Ryan Lackey

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Costa Rica is $0?

To be fair it is real protection from an outside threat and not a protector-created threat, unlike mafia rackets

Needs more cats.

A map titled United States High Speed Rail System showing a theoretical high speed rail system in the United States. Some lines also connect north to Vancouver or the Quebec City–Windsor Corridor, or south to Tijuana or Monterrey. The map is credited to First Cultural Industries AKA Alfred Twu, dated from February 2013, and is downloadable at www.californiarailmap.com

the US if Tylenol actually caused autism

How is she so cute?

Japan sets new record with nearly 100,000 people aged over 100 The number of Japanese centenarians rose to 99,763 in September, with women making up 88% of the total.

Japan's government says it has set a new record with nearly 100,000 people older than 100 years old

Christie's Quietly Deletes Digital Art Department | Artnet News Christie's has closed its digital art department after several years of shaping the growing market for the category.

Real Art has never been more alive ..
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JAL food is so good (I haven’t tried ANA First ever though; I’m sure it is great as well.). Also managed 7h of decent sleep on a 15h flight (HEL-HND the long way due to Russia airspace closure and the eastbound arctic route having high winds.). I love AA frequent flyer redemptions — 90k miles o/w.

Heh, the CACM version of "microscope and tweezers" is in libgen. (Not the IEEE S&P version, or the web version at www.mit.edu/people/eichi... ). *Personally* I'm more concerned that this is how the model learns to write code with buffer overflow security holes :-)

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...