Hasnain says:

Oooof

“Detective Maurice Ward, who's already pleaded guilty to corruption charges, testified that he and his partners were told to carry the replicas and BB guns "in case we accidentally hit somebody or got into a shootout, so we could plant them." The directive allegedly came from the team's sergeant, Wayne Jenkins, the Washington Post reports. Though Ward didn't say whether or not the tactic was ever used, Detective Marcus Taylor—another cop swept up in the scandal—was carrying a fake gun almost identical to his service weapon when he was arrested last year, according to the Sun.”

Hasnain says:

“You might think that any reporter would be happy when a government official answers a question, rather than ducks it. But political reporters operate in a different world, ruled by optics. Indeed, political reporters do a lot of ducking themselves — no more so, recently, than when covering the issue of voter suppression, which they obfuscate to avoid the appearance of “taking sides.”

Taking sides is the ultimate sin for political reporters — even when one side is the truth. We saw that with their coverage of the Trump presidency. We saw that with their coverage of the COVID pandemic. Most fatally, we saw that with their coverage of the intersection of Trump and the pandemic.”

Hasnain says:

“Boston Police hid from the public their own evidence in 1995 that one of their officers had sexually assaulted a 12-year-old child. He kept his badge, worked on child sexual assault cases, and became union president. He allegedly went on to molest five other children.

A 2015 study in the U.S. found that, over a 10 year period, an officer was caught in a case of sexual misconduct every five days. “

Hasnain says:

Good read on memory and error handling in Go and Rust.

“And the second is that, without a lot of context, this sentence is utter nonsense if you don't have a working knowledge of Rust. As a Java developer, you may be wondering if we're trying to turn numbers into objects (we are not). In fact, even as a Rust developer, you may have just accepted that boxing is just a fact of life.”

Hasnain says:

“If a person can’t get out of bed, something is making them exhausted. If a student isn’t writing papers, there’s some aspect of the assignment that they can’t do without help. If an employee misses deadlines constantly, something is making organization and deadline-meeting difficult. Even if a person is actively choosing to self-sabotage, there’s a reason for it — some fear they’re working through, some need not being met, a lack of self-esteem being expressed.

People do not choose to fail or disappoint. No one wants to feel incapable, apathetic, or ineffective. If you look at a person’s action (or inaction) and see only laziness, you are missing key details. There is always an explanation. There are always barriers. Just because you can’t see them, or don’t view them as legitimate, doesn’t mean they’re not there. Look harder.”

Hasnain says:

Oof.

“Dan’s story is not uncommon. Many people with high-pressure jobs find themselves unhappy with their careers, despite working hard their whole lives to get to their current position. Hating your job is one thing — but what happens if you identify so closely with your work that hating your job means hating yourself?”

Hasnain says:

“This tendency to lie pervades all police work, not just high-profile violence, and it has the power to ruin lives. Law enforcement officers lie so frequently—in affidavits, on post-incident paperwork, on the witness stand—that officers have coined a word for it: testilying. Judges and juries generally trust police officers, especially in the absence of footage disproving their testimony. As courts reopen and convene juries, many of the same officers now confronting protesters in the street will get back on the stand.

Defense attorneys around the country believe the practice is ubiquitous; while that belief might seem self-serving, it is borne out by footage captured on smartphones and surveillance cameras. Yet those best positioned to crack down on testilying, police chiefs and prosecutors, have done little or nothing to stop it in most of the country. Prosecutors rely on officer testimony, true or not, to secure convictions, and merely acknowledging the problem would require the government to admit that there is almost never real punishment for police perjury.”

Hasnain says:

All aboard the rust fanboy train.

Jokes aside though this matched a lot of my experience learning Rust, poking around with it for multiple side projects and then shipping production code in it.

“I strongly feel that I am a better programmer overall after learning Rust because I find myself applying the [best] practices that Rust enforces on me when programming in other languages. For this reason, even if you don't plan to use Rust in any serious capacity, I encourage people to learn Rust because exposure to its ideas will likely transform the ways you think about programming for the better.”

Hasnain says:

“Once Gardam releases the details of his algorithm, it will be open season for other mathematicians to explore the Hantzsche-Wendt group and potentially other groups. “The hope is that we will learn something new — a new trick which will allow us to build examples,” Kielak said.

Already, knowing that the conjecture is false has changed the mindsets of many mathematicians. “Psychologically, this is a very big difference,” Kielak said. “Probably in a year’s time, we’re going to have infinitely many” counterexamples.”

Hasnain says:

I'm really curious to see how this plays out - are they targeting a market similar to podcasts? Wondering if writers will be expected to produce at a consistent pace or something.