• SpaceX is planning to launch 1000 ships.  (Ars Technica)
  
  Starships, that is.
  
  To colonise Mars.
  
  Right now.
  
  
  
• Don't do that.  What you're doing there, with the user-space threading and the load-after-fork and the weakly-typed interpreted languages and the everything is a web service.  Stop it.  (Rachel by the Bay)
  
  It's convenient, but it's sure not efficient.  I did some work with ZeroMQ  over Christmas and even with PyPy it is absolutely lightning fast.  With something like Crystal or Nim it would be even faster.
  
  
  
• Why don't all servers have four sockets?  (Serve the Home)
  
  One word: Price.  It's cheaper to buy two two-socket servers.  It's usually cheaper to buy three two-socket servers.  And you can get 64 cores in a single socket now.
  
  
  
• The great disappearing MacBook port.  (Six Colors)
  
  To be fair, four Thunderbolt ports offers a lot of flexibility.
  
  
  
• If a tech conference is cancelled and no-one could get tickets anyway, does it make a dent?  (Fast Company)
  
  Mass cancellations of high-tech events and replacing them with online video thingies is by no means all bad.

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