xanash

[xanash @xanasham]

@Starbucks those green straws are not so bad for my 5 yo after all

[Savanah Hernandez @Savsays]

I’m sitting on a bench in BELLEVUE WASHINGTON and I have never seen so many Indians.

Why are there so many over here?!

[Vince Langman @LangmanVince]

I honestly can't believe that this is the mayor of a major city in America and not an SNL character!

What's wrong with the people of Seattle, Washington?

[Tim Tebow @TimTebow]

I don't know if we'll ever win the war against human trafficking and child sexual exploitation in this lifetime. But I know Who wins one day.

And until that day comes, we'll keep fighting to rescue one more.

[有枕 @rmkra5]

急げ。生き急げ。時間は限られている。この瞬間は永遠ではない。やりたいことはとっととやれ。旅行なら予約を今取れ。資格ならすぐ申し込め。親に会いたいなら来週末会え。ガンガン動け。この日常が続く保証はない。日常に甘えるな。外的変化は一瞬で起きる。未消化のタスクを残すな。

[Shiloh Marx @Shilohmarx]

Gov. Bob Ferguson (D-WA) won by 433,550 votes.

Washington processed 427,038 duplicate registrations.

[ali @gaforrevibes]

the people's real final match

[ニア🥺MNPナソパ師（トレカオタク） @boc_125]

イトーヨーカドー
ベトナム人

110番

して、違法滞在者がいるので在留カードの確認お願いします

って、電話番号2個から通報したら、警察来て二人連行されて逮捕されました

これ、みんなに徹底してやってほしい

#ベトナム　#不法滞在　#在留カード　#ポケカ #ストームエメラルダ　#イトーヨーカドー

[Millie Marconi @MillieMarconnni]

A Japanese engineer invented the QR code for one job, tracking car parts on a Toyota line, then his company chose to give the patent away for free, which is the only reason it ended up on every restaurant table on Earth.

His name is Masahiro Hara. The company was Denso Wave, a parts supplier owned by Toyota.

In 1992 the problem landed on his desk, and it was not glamorous. Workers on the factory floor were drowning.

Every car part had a barcode, but a barcode can only hold about twenty characters, so to track one component they had to stick five or ten barcodes on it.

A worker would stand there scanning a single part ten times in a row. Some of them were scanning close to a thousand barcodes a day. The job had stopped being about building cars and turned into pointing a scanner at stickers all day long.

And there was a second problem nobody upstairs cared about. This was a factory. Oil got on everything. A smudge of grease across a barcode and the whole thing became unreadable, and the line stopped.

Hara was asked to make the scanner faster. He looked at it for a while and realized the scanner was not the problem. The barcode itself was the ceiling. A line of black bars can only hold information going one direction, left to right.

He decided to build something that held information in two directions, up and down as well as across, so it could store hundreds of times more in the same little square.

Then came the part that sounds made up but is not.

Hara played Go on his lunch breaks, the old board game with black and white stones sitting on a grid. He was staring at the board one day and it clicked.

The grid of black and white stones was already a way to store information in two directions. That was the shape of his code.

But building the code was the easy half. The hard problem was speed, because the whole point was to be fast, and a scanner wastes most of its time just trying to figure out where the code is and which way it is turned.

The fix came to him on a train. He was looking out the window at buildings, and one building stood out from all the others because of its shape against the sky. That was the idea.

He put three little square targets in three corners of the code. The moment a scanner sees those three squares, it knows instantly where the code is and how it is rotated, even upside down, even at an angle.

Now here is the detail that shows how far he was willing to go. Those three corner squares only work if nothing else on the page looks like them.

If a magazine ad or a cardboard box happened to have the same black and white pattern nearby, the scanner would get confused and grab the wrong thing.

So Hara and his tiny two-person team went and surveyed printed material. Magazines. Flyers. Cardboard boxes. Piles of it, for days, reducing every picture down to its ratio of black to white area, hunting for the one ratio that almost never shows up in print anywhere. They found it. One to one to three to one to one.

That exact rhythm of black and white is baked into every corner square of every QR code on Earth, and it is there because it is the pattern the printed world almost never produces by accident.

Then he solved the oil.

He built the code so it carries a backup of its own information, spread mathematically across the whole square. You can tear off, smudge, or scratch out up to thirty percent of a QR code and it still scans perfectly, because the code rebuilds the missing piece from the copy it kept of itself.

A worker could get grease on a third of the label and the line would keep moving. This is the same math that lets a scratched CD still play and lets a spacecraft send data back across the solar system without asking to repeat itself.

He finished in 1994. He named it Quick Response, after what it does for the person using it, not after what it is.

And then Denso made the decision that actually mattered.

They held the patent. They could have charged a fee on every single scan, and given how many billions happen now, that would have made someone unimaginably rich.

Instead they announced they would not enforce their rights to collect royalties, and they published the specification openly so anyone could use it. Hara later said it was not even a big argument inside the company.

That one choice is the whole story. A code that costs nothing to use is a code everyone builds on. Airlines put it on tickets. Phone makers built readers into cameras.

Then a pandemic hit and the world needed a way to hand someone information without touching anything, and the free little square that a Toyota engineer built for greasy factory workers was suddenly on every menu, every payment, every door.

