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by xenocratus 3y ago
And how exactly would that second machine decrypt the packets, given that the keys are only available to the valid one?
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by xenocratus 3y ago
Yes, assuming some degree of security of the full TCB (both the software and hardware). Of course, no system is bulletproof, but it's slowly going in the right direction - and hopefully since Spectre/Meltdown people are taking mor
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by xenocratus 3y ago
Imagine you're connecting to a VPN server. The service provider says they don't store logs - nowadays you have to trust them, and perhaps any audits they might have done in the past. Remote attestation allows you to get informatio
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by xenocratus 3y ago
You've got the topic of the conversation somewhat wrong. The problem discussed above was that some people are simply bad at handling the kind of stressful situations that interviews present them with. (Note, it's not necessarily a
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by xenocratus 3y ago
This sort of gatekeeping is the kind of reason why a lot of people are put off by engineers - "oh, you don't know X? You're clearly not a software engineer". There's a reason abstraction layers exist, perhaps you sh
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by xenocratus 3y ago
> I don't care about the products we build for someone else (why should I?) I mean, this obviously depends on the kind of product - is it some biotech to make someone's life better, or is it a gambling website tuned to suck the
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by xenocratus 4y ago
WeWork. Need I say more?
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by xenocratus 4y ago
I pay £1550pcm in a fairly new build in Stratford/Olympic Park, ~60sqm. Used to pay the same (until January) for ~55sqm in Canada Water, but for an older build. These are 1 bed flats I'm talking about. I do have to say, though, th
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by xenocratus 4y ago
> A few hours ago, a New York Times reporter shared the complete text of a long conversation with Bing AI—in which it admitted that it was love with him, and that he ought not to trust his spouse. Maybe they should release a Tinder-like
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by xenocratus 4y ago
Just a note, you'll also find research like this, even if not as "visible", at most heavily-tech firms: FAANG, Arm, Intel... Though it's quite a niche area still, I get a bit claustrophobic when I think about just how fe
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Recommendations for Secure Use of TLS and DTLS(rfc-editor.org)
1 points by xenocratus 4y ago|0 comments
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by xenocratus 4y ago
For those interested in experiencing Svalbard quite thoroughly in the summer, I'll vouch for this [1] expedition. It will probably remain one of the highlights of my life (though we ended up monitoring a polar bear via binoculars for ~
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by xenocratus 4y ago
That's a really interesting insight, thanks for sharing. Something new for me to be aware of in the future :)
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by xenocratus 4y ago
Cambridge Dictionary [1] says the following about "they": "used to refer to a person whose gender is not known or does not need to be mentioned" To me that pretty much sums it up. [1] https://dictionary.cambri
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by xenocratus 4y ago
> it's language feature of English since people didn't like using "it" to describe people, so "he" is a default singular pronoun. .... Did "they" get removed from the dictionary or something?
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by xenocratus 4y ago
Perhaps this is relevant: https://twitter.com/paulisci/status/1549527748950892544
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by xenocratus 4y ago
Project description in the README: > Maigret collect a dossier on a person by username only... The About field: > Collect a dossier on a person by username from thousands of sites "on a person" seems to imply that they'
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Wildlife Comeback in Europe(rewildingeurope.com)
2 points by xenocratus 4y ago|0 comments
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by xenocratus 4y ago
This is just one single study - I would prefer a meta analysis, if anyone has one - but it's worth sharing nonetheless. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/715141
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by xenocratus 4y ago
I feel like the poor (probably knuckleless) alien would definitely be sobbing at that :)
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by xenocratus 4y ago
I genuinely don't understand all these replies about "sTaY iN tHe GrOuP". Sure, if you keep stopping, waiting for others then going straight away that's kinda assholey, but so is demanding that others stop and carry on w
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by xenocratus 4y ago
Arguments of the form "X has been a thing since Y" are one of the reasons we're shit at progress. Lots of shit things have been happening for a while - how is that an argument in their support?
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by xenocratus 4y ago
Link(s) to a source that analyses the health impact of those first 5 things on your list?
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by xenocratus 4y ago
I'm really not one to be offended by stuff like that, I couldn't care less, but the "he/she" "man/woman" trend is annoying me so much for some reason, it's like there aren't already words we
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by xenocratus 4y ago
If eat-in restaurants become less viable, they will start to die off until enough are left to bring their viability back up (more people interested in eating per restaurant). We can't keep business open for the sake of the few who want
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by xenocratus 4y ago
In the words of Matt Levine: > An important running theme of this column is that one of the best things you can do for your financial career is lose a billion dollars. This is not necessarily actionable advice, for most people; it requir
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The Ghost Runner: John Tarrant's story of triumph and tragedy(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by xenocratus 4y ago|0 comments
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by xenocratus 4y ago
Not OP, but had/have the same. It's because the person taking the photo doesn't want to capture the moment, they want to capture a choreographed moment, where everyone is looking at the camera, smiling etc. The same photo as
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by xenocratus 4y ago
> anywhere much North of London You don't need to go that much North - I used to live in Oxfordshire, trying to get to Cambridge for work was a joke (I don't drive). It would take 3.5h+ for a 140km journey from Oxford to Cambri
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by xenocratus 4y ago
Amazing, thank you for posting! Wish this existed a few years ago... :]

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