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The Buddhist community deals with a mistranslation of one of their works:

Think this old piece of mine is relevant now

Philip Rivers

This is how the system is rigged.

The elites aren't even trying to hide it.

Robinhood, who's revenue is largely tied to Citadel, restricts trading in $GME, $AMC, and $NOK.

Users can only sell, not buy.

Propaganda can only achieve so much. Reality catching up really quickly.

Good!

Also, watched this Mandelbrot fractal edu movie that would be good for kids.

"Mandelbrots World of Fractals" also free on there

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But my guess is we will end up with more rules and regulation of retail/reddit-horde, and no new rules for Wall Street.

Continuing the theme of the last 40 years of "Libertarianism For Me, Authoritarianism For Thee"

Cold winter nights often remind me of Halku हल्कू, the poor farmer of Hindi story pūs kī rāt पूस की रात (= A winter's night) by Premchand. It reveals the sheer burden of poverty & harsh realities of elements without making grand statements. Read it here-

Since today is #HolocaustMemorialDay, I'll again share the story of Peter Wegner. Witnessed Anschluss/Kristallnacht in person. Escaped on Kindertransport. Went on to write earliest texts on PL, edit 1st ACM curriculum, Cardelli-Wegner, etc. What a life.

@Suricata_IDS @pevma NVM: found a good reference that explains Community ID:

The guy who started the original reddit meme has turned his $50k investment into $21.95 million.

I cannot believe that is a true sentence.

@ekrich @rossabaker It has worked for them so far.. so can't knock that..

"The Bit Player", a documentary about Claude Shannon - on Amazon Prime.

@rossabaker that sounds like sphinx, specifically readthedocs ?

Two years ago, when I was living in Singapore and sent this piece to the Straits Times, I was expecting a rejection. After all, they had rejected some of my earlier pieces. (1)

It was maddening listening to how Spaniards basically lucked and lied into conquering the New World. How they shrugged off the cruelty they showed to the natives as they were "pagans"

This was a cornerstone for their deceit and destruction - divine right

I am still catching up on early January posts 👉 Optimizing Lambda functions packaged as container images – interesting tips by @rts_rob #AWS #Serverless #DevOps

This is some insane, crazy, baller shit:

r/wsb just ran over one of the most successful hedge funds around

I hate the fact that the Fed govt retains jurisdiction over Native American lands.

After listening to these fantastic podcasts, I really do feel that Conquistador should be a synonym for a monstrous, ravenous, unadulterated evil.

The sheer lack of honor and arrogance coupled with inhuman brutality shown to the natives is appalling.

TCS overtakes Accenture to become world’s largest IT firm by market cap

Notice a bunch of your friends seemed to have gotten pregnant since the start of the pandemic?

You might be tempted to call it a trend, but several states that keep track of births in near-real-time recorded significant drops in Dec. 2020 birthrates.

I don't know if I would call this #serverless, but definitely a modern replacement for xinetd :-) I'm glad this article got written, I've been meaning to go down this rathole for a while. Alt Title: Socket activated services with #Podman.

@Chris_arnade @AliceFromQueens As an endorsement, watch one of the two Top Gear episodes where they take a random farmer's Tacoma, and try to beat it to shit by literally casting it out to sea and dropping it off a building, and they fail to make it not start.

Hadrian was a great patron of the arts. His villa at Tibur was adorned with magnificent works of art.
Read more 👉

Really great write-up on "That XOR Trick":

I'm convinced a lot of these stupid interview questions that ask things like this are mostly just filtering for people who went to the same university where you're introduced to things like this.

Wrote about a growing phenomenon among finance professionals today: Robinhood Envy.

What makes bats excellent reservoirs of née pathogens that periodically spill over into humans and livestock causing outbreaks and Pandemics. A review

Accounts of China and India written by arab sailor 900 AD. highly recommended. comparative analysis of china vs india not even totally off today.

some of the stuff is funny. obv aghast as every indian refusing to eat off each other's plates

@DellAnnaLuca

Version 0.1 of Mailrog is now live for you to barely use:

It gives you a unique email address, and when you send an email it runs all of the DKIM/DMARC/SPF tests on your email then puts a report JSON file at a matching URL so you can debug your email.

@btbytes This can happen when machine learning processes parallel texts that change a name to make it more relevant in another language.
Here are some old examples (mixing Canada & Sweden or Motorola & Samsun):

The original song from which shot was taken:

@yawaramin @dabeaz I keep waiting for this kind of productivity with OCaml but hasn't happened so far.

AWS SDK for Go Version 2 Now Generally Available:

More on the relationship between red-billed oxpeckers and impalas:

@awesomekling Do you think Gambas can come live on SerenityOS with bindings to LibGUI?

Microsoft QBasic had one of the best built-in help systems I've ever seen. You could put the cursor on any code keyword and press F1.

The docs were written well enough that an 8-year-old with English as a 2nd language could understand, and completely informative. #docgoals 🤓💾

🔒 I use A LOT of @github Pages, and this announcement's timing is perfect:

Now I can run private content sites that are only accessible to those with repo access.

Inca Tern facts:

*have mustaches
*speak with Belgian accents
*solve crimes
*like to be called “Hercule”

Again, interesting thoughts on philosophical #translations: "Knowing a language is not enough to translate", explains Pauline Koetschet (around 11') while discussing translations of Greek philosophy in the Islamic world.

No, it's not insane

@IndianLinguist @sucheta_g Here is the resource you can read more on Nandinagari.

@karatalaamalaka this is what i have: $65
Though it can charge off the "cigarette lighter" port, i use wall power. Costco fills nitrogen for free, & they are quite good about it.. but this is easier.