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sakarisson··on China lands rover on Mars
Congratulations on the recent success of Perseverance! Best of luck with all of your future aerospace endeavors.
sakarisson··on First genetically modified mosquitoes released in the United States
One thing to keep in mind is that this particular species of mosquito is not native to the Florida Keys. As such, the odds that they are critical to their ecosystem seems much smaller than if it were a native species.

Another important point is that it only accounts for 4% of all mosquitoes in the area, so even if it was entirely eradicated, 96% of mosquitoes would still be fine.

sakarisson··on How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%
> Which features would you cut out of the game in order to have fast loading times?

If this is a serious question, I'd say cut any of the new vehicles introduced in the last 2 years. None of them are nearly as impactful as this optimization. In fact, I am having issues imagine any individual feature at all that's as important as this fix.

sakarisson··on How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%
Their children are, at least.
sakarisson··on Bad TypeScript Habits
I think the idea is that you validate the data once, on an API level. You don't need to validate the same data again after the initial inspection.

In our team we use io-ts to validate all of our endpoints, but simple type guards could achieve the same goal.

https://github.com/gcanti/io-ts

sakarisson··on Vue Native (2018)
React Native Web (https://github.com/necolas/react-native-web) is a nice solution for better cross-compatibility between React Native and React DOM.

React DOM is very coupled with DOM elements, so React Native Web abstracts away web-specific things, so that code is more sharable.

sakarisson··on Problems with AI-based monitoring startups (2018)
A stamp collector, by definition, is someone who spends all of their time collecting stamps, so they would have no time remaining to get operational experience.
sakarisson··on Deno 1.0
My least favorite thing about importing from NPM is that I don't actually know what I'm importing. Sure, there might be a GitHub repository, but code is uploaded to NPM separately, and it is often minified. A malicious library owner could relatively easily inject some code before minifying, while still maintaining a clean-looking repo alongside the package.

Imports from URL would allow me to know exactly what I'm getting.

sakarisson··on Facebook iOS SDK Remotely Crashing Spotify, TikTok, Pinterest, Winno and More
> And the users will blame you

Rightfully so. If you add an SDK to you app, it's your fault if the SDK causes your app to crash.

sakarisson··on Disney claims anyone using a Twitter hashtag is agreeing to their terms of use
You don't have millions of dollars for lawyers.
sakarisson··on Popcorn Time 4.0
I don't have an ethical problem with illegally pirating content either, but it does grind my gears when people make that kind argument. Nothing is forcing anyone to illegally download Westworld. Digital content isn't essential for your well-being, so I find always find it very odd when people try to justify stealing it.
sakarisson··on 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated
More like 18 year old websites are so rare that page rating services don't even work for them.
sakarisson··on Downtime is an effortless way to improve your memory (2018)
You'd need to work a bit more on your excuse, because this study clearly suggests that you shouldn't occupy your mind with anything else during the downtime.
sakarisson··on Student rating app penalizes fifth-graders who need bathroom breaks
I'd go as far as to say that you should not yell at a child ever. I don't see any possible scenario where punishing a child like that would lead to something productive.
sakarisson··on “10x engineers”: Stereotypes and research
According to this article, a 1x developer is the least productive developer. So logically there's no such thing as a <1x developer.
sakarisson··on No limit: AI poker bot is first to beat professionals at multiplayer game
Other players justify cheating by convincing themselves that everyone else is cheating.
sakarisson··on No limit: AI poker bot is first to beat professionals at multiplayer game
> Speaks four european languages, including swedish.

Judging by his name, I'd assume Swedish is his first language, so that particular aspect isn't that surprising to me

sakarisson··on Venture capital firms are investing in astrology apps
I just checked out Co-Star's website. At the bottom of their page, they have a list of endorsements. One of them in particular looked odd to me: "Good advice." - New York Times.

A brief glance at the article reveals that the "Good advice" relates to logging out of the app and never using it again.

  When I plugged my information into Co-Star, it came already stacked with two dozen “updates” charting my position relative to the stars. I learned that my moon is “conjunct to natal Venus,” which meant I should “spend time with friends” because I was “particularly magnetic” that day. Also, my Mars is “quincunx to natal Sun,” so I should “excavate and examine the person you really are” and also “take a break from social media if you can.”

  It was good advice. I logged out of the app and never returned.
Also, their "Bustle" and "Buzzfeed" endorsements link to the same shallow article.

Not super important in the grand scheme of things, but I found it quite amusing.

sakarisson··on Cancelling Dropbox Pro is hard
From a legal perspective, would it be enough to send them an e-mail telling them that you no longer want to subscribe to the services before pulling the plug?
sakarisson··on Government Hired a Firm for $13.6M to Hire Recruits. It Hired 2
Accenture. Why am I not surprised?
sakarisson··on Diaspora: Hello and a big welcome to everyone arriving from Google+
Try writing left-leaning comments and see how long Voat respects your right to free speech.
sakarisson··on In El Chapo’s Trial, Extraordinary Steps to Keep Witnesses Alive
I think humor comes from the fact that governments bombing people they don't like is subverting the justice system.
sakarisson··on Next.js 7
I really like the styled-jsx changes. One major issue I had was the fact that it's been difficult to pass styles onto child components without leaking them through the entire application. I'm really glad to see that they fixed this issue. Great job, Next.js team! I'm really blown away by Zeit in general.
sakarisson··on Next.js 7
React by itself isn't really a framework.
sakarisson··on Next.js 7
Sort of. Next expects to find a file structure of scripts in the /pages directory. On the initial load of say www.nextsite.com/about/location, Next will by default try to render the file /pages/about/location.js or /location/index.js.

You can add an asynchronous function called .getInitialProps, which should return some props that are required for the page. On the initial load, Next will first run through getInitialProps, then render the actual component with those props. From then on, assuming you're using 'next/link' for routing, everything should work like a single page app. All of the pages except for the initial one are rendered on the client.

sakarisson··on A majority of US teens are taking steps to limit smartphone and social media use
You've just illustrated in your own comment that it really isn't as much about the number of participants as it is about the random distribution of participants.

Would you think it was any better if it was 3000 people from the same area rather than 300? Probably not a lot.

If you pick 300 or more random people throughout the country, you've going to get a pretty accurate representation of the average person.

sakarisson··on OpenAI Five Benchmark: Results
One should keep in mind that some of the restrictions were in place to prevent the bots from having too easy of a time. For example, the anti micro/illusion rule was intended to limit the obviously superior micro coordination of the bots.
sakarisson··on OpenAI Five Benchmark
They will apparently be playing Random Draft mode, which normally means that it works similarly to All Pick, except for the fact that the players pick from a pool of 50 random heroes. How this will work with the 18-hero pool is something I don't know.
sakarisson··on OpenAI Five Benchmark
So the bots do not communicate directly?
sakarisson··on How Helsinki Arrived at the Future of Urban Travel First
As a person living in (or rather very near) Helsinki, I can tell you already that in many cases public transport is just better than having a car. I can take the train from my home to work in 20 minutes, whereas it would take at least 30 minutes (with the additional bonus of stress) with car.

The only reason I can imagine needing a car would be if I had children.

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