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and @HolderStephen is right: It really couldn't happen to a better guy. Stewart's story, from the watermelon fields of rural Georgia:

"He really is one of the top defensive linemen in the game right now and nobody even knows it. It’s crazy."

"English-language commenters view French laïcité as an American tourist does their first bidet: uncomprehendingly and with vague feelings of disgust at a bizarre-seeming practice."

My latest for Pull Request, on the seeming weirdness of French secularism.

There's a fine tradition of American uber-wealthy affecting middle-class values as a meritocratic front and classism dodge.

It's also endemic among the media class.

this album of chopped up Sudanese beats absolutely slaps

@borkdude Put the toc inside a details tag.

Oh no.

Rest in peace Tony Hsieh.

An upstanding guy in every way. My thoughts go out to his family and friends.

we're coming to the point when "truth" is the "dark matter" lurking beneath the public face....

I'm now transcribing Arthur Ryder's translation of the Bhagavad-gita for the web (HTML) from a scanned copy(1930) since I could not find any prints.

Watch this page:

(will be updated as I transcribe more pages)

@shrikanth_krish innate&should be seen as a H mathematician who was spanning the ground ceded by H predecessors to the occident in a single step from Bernoulli to Riemann like a stride of viShNu. His role in restoring H confidence was immense. Some further thoughts here:

This is from Arthur Ryder's translation of the Bhagavad-gita.

"He was known for his love of the language, preferring to publish whatever most delighted him, rather than scholarly articles." (yes!)

@IamMaya00 @adamscrabble Reminded me of the "Church of Science" from Asimov's Foundation series -

@deshi_mangoman #ಶತಾವಧಾನಿಗಣೇಶ್ #ಗೋಕುಲನಿರ್ಗಮನ #ಪುತಿನ

"Each linguistic state, having driven out the perceived oppressor and established its own linguistic regime, turns out to be an even more ferocious oppressor of its own linguistic minority groups."

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Be sure to read @davidcrawshaw’s article in ACM Queue this month :) a great history of VPNs and the future :)

LOL Goldman Chief Economist thinks CCP is more worried about Biden because Biden will go to the WTO to settle trade disputes ... just like it would be more afraid if Tibet went to the UN to settle disputed territory.

I designed a SerenityOS GUI message box coffee cup and it’s just excellent! 🤓

Highly recommend this piece from @KS1729. Great read.

@michael_nielsen Zen To Go by Jon Winokur.

#MichelDanino's paper, for those interested. The snapshot shows the abstract.

Kāvyakaṇṭha Gaṇapati Śāstrī in his pre-Independence blueprint of an Indian constitution, interestingly prescribes a "two-party" system with an "individualist" party and a "nationalist" party. See Adhikaraṇam 25:1-5.

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OTD in 2008 came the cowardly #MumbaiTerrorAttacks, in which a Pakistan-based terror group launched 12 coordinated shooting and bombing attacks over four days, killing over 170. Targets included the @TajMahalMumbai and the Jewish Chabad House. #NeverForget

Texans Put 'Welcome To Texas' Signs Around Oklahoma So Californians Will Move There Instead

And why

@ProgrammerDude

Sorry for the odd title. It refers to the pedagogical pattern Three Bears, which explains why I tried to solve the problem in SQLite.

@_sh4 I can't stop myself from reading RWRI as रेवडी.

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@henryjwallis @Jed_Trott The language i mentioned @PyretLang was written by the same group that wrote HTDP and are Schemers

See:

Prolog is also a good choice if one is trying to exercise the "logic" part more.

New – Code Signing, a Trust and Integrity Control for AWS Lambda – only signed code packages from trusted publishers can run in your Lambda functions + code has not been altered since signing super interesting post by @channyun #AWS #Security #Serverless

@hamsanandi @talekaayi @mankuthimma @hpnadig likely FB:

"Facebook and other advertisers, Apple says, gather data on users even when they’re not using Facebook."

et voilà ! Cool design

"DevTerm is a post-modern, digital minimalist lifestyle.
The A5 notebook size integrates complete PC functions, a 6.8-inch ultra-wide screen, classic QWERTY keyboard, high-speed wireless, long battery life, & includes a printer"

@btbytes @hamsanandi @talekaayi @hpnadig

@lzsthw since you are into Nim these days, consider their forum software (uses only nim and sqlite, IIRC), that powers . source:

@lzsthw since you are into Nim these days, consider their forum software (uses only nim and sqlite, IIRC), that powers . source:

If you've ever watched a political debate on TV, you may wonder what the point is. Nyaya philosophers were big proponents of debate, but not the kind you see on network TV. Episode 6 of Sutras (and Stuff), "Debating" is now available:

Another Asian parent screamed, “First you blame white people, now you blame us!? Grow up! Study harder or go home!”

"The American Dream is best captured in how people talk about the future, especially for their kids. While most working class Americans see their children’s future as dimmer than their own, working class immigrants see it as brighter." @Chris_arnade

This is a very well written article. Worth your time. For your convenience you can read it in parts ( the article is divided into 3 parts)

RT pls

This is @BharathPM_ 's work

There are very few editors that allow you think in terms of work flow like that. The only other editor that I found interesting in this regard was but that feels like spreading mulch in your frontyard with a spoon.

So many amazing things about this culture only makes the mistery of it's collapse more intriguing

hell if this isn't the best mascot for a programing language I've ever seen

We now have a map of currently infections and total infected by county. Check it out:

The British routinely exiled rulers of territories they had conquered to distant lands. Bahadur Shah Zafar was exiled to Rangoon, Burma in 1857. King Thibaw of Ava (Burma), Queen Supalayat & 4 daughters arrived in exile to Ratnagiri (Maharashtra) in 1886.

@btbytes @calm_sutra Not quite, But the reference is this one:

What does it cost to built a system that can serve 2M requests in an hour? Join me and @pigol1 today evening for the first episode of Scaling from The First Principles series. This is one of the case studies that we will discuss. #teaser

@rootconf

This is actually very nice:
Wolf distribution in Italy from 1900 to 2020
Source: