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Eggos: A new unikernel on the scene written in Go. The more the merrier if you ask me.

Nagara: An ancient Indo-Dionysiac Metropolis via @SundayGuardian

Name sites, Google featured snippet: Nirvansh is a Sanskrit/Hindu name for boys meaning “bliss, liberation”.

Facts: The Sanskrit word ‘nirvaṃśa’ (निर्वंश) means “having no family, childless, alone” or “without family, without descendants”.

Another #kunāma branded as a #sunāma.

Imagine burning $2 billion dollars of VC funding in 6 months

That's $10 million per day

$455,000 per hour

$7,589 per minute

$126 per second

Need to figure out your effective permissions on AWS? This flowchart spells out how IAM determines those:

@JeffreyKotyk Interestingly, a certain Jaina astrologer named Sugrīva-muni is considered to be the originator of the Āya-praśna-praṇālī of Jaina Jyotiṣa (Praśna-śāstra) as well as the author of three texts: Āyapraśnatilaka, Praśnaratna, and Āyasadbhāva.

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Evrone did an interview with me about Rust, Python, my Open Source stuff and a few more things.

Thailand protests: 'My father is blinded by his love for the monarchy' - BBC News
So the hit pieces have started to arrive. It is happens, this will be a tragedy greater than the fall of the Nepalese monarchy.

@vboykis Zero-based indexing was invented after one-based indexing. So it was a deliberate choice someone made. In 2013 a blogger found the guy who originally made that choice & asked why he did it. Turns out it was protection against an arsehole with a yacht.

how cute are these illustrations!

link to the insta

"At the age of 12, Ganpati Patil ran into a man already five times his age. Patil walked 28 kilometres from Siddhanerli to Nipani in present-day Karnataka – to listen to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi speak. It changed his life."

Interesting way to compare two things: "Mediocre X is better than mediocre Y".

The proponents of Y resort to pointing out (often with merit) why it is better in the hands of experts.

The newcomer benefits by being better in the mediocre range.

via

@PramilaJayapal
Please learn what your name "Actually" means

Anyone have thoughts on having a personal/desktop search engine for (re)discovering all the PDFs/books they have on their system.

This is what I'm thinking:

In the light of Regeneron’s monoclonal antibody treatment becoming the first FDA approved treatment for Ebola, a look at the scientist from DRC who pioneered the use of such treatments.
Regeneron is working on a similar treatment for Covid-19.

A wonderful new site on the Upanishads:

Guess which country has been using RAT from the beginning of the pandemic with its apex body citing that RAT in combo with RT-PCR is a very powerful tool?
India.
The ICMR was unfairly criticised for this by experts outside the council.

@santalum_aurum @nntaleb talks about this often in his works. One short intro:

Actually now thinking this is Residence Oasis in Hang Hau (2 bedrooms going from about $900k to $1.3m US)

All star performance of Beatles favorites led by Paul McCartney (Phil Collins on drums, Knopfler & Clapton on guitar, etc. with George Martin conducting)

Challakere brothers's pronunciation of Sanskrit is so good, that I am going to invite the wrath of all Tamizhians by claiming that it better than the gold-standard rendition by M.S.Subhalakshmi.

And I'll restate this one more time in case someone claims this is impossible:

ONE person created a replica of Docker in bash. If you're telling me it's impossible then shut up. Docker is incredibly complicated so here' ~100 lines proving you wrong.

@_sh4 @BurntOutCase just in time ..

@davidcrawshaw @bradfitz Cool! You should try @noteworthyIM for plug and play decentralized messaging powered by Matrix and Wireguard

Rust after the honeymoon:

Daughter is #1 @imVkohli fan in the world. She's getting unreasonably excited that I have papers at a conference in Koli, Finland. Can't mention the conference at home without interruption. Pipe down, kid!

#parenting

That is accelerating a trend I document in my book: the erosion of local community health & a sense of place

it is also part of a larger trend of the working class & middle class losing institutions they have a stake in, both economically & culturally.

I gave into the latest Valley book fad, and I'm reading the Netflix book.

It's surprisingly good, though it's a playbook for turning yourself into an upbeat and efficient capitalist soldier (while at work at least).

Around 11,000 migrant workers found employment via MNREGA reviving around 400 water bodies in the drought-prone Jhansi district.

It's got everything. #cybersecuritymonth, #halloween... anyway have a good weekend everyone. And if you get some time and are curious about how #TLS 1.3 works with some real examples, check this out.

Fantastic. My stupid idli comment has now been connected - ever so tenuously - to the US election. For the record: I love Indian food... and especially south Indian food! (Just not idlis).

@btbytes @_sh4 This op-ed's gloss on the #Barbell Strategy is "Hedge for the worst possible outcome while progressing step-by-step with a Bayesian updating of information." What to you is a beginner-friendly description that relates more strongly to the barbell picture?

@btbytes Saturday songs are the best songs :)

RT @prathgodbole: Absolute gem of a book, covers the history of the India from 1770-1800, but more importantly, covers the transition from a feudal continent to nascent ideas of a nation state and a republic of elected officers ( even if by a small %) long before Brits

another version of Brindavana Saranga

excerpts from a verse composed during the Sangam era, 100 CE to 300CE, reimagined by the genius of Anil Srinivasan (piano) and Sikkil Gurucharan (vocals)

Red Earth and Pouring Rain

@vboykis Here You go

"Tesla dissolves entire PR department"

This is so great: the old model of pushing news to journos is dead: regular media is removed as the middle men as you can now just tweet out a post on your own site to tell your story

Article 19 rights are for "citizens", unlike rights under Article 14 or 21 which are for "persons". What's the difference?

Does this mean companies don't have rights under Article 19?

Watch this video for the answer-

#Python 3.9 is now officially available! Get it here:

Released on time, on budget, great features and optimizations, a million household uses! Easily our best release ever!

That is until 3.10 next year. But you go pester the new RM @pyblogsal for THAT!

@longhandnotes @veejaysai @KS1729 Anyway, coincidentally, R.Ganesh has just started a new 12-part lecture on the same yesterday.

Do watch.

"Human rights experts say it is troubling that the US talks so strongly about human rights abuses in China, but is willing to engage in deeper...strategic ties with India where similar situations are occurring."

Similar situations?? You're drunk, NYT.

Saaya, the 120 lbs male panther, stands in the shadow of his 89 lbs female leopard mate, Cleopatra, at Kabini Reserve, India.

Photos by Midhun Hunugund.