Hasnain says:

“It is to be hoped that new archaeological discoveries will expand our picture of the Vikings in al-Andalus. Until they do, the main legacy of this period is the stories preserved by Arabic historians. The fear and fascination with the Vikings that continues to attract widespread popular and scholarly interest have exaggerated their destructive effects on medieval society. This same fear and fascination is palpable in medieval Muslim recollections of the Majūs.”

Hasnain says:

“The page-interleaved read pattern seems surprisingly under-discussed and I don’t remember ever seeing it used in code in the wild. Curious! If you’re aware of it being used anywhere, let me know, I’d love to see it! And if I’m missing any other memory-based optimization, let me know too. :)”

Hasnain says:

Don’t words have meaning?

“Michael Berkheimer was dining with his wife and friends at a wing joint in Hamilton, Ohio, and had ordered the usual — boneless wings with parmesan garlic sauce — when he felt a bite-size piece of meat go down the wrong way. Three days later, feverish and unable to keep food down, Berkeimer went to the emergency room, where a doctor discovered a long, thin bone that had torn his esophagus and caused an infection.

In a 4-3 ruling, the Supreme Court said Thursday that “boneless wings” refers to a cooking style, and that Berkheimer should’ve been on guard against bones since it’s common knowledge that chickens have bones.”

Hasnain says:

“So this VC cabal is trading against the basic principles of America — not merely against personal freedom, but democracy itself — in the hopes of profit. It’s not the first time tech has made the trade against freedom; IBM made it during the Holocaust.

In venture capital, you are what you fund. Andreessen and Horowitz understand this, even embody it. But they aren’t just funding the issues they discuss on their podcast; they are funding Trump and Vance. That means those donations are anti-abortion, anti-immigration, and possibly even anti-democracy because that is what the Trump / Vance ticket stands for. These are not subsidiary issues: these are now what two of Silicon Valley’s most prominent figures now stand for, too. Is that a good investment?”

Hasnain says:

Sorry we caused you to work over the weekend, here’s $10

“On Tuesday, a source told TechCrunch that they received an email from CrowdStrike offering them the gift card because the company recognizes “the additional work that the July 19 incident has caused.” “

Hasnain says:

First thought: “yikes”. Second thought: “this makes sense”.

“The next question is how the US and democratic nations should handle the threat of states with massive resources like China. The United States’ advantage is decentralized and open innovation. Some people argue that we must close our models to prevent China from gaining access to them, but my view is that this will not work and will only disadvantage the US and its allies. Our adversaries are great at espionage, stealing models that fit on a thumb drive is relatively easy, and most tech companies are far from operating in a way that would make this more difficult. It seems most likely that a world of only closed models results in a small number of big companies plus our geopolitical adversaries having access to leading models, while startups, universities, and small businesses miss out on opportunities. Plus, constraining American innovation to closed development increases the chance that we don’t lead at all. Instead, I think our best strategy is to build a robust open ecosystem and have our leading companies work closely with our government and allies to ensure they can best take advantage of the latest advances and achieve a sustainable first-mover advantage over the long term.”

Hasnain says:

Still waiting for a full RCA but.. they did not have a canary deployment for config changes?!

“Implement a staggered deployment strategy for Rapid Response Content in which updates are gradually deployed to larger portions of the sensor base, starting with a canary deployment.”

Hasnain says:

Bookmarking for the future

"The skills you need are your intelligence, cunning, perseverance and the will to test yourself against the intricacies of multi-threaded programming in the divine language of C#. Each challenge below is a computer program of two or more threads. You take the role of the Scheduler - and a cunning one! Your objective is to exploit flaws in the programs to make them crash or otherwise malfunction."

Hasnain says:

Whew. Thankfully he’s doing something right for once.

““I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as President for the reminder of my term,” Biden said in a statement.”

Hasnain says:

“I can drill into every milli— no, microsecond of every frame that Zed renders and see exactly what’s going on in which thread, with basically no noticeably overhead. That’s nuts. The UI — despite the hurdles when getting started — and how easy it then is to drill into data and examine different things going — that’s far ahead of every other profiling tool I’ve used — on macOS and on Linux, with any other programming language.”