zavec

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by zavec 2y ago
Now I kind of want to read a story where it turns out the technology we use in our modern lives is actually very carefully hidden magic. Sort of like the opposite of (rot13 for book spoilers) gur fgrrefjbzna frevrf.
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by zavec 2y ago
Among all the other great things, I found the bit about how cathedrals were built by trial and error really interesting. It had never occurred to me that operating on that timescale you could make changes from one bay to the next based on h
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by zavec 2y ago
I'm definitely going to have to look into these Dutch events, not only did Defcon feel like much less value for money this year (and all the badge drama) but the Netherlands is way easier for me to get to as well.
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by zavec 2y ago
It also mentions telescope observations, did those go to a camera obscura after going through the telescope (is that possible?) or were people actually just staring at the sun through a telescope? How did they not go blind?
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by zavec 2y ago
Even a staged rollout over a few hours would have made a huge difference here. "Slow" in the context of a rollout can still be pretty fast.
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by zavec 2y ago
They absolutely have bugs up their sleeve, but if they tell the companies to allow them to fix them then they can't use the bugs for spying (or at least, not as effectively)
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by zavec 2y ago
Location: currently Oslo, Norway but also considering Canada Remote: Office preferred Willing to relocate: yes Technologies: Rust, python, go, LLMs (guardrails, prompt injection type stuff), linux (cgroups, eBPF, ptrace, etc), ku