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Eric McCorkle
@Eric McCorkle

Senior research scientist at a major UARC, (infosec, distributed systems, formal methods, quantum computing). Non-profit employee. Tech industry veteran. Election worker. Irredeemable workaholic.

#compsci / #infosec background, #physicist in training

Technoprogressive, humanist, reformist, social democrat #socdem, pragmatic left-progressive, hard-line pro-democracy, #OpenSource advocate, user, and contributor #OSS. Pro-#LGBTQ+

Opinions are my own and do not reflect those of any organization.

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Was talking to some other STEM folks who also read / have read political / social theory. Someone talked about always wanting to read the word "dialectic" instead as "dielectric".

This may be my new favorite thing.
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I worked at a fairly big tech co years before the AI boom. People did large scale refractoring across huge code bases back then. With refactoring tools. And properly written robots. Applying changes ...
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Had to sit through an AI booster talk yesterday I couldn't get out of. At one point, the speaker was like "AI can write boilerplate code for you, accessors and modifiers, and other boring stuff, change names..."

I'm like "Bro, emacs has done that for decades"
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Second email in a day for what seems to be a new type of scam.

* Author claims to be someone from the Philippines, or somewhere similar, claims to have found my github page.

* Claims to want to work in the US

* Proposes a scheme where I act as a cut-out for them working a software engineering job, and I take a cut.

Many, many obvious red flags here, of course, even if you take it at face value, but wondering if anyone else has seen this?
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ITT: Thoughts, re Mozilla.

First, and most obviously, time for me to get off Firefox. Time to find out where everyone is going.

This coincides with another wave of reordering my digital life, to get off of YouTube, off the streaming model, and further eliminate ads from my daily life.

Sadly, it seems the time has come for Mozilla to die. I don't know much about this CEO, but it seems he fundamentally does not understand the domain he's in.

1/..

#OSS #OpenSource
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It is a little ominous that I cannot delete this PhD application. I can choose not to submit it, but I can't withdraw it. Apparently once you offer your soul, you can't back out.

Am I going to randomly have a bunch of physics professors show up and be all like..

"The application. You created it. We came."

"Who are you?"

"Explorers of the furthest reaches of education. Demons to some, angels to others..."

#phd #academia #AcademicChatter