing new planes with luxury lie-flat seats, but also without seatback screens (IFE) for economy seats - aka bring your iPad. This is quite the price segmentation-MAXxing for Alaska!

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If It Fits I Sits - BART edition

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I was so surprised to see these when I went to the Jelly Belly Factory recently.

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

With gas prices were they are, I wonder if this Car Cruise still happened in San Mateo

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Unfortunately there's people sleeping at this station every day (all outdoors), and I regularly see drug use or its debris. There's also medical waste occasionally. So I'm pretty sure it's not animals. (Bit of trivia: This train station is a 20 minute walk to the birthplace of Silicon Valley)

Map showing the walking directions from Caltrain Palo Alto to the historic HP Garage

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Here's what the back of the Throne looks like when it's opened up. This one is at the Caltrain station (like LIRR) in Palo Alto, California.

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The ones here also unlock if you have the keycard - I think it's meant for those who don't have a phone. The train station I commute to has a Throne, but there's still regularly human waste at the station. Given the other regular vandalism and destruction, maybe they've banned some people,

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We have these at some train stations here in California. You need an app or basic SMS capability. The point is that they can ban you if they determine that you wrecked the place. Which, unfortunately, has happened in our region in the past. Some required 24hr staffing.

sfgate.com

San Francisco hopes to curb poop problem by extending public toilet use to 24 hours

San Francisco is taking measures to clean up its act and make sure there's less feces on...

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

That and surprisingly how little honking there is from drivers - even compared to Downtown Palo Alto where I work!

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is one of those things that's really noticeable when coming back from trips to Hong Kong.

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I commute to Palo Alto and only now do I know what those cars are (were). What an interesting idea.

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

When I was kid in the 1980s NYC, my dad's co-worker was mugged twice in the same day in the Lower East Side - near the Williamsburg Bridge. I know people bemoan gentrification, but I think on the whole less crime is better.

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Unfortunately, now that I live in the San Francisco area, I’ve gotta say that there’s still many parts of SF that remind me a bit of the bad ol’ days of NYC - though not nearly as bad. I can’t even begin to describe what the Bowery used to be like.

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's probably not a good sign when the flight attendants need to get the automated external defibrillator ready...

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The displays tend to have 3 states: 1. Showing the next station correctly 2. Showing that static image because the system is down 3. Showing the Google Chrome t-rex because the system is really really down

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I flew from London to Sydney once 1. Very thankful work paid for business class 2. I enjoyed the brief layover in Bangkok - that was a good break

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I used to work in Downtown San Jose. Here's a photo I took of the Guadalupe River during the 2019 El Nino season. That was a lot of water!

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I always chuckle at some of the weird finds in residential neighborhoods.

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I feel bad for the kids who have to walk home after school on this route. That's pretty treacherous. (Taken from my dashcam)

Kid walking home from school around a blind corner with two on-coming cars

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is too real about what happens in authentic old school Hong Kong restaurants. Locals make fun of how rude customer service is. Imagine the Seinfeld Soup Nazi, but more passive aggressive and faster.

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I joke that if some of these Hong Kong and old school SF Chinatown restaurants could throw the food at you to go faster, the would

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Don't fight the ocean! bsky.app/profile/dtc....

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I could see that happening. Prospective buyers started hearing more about homes getting washed away. Maybe they assumed they'd get some sort of bailout to rebuild. Fear has set in and crushed demand. www.npr.org/2026/09/17/n...

npr.org

People's houses are collapsing into the ocean. FEMA gives them no other option

Waterfront homes are collapsing along the coast. Homeowners generally have plenty of warning before their house buckles. So why aren't most houses removed, or at least emptied, before they fall?

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Are you a time traveler reporting back from 2020? Every flight I've been on has been packed. But then again my home airport is SFO.

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Imagine 92... but with wild monkeys.

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

From the historical photos I've seen, our region was actually pretty tree-less. Most of the trees were planted (and, more importantly, watered) by people. For sure the Australian eucalyptus trees in Belmont weren't there before people 🤣

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Well, just fell into a rathole about how some monkeys were introduced to eat poisonous plants growing near Kowloon Reservoir www.news.gov.hk/en/categorie...

news.gov.hk

news.gov.hk - Categories - Health & Community - Please, please don’t feed the monkeys

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The last owners of my house would be in their 100s now. I still get generic addressed mail that's clearly aimed at them. The ones that bug me the most are the ones that look like letters from the government, with fictional Department of titles - and then a tiny disclaimer inside.

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

An indirect result of this is that you can now get preview photos of the USPS mail that will be delivered to you via email informeddelivery.usps.com/portal/

informeddelivery.usps.com

Informed Delivery

USPS Informed Delivery

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A few I took a 2 months later bsky.app/profile/dtc....

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Some photos I took in November 2001

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This should be mandatory viewing in some way. I remember the CBS version in early 2002 with DeNiro narrating. youtu.be/_Iw-1bOQNIA?...

youtu.be

Naudet Brothers 9/11 Documentary (Full)

YouTube video by DepositionsandStuff

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

IIRC, New Jersey was cited as the prime example of what not to do. This was back in 1999. Having done some quick web searches, it looks like this lesson was not learned in NJ.

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

By then I had lived in California for a little over a year, and I remember watching the TV at work: an army of doctors/nurses/students outside a hospital (St. Vincents?) waiting… waiting… waiting for victims to help. But that afternoon wave just never appeared. That image has stayed with me.

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

tldr: any attempt to prevent sand from eroding away from the beach via seawalls or artificial breakers means that you'll end up forever refilling the beach with sand ($$$), which if done wrong will only make waves pound the beach harder.

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

In college I took a course on Oceanography. It was surprisingly hard. But the one key memory I'll always have was the day the professor got super emotional when talking about erosion and exclaimed with religious fervor: Don't fight the ocean! You will not win! DON'T! DO! IT!

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

That personal network thing is so incredibly true. One of the bigger eye openers the time I worked at a Series A startup after being a big corporate guy for years.

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It’s been a busy day so I’m really excited to learn more about why everyone is taking about Apple and Duo because surely this means they brought this back…

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I wonder if it stays cooler white vs blue

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