et. alecs.

et. alecs.

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I don't understand all these complaints about which numbers got picked for the private keys. They were generated randomly and that's what they got. Sometimes you get a 4. It happens.

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A man sees another about to jump off a bridge. “Don't do it! Are you a programming languages researcher?” “Yes!” “Me too! Proof assistants or refinement types?” “Refinement types!” “Me too! Liquid Haskell or F*?” “F*!” “Die, heretic!” And he pushes him off the bridge.

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LLMs killed the coding star. I saw you on the youtube back in '21 Lying awake intent at watching in on you If I was young it didn't stop you coming through (Oh-a-oh) They took the credit for your hacking prodigy Rewritten by machine on new technology And now I understand the problems you can see.