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yashksagar··on 25-Year-Old Lived for More Than a Year Without a Heart
woah, does this mean we can prolong life expectancy by a few years, and potentially longer in the future?
yashksagar··on Internal Combustion Engine
great find - i love the one on Cameras and Lenses too, great use of interactivity for pedagogy
yashksagar··on Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable Mac computers
i'm just glad they still kept the headphone jack
yashksagar··on Facebook Tells Barr It Won’t Open Up Encrypted Messages
Assuming that the systems are truly encrypted end-to-end, how do we know for sure that noone can actually decrypt it? I mean, apart from the Eng team that directly works on that part, are we basically trusting them at face value that it works? Or does this code need to live in an open-sourced environment so as to make it more trustworthy?

To be clear, I don't mean trusting the encryption algorithm, that part is easy because math. I mean trusting that that algorithm is actually what's being used under the hood and actually noone can decrypt it for any reason.

yashksagar··on Build your own old-school 3D shooter in a weekend
i almost read that title wrong with the words School and Shooter in them
yashksagar··on JIRA is an antipattern
I don't think the analogy of town planning fits well. I think it depends how the tasks are broken down by the team. What if the tasks are created in the breadth-first approach, so that the goal is not to "fully complete" each neighborhood, but to get each neighborhood in a working state, like the "organic" approach the author mentioned?

I have found success using this approach on my team. And yes, agreed that we should use other software like Docs or Sheets for the project homebase, and only limit JIRA to Epics/stories tied to labels for the projects.

yashksagar··on Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World Tasks Over the Phone
This is only viable for businesses that still use phones. Won't this become obsolete as everything moves online eventually?
yashksagar··on Coinbase Index Fund
By having an index fund, are they saying crypto investing is safe now?
yashksagar··on Bitcoin drops below $9000 on Coinbase
Don't worry keep HODLing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg2oukQZ6dg
yashksagar··on Revisiting the Risks of Bitcoin Currency Exchange Closure [pdf]
Don't worry keep HODLing! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg2oukQZ6dg
yashksagar··on As Bitcoin Bubble Loses Air, Frauds and Flaws Rise to Surface
Don't worry keep HODLing! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg2oukQZ6dg
yashksagar··on How Google Chrome’s ad blocker works
Google is not happy with third-party blockers blocking all their ads (e.g. YouTube ads), so they want their own blocker that can show more "Google-friendly" ads. It's all about the moolah...
yashksagar··on Uber Bike – A New Way to Commute or Explore
Be prepared for a ton of bikes swimming around in the bay :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5e-fhUCxmk

yashksagar··on Introducing Oculus Go, Plus Santa Cruz Updates
"Oculus, creating a 'rift' between humans at an affordable price."
yashksagar··on Introducing Oculus Go, Plus Santa Cruz Updates
I believe there's still concerns around long-term usage, like the eyes/brain mismatch to focusing on something that's 'virtually' a few meters away, but in reality is in front of your face, which can cause nausea.
yashksagar··on What Is It Like to Be a Bat? (1974) [pdf]
somebody show this to Nolan, about time we got another Dark Knight movie.
yashksagar··on Scientists sent a rocket to Mars for less than it cost to make “The Martian”
It's not about who made how much money. It's about redefining the economics of space exploration. Comparing it to a movie makes it easier to understand.
yashksagar··on Netflix Replacing Star Ratings With Thumbs Ups and Thumbs Down
Why not keep the rating system, and have an additional thumbs up/down rating? That way you get to vote on the 'objective' quality and the 'subjective' enjoyment factor of the content.