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Since the parent is running on GKE, they’re already doing that. Postgres in a (kube) container on a (GCE) VM in a (borg) container on a computer.

Monarch is monitored by a second instance of itself known as meta-monarch. It’s a fraction of the size, of course, but still mind-bogglingly large. Meta is in turn monitored by the…

Note that $15k isn't tremendously more than public school costs: > Total expenditures for public elementary and secondary schools in the United States in 2013–14 amounted to $634 b…

Wow, that New Posts chart is brutal. This nearby link[1] seems to claim that Yahoo failed to "not screw it up", but the details are extremely vague. I'm unclear what could have cau…

Is anyone actually spending Bitcoin? Given the ludicrous growth, it seems prudent to just leave it in the bank.

I wonder if your friend is also incensed by all the low- and middle-income families moving into those high-rises, or just by the "billionaires" who make that feasible.

This is great, thank you!

Could you share more about your experience with elastic actuators? What did your hardware look like? I'm working on something similar, and would love your input.

I used a Rapsberry Pi (and a lot of Dynamixel servos, LiPo, gyro, etc) to build a small hexapod robot. I was mostly interested in learning about legged locomotion, and got a bit ca…

You might find this interesting: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/why-d...

So disappointing that Google (disclosure: my employer) couldn't figure out what to do with these incredible companies. Let's hope Softbank can put them to better use.

Dynamixel servos are expensive for sure, but there are a couple of low-end models which are pretty reasonably priced given their (excellent, as you note) capabilities. The XL-320[1…

I've always been intrigued by this stance. Do you believe that heroin should be available for purchase, like e.g. cigarettes? Is this a matter of individual liberty, or some other …

Not at all, your solution entirely solves the most annoying part. I just prefer to do the next step in an automated manner, too.

This is a great feature to get started, but it's unfortunate that the "ssh" file hack doesn't set up SSH keys and disable password auth, or at least change the default password. Th…

Hello! I was one of those annoying "architects" saying no, but it wasn't because only three languages are allowed. When I left the Times about six months ago, systems were actively…

Clickable: https://github.com/adammck/gh-news-feed-filters

GitHub's news feed has never been very useful (to me), because it's so noisy. Following a popular repo (e.g. Rails) floods the feed with so many alerts that I regularly miss things…