CatMustard

> it won't be a big deal.

This isn't a space I know too much about, but even if we all start using quantum-safe encryption for everything today, won't the arrival of quantum computers that can break traditional encryption not still be a big deal?

Given that intelligence agencies, tech companies and various bad actors have been storing encrypted data for a long time, hoping to decrypt when (if?) that day comes?

Maybe in a world as culturally-fractured as ours two comments on twitter is as close to a zeitgest as you can get.

Maybe. Personally I'd say it'd take at least 5.

> Might have been haunted.

'Might have been'? You say 'might have been' after you bought a Twix with all the money that ghost slowly put in the vending machine? For shame.

Or "The Wrong Street".

Would make for fun GPS instructions. "In one hundred metres take a left turn onto The Wrong Street".

Yay, the most terrifying piece of short fiction I've ever read is coming true!

https://qntm.org/mmacevedo

> my current solution is to have a link which says "click to show email"

Yeah was thinking of going down that route, but I like the simplicity of just having it there there as a mailto link when you land. Based on Mike's response I might try it!

Nice, I might try it myself so, thank you!

> My email and matrix id are both on my front page at https://www.grepular.com

I've been tempted to put my email address directly on my personal site but just assumed I'd be flooded with automated spam. How have you found it?

Follow up study?

I know I'm going against the HN hivemind a bit here, and I hope I don't get flamed too much for it - but I think that that Jeff Epstein fellow wasn't a very nice man.

Thanks for the detailed reply. I wrote and deployed a few dev-opsy python scripts in my last job that I wasn't massively proud of, but after reading that I all of a sudden don't feel so bad lol

> Maybe, we should teach developers how to code.

Even better: teach them how to develop.

> I always dread dealing with python developers though tbh.

Out of curiosity, why is that?

> part of the hiring process was to go get your blood tested by them

I know it would be far from the only illegal thing Theranos did, but that sure does sound extremely illegal.

Just took a look at what's running there and it looks like total crap.

The project I'm working on, meanwhile...

This could be the case even without an intentional conspiracy. It's harder to give negative feedback to poor quality code that's complicated vs. poor quality code that's simple.

Hence the feedback these models get could theoretically funnel them to unnecessarily complicated solutions.

No clue has any research been done into this, just a thought OTTOMH.

It's okay not to be that into food, but a bit odd to expect everyone else to be the same. If I had to eat steak and potatoes every day I'd be miserable by day 2.

It also helps that Bill is not a common name here at all (the only Bill I've ever met in my life was an American).

I can imagine how confusing it would be if all instances of the word Bill in articles such as these were replaced with Seán lol.

Beat you to it, my friend. My next job starts next week!

Good advice though, it really felt like a good point in my career to move on somewhere new.

Oh I have a lot of projects in my spare time already that I get fulfilment from. Just the 9-5 that doesn't do it for me. My original comment was a bit tongue in cheek though, I don't hate my job. It pays the bills and then some, and doesn't ask too much of me.

Would you mind me asking what age you were when you retired? I'm 28 and five years into my boring corpo career and need something to lust after lol

After 5 or 6 misses I found gimme gimme gimme by ABBA worked pretty well:

https://www.wario.style/s/owplrJi2

(first 20 seconds are junk but then it sounds a bit like a castlevania song)

The Passing of the Curse

"Hi, I see you're the owner of this 6000-line mess of a component, could you answer some questions for me?"

"I don't own it, I didn't write it, and I don't understand it even slightly. I just made a one-line bug fix for one function in it a year ago and nobody has touched it since, so my name is on top of the git history."

"Cool, so as the owner could you tell me..."

> certain social circles, m/v, but mostly m.

What does this mean? Best I can come up with us "male/vemale"