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I used to think the same before I bought a hybrid (Honda CRV). It is different from Toyota but also a very simple setup (generator + ev at low to medium speeds and direct drive at …

Paypal owned Honey seems to be using sneaky UX to get affiliate share. They are overriding affiliate links just before the checkout. They are also using deceptive advertising to us…

What a great comment. Thanks for writing this out. One more thing to mention here is that Software Engineers are paid more because the industry is able to scale well to individual …

I love the engineering behind Voyager 2. Is there a good book or documentary that folks here on HN recommend to go deep on the various engineering pieces behind Voyager ?

Public transportation is not dangerous but cycling on roads made for cars is.

This is exactly what I did. I imported my GPad in 2013. It is still working as a pdf reader with its screen seperated. I am planning to do some DIY fix and going to donate it. Ther…

Author has written his own router software and probably wants to continue to develop it. They are much more pro than your normal average home user.

This has already started happening in India where thiefs are replacing QR codes which are stuck outside of a Shop

Googler here. You are absolutely right. I would never ever do something the Google way outside of Google. Google has a dedicated organisation for maintaining all the infrastructure…

Yes

This is so true of me. Never really liked solving puzzles, cubes, riddles etc. But programming, oh boy I Love it. Have spent hours non stop debugging complex things in OS, Networks…

Sandboxed containers.

Lookup Google's Spanner. It's a distributed transactional SQL database with whatever consistency levels you are interested in Disclaimer- Google employee who is heavily using Spann…

You are right about content. But in that case FB should have clearly communicated about violations for those pages and given a chance to correct them. Also taking down personal acc…

If you have a bit of interest in programming, math and art, this is 1 hour of pure joy. Thanks for this

There is IRC as backup

Everything is affected. Its Gaia(Google Auth) outage, most probably. Disclaimer - Googler here whose workplace chat is not working.

https://www.forbesindia.com/article/take-one-big-story-of-th... A good writeup by Forbes. Big ad companies and media houses need to put pressure against false advertisement. I have…