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Americans are starting to realize Tesla isn’t the only EV option
Not long ago, Tesla’s electric car was far ahead of any other electric car on the market. If you want a sleek, long-range, easy-to-charge, and fully functional electric car, then Elon Musk is your most likely supplier—even if you loathe him terribly. But that is no longer the case. Over the past year, I’ve tested a number of cool new EVs coming in 2021 and 2022. There are cheap ones, expensive ones, big ones, petite ones, oddly designed ones, and uninteresting ones. The Ford F-150 Lightning is the electric version of America’s longtime bestseller, and the Ford Mustang is great inside and out: beautifully designed, roomy, and fun to drive.…
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Engineers are keen to become tech bloggers
In 2021, Cristian Velazquez helped Uber fix a major software problem. Initially, he and his team diagnosed a data-handling flaw that could prevent Uber’s app from functioning properly. They then developed a way to clean up memory more efficiently, saving Uber time and money. This is an abbreviated version of the story. Later, on Uber’s tech blog, Velázquez introduced the project in an article titled “How We Saved 70,000 Cores Across 30 Mission-Critical Services.” However, it should be noted that ordinary readers are best to understand technical terms such as Go, CPU, and fragmented ledger sets first. Velázquez himself was of course familiar with these terms. But he doesn’t know…
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I could have endured the dark
”I could have endured the darkness if I hadn’t seen the sun.” This is the poem “If I Hadn’t Seeed the Sun” by American poet Emily Dickinson, which is used to describe the fourth child in the movie “Into the Dust”. I’m afraid it’s the most suitable situation. Some people say that the movie “Hidden in the Dust and Smoke” is “the whole film does not talk about suffering, but it is beyond the sky; the whole film does not talk about love, but it is love to the extreme”. Two poor redundant people – Ma Youtie and Cao Guiying, came together because they were rejected. With kindness, hard work,…
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Algorithmic giant wheel sails into the fog: Bytedance’s 100,000 employees are trapped in the data, facing a survival test in half a year
On the first day of joining ByteDance, R&D staff Liang Shuang felt an invisible pressure. After browsing the documents for several hours, he was pulled into several program groups without warning. This is a complex communication across cities. Countless strange avatars popped up in the group, swiping the screen to report the progress of the project… When the work at hand came to an end, the clock had already pointed to 12 o’clock in the morning. Since then, Liang Shuang’s 24 hours have been cut into pieces: Sitting in an online car-hailing car and video chatting with his girlfriend in a different place, and immediately connecting to a temporary team…
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After uninstalling Douyin, the whole world has become better!
1 I uninstalled TikTok. Not because it’s bad, on the contrary, because it’s too successful. He managed to steal all my time and make me part of its algorithm. I start to brush when I get up in the morning; I can brush on the way to work; I can brush in line for meals, I can brush when I go to the toilet, I can brush between work, and I can brush when I go to bed at night. I am inseparable from it. And my patience for watching videos is getting lower and lower. Basically, a video only starts for a few seconds, and then quickly slides to…