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by dilawar 6y ago
I grew up in a village in India and snakes are no strangers. People do kill snakes (also worship them on a certain day of year) if they get into the house but usually they try to sho them away towards the fields. The usual experience is tha
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by dilawar 6y ago
Good plot for Rick and Morty. Wait, they already did it.
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by dilawar 6y ago
Well said.
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by dilawar 6y ago
Every iteration under Moore laws gets costlier (roughly by 1 order of magnitude costly than the previous iteration, iirc). So sooner of later, well run out of money evn if theoretical potential remains to be exploited. And current status of
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by dilawar 6y ago
Among existing alternatives such as Ubuntu LTS, Debian, openSUSE, etc. which is the least likely to meet the CentOS fate (I mean acquired by a large corporation)?
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by dilawar 6y ago
I was out of the loop when IBM acquired RHEL. IBM strikes again. I've been experimenting with openSUSE lately. So far so good. Only if zypper can download packages in parallel, I don't have to wait for eons to build images.
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by dilawar 6y ago
Now the truth is finally out there, when can I expect a LinkedIn request?
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by dilawar 6y ago
I have been using openSUSE. It's been pretty stable on the laptop. On laptop, I use the Tumbleweed (rolling release) and 15.1 or 15.2 on servers. Give it a try.
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CentOS is dead, long live CentOS Stream(lwn.net)
56 points by dilawar 6y ago|2 comments
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by dilawar 6y ago
Wow! I admire American democracy, it's institutions especially courts are super functional. In India, this is unthinkable. District courts won't go against even the state chief ministers. And the supreme court has been showing its
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by dilawar 6y ago
I am part of colorblind groups. People loves mixing green and red in scientific plots in papers I read. It's effing irritating. 10% is not such a small number, we are many more than IE users.
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by dilawar 6y ago
Primary education and public health us possibly the biggest scam but they would come pretty close. Do they have connections with ruling party?
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Ex-Facebook Employee Made “Scathing Revelations”: Delhi Assembly Panel(ndtv.com)
1 points by dilawar 6y ago|0 comments
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by dilawar 6y ago
Seems like after Facebook invested in Reliance, they got the government approval .
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by dilawar 6y ago
These days I don't use mutt much because I need to mark some emails as 'remind me later' and bluemail and gmail offers this functionality. Is there a mutt alternative?
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by dilawar 6y ago
I think these packages contains pdf as well which makes the whole texlive installation over 1gb. Even without pdf, texlive is pretty big. I don't think there is a way around it. You can use a docker image to isolate pandoc from the sys
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by dilawar 6y ago
Interesting that one volcano eruption can fluctuate weather patterns so much.
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Why Facebook users might want to show their true colours(nature.com)
1 points by dilawar 6y ago|0 comments
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by dilawar 6y ago
This is a fantastic piece of news.
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by dilawar 6y ago
Only annotations which can be checked by mypy or other linters. I think cpython doesn't check them at runtime.
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Now What? (2018)(pni.princeton.edu)
1 points by dilawar 6y ago|0 comments
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Expert programmers have fine-tuned cortical representations of source code
5 points by dilawar 7y ago|0 comments
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Deep Learning for Symbolic Mathematics(arxiv.org)
6 points by dilawar 7y ago|0 comments
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by dilawar 7y ago
I mostly use DDG but often switch to google whenever DDG does not return 'good' results. Especially on tech topics and literature search Google results are far superior.
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by dilawar 7y ago
My congratulations! It's one of the few (probably only) indian states with an eye on the long term future. Rest have given to sound bytes.
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PlantUML in a nutshell(plantuml.com)
150 points by dilawar 7y ago|48 comments
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Xkcd: What is dark-matter and dark-energy?(xkcd.com)
5 points by dilawar 7y ago|0 comments
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by dilawar 7y ago
It's hard to tell apart physics and SciFi these days. Or may be it's just me.
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by dilawar 7y ago
How's was your experience in writing iOS and Android app in Cordova? I have a small community app written in Cordova+f7+vue2 which works pretty well on Android. I want to port it to iOS now as there is some demand. I also want to add p
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by dilawar 7y ago
I wonder if a gone lost hundreds of years ago is somehow _responsible_, then why heart attack related death mostly occured in last 50 years?

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