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Re:25-Year-Old Lived for More Than a Year Without a Heart on Thursday July 15, 2021 @02:46PM (#27848498)
woah, does this mean we can prolong life expectancy by a few years, and potentially longer in the future?
Re:Internal Combustion Engine on Friday April 30, 2021 @05:58PM (#26999915)
great find - i love the one on Cameras and Lenses too, great use of interactivity for pedagogy
i'm just glad they still kept the headphone jack
Re:Facebook Tells Barr It Won’t Open Up Encrypted Messages on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @08:20PM (#21758637)
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.

Re:Build your own old-school 3D shooter in a weekend on Friday February 15, 2019 @06:23PM (#19175709)
i almost read that title wrong with the words School and Shooter in them
Re:JIRA is an antipattern on Sunday December 09, 2018 @09:35PM (#18644780)
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.

This is only viable for businesses that still use phones. Won't this become obsolete as everything moves online eventually?
Re:Coinbase Index Fund on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @09:30PM (#16533883)
By having an index fund, are they saying crypto investing is safe now?
Re:Bitcoin drops below $9000 on Coinbase on Monday February 12, 2018 @04:54PM (#16362675)
Re:How Google Chrome’s ad blocker works on Saturday February 03, 2018 @06:07PM (#16300218)
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...
Re:Uber Bike – A New Way to Commute or Explore on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @04:21PM (#16277653)
Be prepared for a ton of bikes swimming around in the bay :D

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

Re:Introducing Oculus Go, Plus Santa Cruz Updates on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @06:23PM (#15454057)
"Oculus, creating a 'rift' between humans at an affordable price."
Re:Introducing Oculus Go, Plus Santa Cruz Updates on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @03:19PM (#15452552)
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.
Re:What Is It Like to Be a Bat? (1974) [pdf] on Thursday March 30, 2017 @07:29PM (#13999872)
somebody show this to Nolan, about time we got another Dark Knight movie.
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.
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.