Hasnain says:

Yay for misreporting the facts.

Hasnain says:

This is absolutely nuts. Creating a JPG that encrypts to itself (https://i.imgur.com/WRxFKdq.png). Talk available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbHkVZfCNuE

Hasnain says:

This is absolutely beautiful.

"It’s as if someone decided that dictionaries these days had to sound like they were written by a Xerox machine, not a person, certainly not a person with a poet’s ear, a man capable of high and mighty English, who set out to write the secular American equivalent of the King James Bible and pulled it off."

Hasnain says:

This is interesting. On how you should always fact-check Wikipedia.

Hasnain says:

"These companies are attempting to extort more millions from us just to provide the service we have already paid for.

I say throw the bums out."

Hasnain says:

A lambda calculus interpreter (complete with macros, variable lookups, tail recursion). Written using C++ templates and processed completely at compile time.

Because why not.

Hasnain says:

This is a really enlightening read. Especially relevant nowadays due to the spread of false information and misconceptions.

Hasnain says:

"It is, to say the least, disappointing that things haven’t turned out that way—that inequality has grown, that leisure is scarce, that even the rich complain of being overwhelmed. And yet so much of what we do, collectively and individually, suggests that we still believe more wealth is the answer. Reëxamining this belief would probably be a good idea—that is, if anyone had the time for it."

Hasnain says:

I think this is a great example of tech that can actually help people. Kudos.

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"What message can we take from these stories of endurance and despair? The obvious one is that we are, as a rule, considerably diminished when disengaged from others. Isolation may very often be the “sum total of wretchedness”, as the writer Thomas Carlyle put it. However, a more upbeat assessment seems equally valid: it is possible to connect, to find solace beyond ourselves, even when we are alone. It helps to be prepared, and to be mentally resilient. But we shouldn’t underestimate the power of our imagination to knock over prison walls, penetrate icy caves or provide make-believe companions to walk with us."