Hasnain says:

Missed calls used to be so ubiquitous. I did not realize they became such a booming business in India. This was a good little history of a mostly bygone era.

“The move effectively terminated ZipDial’s operations. But by 2016, tech in India — already changing at warp speed as its online population expanded, given steadily falling data rates — was set to undergo a transformation. “I would not have built that same company again in 2016 that I built in 2009,” Wagoner said. The company’s founders could not have been able to predict just how swiftly India would move past the missed call.”

Hasnain says:

“It’s not a good moment when a prominent scientist—who was, along with others, evidence-based, correct and prescient on a topic of great importance within his expertise—feels the need to look up “gaslighting” because he is lacking the word to otherwise describe his experience.”

Hasnain says:

“What they're saying: “This analysis shows that despite the general vaccine enthusiasm we are seeing now in the United States, things are going to get really difficult really soon,” said Sema Sgaier, Surgo's CEO.”

Hasnain says:

This is so incredibly messed up.

““Realizing that they had acted illegally,” the lawsuit says, the officers told Nazario that if he “would chill and let this go,” they would release him without filing any charges. But if he fought it, which Gutierrez acknowledged he had the right to do, Nazario would be charged and would have “to go to court and notify his command.”

Afterwards, the two officers filed reports with “near identical” misstatements, the lawsuit says.”

Hasnain says:

Very interesting study and it does reinforce some behaviors I’ve seen.

“we propose that the bias towards additive solutions might be further compounded by the fact that subtractive solutions are also less likely to be appreciated. People might expect to receive less credit for subtractive solutions than for additive ones. A proposal to get rid of something might feel less creative than would coming up with something new to add, and it could also have negative social or political consequences — suggesting that an academic department be disbanded might not be appreciated by those who work in it, for instance. Moreover, people could assume that existing features are there for a reason, and so looking for additions would be more effective. Finally, sunk-cost bias (a tendency to continue an endeavour once an investment in money, effort or time has been made) and waste aversion could lead people to shy away from removing existing features2, particularly if those features took effort to create in the first place.”

Hasnain says:

Interesting read on llvm and codegen optimizations

“Despite all of this though, it does show how versatile LLVM truly is; relatively simple changes can have significant results.”

Hasnain says:

This quote really hits it home, sadly.

“HR already has a process in place for romantic relationships that could create potential workplace problems. They should use that same process. Alphabet has stricter polices around consensual relationships than they do for harassment.”

Hasnain says:

“So, that's about half the idea behind Fly.io. We run server hardware in racks around the world; those servers are tied together with an orchestration system that plugs into our API. Our CLI, flyctl, uses Docker's tooling to push OCI images to us. Our orchestration system sends messages to servers to convert those OCI images to VMs. It's all pretty neato, but I hope also kind of easy to get your head wrapped around.”

Hasnain says:

This whole situation is so messed up.

“In 2021, a woman deciding to engage in consensual sexual activity is somehow a mark against her morality, but a man sharing images of women without their consent on the House floor is not grounds for his immediate removal from office or resignation. (Gaetz has denied all allegations and has said he will not resign, and there have been no calls from leading members of the Republican Party for him to resign.) In 2021, a woman agreeing to taking private nude or explicit photos that are then used against her is insight into her character, but a man sharing those images is still invited to speak at a conservative women’s rally as a “fearless leader.” “

Hasnain says:

This was a really exciting take on some new physics! Well written and super accessible.

"Thus the mystery swirling around muons might lead the way past the Standard Model to a more complete account of the universe after all. However things turn out, it’s safe to say that today’s news — both the result from Fermilab, as well as the publication of the BMW calculation in Nature — is not the end for particle physics."

Also, in accessible comic form from the creator of PhD comics: https://physics.aps.org/articles/v14/47