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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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Now that is almost mean.
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Good through article. It is clear that implementing such wide-scale enterprise systems is not overwhelmingly technical problem, it is more of a cultural problem. An item for consideration is whether …
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Very informative article. Has particular relevance to the cloud and to privacy. Essentially, you can put a file onto a cloud or service (e. g. Facebook), but you can't necessarily truly delete it se…
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The segment about the bloop is worth the 'n things' pattern.
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"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim": Edsger Dijkstra
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Haven't used an alarm for i don't know how long. Wake up at desired time, although often wake up earlier and try to sleep a little more. Then walk to the next room and log on.
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I am a sucker for any story that has a long highway in it. This is a marvelously written view of the intertwining of the automobile and the second half of our nation's history. If one is concerned ab…
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This is also interesting in how it relates to the study of airplane crashes and the strong, relatively immediate feedback that these provide. It seems that auto safety was much more slow to catch on,…
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A nice way of suggesting what I have felt, and that such articles are quite often hastily prepared. Most importantly, how do we as readers have any confidence that an article titled "The 7 ..." is re…
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Seen this before, but I like the article. I have been involved in three--one well before I had kids, one now that the kids are out of the house, and the other, well, that was not all that good--was n…
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It is reasonably difficult. The problem with analogies is that all analogies are false, and they are really a diversion to the core of the discussion. This is the good approach to saying what you ne…
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I have been saying something of this sort for a while, but not as articulately. We in the technology end of things are likely to think of our impact as being highly "advanced". The example I like qu…
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Please elucidate.
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I get mail from them but it is really quite infrequent. Perhaps it ends up in your spam folder?
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Looks like good work. And there are those that say the kernel should be monolithic still.
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Could do without the attitude, but would be interested to see the author of the blog try a mac for a bit and compare.
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I had a blind childhood friend who did a little "work" with the phone system (in the era of dial phones in a small rural area) and got caught making many long distance phone calls. A call by the phon…
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Founders At Work, On Lisp, SICP, Idoru, The Art of Racing In the Rain (Garth Stein)
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In a word, no. The netflix effort was many, many man-months of inspired work. And as Norvig points out in a recent paper, "simple models and a lot of data trump more elaborate models based on less d…
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Er, deep discharge marine batteries are exactly the thing to use. They are designed to withstand repeated deep discharge, hence their name. Their current output, measured on an instantaneous basis, …
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Good quick read. Worth it for the line "See these telephone numbers? I need data like that. I don't care how you get it; I'm just showing you this particular representation, because you're a programme…
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John Walker is always a good read, and I had missed that essay before. It seems to be the same message that some of the writings around Ycombinator are saying that you let the customers tell you what…
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I disagree. The rule works for me. I now find myself using 'cond' almost exclusively over 'if'. And there is a little misunderstanding propagated: "Even in a language like C/C++ you can do something …
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Much of what I am doing these days takes a couple of hours to spin up, so I don't have any ideas for you here. Maybe find a way talking with your friend about your need for long stretches of uninterr…
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That was my thought as well. In that situation, you need to look at all angles.