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I still think that software in general does show up in productivity trends. Take a look at nineties on the chart in the article, this productivity surge can easily be attributed to…

Well, Facebook held the crown for way too long, it was bound to happen, but honestly I don’t see TikTok as a Facebook killer. It feels too niche to be popular in the long run.

Was wondering the same

Excellent point! Combustion engine did see a fair bit of progress.

Same here with iOS Safari. Thank you for the direct link.

> “What mechanism stops people from forging the original vaccine cards?” None, and that’s the real problem of the CDC cards. For a service like this to succeed, it needs to come up…

Mechanical watch is a mesmerizing device. Makes you wonder though, why there was so little progress around mechanical technology (not only watch specific) lately? My car can talk t…

Nice, didn’t know that one

It’s cool, but 2D transformations are easy to wrap your head around anyway. Waiting for part two!

I wish industry encouraged engineers more to pay attention to this kind of things, rather than to flashy bells and whistles. 30-50ms may seem insignificant, but has a huge impact o…

You’re totally right, Saturn V, Space Shuttle, SLS – all of them are great technology, but financially speaking, they were all doomed from the get go. I weren’t trying to compare N…

Agree on all points. I’m pretty sure Starship is going to be more economically viable than Space Shuttle ever was, I didn’t mean to compare them directly. And you’re right, $1k/kg …

$7bn is just a third of NASA budget, it’s doable, but you’re right, there’s no reason to go as big as McMurdo Station with today’s technology.

People were optimistic about LEO shipping costs when the Space Shuttle program just started, but it didn’t exactly work out economically. Partially reusable F9 was meant to decreas…

TL;DR – drainage ditches, carbon dioxide traps, roofs that don’t collect rainwater and chickens that eat mosquitoes.

Smart homes are so stupid today

Given the speed of sound, 0.5ms delay occurs when you talk to anybody more than half-a-feet away

This story has an Irvine Welsh flavor

Mob is hiring backend guys now, brave new world

Interesting, up to this day I thought that browser search is Cmd/Ctrl+F and webapp search is typically “/”. I got used to that to the point that I find it convenient.

Second that. Do you rely on any image moderation service, Amazon Rekognition or similar?

Sometimes I, a human being, can’t bypass Cloudflare

That’s a very good point. Also explains why Data Scientists like their dynamic languages, and Embedded engineers prefer static typing.

TIL that login through Apple ID shields my data from the service that I’m logging in. Idk about the dev side, but as a user I like it. I may start using this feature after all.

That’s why I like Hacker News front end