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wbl··on Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO
I don't think you get the compensation for devs capable of working on this stuff.
wbl··on Cheap GPS jammers are filling the world with navigation dead zones
And the military has JDAM with HOJ as a solution for jamming
wbl··on Creepy Crawlies
If every site does it the scrapers will adapt. The scrapers will always have a cost advantage over real users for this.
wbl··on European Commission Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors in ProtectEU Strategy
The more democratic the EU the less sovereign legitimacy countries have. That's the tension that makes Euroskeptic parties oppose reforms.
wbl··on Creepy Crawlies
Real attackers fuck. If they have IP address control issues they will fix them. The bots being stopped are the silly ones.
wbl··on Two German airport workers die of malaria after 'mosquito arrives on plane'
Yup. But OP is now eligible for a vaccine!
wbl··on The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead
We call it putting the genie in the bottle for a reason.
wbl··on How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
You would not have the Euro if the IMF was in charge nor the many failures to have a single capital market. The EU, and politics that created it is much more complex than you think.
wbl··on Felony Bench
You might need to rewatch A Man For All Seasons.
wbl··on Felony Bench
Mens rea requirements are per crime and can vary wildly. Its difference between murder and manslaughter. The CFAA requires knowingly which is tough to prove.
wbl··on I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers
"A Christmas Carol" will never be a great novel, but there is a reason it is beloved the world over for what it is.
wbl··on An elliptic curve of rank ≥ 30
BSD is hard to appreciate because it connects a function that only now is known to have the right properties for the expression on the left hand side to a group we know next to nothing about, plus other mysterious factors each of which could be a few months to really understand. Proving the function exists? That went a bit beyond what was needed for Fermat's Last Theorem. Number theory demands breadth as well as depth. So no surprise it's hard to understand.
wbl··on An elliptic curve of rank ≥ 30
The rank of an elliptic curve is expected to be at most one by a combination of a simple heuristic from Cohen and Lenstra and a deep BSD consequence (but I think the case needed is known). However we know of families with rank 15, and sometimes those ranks go up at particular points.

The record before this morning was 29 and people suspected that was as high as it got. When we learn how this curve was obtained that might change.

wbl··on Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full
Its easier on a system that doesn't need to do broadcast distribution and with servers available.
wbl··on How Go detects struct copies with sync.noCopy
You can very easily define one yourself.
wbl··on SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX
Extended double has some niche and quite useful for its application properties. You can for instance simulate 128 bit floats more easily with it.
wbl··on Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker
Not all markets or manufacturers will have the same degree of vertical integration and that's ok.
wbl··on Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI
Different athletes look different. A runner vs a Olympic powerlifter vs a quarterback.
wbl··on Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election
US was able to recover, rest of world has not.
wbl··on Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election
The chaos arguably starts with the Coalition and Cameron, and the Brexit vote and tuition fees reversal.
wbl··on What garbage collection actually costs
That's where write barriers and the like come in. The cost varies by implementation and language.
wbl··on Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe
If you buy yuan just to turn around and spend them you aren't holding the yuan.
wbl··on 2026 Eclipse Webcams
I'm watching that one in Egypt.
wbl··on England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C
RFK has been the person behind the antivax movement for a long time.
wbl··on $580M undersea cable rerouted to avoid the grave of Dobby the House Elf
Slough
wbl··on $580M undersea cable rerouted to avoid the grave of Dobby the House Elf
Beaches are extremely dynamic environments and can heal in ways that other areas can't.
wbl··on Learning more about Claude's mathematical capabilities
I've cited letters from Serre to Tate in my dissertation: this is the source for what's known as Faltings-Serre.
wbl··on Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents
The AI launches new kernel bugs as matter of course.
wbl··on "Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers
The infra org has to also understand their internal customer!
wbl··on US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide
Those were military not CIA. The distinction really matters!
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