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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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Consider the fact that aircraft/control tower conversations are done over AM radio, a very ancient technology as these things go. Why so old, you might ask, in the vein of your question. First, ther…
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Not being a ruby programmer, is there a defensive coding idiom that would have prevented this confusion?
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"I've only received one response last Thursday that someone would look into it, but the issue seemed to die there." I am not clear here where the 24 hours starts.
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Ah. Garbage collection for file systems. With screaming, to boot. Wasn't some work done on log-structured file systems done by DEC some time ago? I can't find a reference to it.
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Well, I have. I did five years of hard-core assembly language programming on the Sigma 5 for a real-time medical data acquisition and analysis. I am quite familiar with how the hardware is classicall…
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May I suggest flowers every week?
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Well, I think so, but I know only one, and possibly met a second one. You?
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I am waiting for an invention that brings you your direct mail prediscarded.
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I recall reading many years ago that a major auto company, I think it was Ford, who ponied up for a split in Reader's Digest to see which sold better. Apparently it was more than a little expensive. …
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Would this be a former Tektronix person turned consultant?
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Well, if I were forced to write in C these days, I would seriously write a C/C++ generator in Lisp to speed the time to market. But if I could do it where nobody was watching, I would use a different …
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Just one more detail--my walking route from the train station to the office took me directly over the Kinzie street bridge, and if, for some reason, I had looked down that morning, I would have seen t…
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So is it just in Illinois that we have http://www.illinois1call.com/ ? This seems to be seriously effective. Someone doing work on the yard calls the number and sometime the next day a whole passel …
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I am a little puzzled here--how do properly pastured cattle sequester co2? If you do grass farming, the cattle's manure will fertilize the grass, but I wonder if there is a net sequestration in the p…
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Nixon and the press had a really bad relationship. Kennedy and the press, however, was something to behold.
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Kind of old, but a good read again.
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Well presumably you still have the ability to dream. For myself, I asked myself "what would you do if you had no fear" and I find that process useful. George Patton says " ... When you have collect…
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I am suspicious as well, or perhaps stronger--I am likely to say "humbug" to such claims. Having made many of them loudly at various points in my career, starting with Structured Programming, OOP. T…
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Wait--who says it is poor code, and by what criteria? And what we think of as parsimonious as a quality is not a useful metric for DNA.
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I don't do any windows anymore, but Dolphin looks like quite the thing.
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This was one of the most fun ones. Need to try squeak.
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I think you are correct about the deskview stuff, and yes os/2 was a pretty big deal. But prior to that my vague recollection was that ms-dos was the thing. I worked at a company that produced an edi…
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"And let’s face it: Our culture has lost the ability to usefully disagree." -- great point. Good article. The fact is, that kids do "run" their parents quite a bit. This approach might just bring it …
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I think many of the points tomstechblog is making are wrong. In particular, insofar as I can remember, ms-dos was really the only choice that business was making. Yes, there was cp/m, qnx, Coherent,…
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You are making my mouth water here. I been way too long since I had this.
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Methane is a much more dangerous greenhouse gas than co2 alone. Eating less meat will make a bigger impact than driving less.
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Quite cool. Actually surface mount is not all that bad. I have some friends who use it on boards at home for fun. And I would be surprised if there weren't vendors or other activity using surface mou…
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I am curious what you mean about "easily manipulate environments" for the functions to be evaluated in.
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I wonder. If it were only limited to the ratio of time required to type it, maybe. But I think during the writing of the program, you type the code, review the code, look at some other code, come bac…
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It would seem that is the case. The factor image is within a few percent of the sbcl lisp image. Nonetheless, the energy is contagious.