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by qart 1y ago
As an Indian, I knew India would be pretty high up, but I would not have guessed topping the list. Here are some of the motivations I have heard over the decades, which I'm only relaying, not endorsing: * rampant corruption * rampant d
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by qart 1y ago
Just a few years ago, the buzzwords were "germicidal", "immunity boosting", "anti-bacterial", etc. for every damn thing, especially in India, where marketing can get away with bizarre claims.
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by qart 1y ago
The embedded world is really vast. If it's something safety critical, regulations won't allow it. But the regulations say nothing about all the test rigs you'll be building. IoT is another domain where people do whatever th
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by qart 1y ago
https://x.com/theliverdr/status/1908363713771425946 Again and again, this hepatologist makes his message clear: "Acetaminophen (Paracetamol) is the safest anti-fever and anti-pain medicine even among patients
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by qart 1y ago
James Cameron's view that we don't get sued for our influences, only for what we output: https://x.com/vitrupo/status/1910484076978725140
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by qart 2y ago
> Screen sharing works fine now What software did you use? I have to use Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Anydesk, and an onscreen keyboard. When I checked a couple of months ago, Anydesk wouldn't even launch. I have been dabbling with
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by qart 2y ago
I'm not American either. I think he means Executive Order 9066 signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_America...
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by qart 2y ago
As someone who is a curious outsider to Modelica, it piqued my interest a few years ago when I found out that this language lets you write equations more directly than most other programming languages. Take the ideal gas law, for example,
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by qart 2y ago
What's with the font? It seems to be flickering. Especially the headings. Is there a way to turn it off?
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by qart 2y ago
I don't think that has anything to do with the continent. People like Haruki Murakami and Liu Cixin have achieved immense reader-bases with their English translations.
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by qart 2y ago
It's definitely collusion. Why else would there be no mention of meld, kdiff3, bcompare, etc.? We need to file an anti-trust complaint.
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by qart 2y ago
Thankfully, the tenured professor version works in Julia like so: prod(1:63) For bigger numbers, factorial(n) = 1:n .|> BigInt |> prod
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by qart 2y ago
I wonder. In my experience, all Indian news media outlets (except two) hijack the clipboard. If you select and copy an entire paragraph, in your clipboard, you get only the first few words and a link to the article. While I hate it, and th
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by qart 2y ago
For some domains, like most software jobs, it might work. In India, you sometimes see children manning pharmacies. It's not because of child-labour, but because dad/mom is away and someone needs to look after the shop. India has l
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by qart 2y ago
CMake is a (not the ) correct answer according to the Ninja manual[1]. "Some explicit non-goals: convenient syntax for writing build files by hand. You should generate your ninja files using another program. This is how we can sideste
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by qart 3y ago
I write CUDA C++ for signal processing, not related to ML in any way. It's a hard requirement from my customer.
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by qart 3y ago
Yep. Same here. I'll get locked out of my bank account too.
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by qart 3y ago
I simply refuse to work with code written by people who have had a hundred such harebrained ideas. No luck needed, but thanks!
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by qart 3y ago
Lol Good luck working in a project where people have decided to create wrappers like you suggested.
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by qart 3y ago
Yes, the paper in the original post has a few examples. Julia uses expressions that are based on operators we use in regular arithmetic, even in plain Python. So, just ordinary operators instead of np.matmul, np.ling.expm, etc.
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by qart 3y ago
> Please note that cash payments are not at all popular in India and UPI is the most common means of digital payment. This is false. https://www.orfonline.org/research/indias-upi-market/ (article from last mont
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by qart 3y ago
We still have one cold-blooded mammal species around[1]. And a few marine fish species that are partially[2] or fully warm-blooded[3]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_mole-rat [2] https://en.wikipedi
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by qart 3y ago
Pickle is definitely the right word. Achar is a Persian loan word in Hindi. There's no good reason to use that as a standard term when writing in English. Both pickle and achar would sound alien to my great-grandparents, who spoke neit
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by qart 3y ago
Could you please elaborate on how you have hit the glass ceiling? I don't know much about workplaces in Canada. I can speak about India: at least in software, class does not play much of a role. Factories and older domains have more ri
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by qart 3y ago
As far as I know, the Deccan Traps played a major role in the previous mass extinction. Despite Wikipedia's exaggerated claims of it being "famous for the beds of fossils", Indian mythology, unlike Chinese and European mythol
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by qart 3y ago
I have been a Linux single-booter since at least 15 years, and have used a wide variety of DM/WM as my primaries for years. All my biases are in favour of Linux. I don't think I've ever had the mouse event delay issues that
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by qart 3y ago
It's still available in India for about 1$ per kg, MOQ 100kg. https://dir.indiamart.com/search.mp?ss=Trichloroethylene If it's so cheap, and available in such large quantities, it's definitely getting used to
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by qart 4y ago
Yes, you'll see homeless people on the footpaths of Indian cities. I have visited plenty of small towns, but I can't recall seeing homeless people there at all. Quite a lot of the footpath dwellers come from nomadic communities, s
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by qart 4y ago
I recognized the names of two of the authors immediately, David F. Brailsford, and Brian W. Kernighan. Not only are they both contemporaries of Ritchie, but Kernighan was a close colleague too.
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by qart 4y ago
Apart from some very common surnames like Tripathi, Dwivedi, Gowda, Reddy, etc. it's going to be very hard to learn to associate names with castes. Each state and each region has its own traits, which don't translate across that r

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