Hasnain says:

A must read. It was hard, triggering, and rage inducing to read this. But that is not even an iota of the pain the people in Gaza are suffering. I’m sparing the genocidal quotes and I’ll just leave with the conclusion of the piece:

“The destruction inflicted by the Israeli military not only wipes out the current livelihood of the Palestinian people—it also erases their entire future. As soldiers have shared on social media, their goal is not just demolishing buildings; it is to crush the dreams, hopes, and symbols of those who live there.

While many speak of the “day after,” what we see from these soldiers forces us to ask: What will be left of Gaza when that day comes?”

Hasnain says:

“This change from sorted linked lists to optionally-sorted vectors made Ion compilation of this Wasm module about 20 times faster, down to 14 seconds.”

Hasnain says:

“It became apparent to Hardy and his colleagues that Ramanujan could sense mathematical truths — could access entire worlds — that others simply could not. (Hardy, a mathematical giant in his own right, is said to have quipped that his greatest contribution to mathematics was the discovery of Ramanujan.) Before Ramanujan died in 1920 at the age of 32, he came up with thousands of elegant and surprising results, often without proof. He was fond of saying that his equations had been bestowed on him by the gods.
More than 100 years later, mathematicians are still trying to catch up to Ramanujan’s divine genius, as his visions appear again and again in disparate corners of the world of mathematics.”

Hasnain says:

“My prediction is that we’re in the beginning of an era in which critical properties like security, compliance, availability, durability, and safety can be proved automatically for large-scale cloud architectures. From preventing potential issues with AI hallucinations to analyzing hypervisors, cryptography, and distributed systems, having sound mathematical reasoning at our foundations and continuously analyzing what we build sets Amazon apart.”

Hasnain says:

This was a fun little hack.

“So the trick here is that the Python dependency resolver (now lightning fast thanks to uv) reads those dependencies and rules out every package version that represents a number in an invalid position. The resulting version numbers represent the cell numbers for the solution.”

Hasnain says:

Clear incitement to ethnic cleansing

“"We will encourage voluntary transfer of all Gazan citizens. We will offer them the opportunity to move to other countries because that land belongs to us," Ben-Gvir added.

Sima Hasson, who represents the right wing group "The Mothers' Parade," addressed the crowd: "I'm going to say something that not everyone here is prepared to say, but I am, and I know a lot of you are: conquer, kick out, resettle."”

Hasnain says:

So many mixed feelings about this one. Mental health problems and PTSD are serious. It does take a toll on everyone including soldiers. But then you read more about this guy in the article and I think the quote speaks for itself. And I’ll leave an illuminating screenshot in the comments where he brags about destroying 5000 houses. Could CNN have picked a different example perhaps?

““He saw a lot of people die. Maybe he even killed someone. (But) we don’t teach our children to do things like this,” she said. “So, when he did this, something like this, maybe it was a shock for him.”

Guy Zaken, Mizrahi’s friend and co-driver of the bulldozer, provided further insight into their experience in Gaza. “We saw very, very, very difficult things,” Zaken told CNN. “Things that are difficult to accept.”

The former soldier has spoken publicly about the psychological trauma endured by Israeli troops in Gaza. In a testimony to the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, in June, Zaken said that on many occasions, soldiers had to “run over terrorists, dead and alive, in the hundreds.””

Hasnain says:

“SK: When Biden dropped out and Harris came in, I had a brief fleeting feeling that maybe there would be change. Maybe this dynamic will finally end. Maybe she’ll move away from the policies of the Biden administration, which I do think were meant to make liberals and Democrats accept things that they never ever would have accepted under Trump. Things they would have spoken out against five or ten years ago.

The Biden administration did this slowly. It was this little drip, drip, drip effect of gradually normalizing mass death. I remember when the number of covid deaths surpassed the number of people who died on 9/11, people were horrified. Then suddenly we’re at a million, and they just stop counting. The same thing happened with Gaza. When the initial deaths passed 1000, people were horrified. Then you get to 40,000 and they’ve stopped counting — in part because the Israeli military killed the people who count them.

Getting people used to mass death is a prelude for getting them to accept mass murder: not just in Gaza, but anywhere in the world, including the United States.”

Hasnain says:

““We actually were in the operating room. We had actually opened the patient and were in the process of sort of preparing their organs, at which point the ventilator triggered and so the anesthesiologist at the head of the table spoke up and said, ‘Hey, I think this patient might have just breathed,’” Cannon later told NPR in an interview. “If the patient breathes, that means they’re not brain dead.”

Nevertheless, a representative from the OPO wanted to proceed anyway, Cannon says. He refused.

“We were kind of shocked that an OPO person would have so little knowledge about what brain death means that they would say, ‘Oh, you should just go ahead.’ And we thought, ‘No. We’re not going to take any risk that we murder a patient.’ Because that’s what it would be if that patient was alive.””

Hasnain says:

“The best part was that no one knew how we were able to do this and our admin team kept the implementation a top secret. We should have filed a patent! If cheaters learned how we were able to fingerprint them in this way, it would have been trivial for them to delete the cookies file on disk while ban evading. I am happy to report that the solution worked as expected from deployment date until October 2017 when Valve removed the VGUI browser entirely as part of their efforts to secure the game. It was only after this that I revealed the technique publicly and open-sourced the plugin.

Many years later, I remain really proud of this solution and how well it worked.”