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wglb
69,332karma·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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I never got a class in compilers. When I was a senior, I wanted to take the graduate course, but the prof thought it would be too hard for me. So my next gig was writing a compiler on a team of three …
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Reminds me of my first exposure to Lisp. It was in a survey course in my final year. This was using punched card input and output on a line printer. You could turn on paren counting, but it was clumsy…
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It's also used in security defense, where there is a search for how to stop the many steps of attack.
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The register article is better.
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But macros and s-expressions are two of my favorites parts of lisp!
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Here is one oft-repeated quote: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/05/12/aoc-... . Her statement is properly interpreted by pg.…
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Agree but nowhere as easy as what we did https://ciex-software.com/coroutines.html
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It is still a bit amazing to me that it was significantly easier to do coroutines in Sigma 5 assembly and likely most any assembly than in C or C++. Two languages supposedly close to the machine.
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Published in Nature Astronomy: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-026-02887-6 …
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Those of you working in privacy-related fields or under retention restrictions, note *30-day minimum retention by default*
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Arxiv reprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.16487
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Paper in Astrophysical Journal Letters: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae63cf …
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A paper in The Astrophysical Journal: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae6b89 …
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I was responding to the headline that says: >NASA still maintains some of the Voyager spacecraft code in a 1970s-era programming language that almost nobody on Earth fully understands anymore I did…
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Regarding "that almost nobody on Earth fully understands anymore", I claim this is nonsense, and definitely not an obstacle. I've audited codebases in languages that I haven't prog…
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If you wish to explore a new concept, perhaps ask duckduckgo "what is ctf" an you may well get a response such as: CTF stands for Capture The Flag, which is a cybersecurity competition…