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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.
recent activity (9,653 total)
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> It seems to me LL and LR parser generators are overrated, and hand-written recursive descent is best in practice I would now agree with that. My compiler experience was on a team that happened to…
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A significant fraction of my technical library is used just this way--as a reference, checking out the parts to answer a specific question.
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When I was professionally writing a compiler professionally (see https://ciex-software.com/intro-to-compilers.html ) the Dragon book was the second book that I read. I found it very he…
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This is why these postings are not interesting or useful.
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No problem with that. However, at one point in my career, I was frustrated with limitations in a language (Fortran II) and my curiosity got the better of me and I studied compilers thoroughly. This le…
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Paper at arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.11171
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Paper published on arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.07857
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W8LVN. Licensed in 1961.
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Paper at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0067270X.2026.2... from Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa…
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Paper in Geophysical Research Letters: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025GL11... …
6 pts
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Article in MDPI https://www.mdpi.com/2673-706X/6/1/6
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The research web site: https://swais2c.aq/
The phys org article: https://phys.org/news/2023-11-collapse-west-antarctic-ice-sh... …