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What are people doing to be happy in these times?
Nothing much.
Most people do nothing special to feel happy. They don't have try too hard, they are just happy. In happiness they are not amateurs; they don’t over-articulate joy.

My latest:

"Hosting SQLite databases on Github Pages" is absolutely brilliant: it adds a virtual filesystem to SQLite-compiled-to-WebAssembly in order to fetch pages from the database using HTTP range requests

Redditor creates a photorealistic portrait of George Washington as a modern-day politician

@bayesianboy Thinking of Betty Shannon, who typed up all of Claude's manuscripts as well as, erm, writing quite a lot of them...

correction, it was the Atlas bicycle company that got shut down last year, not Hercules.

@SingInTheRine @vayyaari I read this from @karthiks today: which talks about a similar impulse.

Watched this video about "Why dutch bicycles are better, ..." extolling their practicality.
These are pretty much - Hercules Captain Shakti bikes - Rs.5000 ($67). with addons like dynamo (for lighting), & Frame Locks this would cost less $100.

@sura_puli @shrikanth_krish ಇಗೋ ನೋಡಿ

RT @razibkhan: The Shape of Ancient Thought: Comparative Studies in Greek and Indian Philosophies is $1.99 on Kindle again! RECOMMEND

RT @andy_matuschak: This college student has been live-streaming his daily study sessions for the past year, 12 hours straight, every day:

He’s not narrating or providing funny commentary like a typical Twitch streamer. It’s just: you watch him study, very intently!

"What if English had tones" - a quick and fun demonstration
It is a lie that English is "simple". One can learn an English that is not useful elsewhere

Tones are usually the most difficult part about learning tonal languages like Chinese for us.

The optimal level of alcohol intake for health and longevity is zero

@torkihobe Joel Spolsky is one of the publicly known members of the early Excel team: some good stuff there from early aughts.

@sagar__dubey I'm using Zettlr () for worknotes. nothing as fancy as Roam..

Proofpoint getting acquired for $12.3B and going private under Thoma Bravo.

use sql instead of reaching for pandas..

RT @karatalaamalaka: Great talk by @hamsanandi ! (couldn't attend live)

This talk should be on the Indian history curriculum of schools!

@vjgtweets board game? (This one is designed/developed by a high school buddy of mine.)

@dysinger This appears to be made just for you!

In 2014 Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarth dedicated his award to Iqbal Masih.

A short documentary on Iqbal Masih

"Genghis Khan, in fact, may have been not just the greatest warrior but the greatest eco-warrior of all time...the 13th-century Mongol leader's bloody advance, wiping out entire civilisations, may have scrubbed 700m tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere"

India has decided to simplify the process for re-issue of Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) cards. Details here:

@btbytes @ShrikaanthK @talekaayi @avtansa yeah it was... very similar to frooti.

Colts safety Julian Blackmon wows with lullaby to newborn daughter

"My students says their parents are their best and surest allies." Really fascinated by this rupture in the developmental structure of American youth.

Sputnik V deliveries to India to begin in April: Indian envoy Venkatesh

Read @ANI Story |

Incredible. Brian Armstrong’s HackerNews post looking for a cofounder for Coinbase.

“Because Bitcoin worked out so well. Have fun with that, dude.”

“I don’t think you’ve properly thought this through.”

“I’m gonna call it right now: bad idea.”

You'll love this if you're an Oliver Sacks fan.
Do watch it if its available in your region.

Here is an article I wrote on why Gandhian thought will remain essential for Indian (and even global) politics.

I voted for Ambedkar, by the way. Without a strong pragmatic leader, we will be eaten for breakfast.

Please resign. Abject incompetence.

More important than tactically quoting him is to understand the Ambedkarite project. One source of inspiration was his guru at Columbia, the American pragmatist philosopher John Dewey. Here is a fine essay by @scottrstroud on this theme.
#AmbedkarJayanti

The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia--and How It Died

I randomly found YouTube videos by a Kannada teacher discussing Karnataka state syllabus 10th std Kannada. What a great resource for students, most of whom are taught by worse teachers!

Technology is lovely!

Good interview with @bibekdebroy on the Mahabharata @DrRajBalkaran

excellent personal website!

Our Hindu identity is an umbrella celebrating pluralism and diversity. 2021 will see the Solar and Lunar calendars align to have almost all Hindu communities celebrating their New Year on the same day!

We wish all our students a Happy Hindu New Year 🥳

Sandeep, have you accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior?

Yea, definitely…of course (I had been answering this question affirmatively since I was a 1st grader, without ever telling my parents).

From @sandeep_k_sood's compelling essay.

RT @RiskIQ: We're excited to announce the launch of the RiskIQ Illuminate® Internet Intelligence Platform, the only #SecurityIntelligence solution offering a tailored view of the global internet attack surface based on your organization's unique digital relationships: