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wglb
69,333karma·9,653submissions·January 13, 2008
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At home, Simple country boy
wgl at ciexinc.com
twitter: @wgl8
w8lvn, 7019, 3519, 1819 and occasionally 7074.000
Formerly at kCura/Relativity, security. I do application penetration testing for hire these days. Happy to chat about application security, programming, and ham radio. My conversations about agriculture are not that interesting.
Security: https://ciexinc.com/ Of particular interest are the solarwinds articles at https://ciexinc.com/blog/solarwinds/index.html Old very fun projects: https://ciex-software.com
“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.
I am haunted by waters.”
Beware the anxiety industrial complex.
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My buddy is one of the top station builders and contesters. He says it is a about $10,000 per tower. And one tower won't do.
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I've spent some quality time with debuggers but have come to the conclusion that it is a seductive way to spend time that doesn't necessarily get me there any faster than with printf or equi…
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Consider that Knuth first wrote TeX in a notebook. So there is that.
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I had a drafting class as a freshman in engineering school. The professor would come to class with a piece of chalk and a string and proceed to us only these tools to construct complex three dimension…
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See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44093525 . This was really all about school connections.
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Commonly true, but in my five years of engineering school, in my summer after my freshman year, I was already employed in computer programming. The rest of my school had co-op periods during which I h…
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My experience has been different. I worked with it to disgnose two different problems. On the last one I counted questions and answers. It was 15.
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One would presume you mean 2025?
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The science article: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adr7394 …
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Little danger to us as "The team used models to show it is expected to evaporate in 6 million years." The referenced article in Nature Astronomy: https://www.nature.com/artic…
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arxiv paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.16872 . I was fortunate enough to attend a dinner where Joe Taylor, whose Nobel Prize involved long-term study of pulsar intervals decay. …
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The arxiv article: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.18088
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Sorry, it is a Pstypo.
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The sourced article in Science: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt0672 …
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Article titled A Hyper-Catalan Series Solution to Polynomial Equations, and the Geode in American Mathematical Monthly https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/000…
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Paper in Proceedings of Royal Society B: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2025.045... …
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Another internet provider was also instrumental as described in this post https://qrper.com/2024/09/aftermath/ , one of my favorite posts by Thomas.…
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Published in the Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage https://www.sciengine.com/JAHH/doi/10.3724/SP.J.140-2807.202... …
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Phys.org paper
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Paper: https://phys.org/tags/new+catalysts/