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The Google outage postmortem is up:

"The root cause was an issue in our automated quota management system which reduced capacity for Google's central identity management system, causing it to return errors globally."

John le Carré was particularly angry at reports of Western torture. “I know about interrogation. I’ve done interrogations, and I can tell you this: by extracting information under torture you make a fool of yourself. You obtain information that isn’t true.”

2. Ergodicity illustrated

If you're done Googling, read this too.

Jerusalem, 2008: The Chief Rabbinate of Israel, in cooperation with the American Jewish Committee, affirmed the symbol as "greatly auspicious" and "sacred to Hindus for millennia, long before its misappropriation."

Why do elephants and tigers still roam in India? Study offers clues

This is from Little Drummer Girl, only book of his I read.

There's something about that crop of Cold War-era thriller writers--Le Carré, Forsyth, Clancy--that you just don't find today. The world perhaps isn't capable of such fiction anymore.

My favorite big screen adaptation of le Carré is Martin Ritt's unforgettable The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, with a battered, shattered, Richard Burton turning in one of the best performances of his career.

@balajis Nomads were long running their companies out of Bali. Quite a few picturesque coworking spaces at Ubud.

A lot of Euros and Americans moved to Bali, & were running their companies out of there.

A bunch of people ran this quite good mail client from Bali

Source: The Wright Brothers

Two hard-working Ohio brothers solved flight as a side hobby. And they did it while professionals were spending 50x as much to fail.

It was largely thought impossible at the time.

Greatest side hustle of all time?

Boop: is one of the most useful developer apps I discovered for MacOS.

As the blurb says - "STOP PASTING COMPANY SECRETS INTO RANDOM WEBSITES."

• CSV->JSON
• base64 stuff
• format CSS/SQL/JSON

Best thing: you can add more features using JS

@btbytes I moved to Bucharest, Romania last year :)

@btbytes I moved to Bucharest, Romania last year :)

The official project website for Datasette

An intellectual biography of India’s new farm laws

A must read and long read for those in favour and those opposing these #farmreforms

Must read by @gchikermane for @orfonline

via @orfonline

1951 recording of a Sindhi Bhairavi when Ustad Salamat Ali and Nazakat Ali Khans visited India. No wonder if Lata Mangeshkar once reportedly said that Ustad Salamat Ali Khan was the greatest classical vocalist of the Indian subcontinent. What a singing!

HOLY CRAP!

Burned through $72k just testing Firebase + Cloud Run in a few hours.

People, your fancy awesome new idea does not need any of that. If you can't get started on a $5 VPS then your idea is too expensive to make a profit without huge $$$$.

If you want to understand Airbnb, it helps to understand its history: a discovery, followed by a year of grinding persistence, followed by explosive growth when they finally got everything right.

Google Stories, eh? How long before it joins Killed By Google

@bombaatbanavar @GabariGopalayya A lot of CSE (Especially the CS & "E") programs are inadequate in preparing students for on the job skills.
Something like "The missing semester of your CS education" is a good start -

We are Live

RT @StatModeling: What are the most important statistical ideas of the past 50 years?

@ashwath1977

Deno 1.6.0 released with new features:

• deno compile, for producing self-contained executables.
• deno lsp, for better IDE integration.
• Support for Mac Arm64.
  Read more about it here

One of the most interesting developments in the nuclear energy space — Rolls-Royce $RR plans to build small modular reactors (SMR).

I have enjoyed reading Dr Krishnananda & Dr Jyotsna Kamat since the time I was 10. All are now online thanks to @omshivaprakash and Sanchaya.
Someone asked me recently #book recommendations for a 10 year old :) Travelogues by Dr K & J are excellent IMO.

What a story!

Video game developer uses AI to recreate faces of ancient Chinese emperors

I don't know, seems to me that atheistic Buddhists get plenty of consideration in philosophy of religion. Try even saying the word "polytheism".

@_sh4 relevant

In my latest @livemint @Mint_Opinion column I argue that the farm bill reforms are a good idea. Farmers' grievances are a result of state policies trapping them in unproductive agriculture. The solution is to reform land policy & tackle low productivity.

Apple Silicon M1 Disruption by @gassee

@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