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wglb

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About wglb

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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    Paper in Astrophysical Journal https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae7f0b

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    Paper in Mycologia https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00275514.2026.2...

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    Comment #49097158

    In fact there has: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04950 : Mind Your Tone: Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy (short paper)

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    Comment #49097109

    Paper in Astronomy & Astrophysics https://www.eso.org/public/archives/releases/sciencepapers/e...

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    Comment #49078271

    Arxiv link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.16119

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    Also https://www.yahoo.com/news/science/articles/99-old-mathemati... . Someone who has been at this problem for 60 years.

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    Comment #49008299

    Paper published in Biogenetics https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12864-026-12959-6

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    Comment #48939642

    Not hard to find: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies

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    Comment #48868149

    In my youth, I openly railed against this type of thinking. I was near quitting one gig when the VP said that all work done on our Dec 10 had to be done in batch mode. Fortunately,…

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    Other articles: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48823719 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48848899 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48825942 https://news.ycombinator.c…

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    The Guardian also has an article about this: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/08/telst... It seems like the US is beginning to think about how to back up GPS and…

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    Isn't it true that OED say that "cipher" is the primary, preferred spelling in modern British English?

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