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@tippanibhandar People can add Indian folk and classical gems to this thread.. I will start with nusrat fateh ali khan singing shiv kumar batalvi..

@abarrallen Fixed my wrist and elbow pain from computer work.

I just completed "Custom Customs" - Day 6 - Advent of Code 2020 #AdventOfCode

(Under 30 minutes! [or the pizza is free!])

I just completed "Binary Boarding" - Day 5 - Advent of Code 2020 #AdventOfCode

Read the Manual (section 4.2.2) on security of the EVM and then compare and laugh at things like "Ballot harvesting" in USA. literally they let "volunteers" collect ballots.

Amateur hour Max.

Ow! my sides.. 🤣

Using ERB templates (Ruby) to generate Go code..

Its not a mystery: read it in English -

You want see some videos too? There you go.

Its not a mystery: read it in English -

You want see some videos too? There you go.

జయప్రద 😍😍

Michael Lind has done a brilliant job of cataloging the shifting power relations of American society, and their reflection in our (very nominal) democracy.

I love this lady's energy that she brings to the kitchen. It's that JOY only a mother or a grandmother can bring.

Your company’s true values are reflected in who and what behaviour gets rewarded, not by what gets written down in some vision document. This has been a sad week for judging executives by their actions.

21. How to study history of Capitalism?

Sven Beckert on how 'cotton' was born & became a constant global struggle b/w slaves & planters, merchants & statesmen, workers & factory owners -- creating new inequalities aggravated by technology & colonialism.

This book mentioned an interesting aspect of historical Kannada literature: quite a bit of Kan lit. was produced by Jain authors (which on reflections feels right)
I chanced on this book on "business mathematics" by Jain author Rajaditya ~1190AD #patterns

Thanks to for curating a collection of digitally archived Kannada books for this serendipity.

11. Excellently fun & insightful conversation w/ Pratap Bhanu Mehta who talks to two Pakistanis who probe what does it mean to be Indian, what is the Indian project, where does it fall short -- a great many interesting & open questions discussed.
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I just completed "Passport Processing" - Day 4 - Advent of Code 2020 #AdventOfCode

(Back in Black #000000)

"On May 19, Ashwin Sah posted the best result ever on one of the most important questions in combinatorics. It was a moment that might have called for a celebratory drink, only Sah wasn’t old enough to order one." 😀

Amazing: someone needed help with jwacs, a CL-powered "transpiler" from the mid-2000s, and it still builds and works fine:

@btbytes The ddvk one (best) doesn't appear in that list, so pointing it out :-)

And yeah it's very open… put PDFs on it with just scp:

Agreed about A5 too; I use browser's print :) Also and may be handy sometimes.

@btbytes The ddvk one (best) doesn't appear in that list, so pointing it out :-)

And yeah it's very open… put PDFs on it with just scp:

Agreed about A5 too; I use browser's print :) Also and may be handy sometimes.

@btbytes The ddvk one (best) doesn't appear in that list, so pointing it out :-)

And yeah it's very open… put PDFs on it with just scp:

Agreed about A5 too; I use browser's print :) Also and may be handy sometimes.

@btbytes Ah, I was probably thinking of this: (= )

@btbytes Ah, I was probably thinking of this: (= )

@btbytes Ha! I think he's explained it somewhere as a combination of the “drawing” sense (Zapf draws beautiful strokes with his pen), and a (now less used?) “inspire good ideas” sense. (maybe sense 18 or 22 here? or 2 flatter/persuade here: )

@btbytes Ha! I think he's explained it somewhere as a combination of the “drawing” sense (Zapf draws beautiful strokes with his pen), and a (now less used?) “inspire good ideas” sense. (maybe sense 18 or 22 here? or 2 flatter/persuade here: )

@btbytes If you're going to read PDFs on it, you may find this useful: (Haven't checked whether it voids warranty or whatever.)

I just completed "Toboggan Trajectory" - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2020 #AdventOfCode

(A day late, and a BTC Short ;).

Bless the maker and his water. We're going to be able to stream Dune.

Bari Lambi Judai by Reshma #NowPlaying ♥️

NoteCalc 0.2.0 is out with some new features and many fixes @rustlang @rustwasm @WasmWeekly
Website:
Release Notes:

NoteCalc 0.2.0 is out with some new features and many fixes @rustlang @rustwasm @WasmWeekly
Website:
Release Notes:

The story of Lupe Hernandez, the student nurse who, in 1966, realised that if alcohol was in gel form, it could clean hands when people had no access to soap and water and became the inventor of the hand sanitizer [read more: ]

RT @vjgtweets: S/o @cmalcolmkeating for the well-written piece on the Indian debate tradition!

I really want to write these in APL -

@_sh4 Interesting website: has records of aviation incidents.

Looks great. I've ordered a few from 😄

RT @_sh4: Random trivia that's also a weird coincidence: Abraham Wald of the fighter-airplane-bullets statistical parable died in an air-crash. In the Nilgiris.

"No human mind has done more to enrich our understanding of black holes, the wonderfully simple objects now poised to teach us profound lessons not only about their own space-times but also about the fundamental laws underlying the entire universe."

@acharya2 by the way, you are great enough to be humble

(reference: )

I think Bata would be in the top 3 of most people’s list of “things that are not Indian but feel Indian”. The century old company gets its first Indian CEO.

Mobility policy makers across the world will hugely benefit from the Dutch documentary film "Why We Cycle'' (2020) which I helped them subtitle in #Hindi. Watch the trailer here 🎞️

Silicon Valley and other organizations are fertile breeding grounds for the dissemination of pseudo-profound bullshit.

I just completed "Password Philosophy" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2020 #AdventOfCode

Dear @TheEconomist, this is not "correlation". This is, simply, fraud.

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What a great guy!

So many great things in Andy's keynote, one I'm really excited about is all the new Local Zones. Just imagine what can be built with AWS within milliseconds of most of the population of the US.

Want to develop for Lambda Container Support with standard docker commands and tiny images like Alpine? I've written a post! With code. I also highlight how you can use Go handlers directly as entrypoints