> differ to the AI

defer to the AI

The author is a woman, not sure why you assumed they identifed as he/him.

Probably because there is no bio or name on this page and the author mentions their girlfriend. Seems an easy error to make

I'm quite curious to know what kind of systems / software do you work on?

There's thousands of species of mosquitoes, and we could get rid of the small number of disease carrying ones at least - https://worksinprogress.co/issue/mosquitoes-are-a-choice/

> it’s technically considered East Asia

This phrasing seems odd, considering that those two countries are firmly in East Asia, and would not be considered as a part of SE Asia by any definition.

Well to me they’re part of an overall southeastern quadrant, with the northeastern quadrant occupied by Russia. It’s just how I think about things. If you divide it into eight directions plus a central region then it’s clearly East Asia, which is the common way to look at it.

It’s a habit of thought that I should break because it’s not really a common way to look at Asia, which makes communication difficult. It’s almost certainly a habit derived from discussion about the US, which is often discussed as four quadrants plus “the midwest,” which is really the center.

It might be how you think about things in your own mind but for many other people South East Asia as a region is a pretty commonly understood term with a fairly specific set of countries and basically considered to be the tropical part of Asia where it's always hot and humid. (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Myanmar, Brunei).

> Confluent is seemingly decimated

Hm, care to elaborate? It looks like they've retained most of the engineering team and day-to-day priorities for Confluent / Kafka probably haven't changed much.

Jay’s gone. So many other smart people gone. Why dump Jay unless you want to radically change directions?

There's tons of Indians in Cupertino and Mountain View as well, so I don't know what your comment was trying to prove, apart from openly displaying your prejudice and racism.

If a comment gets flagged enough, it gets marked as "dead". There's a show dead option you can enable in your HN profile settings to still be able to see such comments though.

HN can be pretty weird with +1 kind of comments.

There's dozens of cities and towns named San José globally.

Some amusing data about this in the US:

There's at least one[a] town/city called San Jose in at least[b] 4 US states. Not to mention other things named such (e.g. 2 different San Jose creeks in California, neither of which is in the San Jose metro - one in LA and one in Monterey)

[a] there appears to be 2 towns in new mexico called San Jose

[a.2] Illinois amuses me because there's a San Jose and St Joseph both, and both are small.

[b] There appears to be a tiny (pop 15) town called San Jose in Texas, but it's unclear if that's officially incorporated, etc.