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New comment by yashksagar in "25-Year-Old Lived for More Than a Year Without a Heart"

yashksagar — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 18:46:44 +0000

woah, does this mean we can prolong life expectancy by a few years, and potentially longer in the future?

New comment by yashksagar in "Internal Combustion Engine"

yashksagar — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 21:58:46 +0000

great find - i love the one on Cameras and Lenses too, great use of interactivity for pedagogy

New comment by yashksagar in "Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable Mac computers"

yashksagar — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 19:33:20 +0000

i'm just glad they still kept the headphone jack

New comment by yashksagar in "Facebook Tells Barr It Won’t Open Up Encrypted Messages"

yashksagar — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 01:20:07 +0000

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.

New comment by yashksagar in "Build your own old-school 3D shooter in a weekend"

yashksagar — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 23:23:07 +0000

i almost read that title wrong with the words School and Shooter in them

New comment by yashksagar in "JIRA is an antipattern"

yashksagar — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 02:35:22 +0000

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.

New comment by yashksagar in "Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World Tasks Over the Phone"

yashksagar — Thu, 10 May 2018 22:51:12 +0000

This is only viable for businesses that still use phones. Won't this become obsolete as everything moves online eventually?

New comment by yashksagar in "Coinbase Index Fund"

yashksagar — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 02:30:13 +0000

By having an index fund, are they saying crypto investing is safe now?

New comment by yashksagar in "Bitcoin drops below $9000 on Coinbase"

yashksagar — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 21:54:59 +0000

Don't worry keep HODLing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg2oukQZ6dg

New comment by yashksagar in "Revisiting the Risks of Bitcoin Currency Exchange Closure [pdf]"

yashksagar — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 21:53:44 +0000

Don't worry keep HODLing! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg2oukQZ6dg

New comment by yashksagar in "As Bitcoin Bubble Loses Air, Frauds and Flaws Rise to Surface"

yashksagar — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 21:53:04 +0000

Don't worry keep HODLing! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg2oukQZ6dg

New comment by yashksagar in "How Google Chrome’s ad blocker works"

yashksagar — Sat, 03 Feb 2018 23:07:11 +0000

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...

New comment by yashksagar in "Uber Bike – A New Way to Commute or Explore"

yashksagar — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 21:21:35 +0000

Be prepared for a ton of bikes swimming around in the bay :D

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

New comment by yashksagar in "Introducing Oculus Go, Plus Santa Cruz Updates"

yashksagar — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 22:23:02 +0000

"Oculus, creating a 'rift' between humans at an affordable price."

New comment by yashksagar in "Introducing Oculus Go, Plus Santa Cruz Updates"

yashksagar — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 19:19:29 +0000

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.

New comment by yashksagar in "What Is It Like to Be a Bat? (1974) [pdf]"

yashksagar — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 23:29:37 +0000

somebody show this to Nolan, about time we got another Dark Knight movie.

New comment by yashksagar in "Scientists sent a rocket to Mars for less than it cost to make “The Martian”"

yashksagar — Fri, 17 Mar 2017 20:01:48 +0000

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.

New comment by yashksagar in "Netflix Replacing Star Ratings With Thumbs Ups and Thumbs Down"

yashksagar — Fri, 17 Mar 2017 19:52:07 +0000

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.