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I use ConjuGato on iOS for practicing Spanish conjugations. There’s a game mode where you’re given an infinitive/tense/person and think of the conjugation and you can filter it dow…

There are about 30 Costcos in the UK. You’re right that they aren’t particularly useful for weekly grocery shopping unless you have a car and a large fridge.

I think there’s more preventing the passage of a law protecting an individuals right to abortion than whether it was a matter of political priority. To pass such a law would requir…

Ruby works out pretty nicely in that case! def order_list_by_predicate(l, &blk) l.partition{|i| blk.call(i)}.flatten end part(1..6) do |i| i % 2 == 1 end And you can always sort th…

An amusing little sentence to end on: > Event will be cancelled if hazardous weather conditions are predicted.

You're touching on one of the things that Tesla does that frustrates me to no end. They have this attitude of software being the solution to everything. Waymo has a reason they've …

While the wording by the author is technically incorrect in that Google and Facebook aren’t operating a single supercomputer, the computing resources in possession of each company …

Do you have any thoughts on the benefits of decreasing the fragmentation of the US grid? Presently it's some 3000 utilities who don't have much of an incentive to work together, bu…

With the staggering drop in the cost of renewables and grid-battery storage I just don't see how nuclear has a bright future in any regard. They're unbelievably capital intensive a…

The last time this was posted a few commenters mentioned using PostGIS instead of Uber rolling this themselves. If anyone's used PostGIS with a similar level of traffic/latency req…

I can only speak for the brakes. Teslas use regenerative braking on the motor before falling back to traditional frictional brake pads as I understand it. Essentially the motor is …

Radiolab had a great episode about nuclear weapons in the US. At the ~51:26 mark of the episode http://www.wnyc.org/radio/#/747788 there's a great description of what the explosion…

I've always enjoyed the alternate idea of parking areas having shelters covered in solar panels. Has the nice advantages of keeping your car cool in the summer and removing another…

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Do you have any evidence that the passenger was immature or belligerent beyond the United CEO initially claiming so? And I don't see how you can wave away the incident just by clai…

> In terms of CAP, Spanner claims to be both consistent and highly available despite operating over a wide area, which many find surprising or even unlikely. The claim thus merits …

Link to the actual OSDI paper (not the simpler whitepaper) https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...

Corrugated iron is infamously loud in rain. What type of metal roof are you considering that wouldn't be such an earsore?

I think OP meant USB type A.

The important thing you need to assess is how critical is it that clients receive fresh data. You can imagine that for a real time service it would be better to provide a timeout i…

Do you happen to know anything about offshore wind?

Anecdotally, Google's file system Colossus uses Reed-Solomon 1.5x replication. So those 150 drives might only turn out to be in the low 200's. And I remember reading a tweet from a…

You might be missing the header row of the table listing various engines and their versions, and the little note that says "Performance of ES6 features relative to the ES5 baseline…

We don't know their memory usage but if they use 1.5GB then they'll get 70 hours/month free from Amazon when using lambda [1], and it gets better from there depending on their usag…

But there's a clear difference between being able to make a chargeback within 45 days and a payment system without reversible transactions. Authorising the card is instantaneous an…