BadCipherCodes

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Software dev, cryptography,cheese, anything else that is interesting. You are a very silly🪿 if you think my opinions reflect that of my employer.

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Kat Abughazaleh, who claims to be poor, posted yesterday about buying fast-casual shrimp twice in a day.
Kevin Hassett says Fed researchers should be ‘disciplined’ over report that Americans are paying tariffs
Megan McArdle “And since boycotting the Kennedy Center has costs--some of the patrons who don't show up now will get out of the habit of going to the theater and be less likely to attend future performances--I'd like to hear some discussion of whether the tradeoff is worth it.”
software development in 2026 is going to require some to loosen up a little code doesn't have to be as perfectly crafted the way we did it pre-ai call it slop if you want, but if you're still demanding perfection on every pr while your competitors are shipping "slop" that works... you're fighting from a disadvantaged position shipping velocity matters more than perfection
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Fox News opinion piece: It may seem cruel, but why we need to humiliate Joe Biden
Michael Thomas Flynn (born 24 December 1958) is a retired United States Army lieutenant general and convicted felon who was the 24th U.S. national security advisor[2] for the first 22 days of the first Trump administration. He resigned in light of reports that he had lied regarding conversations with Russian ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak. Flynn's military career included a key role in shaping U.S. counterterrorism strategy and dismantling insurgent networks in the Afghanistan
I am trash can, not trash cannot
CNN article “5 reasons to be optimistic about the 2025 economy” lighted “for subscriptions only”
U-505 Chicago Museum of Science and Industry
Less than dresses lady laying down above an article about cryptosporidium
Salted Caramel and Winter Citrus in very similar bottles.
I did TDD, and then I started dealing with distributed systems involving vendors who could break their code on a whim and refuse to roll out fixes for six months, and that's when I learned that developers who can get all their problems solved with TDD live in a blessed and wonderful world I will never, ever inhabit again (I still do TDD, I just do a million other techniques now too)
Today’s fun fact: We made stuff up when writing the Google SRE books. They’re a phenomenal source of wisdom, because even the fabricated parts were dreamt up by incredibly wise people, but don’t think *everything* in them was actually practiced by many, or in some cases any.
Older lady looking through binoculars. Says “your neighbors are watching. Have you voted”
This is the way