xenocratus

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by xenocratus 2y ago
I'm fairly certain statistically you can't, because you need a place to go do that, the skills to pull it off, and have a family that's not only willing but actively supporting it, otherwise when the reality kicks in everythi
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Message in a bottle found in lighthouse wall after 132 years(bbc.co.uk)
11 points by xenocratus 2y ago|0 comments
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by xenocratus 2y ago
> which comes perilously close to "either believe as I do, or at least have the decency to pretend that you do in public." Pretty much everyone has those sort of rules, and they have changed and evolved over time. Societies con
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by xenocratus 2y ago
Thank you for posting this, we managed to catch a glimpse of the Aurora in London, fantastic stuff!
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by xenocratus 2y ago
Luckily it wasn't my grade that got this experiment as the practical exam in one of the National Physics Olympiads I went to... :) poor souls, most got answers orders of magnitude away.
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by xenocratus 2y ago
Your personal health information is information that pertains to you and you only. Your compensation is part of a contract between yourself and your employer, hence why both parties have to sign it, and why both parties have ownership over
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by xenocratus 2y ago
If your company causes damage at society-scale (hell, even if it does major damage to one person's life), the state should be ready to intervene and make the company pay the tab for the damage they caused? Like, that doesn't sound
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by xenocratus 2y ago
Strangely (or maybe not?), we stumbled across Lapham's Quarterly in MAKEMAKECOFFEE next to Surrey Quays station. Also their coffee is amazing, so two reasons to go out of your way :) Edit: that was more than a year ago, though, so I&#x
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by xenocratus 2y ago
> A thousand dollars a month? Please, that's enough to pay for a lot of education like you wouldn't believe. Alas, it would probably not be. People like to compare apples and oranges in discussions like this. UBI is such a game
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by xenocratus 2y ago
> None of the other low cost airlines are this bad. Have you heard of WizzAir? They're the only airline that have a flight landing close to my parent's city, so I have to fly with them to avoid an extra car ride that's as
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by xenocratus 2y ago
> or even worse - can't see about ourselves that insult us Isn't this the point of the previous comment? That the WN thinks they're not out of their depth and can't see that about themselves. So it is an insult from t
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by xenocratus 2y ago
First time I became aware of dovecotes was on a trip to Egypt, when we were trying to figure out what the weirdly shaped buildings were. Here's another Atlas Obscura article about them: https://www.atlasobscura.com/plac
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by xenocratus 2y ago
Isn't it possible to just go looking for another fast-growing small company when your current employer reaches that stage?
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by xenocratus 3y ago
As a maintainer of a security-oriented open source library, the paranoia of "is this person trying to help or to exploit?" weighs down on me every time I have to read a PR (EDIT: even though the libraries are by no means as widely
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by xenocratus 3y ago
I agree, I've read/heard this quite a few times, I'll continue to do it, apologies to whomever might suffer at my hands/words because of it. I find it a lot easier to empathise with things that I've experienced, and
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by xenocratus 3y ago
> Anyone who has learned a second language will have made an exhilarating (and yet somehow unsettling) discovery: there is never a one-to-one correspondence in meaning between the words and phrases of one language and another. Even the m
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by xenocratus 3y ago
Unlike varispeed's unfortunate experience my commute is indeed very chill and consistent! Train that I catch comes in full, unloads, a total of maybe 50 people board, leaves. Coming back in the evening is a bit more crowded, but it&#x2
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by xenocratus 3y ago
And weirdos like me who commute out from London into Cambridge, via London Liverpool Street mostly.
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London chess prodigy, 8, wins title at European championships(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by xenocratus 3y ago|0 comments
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Elderly French couple lose rare African mask case worth millions(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by xenocratus 3y ago|1 comments
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by xenocratus 3y ago
One thing I wonder is if this works when you call Monzo as well - once you give them your details, does the same thing appear in the app? Because that opens the door for a man-in-the-middle attack. Actually, in that case it makes the attack
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by xenocratus 3y ago
Sure, but usefulness is itself an arbitrary criterium.
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Ask HN: Will experience with ML become fundamental for engineers?
2 points by xenocratus 3y ago|2 comments
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by xenocratus 3y ago
Yes, it is hard to infer for someone who's never heard of McKinsey. Assuming everyone MUST've heard is in poor taste. As far as I'm aware, there's no curriculum necessary for users of this site.
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by xenocratus 3y ago
Just as an extra data point - same here, got shown MtG results, never played it (though I might have searched about it a few times way back).
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by xenocratus 3y ago
And that's when I'd make that script and the knowledge behind it available publicly and advertise it on social media :)
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by xenocratus 3y ago
> Because of ethical reasons I want to stay as far away as possible from anything that is insurance, finance or crypto related. I'm not really interested in AI and/or machine learning either. I'd guess that's a "
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by xenocratus 3y ago
Sure, but I'm not proposing a mitigation for that. It doesn't have to be a silver bullet to be useful. I'm arguing that the ability to know that your peer is running some expected code is useful as an extra layer of security
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by xenocratus 3y ago
True! Advanced systems already have some degree of fault tolerance built-in, and the encryption of enclave memory is there against cold boot attacks and such.
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by xenocratus 3y ago
> Or am I missing something important? The fact that the internet != traffic going to your laptop/PC/phone. There are a lot of non-consumer use-cases (think, processing of corporate data in the cloud, or deployment of industri

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