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by bakul 5y ago
More commonly Shani is the harbinger of bad luck & retribution, which is why you’ll rarely see any Indian origin person named Shani. In a Hindu mythology Shani is the elder brother of Yama, the lord of death & justice. Sometime peop
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by bakul 5y ago
> I took the comment to be a refreshing dose of reality. This is how I meant it but I could have phrased it or presented it differently as this point got lost at least with the moderators and may be many more. Will try to be more careful
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by bakul 5y ago
I too don't think there is any "moral obligation" involved but I did feel it was perfectly fine to point out what I did. I quoted their "I work for MS" to provide the context for my comment, nothing more.
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by bakul 5y ago
> My argument has always been and still is...a language x written in language y cannot by definition be faster than language y. While this may be true in theory, in practice it is often not true as usually there are time constraints. Wor
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by bakul 5y ago
Just pointing out this (reality distortion) is a general phenomenon. Have seen the same in all big companies (& many small). As an employee you want the best for the company and you naturally imbibe the company culture and that is perfe
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by bakul 5y ago
How is running a bot to change copyright notices a /mistake/? > Full disclosure: I work for MS It is difficult to see the reality distortion field you are in from the inside.
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by bakul 5y ago
This may have to do with being relaxed, not really thinking about the problem at hand and letting your intuition take over. I have had experiences where working intensely on a problem, even for weeks, didn't solve it but walking away f
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by bakul 5y ago
> 1. Everyone agrees with that. And then they create a mess. They are generally unable to see the mess. One cannot learn without experiencing failure, and when one cannot see the failure, one cannot learn. Hence "early intervention&
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by bakul 5y ago
> My friend said "I can fix that" and fixed the bug and checked it in in two hours. The manager, astonished, asked him how he figured it out. He said "I didn't figure it out. I disassembled the object code using Walte
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by bakul 5y ago
Perhaps this will be a spur to invent a better mask? I believe fear will subside as over time most people tend to adjust to new realities.
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by bakul 5y ago
ed.
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by bakul 5y ago
The master-slave terminology is used outside of CS as well. For example in EE we have master-slave edge-triggered D or JK flip-flops. I don’t feel strongly either way about such word use but I am fine with renaming them too. The fact that
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by bakul 5y ago
what could go wrong, right?
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by bakul 5y ago
Could it be that schizophrenics are more likely to partake marijuana? Since it is a mental disorder and tends to run in families, the underlying genetics may predispose such people to marijuana, or marijuana may have a stronger effect on su
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by bakul 5y ago
Jugaad is very different from this sort of collusion.
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by bakul 5y ago
I don't know what you mean.
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by bakul 5y ago
Sanskrit has free word order. For example, "krishnam naro'shvam prashyati sundaram" -- the man sees the beautiful black horse. Here Krishnam == black, sundaram == beautiful. naro'sham is the combined form (sandhi) of n
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by bakul 5y ago
Didn’t Marvin Minsky come up with frames by 1974? Or are Clarisworks frames different?
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by bakul 6y ago
:-) :-)
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by bakul 6y ago
Surely the solution is to get female investors involved where this is a concern?
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by bakul 6y ago
could be the Balinese script as it seems (to me) to be less loopy than the Javanese script. Both are abugidas and their alphabets seem to be organized just like Devanagari and scripts for other Sanskrit derived languages. https:/&#x2F
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by bakul 6y ago
The V playground seems to be up and running.
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by bakul 6y ago
This is unlikely, given how many people are seeing this. And now the problem has gone away for me!
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by bakul 6y ago
I recall hardly any of the details now but IIRC I talked to the AT&T support person and they changed some settings. Looking at the settings now, I see in "Home Networks->Subnets & DHCP" the [public subnet mode] is on. I
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by bakul 6y ago
Some new data.... I ran the same script on two different machines connected via the same AT&T provided modem. Machine A is NATted, B uses a public address. A always gets the error within 50-60 fetches. B doesn't (I ran the test a n
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by bakul 6y ago
I see no errors running the same script from another host that doesn't go through at&t.
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by bakul 6y ago
The same here. It is always the 0x08 bit. (p-x, d-l, g-o etc.).
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by bakul 6y ago
You may wish to check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_classical_music
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by bakul 6y ago
His punishment should have been to work with the Indian Railway to design a better system that meets their requirements & their customers’ needs as equitably as possible.
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by bakul 6y ago
What is the limit on how much bandwidth you can push through on this board? Have you tried SCSI PCI cards? I am thinking CM4 will make a good platform for my old SCSI based SS4000 scanner!

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