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See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_Dome_(film) for China’s inability to regulate their out of control pollution.

For speed, Lua code should be run in Luajit.

A 2008 survey indicated that nine out of ten British children were able to identify a Dalek correctly.

I think an SMTP setup would be overly complex. I setup a Lua-based mail sender in nginx for a startup a few years back that just sent to gmail iirc. But that now seems a bit too much effort. SendGrid seems interesting as you can setup templates and then just make a Rest API call.

Everyone quotes “the standard” as what they do. CSS is probably the one area where there is no consistency in how it is handled in React.

Actually, no. I started working in React about two years ago and if anything, I think the ecosystem in the OP map has stabilised somewhat. I think that SASS use is starting to fade and grid layout is now a thing but not like the whole gulp to grunt to webpack thing. Plus create-react-app makes starting easier.

What frustrated me is that management had no idea of all the bases you needed to cover and expected me to be a backend dev and performant in Java, Spring, Elasticsearch and a whole variety of other things in Java land.

You won’t get low latency in Australia without having a server somewhere in the country, usually Sydney. If you’re using https, TLS has a number of round trips to complete handshaking and users will see a lot of benefit from lower latency.

I’ve met people on long distance hikes who could do 30km a day. 3km per day seems very little.

Very interesting. At a glance, the binding libs seem to transform from lat/lon to a hex index. For storage then, conceivably you would just index by hex and transform lat / loc queries to hex on the fly.

Also, it seems there is no map data attribution for Australia. I doubt Uber built their own maps.

I’m not too surprised by the relatively strong showing of 128GB memory. I’ve worked with scientific datasets where the primary constraint was always memory. So we would always be chasing motherboards with the most memory support, and with such a machine around why not have it as your desktop :-)

It’s also an app issue. I run a 4K monitor on Ubuntu and the majority of apps take the entire screen when they start or open a window. And in many apps I have to tweak things so it becomes readable.

It seems to me then that with a carefully thought out inverted index and using the trigrams mentioned above, you could go a long way towards having the capability of the Lucene-based implementations like Elasticsearch and Solr.

Interesting that there is inverted index support (ie GIN). Elasticsearch seems to make a big thing of using inverted indices.

Could this conceivably be used to speed binaries like nginx? I tend to compile nginx on my systems as over time there are always custom modules I want to add/modify anyway.

That mindset has made flying in the US the experience it is today.

Meanwhile, PC laptops are now available with 128GB of RAM.

In my bookshelf. I think that the most fundamental statement in Stick & Rudder is that you are flying a Wing. And a Wing is something that is inherently non-intuitive to most human beings.

Factor in wear and tear on the seats/interior as well, that driving aro7nd by yourself wouldn’t normally occur (unless you have kids)

Agreed. And the story was well-written. It takes time for people to appreciate that their mother and father is them as well.

They can hold up really well. However you’ll find that generally the economy of a newer car is staggeringly better.

I thought that was Bloke 101. Actually, the hardest part is getting the lugnuts off. When your tyres were fitted, they likely used air tools to put the nuts back on. I’ve found you always need to ensure you can remove them with the spare hand tool later - otherwise you may end up with a flat somewhere and be unable to remove the wheel.

Compare this to free public transit in some European cities

What exactly would ‘amazing encounters’ encompass? :-)

Depends a lot on the person. I see a lot of 60+ year olds watching TV but younger tech-savvy 50 something’s watch TV substantially less or not at all. I have a TV - only gets turned on for elections, major political announcements or certain annual sporting events.

My teen years were in the early 80s and TV was simply the prime source of media at that time. My family religiously watched the national news at/before dinner. My parents still have that habit - but they’ve learned to record it and zip thru ‘crap’. Sometimes they now zip thru 30 minutes in a couple of minutes.

It also seems that the quality of the content has massively declined. On the rare occasion I am waiting somewhere and there is a TV on, I’ve been stunned by how low quality some of the advertising is - poorly produced voice overs that would have been inconceivable in the 80s.

I’ve met a few people who have their TV on all the time. I have never formed a positive opinion of people who have that habit.

Laughable that he could do this!

If the string is sharp, sometimes you can just pull on it and the strings tuning will become flatter, sometimes exactly what you want.

Model 3 has a larger market share in the US now than BMW 3 series? That seems to be what the graph for April says...

I am always just stunned about how ppl in the US fly mostly without luggage checked in because there are so many disincentives to do so.

What are the 'play music' cities in the world? There was some commentary about Atlanta in the discussion.

That's really interesting. As a budding guitarist, I've often wondered what are the 'music' cities in the US and around the world.