Hasnain says:

““At least the Brits are willing to call it like it is, which leadership here appears unwilling to do despite being presented with all the same information about Israeli IHL violations,” said a third U.S. official familiar with the discussions. “Leadership misses the fact that if we showed the same moral and legal clarity as the U.K. … it would give us more leverage for a cease-fire deal, not less.””

Hasnain says:

“CRAIG CORRIE: Well, of course, we did call for a U.S. investigation into Rachel’s killing. Let me say that what we’re hearing today, it’s upsetting to our family to hear our State Department again, and I would expect them to say, that they are trying to find out the facts and looking to Israel for that. Israel does not do investigations; they do cover-ups. So, let’s face it, nothing’s going to come out of there that’s going to help these citizens or whoever may be killed in the future. That’s what we’re trying to stop. Our family worked for an investigation into Rachel’s killing, and we wanted some consequences out of that. And we hoped — even though we didn’t know the names of the people that would be killed in the future, we hoped that that would stop and it would not happen.

I think, at this point, yes, U.S. has to do an investigation, but there needs to be consequences. As Jonathan pointed out, these are American weapons that are being used. That’s against U.S. law, and it should be stopped. I know from working with members of Congress and their staff, working with the State Department, that under the Leahy Law, usually they’re asking for proof that it was a U.S. weapon. If I write a check, I don’t need proof about what’s going wrong. I need people to cooperate and determine that it’s not our money that’s being used that way. Israel does not do that, to my knowledge. So, we also need to look for international help here. I think that the U.N., the International Criminal Courts, they’re places that need to get involved. But we’re just sick and tired of hearing platitudes from the State Department. And these are people we’ve met. We have met with Antony Blinken before he became secretary of state. He’s a decent person. But there needs to be consequences, and there needs to be consequences that are enforced by the entire U.S. government and the international community.”

Hasnain says:

“Researchers on political extremism have highlighted a surge in violence targeting Palestinians since Oct. 7, including the murder of a 6-year-old boy near Chicago and a shooting that wounded three college students in Vermont, both of which were motivated by the victims’ heritage, authorities said. Advocacy groups have also documented waves of harassment and vandalism targeting Muslims and Jews at their homes, businesses and places of worship.”

Hasnain says:

“Coincidentally, there was an issue created just today on the Zig repository to add a select(2) wrapper to the standard library motivated by the /dev/tty limitation on macOS. It links to this wonderful blog post which I would have loved to find sooner.”

Hasnain says:

“When it comes to designing a system with GC, don’t count out conservative stack scanning; the tradeoffs don’t obviously go one way or the other, and conservative scanning might be the right engineering choice for your system.”

Hasnain says:

“These updates should be backwards compatible with any other version of Visual Studio 2022. It would be madness to make a change to Visual Studio 2022 that breaks compatibility with Visual Studio 2022's own runtime libraries. However, Microsoft did exactly that.

In Visual Studio 2022 v17.10.0, Microsoft made a non-backwards compatible change to std::mutex::lock. This was reported to Microsoft, however, the issue report was marked as "Closed - Not a Bug". Apparently this was intended!”

Hasnain says:

“It’s like walking into a movie halfway through—you can’t understand the plot because you missed the beginning.

The same goes for learning complex subjects like math, CS, whatever.”

Hasnain says:

Chock full of golden advice here. Bookmarking for the future

“You are lucky if 99.999% of the time network is not a problem.
ACID has many meanings.
Each database has different consistency and isolation capabilities.
Optimistic locking is an option when you can’t hold a lock.
There are anomalies other than dirty reads and data loss.
My database and I don’t always agree on ordering.
Application-level sharding can live outside the application.
AUTOINCREMENT’ing can be harmful.
Stale data can be useful and lock-free.
Clock skews happen between any clock sources.
Latency has many meanings.
Evaluate performance requirements per transaction.
Nested transactions can be harmful.
Transactions shouldn’t maintain application state.
Query planners can tell a lot about databases.
Online migrations are complex but possible.
Significant database growth introduces unpredictability.”

Hasnain says:

“Update, Sept. 5, 3:30pm: A reader has claimed that the default Starlink SSID is actually... "STINKY." This seemed almost impossible to believe, but Elon Musk in fact tweeted about it in 2022, Redditors have reported it in the wild, and back in 2022 (thanks, Wayback Machine), the official Starlink FAQ said that the device's "network name will appear as 'STARLINK' or 'STINKY' in device WiFi settings." (A check of the current Starlink FAQ, however, shows that the default network name now is merely "STARLINK.")

In other words, not only was this asinine conspiracy a terrible OPSEC idea, but the ringleaders didn't even change the default Wi-Fi name until they started getting questions about it. Yikes.”

Hasnain says:

One can hope

““One goal of this research, and vaccinology in general, is to work toward a universal vaccine that can generate antibodies and create an immune response with broad protection to a rapidly mutating virus,” said Will Voss, a recent Ph.D. graduate in cell and molecular biology in UT’s College of Natural Sciences, who co-led the study.”