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There are a bunch of sites that I've used for many years. They are not fancy, they are not flashy, but my work would be much harder without them. Big shoutout to today, which I realized I've been using since at least 2012.

This week 75 years ago Harry Truman learned that the Japanese were trying to surrender: Churchill told him that Emperor Hirohito was "asking for peace." Nonetheless the president proceeded with the atomic bombing of Japan. From his diary.

Great to see that they are promoting the right food - free from refined oil, processed sugar, A1 milk and table salt.

Instead, they are using desi cow milk (A2 from Bos Indicus), jaggery, rock salt and cold-pressed coconut oil.

"all-person-of-colour" drama....

What a classic Guardian way to describe a story set in India

This would be most welcome.

Fresh off a trip to the South China Sea, the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz "is likely to conduct a drill with Indian Navy's off the coast of Andaman & Nicobar island."

One of the better accounts of the negotiation of the #India-US nuclear accord is by then-Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran in his memoir "How India Sees the World." I have not seen elsewhere this inside story from a George Bush-Manmohan Singh dinner in 2008.

@btbytes longer version is Haidt’s Happiness Hypothesis, Coddling of American Mind books

@btbytes

@NeuroYogacara One late source is Asaṅga's visual bio (19th c.):

His cave meditation is featured in the ↗️ corner while the dog (Maitreya) is featured in the ↙️ corner.

Part of a 9-piece set depicting "Six Ornaments and Two Excellent Ones of the Southern Continent."

Six of the most commonly used active ingredients in sunscreen are absorbed into the bloodstream at concentrations far greater than the FDA’s safety threshold

If you need sun protection, there are far better ways

geoiplookup $( dig +short MX ) # What country does your email flow through? Is it was you expected? Change in this command to the domain you use.

The #IEEE Information Theory Society is proud to present The Bit Player (@BitPlayerMovie), the first feature documentary about the father of the information age, #ClaudeShannon.
Now available on Amazon Prime Video:
#TheBitPlayer

Site Update: Rewrite in Rust

#rust

Imagine explaining to future generations that we used to replace native text with Flash widgets powered by piles of JS to get custom fonts to "work" on websites

The key is making sure you find a company culture that is supportive and encouraging for women in security roles and their career growth. Interview the organizations as they’re interviewing you to ensure that you will be in a great place when you land.

TIL Skia has an embedded Forth interpreter for scripting.

I wrote a blog post on how to write a kernel driver with Rust:

Kubernetes IS practical and useful. All I need is a dozen engineers and a 20million USD budget/year to pay for engineers to customize it and maintain it, and another 20 million to pay the engineers to use it :)

This is my friend's son, wonderfully reciting the sankshipta #Ramayana from Valmiki Ramayana Balakanda. Do listen.

This is so nostalgic. Reminds of the Sun? desktops running CAD software at my first workplace in early '00s.

Not exactly this, but I've been using "MaXX interactive desktop"
on Linux and it is so awesome.

A friend who works in oil exploration tells me a deep sea well may cost ~50 mill to drill, & has a 1 in 10 chance of working

The degree of systematized risk tolerance is astounding

[Any misunderstandings mine - gist is right, details may be wrong, cf eg ]

@tomcritchlow I haven’t tried it myself yet, but @WaldenPondZine looks interesting!

@tomcritchlow Or Newspaper Club.

I've queued up "Aeropress Movie" on Amazon Prime -

"Modern-day visitors to the site of Merv in southern Turkmenistan can still tour its dusty, windswept remains. Like Curzon, they might struggle to imagine the true size, density and lushness of one of the world’s greatest vanished cities."

"I want to live happily in a world I don't understand." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in Antifragile

Alan Adler invented Aeropress - one of the most popular ways of brewing single serve coffee (I've been using it for 9 years) when he was in his 60s. Great demonstration video.

Apologies never count when they are driven by self-interest; they count only when they are voluntary, spontaneous, and self-motivated.

Apologies never count when they are driven by fear or self-interest; they count only when they are voluntary, spontaneous, and self-motivated.

Made in @nim_lang with game framework

It’s super nice outside so naturally I’m catching up on Pollen Cookbook writing () and listening to Eliot Fisk

ಶ್ರೀ ಶತಾವಧಾನಿ ಗಣೇಶರ 'ಭಾರತೀಯ ಕ್ಷಾತ್ರಪರಂಪರೆ', ಕನ್ನಡ ಅರ್ಥವಾಗೋರೆಲ್ಲ ಕೇಳಲೇಬೇಕಾದ ಅದ್ಭುತ ಸರಣಿ.

BCG vaccination and reduction of #COVID19 mortality? @PNASNews A new, extensive global analysis addressing confounders provides support for protection, by @Luis_Escobar_VT and colleagues

Bar Joke
(click for full comic)
#smbc #hiveworks

With nearly-sincere apologies to @mungowitz and the economics profession in general.

I wrote a thing.

I think it’s really important.

There’s a TLDR at the beginning.

I spent over a week trying get the tone and details right.

I’m offering bounties for anything that’s untrue or unfair.

When Companies Wielded the Power of States

This Tamizh bhajan is melodious...✨✨🙏
முத்தை தரு பத்தி திரு!😊

Not a big fan of cartoon info documentaries on Youtube (mostly too simplistic), but this one by an Indian guy with a focus on Indian business scandals and major episodes is really funny and detailed :

Today I Learned

Most underhyped tech CEO? Might have to be Adobe's Shantanu Narayen. $ADBE valued at $220B, up roughly $200B from when he took over. Short list of CEOs who have overseen +$200B value increase at a software co:

1. Satya Nadella
2. Shantanu Narayen

Sigh puts K on long list of new cool programming tech to learn about

RT @standupmaths: Love it. This is kind of absolute units I want to see in /r/memes

@btbytes @CITYOFCARMELIN See page 194

The Traveling Salesman Problem approximation ratio hasn't improved from 3/2 since 1976, via MST + Minimum-Weight Perfect Matching + Eulerian Shortcuts.

The 3/2 barrier has been broken after 44 years! The abstract is one sentence, the paper is 85 pages 🤣

OK good. Namespacing structured logs is a thing. I called it "logkey" before I looked up this "best practice"