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iansmith_hn

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About iansmith_hn

iansmith [AT] acm [DOT org

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    Comment #49231428

    I'll give him credit for taking responsibility, but I have to admit that Claude had nothing to do with the issue. You could have taken somebody else's project with a few uses of cu…

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    Comment #49230111

    Talk about rose-colored glasses and "the good ol' days". All I can remember are the animated gifs flash and spinning around on people's pages...

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    Comment #49230096

    Does this suggest a subscription(ish) business where you pay the hosting company for N years and then they ensure your website stays up and unchanged for N years after you die? Qua…

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    Comment #49198713

    I would say the fact so few people follow your advice and are meat-puppets generating enormous tomes intended for others read/understand may, in fact, save white collar job market.…

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    Comment #49107777

    Are adversary agents a solution here? I've had good success using them to prevent the base agent from going off plan.

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    Comment #49107716

    Does anybody have a filter for cryptography posts of the form: AES IS BROKEN: Making giant assumption XYZ and requiring a less capable AES in ABC way, we've reduce the amount of op…

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    Comment #49107601

    Or waiting for Claude's outages to clear up.

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    Comment #49094521

    Thanks for the link to the CVE. Are we likely to ever get a full breakdown of the exploit? I guess when artifactory is patched and deployed widely? Although I must admit my interes…

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    Comment #49067040

    Agreed. Along those same lines, their startup time claim "faster than go", gives me concern because the slowest part of go startup is the various GC-related initializations. If the…

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    Comment #49060060

    Fair enough. Is the right enforcement then to ignore the "token resellers" and go after the credit card business listed at the "upstream" on his post?