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Did you know that Docker Build is a compiler?

That thing that turns Dockerfiles into container images: You can build your own syntax and backends for it!

I did that and wrote it all up here 👇

“Private school to private equity pipeline”

This video of Tiruccirāppaḷḷi from the 1900s came up in my YouTube suggestions, spotlessly clean rural roads, and peaceful urbanity around the Malaikkōṭṭai (rockfort). Without romanticising that era, I have to say the video has a certain charm.

Delightful All India Radio interview with AK Ramanujan from 1988.

@micsolana Moreover, the Soviets and Nazis were allied at the beginning of World War 2 and invaded Poland together.

There has always been the tendency from certain quarters and narrative-setters to denounce Hinduism by using colonial tropes while praising Buddhism as an antithesis to all the 'evils' surrounding the mother of all Indic religions, Hinduism.

@keithdevens @croloris see example: #dlang

This essay has been in my head as a draft for the last 5 years. It's about Kannada identity, triggered by a certain phrase I kept seeing in people's reviews of the 'new-age' movies.

I'd love to know if any of it resonates with you.

The curious case of the AstraZeneca/blood-clot scare: Another example of the classic cognitive fallacy? (Generalize from scary anecdotes w/o looking at base rates?) via @statnews

@btbytes 😂 This reminds me of how authors of mathematical treatises in India would give their birth years in code!

Āryabhaṭa I : 04:46-06:07

Bhāskara II : 39:35-44:44 #bhūtasaṅkhyā

@btbytes 😂 This reminds me of how authors of mathematical treatises in India would give their birth years in code!

Āryabhaṭa I : 04:46-06:07

Bhāskara II : 39:35-44:44 #bhūtasaṅkhyā

Huge success! In this stream we converted the build system of Redis to Zig, then cross compiled Redis from Linux to macOS M1, and it worked!

Kudos to @kubkon for his brilliant work on Zig's self-hosted Mach-O linker code.

BREAKING-- Congress just released text of the “EBIKE Act," which would offer a refundable tax credit of up to $1,500 for a new e-bike purchase.

Link:

If it passes, the EBIKE Act would be groundbreaking. A 🧵:

I am raising a fund (saved a couple hundred bucks last month) and am an investor (have a account) so like lmk if you're raising, I can help with like, telling you what not to do

DID YOU KNOW?

Nim can now bootstrap using ARC!

Four years in the making - Karate 1.0 is here !

release notes:

@vjgtweets Umm.. Kamlapur?

As the pandemic ends Indians who must exit India periodically to survive life await their vacation. Russia, Ukraine are open to Indian tourists but the West is more alluring. What Indians enjoy about the West is the whole spectacle of the West.
My latest:

My mother. She was amazing.

RT @penberg: An interesting talk from Michael Stonebraker on "big data" from 2016 (). According to Stonebraker, big data consists of at least three different problems: big volume, big velocity, and big variety. (1/)

Kaavi Kalé: The indigenous architectural ornamentation technique of the Konkan Coast, India

Many photos from temples around Uttara Kannada, Dakshina Kannada districts. Researchers are from D.K.

@twistedlogix @hamsanandi @btbytes An interesting solution to this problem proposed by a Polish political science scholar who writes on India.

@razibkhan Have you read Iravati Karve’s yugAnta? It is a commentary on Mahabharata stripped down to historical and humanistic elements. I found it to be intriguingly consistent with what we now know about migrations into India. Here’s an essay on it:

My company is hiring—looking for a senior language implementer to work on the compiler and runtime for our programming language #Glow — remote work, our meta-language is Gerbil Scheme. We love macros, prototype object-orientation and dependent types.

We are hiring a Senior Big Data Engineer for the Data Engineering Team (Remote, USA) - my team.

Apply here:

India has built a strong Aadhar based public digital infrastructure in less than a decade, covering banking, healthcare and more

This is a great export opportunity for India, to help other countries leapfrog on state capacity.

My @bopinion article

Telemetry from @RiskIQ instrumental in identifying nearly 400,000 vulnerable Exchange servers.

See @microsoft report below:
Protecting on-premises Exchange Servers against recent attacks

If you’ve not heard about the Antikythera mechanism before, your mind will be blown.

Such technology existed by 150-100 BC, but the knowledge was subsequently lost. Similar machines with equivalent complexity didn't appear again until the 18th century.

watched first episode of age of samurai on @RichardHanania rec. SO BASED. but ppl should REALLY read TAIKO

(some era/dramatis personae)

RT @montes_narayana: The most incredible thing I've come across in a while: there is a partial translation of the Spanish classic El Quijote into Sanskrit डान् क्विक्षोटः !!! A project initiated by Schlegel in the 19th century!!!

Umberto Eco

After many decades of finance driven neoliberalism that has decimated domestic industrial know how, the US now embraces industrial policy.

India should take note. India needs a strong industrial policy focused on building deep industrial know how.

It is criminal that no Indian film director has made a historical epic about Malik Ambar yet. Kidnapped from Ethiopia, sold into slavery in India, eventually freed and leads a mercenary army in a guerilla resistance against the Mughals

"Therefore it is well not to be too indulgent or charitable with anyone. You may take it as a general rule that you will not lose a friend by refusing him a loan, but that you are very likely to do so by granting it" -Arthur Schopenhauer

@btbytes

Leaves of the "Drumstick" tree - "Moringa Oleifera"

Rich in nutrients, my favorite dish is the egg scramble (ಪಲ್ಯ).

Sobering reminder to folks in the EU who laugh at US dysfunction. The EMA is little better. Needlessly hyping mRNA tech (this tech will come good in the future, but is overkill for Covid), treating AZ as some bargain basement vaccine. Now left scrambling.

ಶ್ರೀಮಹದೇವರ ಸ್ತೋತ್ರ ಸುಳಾದಿ

The epilogue of my book shows how Wu’s radical transparency and strategic conferencing, besides his antipandemic measures, could serve as critical lessons for present-day Chinese policymakers. To read more, please buy my book here: @stanfordpress (7/7)

30,000?! Wow. That would make it even bigger than that of Bharat Biotech’s. Definitely the largest trial in India for any vaccine.

@btbytes @i_contemplate_ @hamsanandi @dhruvabatni @TheOriginalCSP @ShrikaanthK @tmnagaraja The problem is there are large no of manuscripts etc in homes, mathas, temples, manuscripts libraries. The first preference is given towards their catalog, conversvation etc,then publish as books
Many are recently studied and published too.

This will be a game changer if successful. Covid will likely not go away for some time yet, this necessitating booster doses in select populations/clusters. A single dose infra nasal vaccine will enormously simplify such future vaccination drives.

The Irish Times doesn't waste words on the clown show next door.

Tonight on BIG IDEAS, with @pmarca, @KTmBoyle and @eriktorenberg, we've got one of my favorite writers: @MacaesBruno!

Bruno is a former Portuguese politician and author of the recent 'History Has Begun'. He's also become a NFT art dealer. Come listen!

Humans use 30%-50% less water than other great apes, possibly due to our prominent noses. Might not sound like much but it potentially increased human ranges away from water sources. Very helpful when crossing savannas or deserts.

This is AMAZING. How mRNA vaccines work. By @hotvickkrishna as seen on his TikTok

They came, they saw, they left no trace...except for all of Western Civilization I focus on 1000 BC to 1000 AD & what genetics can tell us about the rise & fall of the people of Italy, & how Imperial Romans were different from those who came before & after

“There’s a reason why you’re more interested in eating familiar foods when you’re sick; unfamiliar foods might have pathogens that will compete for access to your immune system, and could be more costly to digest” @sentientist @ChrisWillx