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robertelder

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About robertelder

I enjoy writing computer programs.

@RobertElderSoft

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    This is my favorite observation.

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    This is my favourite comment.

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    This is my favourite comment.

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    That's a very impressive story! I was hoping this post would get a bit more attention so I could read of more tales like this, but I guess this will have to do. I assume that a rob…

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    The title of this post stood out to me because it's a fairly niche topic that I've been meaning to write a 'rant' post about myself. I think in a very 'pure' parsing theory sense, …

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    I can't wait to watch the FitMC video on this.

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    I spent a fair amount of time working on building my own from-scratch C compiler that I no longer work on anymore: https://recc.robertelder.org/ One of the reasons that I stopped w…

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    Since we're on the topic of snap updates: A couple weeks ago I was working away in the terminal when all of a sudden, my USB camera turned on and its light started flashing at me i…

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    Interesting, thank you for that analysis. From what I understand, the RCE exploit really needs two things to work: 1) The interpretation of the JNDI reference by log4j, and 2) The …

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    I've been thinking about this since I saw it here on HN yesterday, and I can't help but entertain the idea that this might end up being 'the worst software security flaw ever'.

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    Neat. I wrote a tool that shows interactive examples of how you can actually do the calculations for multiplications with Fourier transforms: https://blog.robertelder.org/fast-mult…