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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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Who helps purify our water: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2424463122 …
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Related paper on receptors: https://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(25)00279-X Paper suggesting mood alteration: https://www.cell.com/cell/abstrac…
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Detailed paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad7fe6 …
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Related paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6382/adbed1 …
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Interesting. What sort of applications does your partner work on?
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One example of this was the concept of virtual memory, which was invented by Burroughs, not by IBM. > as I move into my 4th and likely last decade of working with computers Don't despair--I am…
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> 360 and it's successors were not that big in scientific computing I do believe that is true. IBM did have the Model 90 series, which was on the way to being a supercomputer. Bur during that …
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Both are paid: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43560796
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You can see the front page for each day: https://news.ycombinator.com/front
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> I can't really relate to the mindset of people who use downvoting as a 'I disagree' button. Downvoting is a legitimate expression of disagreement according to PG.
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That is what makes posts like "X is down" boring posts, contrary to the guidelines.
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"Decane, undecane, and dodecane were detected in a Martian sample" from the paper at PNAS: https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2420580122 . A NASA articl…
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The stuff of nightmares . . .
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So curious if this added a trick to your debugging toolbox?
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This is a very fun post, not only on its own merits, but also how it spurs many other hard-to-debug stories. I like the hard-earned lessons that are often taken away from such sessions. While nowhere …
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I think it has gotten better of late.
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Well, if you fall ill, then you might decide that you have too few neighbors.
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The number might be smaller. If you take the Empire Builder from Chicago towards the northwest, one of the trains goes through North Dakota at night. Every farm in the area has one of those mercury va…
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How much easier would all of this be if whoever did CSV first had done the equivalent of "man ascii". There are all these wonderful codes there like FS, GS, RS, US that could have avoided al…
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Because it is a boring topic. HN like interesting conversations.