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wbl··on NSA and IETF: Fairness
The ISE has said they aren't progressing crypto drafts anymore.
wbl··on Global review confirms mRNA vaccines are safe, effective and full of promise 
Not "the vaccines" only adenovirus vector based ones and the vaccines were dropped from use pretty quickly once the safety signal was detected.
wbl··on Sandia National Labs SA3000 8085 CPU
Cousins. One made synths the other flight controls.
wbl··on AI in mathematics is forcing big questions
Look up the story of Flyspeck for this taking an entire career.
wbl··on Elastic lays off 7% of employees
The Nordic countries provide income replacement and retraining instead. Labor market inflexibility locks out younger unproven workers.
wbl··on For Most of the World, Open-Source AI Is the Only Way Forward
Ever since stumble upon.
wbl··on Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice
Except every two weeks when he gets a bigger paycheck than most senior UK government positions
wbl··on MSG Made Dossier on Activists Who Opposed Facial Recognition
Dolan is known for being extra petty.
wbl··on Chevron signs 20-year power agreement with Microsoft for West Texas data center
Oil is readily transportable and there is a global market.
wbl··on Jobs and Software Is Fucked
Search frictions are real lots of bad candidates clog up the market and your assessment process/ other things might not be getting who you need in the door.
wbl··on Show HN: Teach your kids perfect pitch
Learning intervals by quotation can work. "Comet, it makes your teeth turn green" starts with a descending third and is a very memorable song.
wbl··on Did my old job only exist because of fraud?
Do you think people at Merk or Pfizer or Disney don't care about what they work on?
wbl··on DOS Game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reversing project needs DOS test pilots
Many of their franchises date back to that era and are incredibly valuable. It's like Disney caring about Steamboat Willey all those years.
wbl··on The European Social Stack
The causes of problems are not necessarily their solutions
wbl··on The European Social Stack
Social media and dating apps together have created this isolation. People can demand a completely comfortable illusion of life and enforce this sterility.
wbl··on The European Social Stack
US companies obey EU law when working in the EU. And there is a reason VC does not exist in Europe namely capital markets being divided.
wbl··on VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate'
Damnably hard to find local ales. I had to wander for hours last time I was in London to get Fullers.
wbl··on VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate'
For yanks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988%E2%80%931994_British_broa...
wbl··on The Cold War's Accidental Whale Observatory
Look up the local names for Tongue of the Ocean and you'll have even more gist for that mill.
wbl··on Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28
That tends to be a reason to say no- remember the vasa!
wbl··on Cell-based architecture for resilient payment systems
GLBs absolutely can be SPOF for certain kind of administrative mistakes.
wbl··on The Korean telecom giant at the center of Anthropic's Mythos controversy
Things really did get worse as online gave visibility into what drives clocks and undermines the value of reputation.
wbl··on OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, with Spending Hitting $34B
The one man and the dog at the Carolina spinning factory earn far more than their equivalents in Birmingham.
wbl··on OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, with Spending Hitting $34B
I think you underestimate the price by a few orders of magnitude where it makes sense to pay a model instead of a human. If someone earning 200,000 a year gets replaced by paying 500 a day to Anthropic or OpenAI their employer comes out ahead.
wbl··on US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks
What do you think the Chinese would use Tiktok for if Taiwan heated up again?
wbl··on French physicist and media star loses doctorate after plagiarism investigation
Cryptography is closer to math than most CS disciplines institutionally.
wbl··on US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks
Ever see a tiktok about may 35?
wbl··on French physicist and media star loses doctorate after plagiarism investigation
Depends on the subfields. CS is by publication, number theory varies ("my students can find a stapler" to the dissertation has revolutionary result not published elsewhere)
wbl··on AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less
You seem to be saying model capabilities aren't improving. They are. The fact that many mathematicians have looked at the result and confirmed it and solved some other problems with the technique elevates this above claims.
wbl··on AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less
The old model couldn't do math, the new one solved a big open problem.
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