Matt Austern

@austern@sfba.social
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Computer programmer, ex-physicist, husband and father, reader. I'm originally from Pittsburgh but I've now lived in the Bay Area for more than half my life. I live in Palo Alto and work at Google, where my focus is large scale data processing.

I'm interested in various things, including food and wine, math and science, politics, hiking, history, science fiction, philosophy, opera, and cute cat videos.

Webhttp://lafstern.org/matt
Pronounshe/him/his
LocationPalo Alto, CA, USA
EducationTaylor Allderdice, MIT, UC Berkeley
Matt AusternJan 11
Is anyone aware of published guidelines giving best practices for defining and using C++20 concepts? The closest I'm aware of are rules T.10 through T.31 of the C++ Core Guidelines. They look like reasonable advice, but they're fairly terse and I'm not sure to what extent they're based on C++20 usage experience.
Matt AusternNov 4, 2024
My October reading list:
• 10/3 Naomi Novik, Buried Deep
• 10/7 Adrian Tchaikovsky, Shards of Earth
• 10/13 Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (tr. Jay Rubin)
• 10/17 P. G. Wodehouse, A Damsel in Distress
• 10/25 Adrian Tchaikovsky, Eyes of the Void
Matt AusternOct 28, 2024
Rory McCuneOct 28, 2024

Interesting article on what happens to gTLDs when the country they're associated with vanishes. If you have any .io domains, might be worth planning for what you need to do if that TLD goes away!

https://every.to/p/the-disappearance-of-an-internet-domain

The Disappearance of an Internet Domain

How geopolitics can alter digital infrastructure

Matt AusternOct 2, 2024

My September reading list:
• 9/8 Jacqueline Winspear, The Comfort of Ghosts
• 9/14 Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
• 9/22 Len Deighton, Catch a Falling Spy
• 9/25 Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths

#books @bookstodon

Matt AusternSep 22, 2024

I go back and forth about which fact is weirder: that there are more reals than integers, or that there *aren't* more rationals than integers.

Perhaps I've got infinities on the brain just now because I'm rereading Borges.

Matt AusternSep 14, 2024
Boosted!
Matt AusternSep 7, 2024
This time Nicki is the one who gets the #caturday afternoon living room lap.
Matt AusternSep 1, 2024

My August reading list:
• 8/3 Shu Okimoto and Tadashi Agi, Drops of God: Mariage 2 (tr. Robert Harkins)
• 8/13 James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
• 8/15 William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
• 8/18 Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
• 8/21 Hernan Diaz, Trust
• 8/27 Monica Byrne, The Actual Star
• 8/28 David Gerrold, The Man Who Folded Himself
• 8/31 Shelly Parker-Chan, He Who Drowned the World

Link to my list of all the books I've read this year so far, with comments on most of them: https://lafstern.org/matt/2024books.html

@bookstodon #books #books2024

What I read in 2024

Matt AusternAug 31, 2024
We were out of town for more than two weeks, but we're finally home for #caturday. The cats are glad to have their humans back, and they're spending most of their time sitting on our laps.
Matt AusternAug 30, 2024
Hacker MemesAug 30, 2024