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user: ColinWright
created: 2009-12-14
karma: 136075

If you want to contact me, find me on the web. I am especially interested in math, juggling, programming, and education, and since there are other people with my name you'll probably need to include at least one of those terms in any search.

I was once a prolific contributor and commenter, but no more. I go through bouts of submitting stuff, but then go and disappear for lengths of time. If there is something you'd like me to see or comment on, you can email me. Don't ask me to upvote things. If it is interesting (to me) then I will.

Submissions do not imply endorsement.

My spam filtering is pretty severe, but I've put the word "Dysprosium" on the allow-list - quote that and your email will get through.

I used to have an email here but it got harvested by spammers - I'm looking at you, mbientlab.com - so it has been removed. This is a temporary one:

HN_a7dab8S4@solipsys.co.uk

Email sent there and quoting the element name will pass my spam filters. After that we can use "proper" email addresses.

submissions:

Steganographic Language Output Process Encoding
3 points | 1 comments
Lucky 13 Starship sends out satellites and stays intact
4 points | 6 comments
Escaping the Sandbox
3 points | 0 comments
How the Other Half Scams
2 points | 0 comments
Tesla swapped a solar owner's lease contract for the Book of Enoch
12 points | 3 comments
The MOnSter 6502 (2016)
3 points | 0 comments
OpenAI Says Its A.I. Models Went Rogue and Attacked a Digital Library
2 points | 1 comments
Bright Data ltd: "Smart TV"s become a part of a bot-net
1 points | 0 comments
Sabot in the age of AI: A list of offensive methods and strategic approaches ...
9 points | 0 comments
0 points | 0 comments
0 points | 0 comments
0 points | 0 comments
Responsible Bot Operation
1 points | 0 comments
Y2K in orbit: Tomorrow, we run out of satellite catalogue numbers
4 points | 0 comments
0 points | 0 comments
Anyone here with an "in" with eBay?
21 points | 9 comments
Plan 9 FAQ
2 points | 0 comments
The General Court dismisses Apple's actions over its designation as a gatekeeper [pdf]
6 points | 0 comments
0 points | 0 comments
Fibonacci's Real Mathematical Legacy
39 points | 13 comments
Time to kill at Temple Meads. What's up with platform 2? Where is platform 14?
1 points | 0 comments
AI and Liability
1 points | 0 comments
0 points | 0 comments
NASA launches robot to save Swift telescope falling to Earth
7 points | 3 comments
The primary purpose of code review is to find code that will be hard to maintain
379 points | 177 comments
To be trustworthy, LLMs need to show their work
3 points | 0 comments
Discovering My Talk
3 points | 0 comments
ESO: SpaceX plans to launch 1M satellites for space-based data centres
3 points | 2 comments
Too many satellites? Earth's orbit is on track for a catastrophe
7 points | 1 comments
Starbucks Is One of the Largest Banks
2 points | 0 comments