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by msravi 4y ago
Um, no, they don't. They describe a jaati system, and a varna system, both of which do not take the same meaning as caste. The british conflated the two, and invented caste. The jaati system was a system of hereditary professiona
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I still use vifm as a filemanager a lot, and couldn't do without it. Bulk renaming of files, moving and categorizing downloaded files (documents, books, music, ...). A lot of stuff that I download gets cleaned up periodically unless it
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I use Notable on Linux and Noteless on Android, with Foldersync for automatically syncing. I tried Obsidian, and prefer Noteless' interface, where I can see all notes just reverse sorted by modification time. Both have a tag view. In a
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This is great, thank you! Just a couple of minor changes to handle softlinks to folders... function fcd() { local dir; while true; do # exit with ^D dir="$(ls -a1F | grep '[/@]$' | grep -v &#x2
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Wow! Had no clue this was possible! Thank you!
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> regulatory regime that included up to 300 hours of obligatory training > quota of taxi licences that in some cities changed hands for up to €250,000 > Macron... embrace the new digital economy and shake up France’s rigid labour m
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Ok, providing a little context here about how this played out. 1. A group of Hindu women petition a court for the right to (continue) worship at (what is now) the Gyanvapi mosque 2. The court orders that a survey of the mosque be carried ou
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The digital infrastructure built by the Indian government in the last few years has been unparalleled. Bank accounts, UPI, and direct benefits transfer - these have been the bedrock on which this growth is being seen, and finally acknowledg
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India is likely to be the world’s fastest-growing big economy this year(economist.com)
2 points by msravi 4y ago|2 comments
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I use Geogebra to draw, and then export as PGF/TikZ. You can then edit the code to fine-tune or make any modifications. Works very well. The advantage is that you can also include plots in the figures along with SVG. Not sure if Inksca
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by msravi 4y ago
A couple of years ago, there used to be a mastodon instance called "Inditoot" that started to gain traction with an Indian userbase. The instance moderator's approach to moderating content was basically that as long as a post
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by msravi 5y ago
Yes. Configuring DoH in firefox will make it bypass the OS configured DNS (usually advertised by your router).
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I use pihole configured with nextdns DoH as primary upstream server and cloudflare as backup. So all devices connected to the network end up using DoH. Works very well. In addition, if you configure tailscale on your mobole devices, they ca
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GenieFramework – Build web applications with Julia(genieframework.com)
207 points by msravi 5y ago|43 comments
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by msravi 5y ago
> I would say propaganda requires intent - usually to achieve a political aim at the behest of the government. This is most certainly present, and is glaringly obvious when you're seeing events unfold firsthand and look at the repor
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by msravi 5y ago
Oh, the irony! As an Indian, reading nytimes and bbc articles about India was a real eye opener on how much propaganda is passed off as 'opinion' and 'news' in the western press. I mean, the confidence and elan with whic
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Why I am no longer a tenured professor(nationalpost.com)
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Can someone knowledgeable explain this? > But the situation was only growing more dire. At the precise time of the third call, the frequency reached a critical threshold: 59.4 hertz. > Automated turbines across the state began spinnin
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by msravi 5y ago
Plumber is a new one for me. I always used to pronounce the 'b'. TIL!
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Sorry, should have been more specific. I was referring to the gnome calculator: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Calculator
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by msravi 5y ago
Somehow, it seems speedcrunch has a problem in dealing with big numbers. For example, I can do: (3(7^204+7^202+7^200)+7(3^204+3^200)-210) mod 10 in the calculator that comes with linux and get the right result (which is 7), but speedcrunch
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by msravi 5y ago
No, the Arabs didn't invent it. al-Khwarzimi, a Persian scholar, introduced it into the Arab world with his book: "On the Calculation with Hindu Numerals" around 820 CE. The Hindu Bakhshali manuscript carbon-dated to between
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by msravi 5y ago
Technical details: https://news.sophos.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/glupteba_... Pages 30-32 describe the command and control server update mechanism using blockchain.
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Nothing prevents a website from putting up ads relevant to its content, or ads that are generic enough that don't require tracking of their userbase's age/gender/marital status/what they had for lunch. But if websit
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by msravi 5y ago
Use cloudflare/nextdns DoH clients and set them to listen on some other port (like 5053/5153). Point the pihole "custom" upstream servers to 127.0.0.1#5053 and/or 127.0.0.1#5153 https://docs.pi-hole.net&#
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> https is more costly (in terms of network traffic and latency) than the current UDP-based protocol That's what I used to think. But somehow in practice, at least for me, using DoH seems to return responses much faster (DoH respons
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Somewhat related. If I use DNS-over-HTTPS with a nextdns edge server the response time is of the order of 10ms. With google 8.8.8.8 or nextdns 45.90.* it's about 130-140ms. Ever since I set up a local pihole with nextdns DoH as the ups
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That's how I learnt x86 assembly using MS-DOS and "debug" - which was a program that came with DOS. The proper assemblers at that time were Microsoft's MASM and Borland's TASM. With no access to those, the only opti
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For all you know, the whole world around you might be a figment of your big and complex imagination, and nothing you do would, in the end, affect it. So what actually matters, (in fact the only thing that matters) is your perception of th
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>> If I were to die from it, I see no advantage to a painless death over a painful death... Those minutes/hours/days spent experiencing pain do count. You speak as of the after-effects but make it seem that an advantage in l

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