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snemvalts

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snemvalts··on Using const/let instead of var can make JavaScript code run 10× slower in Webkit
Safari is plagued with these issues, it's the new IE. The whole focus seems to be on implementing privacy features to advertise Apple's privacy focus. CSS bugs are not fixed and newer APIs are not implemented.
snemvalts··on Honda quits F1, invests in carbon-free tech instead
"real innovation" - to you it's visual changes? there's massive amounts of developments in F1, but you don't see it.

sounds like you're looking for some unregulated junkyard challenge, where everybody shows up with something they welded together in their garage.

and when there are no regulations, somebody shows up with astronomical amounts of money, they start winning every time, the sport becomes boring, people stop losing interest, sponsors pull out, sport dies down.

snemvalts··on Tesla’s battery day affirms Wright’s Law and spells trouble for the competition
Model 3 was supposed to be the 25k car, 3 years ago according to Tesla
snemvalts··on Why is Apple acting like an asshole?
Even if they switched to Android, they'd still have to ensure iOS compatibility since Apple has ~60% of the smartphone market in the US. Any abusive behaviour from Apple at this monopolistic stage is just asking for an antitrust case & resolution.
snemvalts··on Show HN: A time tracker to track and manage your personal overtime
Yeah, this was my exact goal with this.

Though after dogfooding myself this for a month or two, I've found it useful during stay-at-home orders, since work time can blend into personal time so much more easily.

snemvalts··on TikTok's new CEO says company will reveal how its algorithms work
Literally in the first paragraph

> He says TikTok will also reveal its data flows to regulators, and is calling on its rivals to do the same

snemvalts··on Formula 1 2020: The secret aerodynamicist – are capes the key?
The team funding balance makes it a lot less interesting, watching the same team almost always win.
snemvalts··on Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for future Macs
Apple's services already make more money than their Mac business. There aren't enough macs sold for this to have a big impact
snemvalts··on How to create a video call application with WebRTC
for proof of concepts, twilio video was really nice, everything webrtc is abstracted away. built a demo with it in 2 weeks for a potential pivot.
snemvalts··on How to implement search-by-color when all you have is a good coffee
There's a classic injection attack when interpolating in the SQL query

Also as others have mentioned RGB space and human perceptible color space is different enough that distance in RGB doesn't equate to difference/similarity between colors

snemvalts··on Apple Doubles the Price of RAM Upgrade on Entry-Level 13-Inch MacBook Pro
Probably too many people went for base + 16gb. There's not too big of a difference between base 8th gen and upgraded 10th gen except for graphics.
snemvalts··on With remote work plan, Facebook dashes hopes of paycheck arbitrage
> Zuckerberg said Facebook will monitor adherence by checking where employees access its VPN.

bundle that with a VPN as well.

snemvalts··on Uber discusses plan to lay off about 20% of employees
one could argue with Uber having almost never made money it's redistributing VC money to ordinary people. just about the only upside
snemvalts··on If a MacBook Pro runs hot or shows high kernel CPU, try charging it on the right
No. For me, in 16.04 everything was perfect, 18.04 started breaking things
snemvalts··on If a MacBook Pro runs hot or shows high kernel CPU, try charging it on the right
Yes, weird features such as "802.11n wifi", "suspending the system when lid closed" etc. Had a well supported older thinkpad (even supports open source bioses etc), and issues cropped up in those areas
snemvalts··on Private client-side-only PWAs are hard, but now Apple made them impossible
So i can start to manage save files on my disk? in 2020?? this is absurd.

apple should fix their safari bugs first before starting with this nonsense.

snemvalts··on New MacBook Air
Regardless of using the start menu or not, there's a lot of background tracking (for user behaviour and ads) that needs to be disabled by registry edits. In addition to those, there's probably more that cannot be disabled.
snemvalts··on New MacBook Air released, pricing now starts at $999, features Magic Keyboard
Wait until your wifi, suspend, or graphics breaks in a software upgrade few years down the road, and either spend up to a week figuring it out or just give up on it. Used mainstream linux on a thinkpad (the most supported thing out there) from 2013-2018, but with so many regressions got a mac and never looked back.
snemvalts··on New MacBook Air
i think most people prefer to not sell their souls for advertising when it comes to their desktop environments.
snemvalts··on Koenigsegg’s 2.0-liter no-camshaft engine makes 600 horsepower
i'm probably the biggest car fan i know in my personal circle, but a certain 370Z Nismo right outside my apartment does get annoying, after hearing that massively loud idle drone morning by morning.

can imagine non car people getting at least as mad, at louder cars.

snemvalts··on Clinical characteristics of 50k patients with 2019-nCoV infection
the mortality rate of this is highly skewed because of shortage of test kits
snemvalts··on Clinical characteristics of 50k patients with 2019-nCoV infection
there aren't enough test kits, and for some people the serious/critical period in ICU can be a month, which means the CFR will always be skewed more or less.
snemvalts··on MacBook 16-inch Fan Noise (2019)
that's a 2 year old CPU
snemvalts··on Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail
But in the end won't most of the sent emails still go through Google's servers, thanks to the ubiquity of Gmail?
snemvalts··on Xiaomi’s first laptop is a Macbook Air rival
What? Full encryption is available on almost all Mi phones, including my Redmi Note 3 Pro: https://www.reddit.com/r/Xiaomi/comments/4nkrcj/encryption_f....
snemvalts··on What’s Next for Artificial Intelligence
We're far from emulating networks on the scale of the visual cortex, let alone a self-reasoning machine (we don't even fully understand consciousness and inner workings of the brain).

People fearing strong-AI are the ones not involved in the field, yet all this hype/fear from them (in combination with Moore's law ending) is probably going to cause another AI winter.

snemvalts··on What’s Next for Artificial Intelligence
Andrew Ng made a really good analogy to those afraid of strong AI destroying humanity: "It's like being afraid of overpopulation on Mars, we haven't even landed on the planet yet."
snemvalts··on Ask HN: Do you think there will be a full replacement to Google?
(Relative) anonymity is already done, avg users couldn't care less about the implementation & less advertisement could turn out to be something like Ello.

Attempting to compete with Google is akin to creating a new, marginally better implementation of a really widespread standard and attempting to market it: nobody is going to use it.

snemvalts··on The euro is a disaster even for the countries that do everything right
Comparing a country that went to bankruptcy in 2008 (short, deep recession => higher growth long term) to two countries which have problems not because of the euro doesn't make any sense.
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