Ryan Lackey

I'm surprised how even KFC is actually-good in Japan.

Fiancé vs fiancée, wtf. While “spouse” is perfectly gender neutral.

people often (rightfully) talk about how humanities literacy changes and broadens your perspective

STEM also does this; you realize

1) the miniscule fraction of the universe we occupy
2) the miniscule fraction of available energy we use on earth
3) how far from optimal almost every system is

Pre-signed pardons for all cats.

Cats are always good cats!

Amazing watching how fast the OpenAI image generator stuff has taken over social media; creativity reduced to a short phrase prompt. e.g.

Not shown: falling twice getting of lifts. Falling 2-3 more times. Sliding on my butt down one particular part of hill because I was too tired to stand up, lol.

Went to Vail to ski for a bit after ETH Denver. Super fun (although definitely prefer Niseko), but very sore now. I love ibuprofen.

This is such a beautiful city. Shanghai, on the Bund.

Another crazy thing is Australia tried gamma irradiation of cat food and it was specifically bad for cats, too (they used a very high level, but it seems like it destroys vitamins used by cats and leads to disease/death behind what it would for human food, dog food, etc.)

In Australia for the first time in my life (have to go to HK next week, and it was $700 in ff miles to fly business class to Australia first). Long trip -- SJU-JFK-LAX-BNE, which actually was operationally shortened by the airline (yay!) from SJU-ATL-MEX-LAX-BNE.

Each use case for signal really should be a separate app optimized for it. Person to person messaging should be separate because it has the greatest security needs and this small attack surface. I hate reading backscroll on high volume GC and getting blocked from normal messaging for an hour or two.

Signal should create multiple separate clients. I want a GC focused client, a stories/social network client, and a p2p messaging client.

Spent the past week learning how to ski in Niseko, Japan (up in Hokkaido); beautiful place and lots of great people. Looking forward to some more ski trips in the near future!

Got to visit the center of the world for insurance yesterday (probably 60-70% of the high end part of the industry flows through here, with firms a few blocks away.)

Enjoyed my time in Asia. Interesting seeing the contrast between Japan (“nice” but static) and China (fast development, better in some ways already, but still rough corners, but far fewer than before).

Excited to see Shanghai tomorrow (going for 2 nights); haven’t been there since 2015.

Reverse Engineering iOS 18 Inactivity Reboot Wireless and firmware hacking, PhD life, Technology

Nice reverse engineering work to uncover the workings of iOS 18’s inactivity reboot. naehrdine.blogspot.com/2024/11/reve...

10x more excited for Netflix Engineering’s postmortem writeup than I was for the fight itself.

McDonald's shares fall after CDC says E. coli outbreak linked to Quarter Pounders The CDC said an E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald's Quarter Pounder burgers has led to 10 hospitalizations and one death.

Wow. Such timing (entirely unrelated to the Trump media thing in PA), but wow. www.cnbc.com/2024/10/22/m...

You do.

SpaceX SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.

In awe of how well the SpaceX mission went this weekend. Pretty optimistic about the “launch unmanned Starship to Mars in 2 years” plan. Less so about manned in 4y, but even if it takes 6, 8, 10, or 12, still incredibly impressive. www.spacex.com/launches/mis...

At the Network State conference in Singapore — which is a great location, given Singapore’s history as one of the few states ejected from an existing state, and turned from third to first world based on one man’s vision and the effort of millions.

I didn’t know that name for it.

I’m also pretty amazed that my 15 Pro and Ultra 2 can often stretch to two days.

Seems like the free market would solve this if workers comp insurance weren’t basically subsidized. I’m fine with inherently risky parts of spaces having risk but stupid stuff like falling off a truck or people dropping stuff on others is insane.

Can’t you just shower again?

Lisbon is quite beautiful in the morning.

Fuck ITAR.