🚀 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Here’s what you’ll learn: November 7, 2013 Last month, Toyota hastily settled an Unintended Acceleration lawsuit – hours after an Oklahoma jury determined that the automaker acted with “reckless disregard,” and delivered a $3 million verdict to the plaintiffs – but before the jury could determine punitive damages. What did the jury hear that constituted such a gross neglect of Toyota’s due care obligations? The testimony of two plaintiff’s experts in software design and the design process gives some eye-popping clues. After reviewing Toyota’s software engineering process…
💥 Check out this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: Donald Trump news,kennedy center,Kennedy Center Honors 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: WASHINGTON (AP) — Sylvester Stallone, Kiss and Gloria Gaynor were among the dignitaries celebrated Sunday at the annual Kennedy Center Honors Gala, where Donald Trump will host the show, marking the first time a head honcho has taken over the stage instead of sitting on the Opera House dais. Watch Trump's remarks in the video player above. Since returning to office in January, Trump has made the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts,…
✨ Discover this must-read post from The New Yorker 📖 📂 Category: Culture / The Food Scene 💡 Main takeaway: On my first visit to the original Babu's — gosh, that must have been twenty years ago — I remember being awestruck upon my first bite of the cheek-meat ravioli. ("Of all pasta dishes - in fact, of everyone “The dishes — on the menu, these are probably the ones most associated with Babu,” Batali writes of the recipe, in “The Babu Cookbook,” from 2002.) She froze. I think I stopped chewing. I was amazed that a bite of food…
🚀 Read this awesome post from WIRED 📖 📂 Category: Gear,Gear / Products / Outdoor,Gear / Products / Health and Fitness,Gear / Products,Gear / Reviews,Both Is Best ✅ Main takeaway: “In general, we find that many of these shoes have more of an impact on road running than on the track,” Bowden says. “So, there will be a combination of foams, midsole geometry, less attention to fit, and a more precise outsole pattern compared to regular shoes.”What are the benefits of gravel shoes?In one word: diversity. You can lace up a gravel shoe at home with confidence that it will…
🔥 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Main takeaway: You’re staring at perf top showing 60% CPU time in pthread_mutex_lock. Your latency is in the toilet. Someone suggests “just use a spinlock” and suddenly your 16-core server is pegged at 100% doing nothing useful. This is the synchronization primitive trap, and most engineers step right into it because nobody explains when each primitive actually makes sense.Mutexes sleep. Spinlocks burn CPU. Both protect your critical section, but they fail in opposite ways. A mutex that sleeps for 3 microseconds is a disaster when your critical section…
✨ Explore this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: Donald Trump news,presidential power,rebecca slaughter,Supreme Court ✅ Key idea: WASHINGTON (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts has led the Supreme Court's conservative majority on a steady march to increase presidential power, which began long before Donald Trump arrived in the White House. The justices could take the next step in a case being argued Monday that calls for overturning a 90-year-old unanimous decision limiting executive power. Listen to Monday's arguments live starting at 10 a.m. EST in the video player above. The court's conservatives, as liberal Justice…
🔥 Discover this awesome post from The New Yorker 📖 📂 Category: Culture / The New Yorker Interview ✅ Key idea: How did this book come to you?I was driving through New Mexico to the Telluride Film Festival, and that's when Amblin [Steven Spielberg’s production company] Contact me about this project. The reception was in and out, and they were saying it was about Shakespeare's wife and the death of their son. I just thought, there are a lot of things in that sentence that I have no personal connection to, so I said no. A few hours later, I…
🔥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Main takeaway: Ads support content creators and free services. If you value specific creators or platforms, consider supporting them directly through memberships or donations rather than relying solely on ad blocking.A couple of years ago, I decided I'd had enough of ads. Not just the occasional banner or a quick pre-roll video — I mean all of them. They have to go.So I embarked on a holy crusade to get rid of them as much as possible. I tried the obvious solutions first, then dug deeper into…
💥 Discover this awesome post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: Department of Justice,james comey 💡 Here’s what you’ll learn: WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has dealt a setback to the Justice Department's efforts to obtain a new indictment against former FBI Director James Comey, temporarily barring prosecutors from using evidence they relied on when they initially obtained criminal charges. The ruling issued Saturday night by U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly does not prevent the department from trying to charge Comey again soon, but it suggests that prosecutors may have to do so without pointing to communications…
🚀 Check out this awesome post from The New Yorker 📖 📂 Category: Books / This Week in Fiction 📌 Key idea: In your story "Understanding the Science" in this week's issue, a group of friends sit around a dinner table in Chicago, celebrating the fact that Maria's cancer is now in remission. The conversation was general, perhaps a bit boring, and Maria was certainly feeling a bit upset. The spark comes when Catherine's boyfriend, Adrian, enters the scene, as he is a famous actor. Although the story begins from Maria's point of view, it begins to shift subtly, and…