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kasparsklavins··on YouTube will delete existing video annotations on January 15, 2019
I'm sure there's no way that could be abused.
kasparsklavins··on YouTube will delete existing video annotations on January 15, 2019
Good.

Although it has a valid use case, most of the time I interact with annotations is when trying to pause a video and ending up being redirected to some other video or a 3rd party site.

kasparsklavins··on Ryanair, Hamiltonian Cycles, and using graph theory to find cheap flights
Why is there no interface that allows searching for flights without specifying exact dates? All I want to do is fly from A to B to A. Maybe stay a week, maybe two. I'm flexible - it doesnt have to be exactly N days starting on the M'th.

Even services that "allegedly" advertise they have that, still require manually clicking every day combination.

I'd fly more often if it was easy. The few times I tried, it would be just faster to drive than go through all possible 900+ day combinations.

kasparsklavins··on Show HN: An experimental Github/trending User Interface
* Animations are jaggy. On a quadcore. Just why?

* Accessibility is 0. Cant open external links in a new tab. None of my navigation shortcuts work.

kasparsklavins··on Apple's T2 chip will prevent hackers from eavesdropping on your microphone
With the additional privacy features added to their phones and notebooks, how much of it actually is just a marketing gimmick? It's not something Google cant compete with directly (Microsoft could, if they cared), but it's not something they've actually.. well, marketed. It could be a major selling point, so why dont they advertise it? Something's fishy.
kasparsklavins··on GitLab Direction
Performance and stability?

Still yet to have a day where I havent had a 500 error on gitlab cloud.

kasparsklavins··on Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day
Explain?
kasparsklavins··on Signal partners with Microsoft to bring end-to-end encryption to Skype
Would be really nice to hear from skype mobile's team. Wtf is going on there that stops them from shipping a quality product. There's long loading times, messages disappear, synchronization is as good as non existing.
kasparsklavins··on The 3-minute SQL indexing quiz: Can you spot the five most common mistakes?
I don't agree. The same could be said for the other questions as well.

In quizzes like these its usually assumed the worst possible scenario/dataset.

kasparsklavins··on VS Code Roadmap 2018
And I always turn if off because it is unusable. For text it's okay but for code it's rules doesnt make any sense - concatenated words are marked as errors which is real annoying.
kasparsklavins··on Show HN: OAuth microservice for FB, Twitter, etc.
It doesn't.

Asking to do a pull request or create an issue is just a polite way of saying fuck off.

kasparsklavins··on Coins thrown into plane engine by elderly passenger for 'luck'
Hadn't noticed up until now that getting near the plane engines during boarding isnt all that difficult.

Would this call for more regulations?

kasparsklavins··on Updates for older platforms to protect against potential nation-state activity
Governments sure. For vetting purposes supposedly.

Private organisations/companies? Less likely. Would they even have the ability to do a build from the source code?

kasparsklavins··on Housing a prisoner in California costs more than a year at Harvard
What is the purpose of a prison? It's meant to rid the society of unwelcome individuals.

Another way to get rid of "unwelcome individuals" is to provide rehabilitation, more opportunities, etc. This is better in the long term.

Source: I'm European.

kasparsklavins··on Google.ai
You can find it with a direct search.. it comes in second. https://www.google.com/search?q=site:google.ai
kasparsklavins··on Amazon to Build a Permanent Mary's Place Family Shelter Within Its Headquarters
For a comparison, at my university dorms its roughly 65 square feet per person.
kasparsklavins··on The tragedy of 100% code coverage (2016)
Fuzzing is essentially the same as just throwing values at it hoping its all okay.

What I meant was what @AstralStorm said about mathematical and logic proofs that it works for all defined values.

kasparsklavins··on The tragedy of 100% code coverage (2016)
Tests are not meant for ensuring it works with all inputs. You cant simply just throw values at it hoping its all okay.

To prove it works with all possible inputs, there are other tools at your disposal.

kasparsklavins··on Improving startup time in Atom with V8 snapshots
Depends on the region you're in. Around here an 8gb ram module costs the same as a sublime text license.

I'll take the license.

kasparsklavins··on How not to monetise a popular blog
"Does anyone other than a graphic designer ever look at a website and think “Holy crap. That thing is a pixel out of place!”. Probably not."

Users won't notice when something is perfect. But when anything is misaligned, it sticks out like a sore thumb.

Dont give up, we care about the pixel.

kasparsklavins··on PhantomJS: Stepping down as maintainer
Automated tests.
kasparsklavins··on Billions’ worth of high-tech research seeking to make death optional
Strangely, this is both reassuring and scary at the same time.
kasparsklavins··on Billions’ worth of high-tech research seeking to make death optional
Obligatory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFe9wiDfb0E
kasparsklavins··on Google Site Search will be completely shut down by April 1, 2018
Pay per DNS lookup? There's a SaaS somewhere in there.
kasparsklavins··on Chrome 57 Will Permanently Enable DRM
Better than using flash, which Spotify Web player used to do.
kasparsklavins··on How Stack Overflow Redesigned the Top Navigation
Users aren't clicking on it? Better shove it in their face so it's noticed.

I like the solution of not showing the navbar unless the user scrolls up.

IMO, fixed navbars are almost as bad as popups.

kasparsklavins··on Freeciv WebGL 3D
I have a 710M in my laptop. When I got it a few years ago, I could run most new releases on a 720p display.
kasparsklavins··on Amazon Web Services in Plain English (2015)
Broken on mobile.
kasparsklavins··on Consumer Reports now recommends the MacBook Pro after a software fix
It's a sign of bad resource management. Why does whatsapp need 600mb if a native messaging app uses fraction of that? Why does atom/vscode (electron apps) need to use gigabytes of memory, when I can open two orders of magnitude larger files in a native app with two orders of magnitude lower memory consumption?
kasparsklavins··on Telegram Desktop reaches version 1.0
Have you ever taken a look at how much resources it consumes by comparison?

We would not have charge our phones every day and laptops would last for longer if anyone cared about how much their application consumes. It's ridiculous.

Good engineering isn't just about features.

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