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The people killed at the King Soopers supermarket ranged in age from 20 to 65. Here are their stories.

Schools will return to full-time, in-person school in the fall, Holcomb says via @indystar

@avtansa It seems many of the tribal "scripts" were made up by this enterprising linguist. I think this is a completely pointless endeavor. And definitely, that script is not "endangered".

"In massive contrast [to football], is the game of cricket: gloriously multilayerd, with strategy, tactics & ordinary operations in abundance. Cricket is collective chess for 22 people; a celebration of earth & sky; a one-on-one contest in a team setting."

Job Posting: Assistant Professor of Robotics and Animal Husbandry with a Specialization in Dance

Launching my new substack with @AnikVJoshi covering Indian politics today. We begin with a primer on the state of West Bengal:

Astra Zeneca vaccine is like Andy Murray - out in the 1st round, almost there, almost almost there, and then he wins Wimbledon. Well done!

The fact that even smaller players like Herero and Virchow are getting into the game shows how much manufacturing capacity we have. Absolutely remarkable.

"After schools banned mobile phones, test scores of students aged 16 increased by 6.4% of a standard deviation...equivalent to adding 5 days to the school year or an additional hour a week. The effects were twice as large for low-achieving students."

The contrast is one of my all time non-Colts player - Darren Sproles - 5'6" (very small stature by NFL standards) playing Running Back - one of the most physically demanding positions in gridiron football

Stark Truth About Aryans: a story of India by

followup: I switched to using Viscosity for which I had previously purchased a license. It even imported settings from Tunnelblick. Long live the VPN connection!

I have ported the compiler from part 1 of my book from TypeScript to Python. It's only about 800 lines, check it out:

@santalum_aurum add a filter:

Reddit could not meet the needs of their advertiser base with their legacy #Redis -based reporting. They worked with Imply to migrate to a @druidio -based solution. Result 2-3 times faster, 100% query success SLA, moving to real-time analytics.

ವಿಜ್ಞಾನಿ: ಕೋರೋನಾನ ಓಡ್ಸೋಕೆ ಇನ್ನೇನೇನ್ ಮಾಡ್ಬೇಕೋ ಗೊತ್ತಿಲ್ಲ.
ಶಿಶುನಾಳ ಶರೀಫ್: ಗುಡುಗುಡಿಯ ಸೇದಿ ನೋಡೋ.
ವಿಜ್ಞಾನಿ:

Mairēya is a liquor made with the flowers of Woodfordia fruticosa (below), jaggery, coriander seeds, and the Indian gooseberry (Phyllanthus emblica).

The majority (~58%) of sandalwood cultivation in India in the modern day still occurs within Karnataka.

on bookbinding:

The Origins of the Chinese Nation: Song China and the Forging of an East Asian World Order

A small thing, but auto-completion of keywords in Merlin is going to be a very pleasant addition.

@hamsanandi @Hiranyareta @PratyushPPEE @vakibs @boringTinTin @rivalslayer Anup Jalota saying राम without schwa deletion

Compared to Jalota’s pronunciation of राम, ऋषिकण्ठा Subbulaksmi seems to be using less svara in म of राम. I would say she almost says राम् at the end of each line

@hamsanandi @Hiranyareta @PratyushPPEE @vakibs @boringTinTin @rivalslayer Anup Jalota saying राम without schwa deletion

Compared to Jalota’s pronunciation of राम, ऋषिकण्ठा Subbulaksmi seems to be using less svara in म of राम. I would say she almost says राम् at the end of each line

A few people asked me for a version of the "say" command on Windows and then I remembered there's an ancient project called eSpeak which runs on all platforms:

It also does support many different languages:

pivot: i think the next paid post substack gonna be empires of the steppe & genetics. GENGHIS KHAN

An excellent Sanskrit-English dictionary for computer terminology that is actually a pleasure to read by itself! Words have been coined so lucidly that anyone can intuitively understand them!

Also, the putrid racism of “Indiana Jones: Temple of Doom” was outdone by Kipling, the very Master of racist tropes, in his “The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes”.

I don’t know how such abject racism was ignored by generations of readers.

Cricketer Javagal Srinath, A-list entrepreneurs buyout China’s Shunwei Capital’s stake in Koo App - via @PGurus1

Finally got around to writing more about Common Lisp:

How the Irish became white @UnHerd

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?