jgrahamc

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Artifacts: Versioned storage that speaks Git(blog.cloudflare.com)
217 points by jgrahamc 6mo ago|26 comments
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by jgrahamc 6mo ago
I just don't idolize individuals.
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by jgrahamc 6mo ago
Oh wow. Enhancements for the Sharp MZ line! Wonderful. I spent a lot of time with those machines in the 1980s and own a few. Being able to emulate the Sharp MZ-80K's ( https://blog.jgc.org/2009/08/in-which-i-sw
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by jgrahamc 6mo ago
Cloudflare has long been doing work on PQ (sometimes in conjunction with Google) and rolled out PQ encryption for our customers. You can read about where this all started for us 7 years back: https://blog.cloudflare.com/towa
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by jgrahamc 6mo ago
Here in my corner of Europe it seems to be working fine.
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by jgrahamc 6mo ago
What I've noticed is that whenever Claude says something like "the simplest fix is..." it's usually suggesting some horrible hack. And whenever I see that I go straight to the code it wants to write and challenge it.
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by jgrahamc 6mo ago
There is no point engaging in any way with people who believe in such "theories". They are like trolls, the only way to deal with them is not at all. Don't engage, don't disagree, just nothing, total silence. One can cho
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Maistro(blog.jgc.org)
2 points by jgrahamc 6mo ago|0 comments
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by jgrahamc 6mo ago
I can assure you this is not an April Fools. Cloudflare does not do that. This is a real project.
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Quantum frontiers may be closer than they appear(blog.google)
6 points by jgrahamc 7mo ago|0 comments
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by jgrahamc 7mo ago
Why? It seems foolish to have a knee jerk reaction to someone using a tool that got them where they needed to be.
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by jgrahamc 7mo ago
Now I see it written down I realize how lucky I've been to have spent time at the Programming Research Group at Oxford when Tony Hoare was running it and then to have worked for and founded a company with John Ousterhout. And, yeah, wh
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by jgrahamc 7mo ago
Well, of course, a lot had already been done by the time I got there. But what really struck me about CSP was how easy it was to reason about concurrent programs because synchronization and communication were the same thing. In my doctoral
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by jgrahamc 7mo ago
In the early eighties, for example, he brought to Oxford the creators of two major formal specification languages: Cliff Jones with VDM, Jean-Raymond Abrial with Z. At Oxford, Z actually underwent a systematic rework, reminiscent of the Go
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Claude broke a ZIP password in a smart way
8 points by jgrahamc 7mo ago|3 comments
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by jgrahamc 7mo ago
Well, I do have a rather special last name which makes me susceptible.
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by jgrahamc 7mo ago
Imagine being a world-famous computer scientist and dying and one of the top threads in a discussion of your life is juvenile crap about how your name sounds like "whore".
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by jgrahamc 7mo ago
He was the professor in the Programming Research Group (known universally as the PRG) at Oxford when I was doing my DPhil and interviewed me for the DPhil. I spent quite a bit of time with him and, of course, spent a lot of time doing stuff
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by jgrahamc 7mo ago
Ah, so these products are useful to me after all!
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by jgrahamc 7mo ago
" Because at Patek he'd encounter the most extreme brand age phenomenon: artificial scarcity. You can't just buy a Nautilus. You have to spend years proving your loyalty first by buying your way through multiple tiers of othe
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Batteries included: how AI will transform the who and how of programming (2023)(blog.cloudflare.com)
2 points by jgrahamc 7mo ago|0 comments
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by jgrahamc 8mo ago
I am reading HN.
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by jgrahamc 8mo ago
This is great news. I've been sponsoring ggml/llama.cpp/Georgi since 2023 via Github. Glad to see this outcome. I hope you don't mind Georgi but I'm going to cancel my sponsorship now you and the code have found a h
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Shedding old code with ecdysis: graceful restarts for Rust services(blog.cloudflare.com)
1 points by jgrahamc 8mo ago|0 comments
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by jgrahamc 8mo ago
I did this also: https://blog.jgc.org/2023/12/restoration-of-ibm-thinkpad-701... but using original parts.
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by jgrahamc 8mo ago
I don't know if this will help, but I believe that all of mathematics arises from an underlying fundamental structure to the universe and that this results in it both being "discoverable" (rather than invented) and "usef
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by jgrahamc 8mo ago
Phew, so we won't have to deal with the Year 2038 Unix timestamp roll over after all.
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by jgrahamc 8mo ago
I can read about US politics pretty much anywhere else.
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by jgrahamc 9mo ago
Ah, this is why I've been receiving a bunch of very obvious spam/scam mails in my inbox.
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by jgrahamc 9mo ago
https://blog.cloudflare.com/fail-small-resilience-plan/

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