Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 02/10/2026With the current leading cause of aircraft loss being murder/suicide it might be time to reconsider cabin access methods in the event of murderous pilot. After the Germanwings incident the mitigation was eventually deemed too ??? to accomplish. 000
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 29/09/2026The thing about phones and short form video is that I hypothesize that the relentlessly positive media strategy Mamdani is using could be an antidote to this. 010
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 28/09/2026StarCraft Brood War cheese strategy vindicated. 000
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 28/09/2026I just read Julia Donaldson’s new Gruffalo Granny to my kids for the first time. It’s a melancholy book for a parent who has read dozens of Donaldson stories to his kids. A public retirement note as the granny of stories, dedicated to her recently departed husband. 000
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 24/09/2026Not that I have a vote, but I would’ve ranked Lander first. However, if I knew this was the outcome I was going to get, I would have put him second. 000
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 24/09/2026Oh, I’m not underestimating it. I am super thrilled. The cross endorsement that sent Lander to Washington and Mamdani to Gracie was the best possible outcome. Him in the house with an AOC president will be awesome. 100
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 21/09/2026I much prefer Rust to Go, personally, but I also believe that the TypeScript team made an easily defensible language decision for their product. And I’m still of the opinion that Rust, Go, and Java are the only languages that should get a seat at the table for non-self-hosted tooling. 130
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 21/09/2026And “self-hosted” is how you get that initial momentum and grow the community. We literally have a word for this now because of Node: Holowaychu(c)king. Amusingly he did it twice, the second time in the Go ecosystem. 120
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 21/09/2026Because we don’t have time travel. Go 1.0 was in 2012. Rust 1.0 was in 2015. So unless you were going to choose Java (which Google did and everybody else balked at) it’s hard to justify using any other compiled or non-self-hosted language—especially with Go/Rust on the horizon. 120
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 21/09/2026Me looking at the published results: “strange how this appears to only be the right-most quarter of a bell curve.“ 010
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 21/09/2026“This highly competitive selective entry school has the best test scores in the area* and the teachers can’t teach for shit” is a story as old as time in Hong Kong. WAR for an average teacher at a “top school in Hong Kong” is probably negative. *only a hand-chosen 25% get to take the test. 110
Reposted by Nathan Hammond 張拿敦Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 20/09/2026we should formalize this for maximum discourse damage. Souls are real but original-sin means the AI souls are better 2139243
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 19/09/2026Me wandering around with a jangling pocket full of nickels. 000
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 18/09/2026I thought I voted for representatives so I didn’t have to do this shit every year. 010
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 17/09/2026Looks like Kau Yan is in serious trouble. And last year was an easy year.kauyan.edu.hk救恩學校(小學部) – Recruitment of Transfer Students for Primary 1, 2026–2027 Academic YearRecruitment of Transfer Students for Primary 1, 2026–2027 Academic Year – 救恩學校(小學部) 000
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 17/09/2026Eats a three day ban, comes back, sees notifications tab fallow, and decides to drop this thread. 000
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 16/09/2026This, and the full ban on alternative smoking products, is good policy. Especially since we actually have a public health system to protect. With greater immigration from areas with higher smoking rates we need to stay ahead of this.hongkongfp.comPolicy Address 2026: HK to standardise cigarette pack designsHong Kong will standardise designs on all cigarette packs starting from the end of next year in a bid to discourage residents from smoking, the city's leader John Lee has announced. 000
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 16/09/2026Hong Kong classifies tourism as one of our "Four Key Industries" while it's percentage share of value added in GDP (in 2024) was 2.8% and percentage share of employment in total employment was 4.3%. I feel like we over-emphasize tourism in our policy decisions. www.censtatd.gov.hk/en/scode80.h...hongkongfp.comPolicy Address 2026: HK to relax licensing rules for island guesthousesHong Kong will relax its licensing system for small guesthouses on the territory's outlying islands, leader John Lee has announced in his annual Policy Address speech. 000
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 15/09/2026Funny to be using English to search for a flash card manufacturer and getting “printed in the USA!” presented as a benefit. Personally I would love to have a factory in Guangdong doing the printing: I can get the shipment the day after it comes off the printer and the border is free. 000
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 15/09/20262 Cafe, I believe at the Central location. My main complaint with that table is the dearth of baked goods and only a single milk tea. 010
