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Storytime: Once upon a time, I was a young grasshopper at a small consulting firm at which every employee was issued a Windows machine, our source control system was "\Customers" o…

Same. (Flash drive + busybox edition).

This is a friendly reminder from a grouchy old fart that 1. You are the engineer of record on all of your commits. 2. As the engineer of record, you have a certain duty of care wit…

This is a friendly reminder that although the RSA Factoring Challenge ended in 2007[0], there is still a cool million resting on each of the Millenium Prize Problems. LLMs have not…

I appreciate recent EU regulations choosing to penalize corporations on the basis of a percentage of revenue. It effectively mandates a lower-limit on spend for budgeting purposes.…

"They call them fines because if you can pay it, it's fine"

Build a product worth purchasing.

I am curious how this project compares to Qubes.

I do not appreciate when authors use the royal "we" to speak for all software engineers when admitting to low quality-control standards. I suspect that it is an attempt to broach a…

I'm not saying that LLMs are like compilers. I'm saying that LLMs are like really bad compilers hehe.

Oh dear, I should have clarified what I meant by "identity" here. By "attesting to ... the person who owns it", I mean to talk about "identity" in the precise sense of "identifying…

Not if it can lead to higher profit margins instead.

I've toyed with the idea of issuing LTE IMEI-like identity numbers for digital cameras (and a LTE IMSI/SIM-like identity number to identify a paying accountholder who wishes to sub…

I'm reminded of the phrase "regulations are written in blood". I'm also tempted to point out that anybody can give high-voltage work a whirl.... once. --- But what do I know, I'm n…

"Learn what we believe to be the textbook-correct, fundamental, foundational theories for a topic; learn about the frontiers of new research in the topic; find a niche on that fron…

I think about LLMs in software today as attempting to provide a similar role as compilers in terms of translating high-level thoughts into low-level details. The only problem is th…

1. Read the code 2. Don't. Encapsulate and put yourself in a position to swap out the implementation at will. (Maybe you'll swap out an unnecessary dependency for a simple helper f…

Show the plans, then. Otherwise, we make the reasonable assumption that it's an accident.

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What do you mean, "no mitigation" and "except for kernel updates"? Somebody made a mistake. Somebody found the mistake, and told the maintainers (and even offered a draft patch). T…

Well... you're not supposed to roll your own cryptography. Like, don't go thinking that you're going to do better than a NIST contest winner if you need a cryptographic primitive. …

It sounds like they just joined Vercel.

I would consider it, if I were being paid royalties on the end product, rather than a one-time hourly fee.

"Don't judge a book by its cover" :)

Wearing smartglass in the first place is creepy. I have nothing against people who want to wear a bodycam but it becomes creepy when you intentionally hide one in an innocuous-look…