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Some form of this happened in WWII of course, in which either willingly (or not) industry got behind the war effort in short order.

Of course, elites now are not the elites then, never mind the presidents.

@bryandaniellowe @BuhrmanKristina Mcevilley touches on this in The Shape of Ancient Thought. Sexagesimal numerology, apparently Mesopotamian in origin, appears throughout Indian literature as a whole. The ecliptic was also divided into 108 pādas. See p. 15 here:

@razibkhan This is supposed to be a v good book

A NYE message from Osho.

“There is no tomorrow”

My current sweeping theory about Israel's vaccination triumph is that the soft West just doesn't know how to think in terms of a total wartime mobilization anymore, and Israel alone has maintained that willful cohesion coupled with strategic planning.

This is a great read about how python is replacing excel in the reinsurance industry:

Happy New Year (almost)!

I finally figured out how to record my own HD Nest camera video without a subscription.

MP4 files on disk? Done.

🤖 Written in .NET
🌎 Using WebSockets
🧬 Heavy use of protocol buffers

Blog post:

TIL the founder of Arm & Hammer was a guy called... Armand Hammer.

Docker Vs Podman. A whole new revolution of… | by Chetansingh Rajput | TechnoPanti | Medium #podman #docker

Here's what I said in 2011: . This was an inflection point of early adopters not only leaving GCP, but never coming back.

GCP ppl in charge didn't seem to care (or had no space to care) on how this would impact a decade-long strategy. cc
@MohapatraHemant

I was an early Google App Engine adopter in 2009. Built a business on it.

In 2011, Google made drastic pricing changes out of the blue w a 30-day notice. My bill jumped 15x.

Google screwed the earliest adopters then were surprised no one trusted them.

@SuspiciousPleb I learnt a lot about that by reading this treasury document - They are also accurate about many other linguistic/cultural things.. well done document.

@manunbhat No. It is a Sanskrit Champu poem.

The book was release last week and the book is beautifully introduced here starting at time 1:35:33 in the link. Do listen.

RT @theolognion: Dark mode editors yield better software than static typing

Bengaluru fans, this book is for you!

Bengaluru - its seasons, sights, festivals and more as seen through the eyes of the great poet Shathavadhani Dr. R Ganesh!

Not to be missed!

[Book is in Sanskrit]

Buy your copy here:

Wow! 40% of the sandalwood oil in the world market comes from Western Australia of all places.

OCaml 1.07 sources compiled fine with OCaml 4.05, 20 years later.

SerenityOS PR: LibTTF: Finish work started by Srimanta Barua (by sunverwerth)

TrueType font support is coming to SerenityOS 🤩🔤🐞

India's daily new Covid cases are now at 16k/day. While a second wave is always a danger, I think we can heave a collective sign of relief. Almost all states now seeing sharp declines.

I'll put it right next to the comments about where one person called me a dynamic language shill and another called me a static language shill. That's right, I get paid by both sides!

Ten years ago, I read @ramit's book, 'I Will Teach You To Be Rich'.

One key thing stuck with me:

Saving is about percentages, not dollars.

.1% negotiated off your home mortgage or car loan interest is 10x more impactful than cutting out $4 lattes.

“India and the Silk Roads
The History of a Trading World” - by Jagjeet Lally (Hurst 2021)

Ah, I forgot that some of the people who get permanently stuck at the Senior Engineer level get very offended when told there’s a whole level of understanding they simply lack because there are no quantitative benchmarks. :)

I just completed all 25 days of Advent of Code 2020! #AdventOfCode

The South Park episode "Cartmanland" is (not kidding) relevant to the vaccine rollout. Human beings interpret scarcity in resource allocation as a sign of value -- the fact that the vaccine is hard to get may increase willingness to be inoculated.

RT @frm1025: System design explains the world. A beautiful piece by @apenwarr touching on hierarchies, decentralization, the second-system effect, the innovator's dilemma, and more!

Nadir Ali 1936-2020, RIP

"Turkey’s Armenian, Greek and Assyrian communities disappeared as a result of a staggered campaign of genocide beginning in 1894, perpetrated against them by their Muslim neighbors. By 1924, the Christian communities of Turkey ... had been destroyed."

@paulportesi not true it appears:

It's intriguing to me how, if the values or ideas of religion or the military ever make it to certain rarefied media heights, they always seem to validate the existing worldview. Uncanny really.

TIL In 17th century Virginia, felons were publicly branded, but if the felon were wealthy, the brand was a "cold iron" so as to leave no lasting mark on his reputation.

"Within hours, scientists in Thailand used the instructions to deploy a new test.

The CDC would not roll out one that worked for 46 more days."

Read every word of this on American institutional failure.

Humans domesticated the yeast, and caused most bread strains, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, to diverge into two distinct groups: one used in large-scale, industrial bread-making and one used in artisanal sourdough bread 🥖

@austin_rief @APompliano @mariodgabriele Many of the top people I’ve studied have found their edge by putting their faith in one big idea. They’ve committed to it, and studied it so much that its implications have become second nature.

“Take a simple idea and take it seriously.”— Charlie Munger

The day has come, I've started a blog.

"You can't forgive [ruling classes] for not knowing the history of our country, for any of these politicians to just think that you can take 800 years of our experience & put it on a CD & give it to Mr Maliki in Iraq and saying to them just plug this in"

Just bought Ashwin's (@trollpwnde) bird calendar -- which also comes with Kannada names of birds.

Hello everyone! :) I am continuing the yearly ritual of making a 2021 desk calendar featuring bird photos I took. This time, it has a lot of changes! If you are interested, please order the calendar here Please spread the word! Thank you! :) #Calendar2021

2021 is Year of the Ox 牛. "Oxen Sensitive to Spicy Food, from the series Comical Twelve Signs of the Zodiac" (道化十二支からしききの牛). Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861).

India's 'Pickle Queen' Preserves Everything, Including the Past

Some notes on the 'karmanyevadhikaraste....' shloka of the Gita

A Bhagavadgeeta book I am forever grateful to is the @ACKComics . An amazing version that keeps the interest of any kid. A version that can be told as a bed time story to kids.

Indian public health authorities taking no chances with “Britishers carrying mutant strains @Neoavatara @venkmurthy @purviparwani

@ShriramKMurthi @atishayokti @joyopal Walter Kaufmann.. with IU Bloomington connection..

@IamMaya00