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 15/09/2026In general this should just be a math problem: value vs. total cost of ownership. (Including opportunity cost!) Of course innumeracy is tremendously common. 010
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 13/09/2026Ah yes, the Suica is getting Boaty McBoatfaced. 010
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 11/09/2026Assessing "fact" vs. "opinion" from a _review_ of the primary source launders every assertion about the contents of the primary source into "fact." /cc @kjoules.org 000
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 11/09/2026"When the first Europeans landed on Easter Island in 1722, the moai were still there, but the trees were gone." Above quoted question text does not appear in the passage because they introduce "Easter Island" in the question, after using "Rapa Nui" in the passage. 101
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 11/09/2026PISA shit questions. "In the book, the author describes several civilizations that collapsed because of the choices they made and their impact on the environment." Hypothesis presented by original author, presumably research-based, but unsupported here. Laundered into "Fact" by the book reviewer.kjoules.orgThe 2025 PISA ResultsHow are our 15-year-old kids doing at school? Numberwang 7 100
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 10/09/2026More seriously, somebody should make an automated flash card printer/finisher with very few variables, extremely accurate, with extremely low operating cost. I’m getting low quality materials from my kids’ school, part because the degree of customization is too high. 000
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 10/09/2026In this day and age if you want to actually print dead tree flashcards the both of you should agree on a single standard size: 63mm x 88mm. 100
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 10/09/2026Even then you’re going to get crushed by “software update = instant install base of 1 billion.” 000
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 10/09/2026This was always going to be the case. I called this one right after the Altman/Ive photo with the caveat of “unless they ship a phone.” 110
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 10/09/2026I hate that I know what all of these people look like. 000
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 09/09/2026And non-OWP migration being only net positive six years since 1997 is wild. (Two of which are top talent pass and industry scheme years.) One-way Permit migration really helping us out here. 000
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 09/09/2026It is also not clear that Hong Kong offers significant opportunity differential as compared to other tier one Chinese cities like Beijing or Shanghai. 100
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 09/09/2026Looking at these charts it’s hard to make an argument for Hong Kong’s future population growth without significant intervention. - deaths will outpace births for the foreseeable future. - migration via industry schemes and Top Talent Pass have saturated. 120
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 09/09/2026[HK Population Change via Migration](docs.google.com/spreadsheets...) [HK Population Change via Natural Causes](docs.google.com/spreadsheets...) [HK Population Change All Sources](docs.google.com/spreadsheets...) 001
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 08/09/2026And you would not believe the opposition to the three story tall light temporary housing facility that was just built. “they might be able to look out the one window in their unit to see the pool!” 040
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 08/09/2026And, before that, they tore down a complex that was wholly unoccupied except for my neighbors because Henderson Lands could not acquire the last few units of the complex in order to build Baker Circle. Eventually, they gave up and built around it. That’s when some moved to the bridge. 140
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 08/09/2026I don’t remember if it was one or two years ago but somebody came by and let their things on fire and they had to reestablish their home. 140
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 08/09/2026i know it’s a meme at this point, but I just went downstairs to take pictures of my neighbors’ home. We speak almost daily because my dogs are good ice breakers and conversation starters. 150
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 07/09/2026Okay, but so far as I can tell the One Neat Trick is cardio. 021
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 06/09/2026Are you kidding me!? I’ve already bought season tickets for this flag football league. 010
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 06/09/2026That being said, the “ethical football league” with gifted athletes playing a sport they’ve never played before starting at age 24 would be absolute cinema. 110
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 06/09/2026“Measuring the distance between reality (own finances) and projection (local and national economy).” is probably a better description, though unlikely to be accepted as such by OP. 010
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 06/09/2026If it were only the professionalized bit I could make somewhat of an argument for its continued existence. But people do not become athletes starting from zero at age 24 as compensated, well-informed adults. 100
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 05/09/2026(This is my commentary on social media as a whole. Should be read as bluesky is not special.) 030
Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 05/09/2026Scooby Doo meme except under the mask it’s just a bowl of oatmeal. 170
