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New comment by inter_netuser in "Ask HN: How to navigate an interview where the interviews has it against you"

inter_netuser — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 18:17:58 +0000

People actually do that?

I thought white boarding is the stress part.

New comment by inter_netuser in "Ask HN: How to navigate an interview where the interviews has it against you"

inter_netuser — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 18:16:55 +0000

Excuse yourself to the washroom. Call the front desk letting them know you are feeling unwell, must’ve been the food you just ate prior.

Ask to reschedule with a different interviewer if possible, idk because you are embarrassed or something.

New comment by inter_netuser in "Bitcoin Is a Hideous Monstrosity Made Out of Computers and Greed"

inter_netuser — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 04:04:21 +0000

>when we don't have enough clean energy to go around,

so you are telling me renewables can't even handle 0.5% increase in demand?

What a dead end technology. Can't wait until we upgrade to nuclear instead.

New comment by inter_netuser in "Break Up The Elite College Seats Cartel"

inter_netuser — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 03:23:41 +0000

Precedent exists (minus students)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Advanced_Study#F...

New comment by inter_netuser in "Break Up The Elite College Seats Cartel"

inter_netuser — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 03:22:23 +0000

> The UK just codified this into visa law.

Really? Is there a list?

New comment by inter_netuser in "Single electrons trapped on solid neon potentially act as stable qubits"

inter_netuser — Thu, 12 May 2022 08:56:43 +0000

>No one has actually really built such a quantum computer yet

What are you talking about? We've had very small quantum universal computers for some time, and quantum annealers for two decades. How did you miss that?

I regret to inform you that low bit strength RSA was even broken with a quantum annealer, not even a universal quantum machine. the NSA is a customer of D-Wave.

IBM's quantum roadmap has them shipping 1121 qubit machine next year, this year they've shipped a 400+ qubit machine. So far they've been able to keep doubling the number of qubits every year. These are universal quantum computers.

If they can keep scaling at that rate, both RSA and ECDSA are toast within a decade.

New comment by inter_netuser in "The Mysterious Disappearance of a Revolutionary Mathematician"

inter_netuser — Thu, 12 May 2022 08:45:29 +0000

>You're looking at it wrong.

Truth sometimes hurts, doesn't it?

New comment by inter_netuser in "The Mysterious Disappearance of a Revolutionary Mathematician"

inter_netuser — Wed, 11 May 2022 18:45:32 +0000

> truth is the greatest weapon against the violence of ignorant tyranny.

Do you see this work in practice?

All I see is a dead internet filled with AI-generated fake detritus-like content, attention and behaviour manipulation, all sorts of dark patterns.

Truth alone doesn’t come close to protect you against ignorant violence. Ignorance is multiplied by tech at much higher multiple, simple because there is often little profit in spreading the truth.

New comment by inter_netuser in "Humanity’s broken risk perception is reversing global progress"

inter_netuser — Mon, 09 May 2022 12:50:06 +0000

why, because we ran out of habitable planets in the galaxy?

New comment by inter_netuser in "Ask HN: Is DBA still a good job?"

inter_netuser — Mon, 09 May 2022 10:46:13 +0000

is relational algebra disappearing?

Probably not.

New comment by inter_netuser in "A social analgesic? Acetaminophen (paracetamol) reduces positive empathy"

inter_netuser — Wed, 04 May 2022 19:25:27 +0000

That’s been known for a long time, possibly centuries.

morphine was used to treat depression as late as last century, and probably remains a common folk remedy even today.

New comment by inter_netuser in "The $440M software error at Knight Capital (2019)"

inter_netuser — Mon, 02 May 2022 20:29:16 +0000

Peanuts, just a regular day in DeFi.

https://rekt.news

New comment by inter_netuser in "Ask HN: How do you find credible information online?"

inter_netuser — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 02:04:35 +0000

why should one do that?

truth is often undefined, and you can simply weigh sides with probabilities.

There is however 100% certainty this post will be downvoted.

New comment by inter_netuser in "Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at around $2k?"

inter_netuser — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 11:19:17 +0000

How good is the keyboard?

New comment by inter_netuser in "Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at around $2k?"

inter_netuser — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 11:18:15 +0000

How’s the trackpad?

Is good keyboard quantifiable somehow? As good as old T?

New comment by inter_netuser in "UK Government Officials Infected with Pegasus"

inter_netuser — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 22:02:39 +0000

Numbers?

New comment by inter_netuser in "The chicken you are eating has increased 364% in size over the last 50 years"

inter_netuser — Sun, 17 Apr 2022 08:26:58 +0000

Well, we are at the point where farmers have to add nutrients to soil.

New comment by inter_netuser in "The chicken you are eating has increased 364% in size over the last 50 years"

inter_netuser — Sun, 17 Apr 2022 08:25:40 +0000

Isn’t there an entire flavour industry?

Seems much easier fixed than trying to invent fake meat from scratch.

New comment by inter_netuser in "Collectibles are terrible investments"

inter_netuser — Sun, 17 Apr 2022 03:43:59 +0000

why does 100:1 leverage contributes to upside, but isn't cancelled out by 100:1 to downside?

New comment by inter_netuser in "Intel deprecates SGX on Core series processors"

inter_netuser — Sat, 16 Apr 2022 20:10:32 +0000

why anyways?

don't they say the chat is end to end encrypted?