Hasnain says:

I hate sharing a twitter link but this is too funny to not share: most people called Elon’s bluff and are now quitting - and he’s begging people to stay: https://twitter.com/alexeheath/status/1593365103331577856?s=46&t=wrqExQQ5qhV_VfOsEVeM-g

And future update (will link in comments) - they’ve closed offices and locked people out, presumably fearing sabotage

Hasnain says:

"Archaeologists first came across the ancient city in 1911 after hearing reports of some brickwork in the area. However, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) dismissed the bricks as not having any kind of antiquity and the site remained undisturbed for several more years. It wasn't until 1922 that R D Banerji, an ASI officer, believed he saw a buried stupa, a mound-like structure where Buddhists typically meditate. This led to large-scale excavations – most notably by British archaeologist Sir John Marshall – and the eventual naming of Mohenjo-daro as a Unesco World Heritage Site in 1980. The remains they uncovered revealed a level of urbanisation not previously seen in history, with Unesco lauding Mohenjo-daro as the "best preserved" ruin of the Indus Valley.

Perhaps the city's most surprising feature was a sanitation system that was far beyond its contemporaries. While drainage and private toilets were seen in Egypt and Mesopotamia, they were luxuries of the rich. In Mohenjo-daro, concealed toilets and covered drains were everywhere. Since excavations began, more than 700 wells have been recovered, in addition to a system of private baths, including a 12m x 7m "Great Bath" for communal use. Incredibly, toilets were found in many private residences, and waste was covertly disposed of through a sophisticated, city-wide sewage system."

Hasnain says:

I am so so excited by this that words are failing me (yes, this is not a common statement).

Using git for side projects has honestly sucked after the great experiences I've had with sapling and I'm glad to see I can use it again. Can't wait to set it up now for my private repos; and ... my mind is blown that there's an accompanying review UI too that's optimized for stacks.

stacked diffs, `hg ssl`, `hg commit`, `hg absorb`, and `hg histedit`, how I missed thee.

"I hope you find Sapling as pleasant to use as we do, and that Sapling might start a conversation about the current state of source control and how we can all hold the bar higher for the source control of tomorrow.See the Getting Started page to try Sapling today."

Hasnain says:

"Additionally, more than five times as many people have been hospitalized for the flu so far this season than at the same point in any of the last 10 years. And unlike RSV, which poses the biggest threat to the youngest and oldest, the severe disease flu causes is more evenly spread across age groups. About one-third of the people who’ve been hospitalized for flu this year were 65 or older, while another quarter were ages 18 to 49."

Hasnain says:

"It's common wisdom that systems with caches can fail badly when the caches are cold. When every request misses the cache, the system is overloaded, and never recovers. What I observed was the mirror image."

Hasnain says:

My list of funny Elon related drama stories is so long it’s hard to pick what to share. This one takes the cake though - so much for free speech.

Currently tied with how he’s turning off 80% of micro services soon. 2FA already broke, locking people out.

Hasnain says:

Great read.

“To recap, we learned about the various pillars of observability and took a deep dive into the tracing pillar. We learned about setting up an Elixir application with the OpenTelemetry tooling and even deployed our application along with some supporting monitoring tools to Fly.io. We then compared trace results between two different LiveView pages and were able to see the effects that an N+1 query would have on our application's performance.”

Hasnain says:

This (along with all the news coming out of Iran the last few months) is horrifying.

“In response to the parliament vote, activist and journalist Masih Alinejad tweeted: "227 members of the 290-seat Parliament in Iran have called on the Judiciary to issue death sentences for people arrested during the ongoing uprising. They want to execute innocent protesters who chanted Woman Life Freedom. The world must stop this act of terror."”

Hasnain says:

"As that allocation was happening for every single path that was being matched against, removing it made the whole program 1.7x faster in this instance. Not bad for a one character change."

Hasnain says:

“The fact there isn’t stems, for Paul, from a deeper problem. Despite underpinning the viability of life itself, nature’s contributions are absent from most economic modelling. And unlike corporations, nature has no legal standing: a river can neither sue its polluters, nor charge for the many services it provides. This has allowed it to become a “free” externality: something neither capitalism or the state has to account for, or take seriously.

“It’s effectively stealing from nature”, Paul says. “Thames Water don’t have to pay when they do an overspill into the river. The Highways authorities don’t have to pay when they discharge stormwater into the river. They don’t pay when they extract from the river.” If the full actual cost of what companies like Thames Water take from, and put back into, the Roding were actually accounted for, Paul believes “we could easily pay for dozens of people to look after the river.”

While the idea of a river being paid for its services might seem radical, it is gaining ground. Natural capital - the idea that nature provides intrinsic economic value, either through services it provides (e.g. the pollination of crops by bees) or the preservation of life (e.g. through the carbon dioxide it absorbs) is slowly becoming more normalised in policy circles.”