#24 Daily Tech: The epic story behind the Ferrari and Lamborghini rivalry
The epic story behind the Ferrari and Lamborghini rivalry
The year is 1963. Ferruccio Lamborghini, a successful tractor manufacturer, is unhappy with his Ferrari.
What if OpenSSL were a GUI program? Here’s what it might look like.
40,000 coin tosses yield ambiguous evidence for dynamical bias
The 2007 Diaconis - Holmes - Montgomery paper Dynamical bias in the coin toss suggests that in coin-tossing there is a particular ``dynamical bias" that causes a coin to be slightly more likely to land the same way up as it started. In brief, whether the coin lands the same way up as it started depends deterministically on the initial parameters of motion imparted at the instant of tossing.
A really dramatic example of the Leidenfrost effect
The moisture on his skin boils instantly, forming a layer of steam that insulates for a very short time, a temporary barrier between this person and the molten metal.
How to Write Better with The Why, What, How Framework
Here’s a story from the early days of Amazon Web Services: Before writing any code, engineers spent 18 months contemplating and writing documents on how best to serve the customer. Amazon believes this is the fastest way to work—thinking deeply about what the customer needs before executing on that rigorously refined vision.
Meta slammed with eight lawsuits claiming social media hurts kids
Facebook and Instagram's parent biz, Meta, was hit with not one, not two, but eight different lawsuits accusing its social media algorithm of causing real harm to young users across the US.
Coinbase CEO Tweets ‘Quit And Find A Company You Believe In’ To Disgruntled Employees
Coinbase employees who were concerned over the rescinded offers and other decisions taken by management started an online Petition to remove top executives including COO Emilie Choi, Chief Product Officer Surojit Chatterjee, and Chief People Officer LJ Brock “in a Vote of No Confidence.”
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