> Building Webb has been difficult because its 6.5-meter mirror needs to unfurl itself once it reaches an orbit about 1.5 million kilometers from Earth. This is an exceedingly complex process, and there are more than 300 single points of failure

So in 2 years or so when starship is up and running, is it going to be orders of magnitude cheaper to build the thing you put in orbit as well as orders of magnitude cheaper to get it there?

For a list of similar JavaScript tools that are written in other languages:

https://github.com/RobinCsl/awesome-js-tooling-not-in-js/

This reminds me how much I hate the go ./... magic custom (that means this and all recursive subdirectories).

We have the unix -r custom already. Now we have another, that makes no sense, that you just have to learn.

Keen to hear your speed of light explanation of CAP :)

There are lots of stories about writers who are very productive using an old method:

--This dune story,

--Game of thrones (asoif) written on wordstar

--And of course dozens of writers who still use pen and paper

This is what these environments have in common: no or minimal internet to distract you

I wouldn’t use “fair share” myself. But personal cars are horribly space-inefficient. See linked image. Add in required parking and it’s even worse.

https://www.detroittransit.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/sp...

I sometimes wonder, what if there was a universal governing principle, that was simple to enforce, obvious, formulated in few words, so that everyone understands it.

All those priveleges which every of theese corporations enjoy, some simple, like not publishing schematic for 1000$+ device, some complex, like making backroom deals harming millions of people in a some insignificant and obscure way daily, like showing certain ads to certain people. Some other evade taxes using laws in ways laws were never intended to be used.

To enumerate and prevent every abuse possible is not optimal spending of time.

What if there were no hard rules, but instead the whole playing filed was in favour of little men. What would be the the main idea behind such system? Maybe some kind of radical transparency?

This idea, principle should apply to every company and reward those who play not only by the rules, but to the common end: sustainable, transparent, non-abusive, respecting sosiety.

If only existed some simple rule that reward this behaviour.

Does anyone remember the days when some geneticists were saying that 98% of DNA is "junk" DNA? When I heard it I knew it couldn't be true but it's probably going to take another 50 years to figure out how much really does get used.

I can't help but suspect that a lot of the genome is a part of the boot sequence that helps you go from one cell up to all the differentiated organs and tissues and systems.