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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.

See

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

@_sh4 I'm a "Big-Oh?" when it comes to Big-O calculations.

This is my second solution:

Who does video reviews on software engineering books?

🙋🏼‍♂️

Here's my first, no-time-to-waste review on A Philosophy of Software Design.

See the complete 4-minute review:

Still learning how to create videos that are interesting to watch: feedback welcome!

personal news: I left the New Republic to start a Substack. It’s called Sick Note, it’s about how awful American healthcare is, and it’s launching in January (but you can sign up now if you like!). read about it here:

Hanlon's Razor is a great thinking hack to increase your day-to-day happiness:

Choose the most charitable interpretation of someone else's shitty actions.

OTOH, the billing for Lambdas is now in ms:

AWS giveth, Engineer taketh away (AP still sweating).

New for AWS Lambda – Functions with Up to 10 GB of Memory and 6 vCPUs – Imagine what you can do now! 🤩 #AWS #reInvent #Serverless

I just completed "Report Repair" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2020 #AdventOfCode

Et Tu Bruteforce?

Run macOS on AWS for the first time with new Amazon EC2 Mac instances. Start developing, building, testing, and signing Apple apps on AWS. Learn more:

The @DeepMind protein folding result is really incredible, and incredibly important. But I know it’s pretty tricky to understand, so here’s a megathread, with a bit of Biology 101, for @holland_tom @thehistoryguy
et al.

This is a must-listen lecture by @ruchirsharma_1

RT @KS1729: if you have wondered about Kautilya's 'Arthashastra', perhaps my latest substack entry might be of interest.

The outpouring of love for Tony Hseih is a reminder to: "measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you, actually do love you. The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money."

an excerpt from a film about the snake boat races in Alapuzha, Kerala -- a fiesta of social solidarity amid competition with shakespearean rivalries & humiliations & victories played out in front of thousands, with the Gods above as witness & the waters below as a final judge.

@hamsanandi @NMRatnam @vikramhegde While modern readings make this vacana a subaltern cry against Brahminical construct(ion)s, Śatāvadhānī Dr R Ganesh sees the same "architectural reconceptualizing" and sacralizing of the human person in other "orthodox" traditions too.

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