jcurbo

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GPT–6 Astra breaking an Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005(cryptocellar.org)
2 points by jcurbo 7d ago|0 comments
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by jcurbo 26d ago
Hi, I'm the poster. Sorry for the unexpected attention! I saw this on Bluesky and thought it was interesting enough to share here. If anything the style of your writing makes it stand out in a good way, we shouldn't always have p
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I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked(signalandsilence.substack.com)
401 points by jcurbo 27d ago|239 comments
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by jcurbo 4mo ago
I've had similar thoughts lately while using agents for coding. It seems like if I give the agents external tools and sources of truth they perform really well. In my case it was a lot of standards, extensive use of Rust language featu
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by jcurbo 7mo ago
This is pretty much my approach. I started with some spec files for a project I'm working on right now, based on some academic papers I've written. I ended up going back and forth with Claude, building plans, pushing info back in
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by jcurbo 8mo ago
This is great stuff! Civ3 is still by far my favorite Civ. And a nice use of Godot.
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by jcurbo 9mo ago
People interested in similar experiences should check out this podcast/series of videos where two Windows/Mac users try desktop Linux and report out on their experiences. https://www.pcworld.com/article/288822
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Check Out PCWorld's New Linux Podcast, the Dual Boot Diaries(pcworld.com)
20 points by jcurbo 9mo ago|0 comments
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by jcurbo 9mo ago
Docker on Linux. Gonic, navidrome and airsonic (and airsonic-advanced, the fork I used) all have docker images available. For me folder view is partially just what I’m used to, but even with good tags some kinds of music is easier to look u
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by jcurbo 9mo ago
I also use gonic over navidrome (and formerly airsonic) because Navidrome doesn't support folder view (and apparently never will). As nice as Navidrome is, that's a dealbreaker for me. Gonic works great though.
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by jcurbo 11mo ago
That's wild, I was in LA recently for work and drove by that area and wondered what was up with the street grid. I figured it must be something like this given the airport.
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by jcurbo 1y ago
Battlefield's anti-cheat isn't supported in Proton/Wine, so you're stuck with Windows there.
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by jcurbo 2y ago
This is a talk from DistrictCon. There is video available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdfe2BnXQjU
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Is this memory safety here in the room with us?(docs.google.com)
3 points by jcurbo 2y ago|1 comments
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Spike Japan – A Look at the Overlooked(spikejapan.wordpress.com)
6 points by jcurbo 2y ago|1 comments
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Do Secure-by-Design Pledges Come with Stickers? – Ivanti Connect Secure RCE(labs.watchtowr.com)
1 points by jcurbo 2y ago|0 comments
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I am my own legal department: the promise and peril of "just go independent"(citationneeded.news)
6 points by jcurbo 2y ago|2 comments
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by jcurbo 2y ago
Likewise, I used it for a while as well. I also used a console client named micq, good times.
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by jcurbo 3y ago
https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_do... works great for me to do this.
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Aethero Wants to Bring Edge Compute into Orbit(payloadspace.com)
2 points by jcurbo 3y ago|0 comments
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by jcurbo 3y ago
I just want to pour one out for CalSky, that was a great page for setting up custom trackers for lots of astronomical things. It was very old school web too (for better or worse).
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I broke IKEA (2023)(cohost.org)
399 points by jcurbo 3y ago|58 comments
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by jcurbo 4y ago
High five. 6 yrs in the USAF here.
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by jcurbo 4y ago
Yes; APL is a University Affiliated Research Center (UARC) and while we sometimes do work with industry, our whole purpose is to support the US Government. That doesn't necessarily mean you need a clearance, but much of our work is na
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by jcurbo 4y ago
Nice to see fellow APLers here! I have been at APL 5 years and like it a lot.
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by jcurbo 5y ago
Echoing others, thank you for writing this (as someone doing an applied math masters and digging into ML - I have used ESL for a class but not the others you mention)
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by jcurbo 5y ago
"But can it run Linux?" Of course it can, 486s were common in Linux's early heyday. During my senior year of high school and freshman year of college ('97-'99) I ran Debian Slink on an IBM 486SX. X ran a little sl
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by jcurbo 5y ago
Related: https://hub.jhu.edu/magazine/2021/spring/apl-interstellar-pr... (Disclaimer, I work at APL, but not on this)
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by jcurbo 5y ago
Are there really PDP-11s out there still doing stuff? That is wild
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by jcurbo 5y ago
Hit "Next" at the top and it will advance a day. https://www.gi.alaska.edu/modules/custom/aurora-forecast/ima... That's a direct link to the map as of this post. Unfortunately we have rain in

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