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They pepper sprayed our legends. https://x.com/CFBONFOX/status/1862958333193334912

New Lana album, "The Right Person Will Stay", coming out in May. Antonoff producing again. https://www.instagram.com/honeymoon/p/DCzwsqYzuUm/

One of the two men who created BASIC at Dartmouth in the ‘60s. I’m sure that for many of us this was our first programming language. https://computerhistory.org/blog/in-memoriam-thomas-e-kurtz-1928-2024/

Blog post and video from the Jolt team detailing recent and upcoming improvements. Folding schemes are highlighted but there's plenty of other stuff. https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/jolt-an-update/

Paradigm made a Solidity compiler. Is there anything left to oxidize? https://www.paradigm.xyz/2024/11/solar

Do you know of any crypto startups that are focused on health care?

Disaster could have been averted had my exact policy preferences been implemented.

When do they put up the needle?

Informing my boss that authoritarian structures fundamentally conflict with our core values.

Time to consoom. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/10/new-macbook-pro-features-m4-family-of-chips-and-apple-intelligence/

New song from TV on the Radio's Tunde Adebimpe, from his debut solo album that's coming out next year. https://youtu.be/WWiGeU1WPW8

GitHub is rolling out Copilot support for Claude, Gemini, and o1. https://github.blog/news-insights/product-news/bringing-developer-choice-to-copilot/

"How 'Factorio' seduced Silicon Valley" https://www.ft.com/content/b9e419c6-acf1-420b-8ae6-908feb52c94e

The Tokio project announced a new ORM, Toasty. It has a DSL for defining schemas, and a CLI that generates Rust code from those schemas. Supports NoSQL, too. https://tokio.rs/blog/2024-10-23-announcing-toasty

New LCD Soundsystem song "X-Ray Eyes" at the 19:39 mark of this radio show. https://www.nts.live/shows/soup-to-nuts-anu/episodes/soup-to-nuts-anu-22nd-october-2024

New draft cryptography guidance from the NIST. Lots of deprecations that won’t surprise. https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/sp/800/131/a/r3/ipd

The advice on signatures is interesting: if you have 112 bits of security then you should be safe for a while, and instead of merely transitioning to 128 you should jump to post-quantum as soon as that’s feasible.

New Tyler. https://youtu.be/Qer3lwd5hyA

I noticed while checking out GIMPS’s announcement of a probable new Mersenne prime that their software generates quickly checkable proofs that the Fermat test was done correctly, using VDFs. https://www.mersenneforum.org/node/19621

Rust 1.82 came out yesterday. To my untrained eye the new use<..> bound for capturing lifetimes in return-position impl Traits seems most significant, but there’s a lot in here. https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/10/17/Rust-1.82.0.html

Advice on which Rust string type to use. https://steveklabnik.com/writing/when-should-i-use-string-vs-str/

The FTC adopts "click-to-cancel". https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/10/federal-trade-commission-announces-final-click-cancel-rule-making-it-easier-consumers-end-recurring

New Panda Bear album in February, and he's coming to Detroit! No one comes to Detroit. https://www.dominomusic.com/news/us/panda-bear-announces-new-album-sinister-grift

Video of this morning's "chopsticks" landing of the Starship booster. Insane control. https://x.com/spacex/status/1845442658397049011

Neat paper out of Apple measuring the performance of a bunch of LLMs on a mathematical reasoning benchmark as the questions are varied: changing names, changing numbers, adding relevant clauses, and adding irrelevant statements. o1 seems to be in a class of its own, though it still falters when no-op statements are added. https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.05229