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Imagine that wifi routers and clients are people standing in a room talking to each other. Every client is friends with one particular router and only wants to talk to that router, and that router only wants to talk to its clients. A small room …

Maybe you’re thinking of someone else? I’ve never been to Mexico. 😄

Thanks! I actually live in Oregon, and the air has been mostly fine here this year. The Model 3 doesn't have Bioweapon Defense Mode anyway, so I'm not sure how much better it would be than any other car at making smoky air breathable. Hopefully I …

I reserved one. Who knows if I'll actually buy it, but I felt the same way when the Model 3 was announced and I ended up buying one and loving it, and being glad I had placed a reservation! I'm not a truck person, but I do love epic road trips …

I always seem to have trouble finding prepaid SIMs in the first place when I travel. You'd think they'd be easy to find in airports, especially in international terminals, but I've wandered around airports in Australia, New Zealand, and Iceland …

Before a trip to Iceland a few years ago I switched from AT&T to T-Mobile, since T-Mobile offers free unlimited international data on their standard plans. The catch is that you only get 2G speeds, but that turned out to be fine. It was plenty to …

Very cool! Literally. 😉 I spent two weeks driving around Iceland in an RV in 2015 and it was amazing. We were there during early fall, so it's cool to see your winter pictures of some of the same places we visited. I'd love to go back, although …

Congrats, Cake team! You nailed the landing. 😄

Spark is really great! I used it on iOS for a few years and loved it. A few months ago I decided to stop using it, though, for paranoid reasons: I couldn't quite understand how the team behind it could afford to invest such significant development …

Weirdly, I think I'm probably most excited about the credit card. I love that Apple is actually taking a more socially responsible, less predatory approach to credit, and one that respects privacy and offers really fantastic account management …

For most of the code I release, I prefer Semantic Versioning. It's made my life much simpler both as an author and as a consumer of software libraries. I agree that it's less clear how to apply Semantic Versioning to a user-facing app. I think it …

I thought this one looked pretty interesting.

> I believe one of the ideas that came out of the “Star Wars” Strategic Defense Iniative of the Reagan years was the idea that we could use powerful lasers to pulverize the asteroid into harmless debris. Do we even have lasers that powerful? How …

NASA has revealed that an asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere in December and exploded over the Bering Sea with an impact energy equivalent to 173 kilotons of TNT: 10 times that of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in …

Maybe we should enable badges! It's funny, I hadn't considered this use case because I've always viewed badges as far more intrusive than notifications. But I can see where you and @petebocken are coming from. One thing you could do in the …

The secret is revealed! 🤩 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1106714774694297601

On Twitter today, Elon made a cryptic reference to a hidden "One More Thing" at the Model Y event that nobody noticed: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1106480210713559040 I couldn't think of what he might be referring to. Anyone else have a …

Me reading this post and imagining the delicious cake that might be in my future: 😮😁🤤

Yeah, I was sad when I had to put a front plate on my Model 3. Tesla did their best to design an unobtrusive front plate mount, but it still totally breaks up the smooth curve of the car's nose and must wreak havoc on the painstakingly designed and …

Fear alone isn't enough to grab eyeballs, but fear plus novelty will do it every time. And airliner crashes are scary and rare. But I think it's important not to discount the actual dangers here, and the value of bringing them to light on the …

Jalopnik thinks the Model Y would look better with a different back end. I...strongly disagree. 🤮

> It sorta looks like a Mazda 3. I think that's a good thing! The Mazda 3 is a great looking car. I've owned two of them. 😄 The similarity is no coincidence, by the way. Tesla's lead designer, Franz von Holzhausen, came from Mazda.

The car was exactly what I expected — a slightly larger Model 3 with a hatchback and optional third row seating. I actually really like it! I love almost everything about the Model 3, but in general I prefer hatchbacks and a slightly higher seating …

As a research project I think Perspective is really cool. I also think machine learning like this can be valuable when it's used to flag things that might need human review. But on its own, it seems unlikely to be useful. I tried pasting various …

> Electric cars have fewer moving parts and don’t require routine oil changes, which threatens the auto parts industry and “quick lube” shops like Jiffy Lube. Not too mention the millions of gas stations around the country who will likely suffer …