Hara still works there. He has said, more than once, that he never imagined it would spread this far, and that the part he is proudest of is that it got used to keep people safe.

The man built it to survive oil on a factory floor. It ended up surviving everything else too.

You have scanned his work a hundred times this year. Now you know whose it was.

[どちゃん @wareseishun]

盗撮がバレた客が、警察呼ばれるってなった途端に「嫁と子供がいるんです」「会社クビになって生活できなくなる」ってガチ泣きして命乞いしてくるの、本当に虫が良すぎ。こっちだってネットに晒されたら人生終わるんだけど？人生を平気で壊そうとしたくせに、自分の人生だけ守ろうとするの本当にキモい

[ジョージ・グラス駐日米国大使 @USAmbJapan]

It looks like the fox let its tail show — as the Chinese saying goes. Just days after proposing “a new type of international relations featuring win-win cooperation,” Beijing — on the 10th anniversary of the Arbitral Tribunal’s South China Sea ruling in favor of the Philippines — dismisses the unanimous decision as a “worthless piece of paper.” I guess China only favors cooperation that it wins.

[Brandi Kruse @BrandiKruse]

At NO POINT does the state of Washington verify citizenship before allowing someone to vote. Why is Attorney General Nick Brown telling such easily debunked lies?

[Brandi Kruse @BrandiKruse]

The most tone deaf governor in America.

[David Pivtorak @TheDavidPiv]

Just a reminder my law firm is investigating companies who discriminate against Americans in favor of H-1B workers. If you've been rejected or replaced by Xbox or Microsoft, feel free to reach out.

[Kylian Mbappé @KMbappe]

Madame Celeste Amarilla,
Vous êtes une femme méprisable et indigne de sa fonction.
Vous ne représentez pas le Paraguay, ce pays qui a transpiré la passion et l’honneur tout au long de la compétition. Par votre inconscience et votre racisme décomplexé, le monde entier a déjà oublié le parcours et l’effort historique que vos joueurs ont réalisés durant cette coupe du monde pour laisser place à une dame incompétente donnant la pire image possible de son pays.
Je ne laisserai jamais aux gens comme elle, la liberté de laisser propager leur haine et leur racisme à travers le monde.

[Pepe Invests @pepemoonboy]

I’ll be investing the maximum $5,000 per year into the Trump Account for my son.

Assuming a 10% annual return, he’ll have roughly $228,000 by the time he turns 18.

Instead of pushing him straight into college, I’ll encourage him to take that money and spend a few years traveling the world.

Experience different cultures.

Try new foods.

Meet people with completely different perspectives.

I genuinely believe that kind of education is worth more than anything a college or university could ever teach.

[Dr. Dennis Walker @drdenwalker]

Here is the reality👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

[佐藤二朗 @actor_satojiro]

さすがに、さすがにもうこれ以上は我慢できません。僕は撮影中、何度も「もう我慢の限界だから、このドラマを降板させてほしい。そして全ての事実を公にするべき」と訴えました。
もっと早く決断するべきでした。
数々の「ほんとうのこと」が、明らかになる日が来ることを、切に祈ります。
佐藤二朗

[ミド建築・都市観測所 @Mid_observatory]

台風が2つも来ていて、電車も運休するというのに、都庁では今日もプロジェクションマッピングが行われています。もちろん誰も見ていません。これには1日で費用が200万〜300万円もかかっています。ムダすぎます。小池都知事の給料から引いて下さい！

[お侍さん @ZanEngineer]

ピーチ姫がゾウになっても、冷めるどころかもっと大きな愛を注ぐクッパ。大きな組織をまとめ上げ部下からの信頼も厚く、見た目ではなく内面を一途に愛し続ける。おまけにピアノも上手い。どう考えても配管工よりええやろ。もうお前ら結婚しちゃえよ。

[WA Senate Republicans @WashingtonSRC]

Public records confirm the "Millionaire's Tax," branded by the far left and special interests, is really meant to be an Income Tax on everyone (SB 6346) according to The Center Square. The same documents confirm that WA AG Nick Brown (D) and WA Democrat Leaders have been working together to bypass our state constitution to ram this tax through.

This development comes after decades of tax increases, including the largest tax increase in state history was signed into law by Gov. Bob Ferguson this year (SB 5998 & SB 6346), and the second largest tax increase in state history was passed last year (SB 5167).

These taxes not only included an Income Tax, but also the largest property tax and rent increase in state history (HB 2049), a massive expansion of the sales tax (SB 5814), the death tax, 38%-50% fee increases on fishing licenses, hunting licenses, and the Discover Pass, and so much more. On top of all of that, the far left majority cut $782 MILLION out of Medicaid, cut child care, and cut funding for domestic violence support.

It didn't have to be this way! The Senate Republican Budget had no new taxes, no tax increases, and no service cuts (SB 5810). Our budget focused on eliminating fraud, waste, and abuse.

And about fraud, waste, and abuse...Remember the squandered $15 BILLION surplus, the missing $1.17 BILLION in COVID money, $646 MILLION stolen from unemployment, $340 MILLION going to non-citizens, and so much more.

It's well past time for state government to stop treating WA families and individuals as tax farms. We need policies that lower, not increase, the high cost of living in our state.

#UnconstitutionalWA #UnaffordableWA #GovernmentGreed #waleg