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usrnm··on GitLab Security Incident: Attempted Exploitation of CVE-2026-97229
The location of the servers matters only if you're trying to prevent physical access, for anything else it's completely irrelevant
usrnm··on What Happened to the Neanderthals?
> No, this is pure speculation

What is? Shared cultural ancestry between the people speaking early Sanskrit and many of their European counterparts is common knowledge at least since the 19th century, it's very well researched and not really contested at this point.

usrnm··on What Happened to the Neanderthals?
Those myths and legends are old enough to contain traces of shared Indo-European beliefs, so the real old stuff should be found, in some form, in other cultures, like Greek or Norse mythology. But I don't think it is true in this case
usrnm··on What Happened to the Neanderthals?
You forgot the "2 = 5" one
usrnm··on Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to a quarter of its workforce
Dinosaurs are a bad analogy, they died out through no fault of their own, it was sheer bad luck. There was absolutely nothing they could do
usrnm··on France asked ISPs to prepare temporary DNS blocks for major social platforms
Maybe Libya should bomb the shit out of France this time?
usrnm··on Getting ready to operate GNU Taler in Germany
> and the app seems amateurish

What app? In the Netherlands, where wero originated as iDeal, I've always used it via my bank's app. Isn't it how it's supposed to work?

usrnm··on Composite objects and C++26 the std:polymorphic type
15 years ago I would've been happy reading about all these cool new things coming to C++, nowadays I'm happy I don't use it anymore and don't need to relearn everything again. Am I getting old?
usrnm··on US threatens Europe over Starlink restrictions
Dude, he was a literal German Nazi, the weapons he made were killing US and allied soldiers and civilians during the WWII
usrnm··on US threatens Europe over Starlink restrictions
Wait till you hear about Wernher von Braun
usrnm··on Legal experts warn Meta's new terms still grant broad scraping permissions
That could consume as much, if not more, resources as returning real data
usrnm··on "Tame" boar and deer are instinctively adapting to the wolf in the Netherlands
Those are completely extinct, they were not the same lions that roam African savanna. It's too late
usrnm··on Why Math Dumped OpenAI
"My world is changing and I don't like it"

OpenAI really could handle the whole situation better, and it's perfectly fine to call them out on that, but it's not what this piece is about, it's just another AI rant

usrnm··on RPKI now protects 70% of internet routes
It's already happening, you cannot access the websites of many sanctioned Russian entities without trusting a Russia-issued root CA. The fragmentation of the Internet is already in motion
usrnm··on Ask HN: What is the current trajectory of a senior engineer?
I'm almost 40, but nowhere close to being able to retire and enjoy the rest of my life, which is, I hope, going to be at least another 40 years. It's going to be a fun ride
usrnm··on Hittite royal archive found in Turkey
The languages aren't even related. Hittite is an Indo-European language, closer related to English than Turkish
usrnm··on Blood cells from 80-year-old donor become stem cells with molecular age under 20
But what about cancer? The cell still has the same DNA, so it will keep accumulating mutations over its extended lifetime, right?
usrnm··on Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age
Aren't EVs large because of the battery?
usrnm··on Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age
Oh, so that's why I cannot see any difference between a Mini and Ford F150?
usrnm··on 3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit
My information may be outdated, but the others are much smaller and less relevant
usrnm··on 3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit
From a purely engineering perspective, this and the destroyed AWS datacenters in the Middle East show an interesting trend. How will it affect the way future datacenters and services hosted in them are built? Will we see a rise in decentralized systems and much larger networks of smaller DCs?
usrnm··on 3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit
They only have 3. At least, the main ones
usrnm··on PVX-001: open-source Covid-19 vaccine starts Phase 1 trial
But that's not what the word "open-source" means
usrnm··on PVX-001: open-source Covid-19 vaccine starts Phase 1 trial
What does it even mean for a vaccine to be open-source?
usrnm··on `123456' password used in Danish CPR data breach
You're contradicting yourself, how can it be unique if only 1000 can be assigned per given date of birth? What if more than one thousand babies are born in the country one day?
usrnm··on What should we tell our students?
Almost all sciences (at least, parts of them) have been also expressed as code, mathematics is no different. It's a tool used by sciences, but it is not itself a science and it is not necessarily rooted in anything "real". Not better or worse, just different.
usrnm··on What should we tell our students?
You must be thinking of physics and other sciences. Mathematics has very little to do with the real world and can be better described as a game, similar to chess, but much more complex. It's no wonder it now went the way of chess, go and similar games
usrnm··on The Mathocalypse
1) Predicting the future is hard, but so far everyone who was saying that it would get better turned out to be right. It is getting better 2) Waymo exists
usrnm··on The Mathocalypse
Contact them again in 15 years and ask if they changed their mind. Could be interesting to see the results
usrnm··on Visa, Mastercard, major banks facing new litigation over 'anticompetitive' fees
> Payment networks are not an easy thing to build or maintain

Then why are there so many of them? I like travelling and almost every country I go to has its own thing going on, often more than one. I lost count long ago

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