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wbl··on US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide
The US doesn't even kill foreign leaders. Our intelligence service doesn't have the skills or appetite, let alone citizens. The resulting scandal would make the Church commission look like nothing, not to mention the impact on recruitment.
wbl··on _for-sale DNS records
Initial underscore is a reserved namespace for this reason.
wbl··on Adults over 65 will outnumber children by 2029
It's not about existence it's about what drives the flows. People are born, work and save, and retire. Part of the savings enters as institutional money, and is consumed in retirement.
wbl··on Adults over 65 will outnumber children by 2029
The institutions exist for people to do things like retire.
wbl··on A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website
Anubis sucks because CPU is cheap for scrapers and hard for humans.
wbl··on My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”
Don't forget driving in the bay area. Google maps will happily recommend entering 580/880/80 at Emeryville and going on 580 east instead of the much better entrance at 36 street that's 5 minutes out of the way.
wbl··on Discovery of a multicomponent alloy forged by the Hiroshima atomic blast
They did not get vaporized in the fireball. We have survivors at the hypocenter. Intense burns and radiation poisoning killed most plus conventional blast damage mechanisms. Half the acute deaths happened after the first day.
wbl··on U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war
The US is always going to slap a JDAM kit on for better effect.
wbl··on Investors in Situational Awareness deserved to lose their shirts
And yet they do more good than the moral critics do.
wbl··on Safe Lock-free Primitives with iceoryx2's ByteAtomic
The compiler declares them UB because very useful transformations would change the semantics of races. Races are ok with specially marked variables!
wbl··on Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc
Physical DVD is the way. Praise Criterion
wbl··on Windows XP 2002 for the Itanium: Unbridled rage
If only the Alpha had hung on.
wbl··on Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years
Autotools on little endian Linux is the biggest waste of CPU time imaginable.
wbl··on Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs
They use cyclotrons with some regularity and advanced imaging techniques.
wbl··on Decades-old fish sauce at abandoned factory in Canada finally being removed
Transporting forty-five tons of this stinking liquid far enough offshore won't be cheap.
wbl··on Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library
Trading the underlying to offset your derivative position isn't fraud.
wbl··on Decades-old fish sauce at abandoned factory in Canada finally being removed
"The blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds" - prior failure of intuitively appealing disposal option.
wbl··on EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation
The hardware security module does not need to change to support tying to a credentials. I showed how to do this years ago and the theory was known long before. Its just that the EU is making self imposed barriers to doing this right.
wbl··on US Treasury undertakes historic intervention in yen market
They don't invest in Japanese companies because Japan is horrific for corporate governance. Huge cash holdings, cross investments, etc.
wbl··on Study uncovers lost 'golden age' of languages
There was extremely limited contact between them until thousands of years later, and no real cultural exchange until the era of exploration.
wbl··on Study uncovers lost 'golden age' of languages
Sanskrit is not an ancestor of English. Sanskrit is a satem language English centum. Proto Indo Iranian diverged long ago.
wbl··on A Surveillance Treaty in Disguise: Canada Signs UN Cybercrime Convention
Because Congress doesn't work if an issue becomes partisan.
wbl··on Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
If you told them this was the problem and they would still have a job if they failed probably. The reasons people don't go head on these problems is career incentives and psychology.
wbl··on Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI
You have chronology backwards. Lisp predates C by 14 odd years. Pascal was contemporaneous.
wbl··on Golang proposal: container/: generic collection types
Nothing was broken in the change: there is no need to migrate.
wbl··on Golang proposal: container/: generic collection types
Rust will not "win" when it targets a much different niche, any more than C won against Java or Scheme.
wbl··on Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion
Because that's in the SOC2.
wbl··on Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Up
Humans can detect single photons with their eyes! https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms12172
wbl··on Ron Gilbert started production on Thimbleweed Park 2
Worse than the Babel fish dispenser?
wbl··on There's never been a better time to commit financial fraud
Not so new: the legend of the Fisher king (the source of Parsifal), the implicit theology of the Deuteronomistic history, the substitute king ritual in Assyria all speak to a conception of a connection between a rulers moral and physical health and the realm.
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