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birdhouse··on Twitter applies 7-day suspension to half a dozen journalists
Collectively, I wonder how many tens or hundreds of millions of hours are burned, scrutinizing Musk, Twitter, Tesla, and every move Musk makes. Don’t like Twitter? Don’t use it. It’s like a Twitter/Musk addiction. I don’t care for for social media or Musk. Don’t understand why he lives in everyone’s mind, rent free.
birdhouse··on Ask HN: What's your proudest hack?
I wrote multithreaded code in C++ before for a different use case. Was the challenge here just getting 30hz or was there something limiting where you couldn’t get that output with just running a dedicated thread? I’m no expert. Teach me :)
birdhouse··on Data behind high-functioning engineering organizations [pdf]
Browsed through the slides but didn’t encounter any lightbulb moments or any specific enlightenment.

What are the key takeaways or lessons here?

birdhouse··on The next step in ecommerce – replatform with APIs and micro front ends
Amazon.com and other major online commerce players are also headless. Different, evolving front ends (think native or web views on iOS or Android, React, vanilla JS, angular, …) have a direct endpoint, which integrates with different services like product catalog, cart, checkout, recommendations).
birdhouse··on Ask HN: Are you still tipping on takeout/pickup orders?
I tip 0 if all you’re doing is handing me over food that I drove to pick up.
birdhouse··on The failure of Amazon's Alexa shows Microsoft was right to kill Cortana
| Yet, the division has been named as one of Amazon's biggest failures in recent times, which reminded me that, once upon a time, Microsoft also sought a piece of that surprisingly unlucrative pie.

Is a company detouring from perhaps internal empire building and excessive hiring, particularly in uncertain economic times, the equivalent of failure?