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I'd wager that those communities that so called "get ruined" didn't grow as their size grew. What I mean is that the rules, norms and the culture that allowed X number of people to…

Headphone jacks on mobile devices, especially mobile phones that you handle numerous times during the day, is a big problem. Personally, I almost destroyed my phone multiple times back when I wore wir…

> The achievement of powered flight on another world is one of the great spaceflight feats of the last decade. Really? Could someone with more knowledge about this outline how different the Mars co…

Almost every point is ignoring THE main goal of framework, which is to reduce cost and waste over the LONG TERM. > No AMD offerings, at all. Not yet. At $400 or less, you'll be able to upgrade…

> Errors on unused variables are annoying as well. > Not everything that should be done needs to be done right here right now. Hence the ability to suppress it with `_ = unused_var`! The point i…

Tim Dodd is a world treasure when it comes to space education. The material he's produced are timeless. Thanks Tim for the quality and down to earth content you've made and all the behind th…

Back when most of the population didn't have access to books, you'd only have to make a choice if you wanted to learn from your dad or your mum or some other relative. Once libraries became …

At the time when I was learning go (about 5-6 years ago), this document was a truly effective guide which would have probably wasted my time by a factor of 100 had it been a published book on the subj…

> you’d pick a clown over someone who literally revolutionized physics? Seriously? Clowns in your town start revolutions in manufacturing, energy, space travel, worldwide comms, etc.? Well if you c…

> All this drama but I really feel this is a huge waste of time, energy and money for Mr Musk. Musk has talked on number of occasions, about how he shares his time between his various companies. I&…

> Am I the only person here that finds Twitter a nice place? I sure read a lot more junk here on HN than I do on my twitter feed, mostly because I have a lot more control on what comes my way there…

> He didn't even found Tesla What's your point? Any dimwit with a couple thousand dollars can found a company and register a trademark. > he acquired a ready-made idea / plan Plan…

Creating a repository on the official account of your employer is not an innocent joke. Media will pick up on it expecting content and when it doesn’t show up/gets removed, you’ll have a whole bu…

> rapidly increasing battery capacity and demand That is solely and utterly because of Tesla. The reason for the demand was to build electric cars which Tesla and only Tesla, building butt load o…

Turns out, no amount of money can speed up launch of a rocket when the regulatory agency in charge approving launches takes months to respond. Turns out no amount of money can speed up opening a car f…

uhhhh, Tesla, SpaceX, and everything else didn't do it for you, but not having to sign in to read a website, will?!!!!!

Trolling your new boss is a sure way to get your ass fired. EDIT: in case you're not aware, Musk has stated that one of the first things he'll be doing after taking Twitter private is to ope…

Musk has repeatedly talked about "open sourcing" twitter's algorithm. Given Musk is (understandably) super impatient, this repo may be his first move. I expect this to start with bunch …

> Lol, you make it sounds like we're about to lose Einstein due to overwork. If I had to make a choice b/w Musk and Einstein, I'd pick Musk 100:1 in Musk's favor. Musk moves thi…

Very interesting aspect of color management which I never paid attention to. I wrote a simple primer on color profiles [1] a while back which makes mention of state of custom color profiles on the web…

How the hell is this a hostile takeover? No one’s even responded to the offer yet? Shitty ass clock bait headline.

I really dig the GTK's thick header bars and the widgets you can put there. Pretty sure Apple was the inspiration but it's a very elegant use of otherwise wasted space. I recently made a sim…

> no one really gave a damn about me One should never care about a person in context of their achievements. Because what and the who just muddy the other and you end up not understanding and apprec…

You can't run a docker images on Cloudflare functions, nor can you run a code with 10GB size.

You can always proxy it (e.g. Cloudflare).

https://blog.oxplot.com Statically generated by my own static site generator. Hosted on github pages.

Even with `xz --best`, you can only compress this down to 25% of its original size. I guess a more specialized text compressor that can get this to less than 10% would allow 2-3x more domains to be in…