Hacker News: europeanguy

New comment by europeanguy in "DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis Urges Caution on AI"

europeanguy — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 17:49:38 +0000

He wasn't urging caution when he was ahead.

Just ignore.

New comment by europeanguy in "Detect breaches with Canary credit cards"

europeanguy — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 17:46:39 +0000

Well, that was a rabbithole. I learned that (BME - Bolsa y Mercados Espanoles - Spanish stock market) is owned by a Swiss company. It blows my mind that countries sell off such important infrastructure, even if in this case to a friendly country.

New comment by europeanguy in "Detect breaches with Canary credit cards"

europeanguy — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 17:42:10 +0000

How about this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Taler

New comment by europeanguy in "Detect breaches with Canary credit cards"

europeanguy — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 17:39:51 +0000

This idea has an obvious problem. It's a lot of hard work. How many people are going to be diligent in planting canaries etc? And if you are, can you be diligent for the next 1, 2, 3 decades? That's a lot of time spent on this.

You know what would be better? If every bank provided as a service/feature the ability to create single-use (and single-merchant!) debit cards. Revolut can do it, why can't huge banks do it as well? (BTW if you know one that does, let me know.)

New comment by europeanguy in "Alec Baldwin Will Be Charged with Involuntary Manslaughter in ‘Rust’ Killing"

europeanguy — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 15:20:02 +0000

I thought Rust was supposed to be safe?

New comment by europeanguy in "Genesis Filed for Bankruptcy"

europeanguy — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 13:13:12 +0000

I'm not in Twitter, but I clicked that link just to see what you're talking about. I must've scrolled 50 messages and saw a total of 2 pepes. That's it.

Maybe Twitter is showing you that based on your historical account behavior? :-)

New comment by europeanguy in "I've procrastinated working on my thesis for more than a year"

europeanguy — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 10:09:25 +0000

The supervisor is responding to the BS he's being told. OP isn't telling the supervisor "I have emotional problems that lead me to procrastinate as an avoidance mechanism". He's telling him something like "oh yeah I'm totally making progress with task X you gave me, I just didn't finish it because I went into task Y and made progress there instead".

New comment by europeanguy in "I've procrastinated working on my thesis for more than a year"

europeanguy — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 07:53:21 +0000

More posts https://thoughtsbyaashiq.bearblog.dev/

He's doing everything except actual work. Procrastination is a horrible thing.

New comment by europeanguy in "Bank of America has lost Zelle transfers for many customers"

europeanguy — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 19:50:38 +0000

> In retrospect I now feel like a schmuck who basically gave free labor to a company

You mean, like you're doing right now? Comments on HN can't be deleted after an hour because they add value to HN forever. And by being here you're adding value to them. Basically free labor.

New comment by europeanguy in "Ask HN: Techwise, how did TikTok get so good?"

europeanguy — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 02:47:15 +0000

It means it has no server.

New comment by europeanguy in "Tesla video promoting self-driving was staged, engineer testifies"

europeanguy — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 01:34:04 +0000

For sure, but I'm still gonna be talking about it.

New comment by europeanguy in "Why the US and UK can’t stop fighting the metric system"

europeanguy — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 00:27:26 +0000

> Seconds are close to heartbeats which has some psychological nicities

Ah yes, reminds me of the argument feet are better because it's a more human measure than meters (cf surely you're joking Mr Feynman)

New comment by europeanguy in "Tesla video promoting self-driving was staged, engineer testifies"

europeanguy — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 18:21:20 +0000

I've been calling Elon musk a scammer for years. I'll be saying I told you so for decades.

New comment by europeanguy in "Britishvolt: UK battery startup collapses into administration"

europeanguy — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 18:19:45 +0000

You can tell straight away it's a grift from the fact they went thru the trouble of creating a computer graphic of how their factory would look like. I mean, who cares what the factory looks like?

New comment by europeanguy in "People stopped wanting to work hard in 2019 or so"

europeanguy — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 09:30:46 +0000

Where is this 2019 coming from? I didn't notice anything different about 2019....

New comment by europeanguy in "Why the US and UK can’t stop fighting the metric system"

europeanguy — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 09:26:09 +0000

Ok since everyone here is a fan of metric, can we also do away with imperial time? What is this nonsense, 1 minute has 60 seconds, but all of a sudden a day has 24 hours and a week 7 days? Why the arbitrary ratios?

Compare to how 1 metric minutes is 10 metric seconds, 1 metric hour is 10 metric minutes, one metric day is 10 metric hours, one week is 10 metric days. How many metric seconds are there in one metric week? Well 10000 metric seconds, or 10 kiloseconds, of course. See how the conversions are so much easier in the metric system?

New comment by europeanguy in "What If Tesla Is Just a Car Company?"

europeanguy — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 06:12:05 +0000

> Tesla will eventually be the largest company on Earth, and no one else is close.

Is your thesis that A) Tesla will finally develop fsd AND B) no one else will ever be able to?

New comment by europeanguy in "Tesla Price Drop Angers Current Owners"

europeanguy — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 18:57:24 +0000

Hey, don't let me stop you. I'm not advocating for you or anyone to NOT be a fanboy. In a capitalistic society, the existence of fanboys makes the world better of the rest of us.

New comment by europeanguy in "Tesla Price Drop Angers Current Owners"

europeanguy — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 18:20:56 +0000

These fanboy people are disturbing. I recently met an apple fanboy for the first time and it's unbelievable the mental gymnastics he used to explain how everything apple does is amazing. This is even though his his iphone, which is only 3 years old, is sluggish as shit. Thats not a problem according to him, because it's an intentional design decision by apple.

Some people pick a brand and it becomes their identity.

New comment by europeanguy in "Show HN: Terra Firma, a playable erosion simulation"

europeanguy — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 16:20:36 +0000

Oh, you want to gamify managing your money?

1- Install GnuCash.

2- Import your checking account into it.

3- Another account will automatically be created called "imbalance" with the opposite balance. The goal of the game is to manipulate other accounts so that the imbalance account eventually reaches 0.

4- did you have fun and want to keep playing? Import more accounts. Your credit card account, your mortgage account, your brokerage account, etc.

5- You can play in different difficulties. Do you have a tax account? Is it broken down into federal and state taxes? If so, does it match what the state/IRS thinks you paid?

Keep doing this and you'll become as good as any accountant.

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