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#DataEngineers are tops on the 2021 ‘what’s hot’ list and it’s their year to shine. That’s why we’ve declared #2021 the Year of the Data Engineer.

Not only did The Sacklers make billions from Purdue Pharma while starting the opioid crisis, but they also own a sister company, Mundipharma that is spreading the opioid crisis throughout the world. @coreysdavis

@AhsanDeliri @Cloudflare i'm just googling stuff here, but this looks standard?

@btbytes @DmytroGladkyi I like Kensington's SlimBlade: . You scroll by spinning the ball. The larger diameter trackball also helps moving larger distances (Logitech uses 40mm, Kensington uses 55mm).

Earlham College and Ivy Tech Community College approve first transfer agreements

Nature's Aircraft : The Peregrin Falcon can reach diving speeds up to 240mph #birdtwitter

It was in 1982. Maharajapuram Santhanam sang this Tillana in raga Sivaranjanini in a concert held at the beautiful Senate Hall of Kerala University, Thiruvananthapuram. His rendering made a life-time impression on me. See I am listening to it again in 2021

A must-read if you're an India fan.

The new Asians on screen via @financialtimes

Wow, brilliant! Excellent!

#Yesudas #Rafi

Don't miss - 04:48

Some very nuanced and no-clutter thoughts shared by Anant Nag:

Should have been a much longer interview.

@talekaayi @hamsanandi @karatalaamalaka @longhandnotes There are things like that help with, they need to be supported. But the issue in the last decade or so has been around putting stuff behind walled gardens - facebook, dropbox, google drive etc.,

@btbytes Since we are on names: this sketch from Goodness Gracious Me on “complicated names” just kills it

@talekaayi i keep thinking of starting & administering an invite based mastodon instance for ಕಲೆ/ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ ಇತ್ಯಾದಿ. I had registered a domain - for this purpose.. realized i let it expire a while ago .. sigh..

can get it going if there is interest among ಸಹೃದಯರು

@sagar__dubey Should be profile has (extra 2 at the end).

@sagar__dubey Should be profile has (extra 2 at the end).

In the eloquent phrasing of one of my favorite Americanisms: Shit or get off the pot.

@karatalaamalaka @btbytes @vjgtweets Very interesting!

Socotra is a beautiful place.

About the Tamil traders in Berenice about two millennia ago

@SuspiciousPleb @vjgtweets Interesting stuff:

Incredible— after the Bills' win last week helped the Colts in the playoffs, a Buffalo children's hospital says Colts fans have donated so much the Patricia Allen Fund has climbed past $1 million

suppose if you had to pick a color for an M1, that’d be the one to pick

The story of a Japanese fine arts graduate and her love for kolam (rangoli).

Days after the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) reported an alarming decrease in nutritional levels of children, the Centre is preparing to place before the Cabinet a Rs 4,000-cr proposal to offer breakfast in govt schools, along with mid-day meals.

Farming on autopilot: Agritech startup Fasal uses IoT to help horticulture farmers go remote

Good profile of the founder of Bharath Biotech. We need more such reporting to bring to the limelight those that are doing world class work. Not many take such risks and pull it off like he did.

Normcore readers already knew why NYT would be wrong about JetBrains 😏

2021 resolution: No more monads! Instead, I started this year by trying out Multicore OCaml's new algebraic effects - you can read about my attempts using it to implement animations here:

"A criticism of Indian Americans by an Indian national in the US" via @NotesOnLiberty

Love this (tiddlywiki!) archive/index of year 1 of The Uncertainty Mindset from @vaughn_tan (one of my fave newsletters):

Reason 547548 why India needs to document and put out its story of Covid management. When the whole world was talking smack about “cheap” antigen tests, India had already adopted them largely using indigenous kits in July-August 2020 itself.

There was a time in our recent past when, for an hour every week, this was the only thing you could watch on TV. Bernstein explains the role of a conductor by comparing musical score to the script of Hamlet vs. actually directing/performing it.

@btbytes Hey Pradeep,
Try this link:

Listen to the first 20 seconds of this song and tell me it isn't great.

A prakrit romance just edited and translated by #AndrewOllett:

Absolutely superb article from ⁦@sreemoytalukdar⁩. Cuts through the clutter and dispels all the half truths floating around.

@Zarmanochegas The shift towards descriptions like "There is heat in the body." reminds one of such formulations championed by the Naiyāyika-s.

33:20-36:38

Is this only superficial, or a consequence of the attested mutual influence of Nyāya and Mahāyāna schools?

2/2

Yes. They should push to standardize on the use of IAST as a base () with extensions to support phonologies of all major Indian languages.

We have spent enough time shoving our sounds into inadequate roman alphabet. Time to enhance it to suit our needs.

Samskrit as a Foreign Language in schools in USA & Canada! It will be the future trend in the WORLD!

SBUSA offers SAFL (Samskrit As Foreign Language) Course which is accredited as a supplementary education program by the Accrediting Commission for Schools

Reference:

@bharathceegee Hoos, obviously

@EconTalker Wide ranging indeed, at several points I was reminded of Pirsing’s Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance.
This one will need to be relistened and I think I will get the book

@sagar__dubey @swardley listen ... listen ... listen ...

look before leaping

RT @carlmalamud: Chandamama Magazine! ht @omshivaprakash From 1947 to 2012, in 9 languages.

At first this looks like a GTK4 (it's a GUI toolkit #4) written in C, but after the first few examples it's all done in Nim, and the nim code looks pretty decent:

Nim's ability to work with C, C++, JS, and ObjC is really overlooked.

He's been missing for > 2 months?!

Really shows the difference in China v. U.S media.

If Bezos missed lunch it'd be on the cover of the NYT the next morning.

If you're curious how this plays out for small businesses, we did an audit for Headphones[.]com. They went from $1200/day to $40/day with no change in performance.

Read the case study:

Please listen to the whole extraordinary interview w/ Kevin & @themktgtoday!

Listen here:

Fleck is a Clojure-ish lisp inside bash, based on the Make-A-Lisp (MAL) project!

MAL is a really fun project to play with, but this is the first time I've seen someone build a project on top of it.

@SuspiciousPleb You may also want to read this by @patio11