Hasnain says:

"Shipping slowly should merit a post-mortem as much as breaking production does. Our industry doesn’t run like that, but that doesn’t mean you can’t personally follow the north star of Shipping Fast."

Hasnain says:

"Importantly, you could also describe XAES-256-GCM entirely in terms of a standard NIST SP 800-108r1 KDF and the standard NIST AES-256-GCM AEAD (NIST SP 800-38D, FIPS 197)."

Hasnain says:

“There was no vote Ruth Bader Ginsburg cast and no decision she authored that was as consequential as her decision not to retire. ♦”

Hasnain says:

I don’t get why he had to brag about it online. He had gotten away with it!

“The investigation into Anand started after a moderator on the social media site Reddit notified Lehigh University of a post that was titled, "I have built my life and career on lies," officials explained.”

Hasnain says:

““Dictatorship doesn’t happen suddenly. It’s chipped away piece by piece. That’s why we need to stop it at the beginning,” said Hamadmad, who remembers asking to be read her Miranda rights, to which the officer replied, “No, I don’t have to.” Unbeknownst to her at the time, the Supreme Court had silently rolled back many of the protections guaranteed by the famous 1966 Miranda v. Arizona case in 2022.

“You can sense dictatorship when you’ve been through it, and I could sense it in that moment.””

Hasnain says:

“ More than 60 artists and participants boycotted this year’s festival over SXSW’s ties to defense groups that supply Israeli weapons in the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. The U.S. Army was a “super-sponsor” of the 2024 festival, and Collins Aerospace, a company under defense conglomerate RTX Corporation (f.k.a. Raytheon), also participated. “A music festival should not include war profiteers,” said Squirrel Flower, one of the first artists to boycott. “I refuse to be complicit in this and withdraw my art and labor in protest.”

SXSW previously defended its military ties amid this year’s controversy. The festival called the defense industry “a proving ground” for new technology and said working with the Army “is part of our commitment to bring forward ideas that shape our world.” The Army said it was “proud” to sponsor SXSW, which it called “a unique opportunity.””

Hasnain says:

“Looking at the projected heat increases for St. Louis, Hoffman said it will take a lot more than just air conditioning to keep the city cool. St. Louis and other cities across the country will have to mitigate heat, through increasing shade, green spaces and water features, while also managing heat by preparing for increased emergency room visits and establishing plans for water distribution and heat education materials.”

Hasnain says:

Insert “aw shit, here we go again” meme.

“Microsoft now has a chance to respond to the accusations, formally known as a statement of objections, before the commission makes its final decision. The company could face a fine worth up to 10% of its annual global revenue, or be forced to carry out “remedies” to satisfy the competition concerns.”

Hasnain says:

I don’t quite like the word for this but I’ll take it. Sometimes it’s good to just peace out and not think about anything you know?

“Still, West says that a recent trip from London from Bali (20 hours) taught him that there are benefits to rawdogging beyond its meditative nature. His best ideas, he says, have come from the time spent locked into the flight map, just thinking. “I'm there like, Oh, we're flying over Afghanistan. Oh, we're going at 36,000 feet instead of 37,” he says. “Or like, Oh, I think that's a good idea as a new series on my TikTok.” The experience left him refreshed. “When I saw my mom [upon landing], she was like, ‘You have so much energy,’” he recalls. “And I'm like, I feel fine. I feel recharged. I feel like I've been able to have time to myself.””

Hasnain says:

“Resources that are external to Rust really work best if they are wrapped at the lowest level, so that destructors can run automatically. Instead of freeing things by hand when you think it's right, let the compiler do it automatically when it knows it's right. In this case, wrapping xmlEntityPtr with a newtype and adding an impl Drop is all that is needed for the rest of the code to look like it's handling a normal, automatically-managed Rust object.”