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by msravi 3y ago
> I certainly consider Julia to be a Lisp Can you elaborate some more on this? My worldview assumed that a lisp used a list as a primary code/data structure and Julia doesn't seem to be doing that... Of course it does provide a
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by msravi 3y ago
In vim, :%!sort... does the trick.
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> She had taken the toughest classes, made the highest grades > She was not admitted because her SAT score was 10 points below our threshold > ...we admitted three other kids from that school who had slightly lower grades, less rig
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College Admission Is Not Fair(sites.gatech.edu)
3 points by msravi 3y ago|2 comments
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First images of the moon captured by ISRO's Chandrayaan-3(twitter.com)
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by msravi 3y ago
Related discussion regarding cloudflare dns (1.1.1.1) being blocked by archive.is for not passing along EDNS information to archive's recursive resolver[0] 0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36970702
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by msravi 3y ago
Nextdns: How we made DNS both fast and private with ECS[0] Cloudflare sends the closest city from where the request was made which ought to be sufficient to optimize for a cdn I guess? Appears that archive.is doesn't have a locus stand
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How we made DNS both fast and private with ECS (2019)(medium.com)
3 points by msravi 3y ago|1 comments
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by msravi 3y ago
Also configure fail2ban and enable it for ssh. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-prot...
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by msravi 3y ago
Error Bounds for Convolutional Codes and an Asymptotically Optimum Decoding Algorithm [0] Also known as the Viterbi algorithm. Every digital communication device in existence today most likely has an implementation of it. Later proved optim
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by msravi 3y ago
From the article: > It does not matter if they grow up in foster care or a two-parent family. But it does! Very much. I just don't understand why the US tries everything other than fixing the most glaring cause. Lots of problems can
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by msravi 3y ago
Since this seems to be such a common occurrence, why haven't databases evolved to maintain some limited form of history that can be rolled back? Have no idea of the complexity, so forgive me if that sounds daft.
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by msravi 3y ago
Indeed! I think elecrical engineers cover the largest "area" in today's engineering landscape in terms of both breadth and depth, encompassing applied physics, math, and cs. An electrical engineer can understand and potential
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by msravi 3y ago
Of all the articles on the instant payment service, this one is simultaneously the most honest and hilarious ( https://www.wsj.com/articles/banks-newest-fed-headache-nonst... ) > FedNow could destabilize banks’ relian
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by msravi 3y ago
Canon, I guess? The Canon MF4150 that I bought some 15 years ago is still humming along well, and doesn't mind using third-party toners. No idea how they are now though.
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by msravi 3y ago
Twitter unambiguously separates out the feed of people you're following and the algorithmic feed ("For you") in separate tabs (plus you can pin separate lists as tabs). It also opens up the feed you last used when you open a
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by msravi 3y ago
Gitjournal used to make a lot of stuff (including things like rendering math equations) subscription-only, which was sufficiently off-putting. I just looked at it again, and I think they've gotten rid of the subscription and made it a
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by msravi 3y ago
Noteless on Android works well with Notable
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Not saying that text format is the one true way - but I find it much more convenient to browse/read/search for notes than reading from a database.
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I tried many note-taking apps and finally settled on Notable[0]. It's simple and you can point it to a folder with markdown files and attachments. Plus, you can just sync the folder using any syncing service, and use Noteless[1] on And
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by msravi 3y ago
So far, in this thread (in no particular order): - [Jekyll]( https://jekyllrb.com/ ) - [Hugo Book]( https://github.com/alex-shpak/hugo-book ) - [MdBook]( https://rust-lang.github.io/mdBook&#
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by msravi 3y ago
I use hugo with the book theme ( https://github.com/alex-shpak/hugo-book ). It takes a bit of getting used to (if you're not familiar with hugo) but after that it's pretty good with all the flexibility that hug
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by msravi 3y ago
So does this sometimes reach an unsolvable state? I have a captcha whose digits sum up to 24, a condition that all digits should sum up to 25, and the best chess move is Ne6+ (accepted), but there's no way to get all digits to sum to 2
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by msravi 3y ago
Seems to be mac-only. Please just have the README state that someplace. Not apparent at all.
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Ulaa Browser(ulaa.com)
2 points by msravi 3y ago|0 comments
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India Stack(economist.com)
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by msravi 3y ago
This is false: https://twitter.com/deepakshenoy/status/1664098996242006017?...
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by msravi 3y ago
I don't know. It's true that simpler code is more maintainable and all that. But what happens to the fun and joy of coding? You remove the fun part, and you're left with dry processes and mind-numbing toil that suck the joy o
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by msravi 3y ago
I've found tldr ( https://tldr.sh/ ) very useful for quick lookups - basically gives examples with short descriptions, which is very often mostly what's needed.
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Relevant clip: https://twitter.com/malikakas/status/1659702922748493825?s=2... Full recording: https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1OyKAVBzMnOGb?s=20

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