WhatsApp vs iMessage is the new metric vs imperial.
The entire world uses WhatsApp, save a few people who are iPhone-clutching Americans or from a country where WhatsApp is banned (like China).
Yet iMessage users will actually claim it's objectively better, just like they will…

The 0.1% of the richest in the US now account for 13.6% of total household wealth, near a record for that group in Fed data back to 1989, per Bloomberg.

I built a frame in Farcaster that gives recommendations based on a user's followers.

You can see the frame loads the data in just a second, thanks to some new Dune API features like 'filters'. No more waiting 10 seconds for a query to run and return results! 👟

LETS GO!! Bangkok DuneCon!!

'(...) so far, we have been lenient and accepted any project as long as it claims to be 'on a path to decentralization'. By the end of the year, I think our standards should increase and we should only treat a project as a rollup if it has actually reached at least stage 1.'…

Why are we seeing such a significant rise in the misinformation around EVs & Heat pumps?

Because they reduce fossil fuel use more than any other tech in people’s day to day lives & they will leave very expensive fossil fuel infrastructure such as the domestic gas network a…

Fucking #Bitcoin Maxis

the xz sshd backdoor rabbithole goes quite a bit deeper. I was just able to trigger some harder to reach functionality of the backdoor. there's still more to explore.. 1/n

notice the emphasis on:
- simplicity or fighting complexity
- executing flawlessly

this guy just made a fanboy out of me

Optimized my #rust implementation for #1BRC and on my local machine (macbookpro m1), lowered the time from ~24secs to ~14secs.
github.com/msf/1brc/tree/…

why my #Go implementation is faster than the #rust one?

It just goes to show what inexperience does to perf.

single threaded #zig implementation for the #1BRC , in a single CPU core, runs in ~15secs, it is more lower level and written thinking about performance

I must say I was expecting better from Zig. not because of performance but the UX of the stdlib.

github.com/msf/1brc/tree/…

end of paternity leave challenge: implement in #zig a fast solution to the #1brc , in between diaper changes 😅👶

i like rust the language a lot. the stdlib on the other hand reminds me of the quagmire of c++ stdlib .. knowing what to use and what to avoid is an adventure game 😅

* Communicate intent precisely
* Edge cases matter
* Favor reading code over writing code
* Only 1 obvious way to do things
* Runtime crashes are better than bugs
* Compile errors are better than runtime crashes
* Incremental improvements
* Avoid local maximums
...

This is explains how the xz backdoor was found

This year, I decided to make my donations to:
- Mozilla Foundation foundation.mozilla.org
- Zig ziglang.org/zsf/
- Banco Alimentar Contra a Fome bancoalimentar.pt/faca-um-donati…

I always do my donations yearly and every year I review where I want to donate.

🤯 The level of sophistication of the XZ attack is very impressive! I tried to make sense of the analysis in a single page (which was quite complicated)!

I hope it helps to make sense of the information out there. Please treat the information 'as is' while the analysis…

France's national railway company pulled out of bidding for the high-speed rail contract in California in 2011.

They said the state was awful to work in and they preferred to work somewhere less dysfunctional.

So they went to North Africa.