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Reddit has taken the important step of eliminating cost-of-living adjustments for US remote workers. Now you can get SF wages without paying SF prices!

Spent last night learning more Nim and was able to do a few of the examples from the sdl2_nim project:

Amazingly, all of this worked on OSX and Windows and the only real issue was getting the stupid weird SDL2 distribution to work on windows.

Thoughts:

What I've been reading - some fresh, fun books by @alexbellos and @rorysutherland
(I've figured out Rory's rule for bashing economists: if it's insightful, by definition it can't be economics...)

Do check out this piece by the better half.

Amazon has the first four books of Winston Churchill's history of WWII for $3 each. (The last two are still at full price)

"perception of an Asian advantage in this pandemic often falls prey to essentialist thinking...somehow the East is doing things the West could never do...largely down to profound differences in values, politics and culture..."

Spoiler: that's not true.

See this art celebrating navaratri by my niece @sketchesandsongs

Kannada in Alexandria - So far, seven Kannada words have been traced, six in the ancient Greek plays and one in the library in Egypt.

Sanskrit Untranslatable 16

पुरोहित purohita is not priest.

In its root sense it refers to ‘the one who is placed in front’ or ‘the leader’ or ‘the director’ or ‘the chief in front’.

To learn more visit:

#sanskrituntranslatable

@btbytes Hi Pradeep, our partners in India are happy to assist. To reach a specialist, please follow the link below and fill out the contact request form. They will then reach out to you within 2 business days. Thanks. ^Johnny

#Charukesi - Strings Attached - Dr. Jayanthi Kumaresh & Shri R Kumaresh via @YouTube #saraswathiveena

@vboykis @lgoerl Have you see this:

They're missing the third type, "California fridge." It's empty because all your food spoiled in the latest power shutoff.

While @venkat_s shares top new #Java language features, @trisha_gee will jump right after that and show how to use and be productive with them on @intellijidea.

You can't miss this segway, starting at 9:30am Pacific Time today.

#JDConf Live at

RT @chetanp: The argument for native desktop applications and why the market for such applications continues to expand. Terrific post from Sketch:

"ran the data through the Urban Institute’s Spatial Equity Data tool and found broken ice cream machines skewed Black and low-income."

You needed a fucking computer to show you that? The obvious now isn't obvious without BIG DATA

Nobody thinks of vegetables as endangered. Who hasn't had yummy vangibath featuring a popular native veggie- the long green Eeranagere brinjal (Mysore badnekai)?

There are 100's more local varieties that need preserving. Any urban gardeners willing?

🌮 50 active restaurants on now

Yesterday a 🇳🇮 Nicaraguan blog wrote about it and now lots of Spanish-language menus showing up

Next:

• start adding the first paid upsells to see what they pay for
• email current users what to change/fix/improve/add

He said the National Mission for Manuscripts (NAMAMI), set up in 2003, has listed just 3.5 million manuscripts out of the estimated 40 million in India...

The Atlantic slave trade is well known, but the Portuguese also traded in African (& even Indian) slaves in the Indian Ocean. Some of the spirit shrines of these African slaves (called Kappiri) have survived in Kerala:

Eggos: A new unikernel on the scene written in Go. The more the merrier if you ask me.

Nagara: An ancient Indo-Dionysiac Metropolis via @SundayGuardian

Name sites, Google featured snippet: Nirvansh is a Sanskrit/Hindu name for boys meaning “bliss, liberation”.

Facts: The Sanskrit word ‘nirvaṃśa’ (निर्वंश) means “having no family, childless, alone” or “without family, without descendants”.

Another #kunāma branded as a #sunāma.

Imagine burning $2 billion dollars of VC funding in 6 months

That's $10 million per day

$455,000 per hour

$7,589 per minute

$126 per second

Need to figure out your effective permissions on AWS? This flowchart spells out how IAM determines those:

@JeffreyKotyk Interestingly, a certain Jaina astrologer named Sugrīva-muni is considered to be the originator of the Āya-praśna-praṇālī of Jaina Jyotiṣa (Praśna-śāstra) as well as the author of three texts: Āyapraśnatilaka, Praśnaratna, and Āyasadbhāva.

(Source: )

Evrone did an interview with me about Rust, Python, my Open Source stuff and a few more things.

Thailand protests: 'My father is blinded by his love for the monarchy' - BBC News
So the hit pieces have started to arrive. It is happens, this will be a tragedy greater than the fall of the Nepalese monarchy.

@vboykis Zero-based indexing was invented after one-based indexing. So it was a deliberate choice someone made. In 2013 a blogger found the guy who originally made that choice & asked why he did it. Turns out it was protection against an arsehole with a yacht.

how cute are these illustrations!

link to the insta

"At the age of 12, Ganpati Patil ran into a man already five times his age. Patil walked 28 kilometres from Siddhanerli to Nipani in present-day Karnataka – to listen to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi speak. It changed his life."

Interesting way to compare two things: "Mediocre X is better than mediocre Y".

The proponents of Y resort to pointing out (often with merit) why it is better in the hands of experts.

The newcomer benefits by being better in the mediocre range.

via

@PramilaJayapal
Please learn what your name "Actually" means

Anyone have thoughts on having a personal/desktop search engine for (re)discovering all the PDFs/books they have on their system.

This is what I'm thinking:

In the light of Regeneron’s monoclonal antibody treatment becoming the first FDA approved treatment for Ebola, a look at the scientist from DRC who pioneered the use of such treatments.
Regeneron is working on a similar treatment for Covid-19.