Consider that Knuth first wrote TeX in a notebook. So there is that.
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Formerly at kCura/Relativity, security. I do application penetration testing for hire these days. Happy to chat about application security, programming, and ham radio. My conversations about agriculture are not that interesting.
Security: https://ciexinc.com/ Of particular interest are the solarwinds articles at https://ciexinc.com/blog/solarwinds/index.html Old very fun projects: https://ciex-software.com
“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.
I am haunted by waters.”
Beware the anxiety industrial complex.
One small example of a problem we were required to learn was that of a pipe running through a space at some angle and determine if it intersected something important.
My first job, of course, was prior to all that, driving various vehicles on my Dad's dryland wheat farm in northern Montana.
So I feel that I was particularly lucky about finding good co-op positions, as many of my colleagues were at less interesting gigs at Motorolla, sorting resistors by color code.
(Some of these are documented at https://ciex-software.com/)
Coming from a very small town, University was a bigger uptick than likely for kids growing up in the Big City.
The referenced article in Nature Astronomy: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02541-7
I was fortunate enough to attend a dinner where Joe Taylor, whose Nobel Prize involved long-term study of pulsar intervals decay. He brought along a recording of several pulsars, ranging from multi-second intervals down to one whose rotational speed was 600/second.
(Joe Taylor is also the author of WSJTX, a weak-signal radio protcol.)
Presuming you are logged onto a google account, log on to Gemini 2.5 then ask it “create a go program that connects one thread to a usb device and another thread to generate a GUI”. The results might surprise you.
One of the authors of the paper has said "WAFs are just speed bump to a determined attacker."
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