dilawar

16 ms·

211.
by dilawar 3y ago
Ah, the "achaar". So wrongly translated as "pickle". In my village (Ganges plain, North India), making achaar was a significant seasonal community event. When mangoes were small, we used to wait for heavy winds during ea
212.
Nature to retract major Ranga Dias superconductivity paper(thehindu.com)
2 points by dilawar 3y ago|0 comments
213.
by dilawar 3y ago
We'll borrow the work from future to keep people busy. There will always be plenty of work. IlIn addition to organic vs other food, there will be stall of human grown vs machine grown food etc etc.. When first tractor arrived in my vil
214.
by dilawar 3y ago
+1. Before I could understand benefits of Rist, I was sold on cargo.
215.
by dilawar 3y ago
Pizza delivery is also casteless!
216.
by dilawar 3y ago
Wow! I once built p0f on windows using msys2. But couldn't get the sockets to work. Without support for linux socket, p0f can not run as server and support queries. I should definately try this sometimes.
217.
Why does the USA use 110V and UK use 230-240V? (2014)(electronics.stackexchange.com)
207 points by dilawar 3y ago|743 comments
218.
by dilawar 3y ago
I had a digital design course. The instructor hated verilog and preferred VHDL for reason that didn't make much sense to me those days. There was only one VHDL compiler available that time called ghdl which worked fine for course. Ther
219.
Protecting Competition Is a Vital Goal(nytimes.com)
2 points by dilawar 3y ago|0 comments
220.
by dilawar 3y ago
> Apple told me it would cost 2300$ to fix it They are probably going to keep the laptop in ICU for a few days post key replacement.
221.
Carbon credit speculators could lose billions as offsets deemed ‘worthless’(theguardian.com)
10 points by dilawar 3y ago|0 comments
222.
by dilawar 3y ago
Though I still feel that life is long, but years have started feeling significantly shorter. I hope that compounding effect of life long investments kicks in soon to compensate.
223.
by dilawar 3y ago
Why stop here: your are Earthling, your wife is Earthling.
224.
by dilawar 3y ago
Finding a set of mututally orthogonal vectors. For a given sparsity, after a large enough dimention, two randomly chosen vector will almost always be orthogonal.
225.
A valence switch in the brain that makes mammals eat more in cold(nature.com)
6 points by dilawar 3y ago|0 comments
226.
by dilawar 3y ago
Thanks you. Nice to see a condensed history of Mathematics in it. First non-fiction book that I read cover to cover was a little book in college library called "the history of numbers" (If I remember it correctly). Somehow I reall
227.
The British Once Built a 1,100-Mile Hedge Through the Middle of India(atlasobscura.com)
2 points by dilawar 3y ago|0 comments
228.
Vice blocked news stories that could offend Saudi Arabia, insiders say(theguardian.com)
14 points by dilawar 3y ago|3 comments
229.
by dilawar 3y ago
"Its a human nature to mislead others, sometimes knowingly." I read this line in an anthropology book. A similarly non-cynical approach towards your fellow is "trust but verify".
230.
by dilawar 3y ago
I was wondering what causing this heat globally, lately!
231.
by dilawar 3y ago
I thoroghly enjoyed the anime "Record of Ragnarok" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_of_Ragnarok ). Shiva loved dancing (along with his brother Rudra). He is reimagined very well. Buddha is imagined a bit
232.
by dilawar 3y ago
I am not American. I didn't want this comment to be seen through Pro-Blah and Pro-Bluh lense. I am going to delete it.
233.
by dilawar 3y ago
__deleted__
234.
Workers are less productive when working from home(nber.org)
2 points by dilawar 3y ago|0 comments
235.
by dilawar 3y ago
> The Eternal Meeting Sounds like awesome Futurama or Black Mirror episode.
236.
by dilawar 3y ago
Keep the managers working from home and get all devs to the office?
237.
Threat actors abuse Google AMP for evasive phishing attacks(bleepingcomputer.com)
4 points by dilawar 3y ago|0 comments
238.
by dilawar 3y ago
I find zero-, positive-, and negative- sum games classification more informative. I guess the negative sum or zero sum cult are oppressive while the positive sum cults are tolerable? Rich are definitely getting richer and it is not so bad a
239.
by dilawar 3y ago
Boy, this modern obsession with IQ is no less intense than old Indian obsession with purity. The fact that IQ can't be measured or even defined any better than purity does not take the force away. Fortunately, IQ based society looks le
240.
by dilawar 3y ago
I liked a few results. . For example, smooth analysis by Spielman showed why so many algorithms works very well in practice even though their worst case complexity is terrible e.g. simplex method. Second, concave-convex optimization shows t

More ›