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That video also referenced at the end another really good video I can recommend:

The World is Not Ending by Sophie From Mars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DalnJ-isI5A

Watched a really good video, give it a watch!

Art in the Pre-Apocalypse by Jacob Geller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9N7Awpk9lE

can't stop thinking about this more perfect union video about how much public money is wasted on ivy league schools where they argue for forcing princeton and harvard to enroll more students. no, let them stay exclusive clubs! just take away their money, nationalize the university rating system, and increase funding to public universities instead. i don't want more people to get an ivy league education i want "an ivy league education" to be a relic of the past we've long since outgrown

‪real talk, the gameplay loop of hitman is great if you struggle with social situations, in particular if tiny things you did or say haunt you later because they're embarrassing. in the world of hitman, the timeline ends the moment you walk out the door. there are no regrets!‬

hitman is a fantasy game. you get to embody an attractive guy in an incredibly well-fitting suit and glide effortlessly through the world, complimented but not remembered wherever you go, and get away with terrible violence :)

I have a friend who’s really into lossless audio.

I give her a lot of FLAC for it.

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I walked down a street where the houses were numbered 64K, 128K, 256K, 512K and 1MB. It was a trip down memory lane.

"Why are you working on C?"

I wrote this in an e-mail to people, but I figured I'd copy part of the response here since people keep asking.

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     We have people writing critical software. They are not migrating to new software anytime soon (modulo regulation-based incentives). But they have serious problems. Everything from vulnerabilities that are used by nation-state actors to quell dissidents, to not being able to change a typedef like intmax_t because the functions tied to it are baked into specific named symbols in an invisible way (ABI), to constantly seeing people's names getting butchered by Airlines, Databases, and Governments because they're using software that relies on the C locale and mangles names.

     These are C problems. Not C++ problems. Not Java problems. Not Rust problems.

     C problems.

     My job is to solve C problems. That's the motivation. That's the coherent plan. When we stop having long-term, 20-to-40+ year problems, with 30+-year implemented existing practice that we never standardize despite it solving a wide variety of problems, that's when I'll stop writing C proposals.

"A security researcher uncovered a Twitter vulnerability in its link shortener. The vulnerability allowed an attacker to craft a malicious URL that, if a user clicked on it, would grant the attacker access to the user's account. The researcher reported the vulnerability to Twitter's bug bounty program, which closed the report as not worthy of a bug bounty. So the researcher published the vulnerability. Immediately Twitter takes its link shortener offline for hours while they fix it.But the press is only reporting on an hours-long X/Twitter link shortener outage, and has completely missed the security issues that led to it.Molly White's coverage of the vulnerability (sorry for the Xitter link but that's just the problem, literally no one else is covering this): https://twitter.com/molly0xFFF/status/1734965774517768471 "

Disclosure: https://x.com/shoucccc/status/1734802168723734764?s=20

(All quoting a friend on a private slack)

Nest

‪like are we all babies now who can't handle a few portals here and there. i know the autonomous policing cars can't cope with this but cities are for the pedestrian, and they don't find this confusing at all. it's actually very easy to leave, you just walk left or right for 10km‬

cities are held back by planning that doesn't understand the value of walkability. just this week i was told that my plan for a street with one thousand buildings in a convenient spiral with only two entrances was unworkable because the zoning bylaw bans non-euclidean geometry

‪they say that following this path leads to her heart‬

the sign every girl wants to see