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I loved the early stumblupon. It was great for discovery as well as a social network with like minded people. There's nothing that replaced it and that's a pity.

Reminds of The Nib ( https://thenib.com/ ). Some of the best English language non fiction artists contributed to it. Was saddened when they decided to discontinue.

Yep. That's the whole principle behind stablity mechanisms such as tripods and easels

Everytime I hear someone lament about something not being thread safe, what I actually hear is - I want this shared invariant global state to be modifiable but it isn't. Which makes me ask the question why would you want that ?

The process environment should not be the mechanism for threads to communicate with each other.

People were writing movie scripts long before the talkies became popular :-)

Movie scripts contain much more than the dialogues. There's enough of an argument to be made that transcription is covered by fair use rights.

Perhaps because we aren't seeing evidence to the contrary?

...tbh, imo, the impact of this is already visible in the world (eg: it can be argued that the conflict in Ukraine is directly linked to climate change) whereas ASI is still fantasy that exists only in the minds of the AI 1% , to use the terminology of the OP.

Climate change has compounding effects (eg: water scarcity, leading to political conflict, leading to displacement, leading to pandemics ...and that's just one vector). Real world is real real messy. COViD should have taught people that. Unfortunately, it didn't.

Ooh, that's a neat trick! The head fake, so to speak is this is a git trick rather than anything special to sqlite. Thanks for sharing.

Not only was the Chandrayaan 3 budget lesser than that of Chandrayaan 2, as a meme doing the rounds point out, it was lesser than the budgets of some Hollywood blockbusters like Interstellar. So yeah, safe to say they could have had the budget for more if necessary.

> I personally believe that most people are smarter than this

You've grossly overestimated the willingness (not the capacity) of people to reason and gravely underestimated the power of propoganda.

Everything in history from religion to politics, from sports to war, yes even the history of science, points to the capacity of humans to willfully ignore knowledge.

If the volume of data fits on a mobile phone for it to be offline, perhaps you don't need deep learning?

It boils down to who they are trying to appease. With the potential backlash they would have got from customers and damage to their brand it makes sense to position themselves as 'taking a stand on behalf of the customer'. If there was more to lose in regards to their relationship with LHR, we'd have seen a wishy washy 'we are sorry, here are some refunds'.

Furthermore, now they are in the position to put in another notice to the effect claiming - Look we tried, we are sorry it didn't work out, here are some refunds

> I believe jati and religion/theology are orthogonal. You can belong to caste x and any religion y in the sub-continent.

My comment was in response to the parent who brought in the word religion into the discussion, as some means of justification of inheriting the religion of their parent is the same as inheriting the caste. ...and now here you claim that they are orthogonal. How very convenient.

This is exactly the kind of deflection used to 'muddle' the conversation, as you put it.

If they are orthogonal, why does caste still even persist ? Why is the notion of caste still held on to ? If one can follow the hindu religion without identifying with caste why do Indian Hindus still hold on to their caste identity ?

It is easy to say the conversations get 'muddled' without bothering to learn why the thing under discussion even exists !!

None of this is new. Dr. B.R. Ambedkar wrote about this decades ago and yet, here we are, with google claiming the same thing you are -- that talking about caste somehow ends up being Hinduphobic.

How did religion enter the conversation? Are you saying that you'd stop being a Hindu if you give up your Brahmin identity?

> It's as absurd as saying there are not enough professional basketball player that are redhead so we should have quota of redhead regardless of skill level.

If the end goal is that after a number of generations we finally have the proportionate number of redhead basketball players that would have existed if we didn't discriminate against recruiting redhead players in the past, then no, the idea isn't absurd at all.

Note the keyword here is the end goal - of creating a equal and just basketball team... or society, if you reel in the ad absurdum.

I've heard similar arguments being made about teaching CRT in school. Are you really saying ABCDs are so confused about their own identity that they'll cling on to n antiquated notion of a social hierarchy based on knowledge of the Vedas?

> No doubt lower caste members have disparate outcomes compared to Upper Caste but this is not due to "Caste Discrimination".

This sort of opinion forming based purely on personal anecdotes is why talks such as the one under discussion are needed. You've convinced yourself that caste discrimination doesn't exist just because you didn't happen to encounter it in your personal limited experience! Please listen, read and learn from first hand experiences of those that live it every day. Even today.

Click on this on any random day and then come here saying caste discrimination doesn't exist https://twitter.com/search?q=dalit%20beaten%20&src=typed_que...

Leaving out this, while quoting other parts of it, from the linked New Indian Express article is rather disingenuous:

> The Kolkata-based Anthropological Survey of India (ANSI), which has, “of late”, expressed “disinclination” to proceed with the exercise to trace the genetic origins of early Indians because the issue is “politically loaded”, is also part of this project which was initially conceived in 2019. A budget of `10 crore has been earmarked for procuring the DNA profilers and the other related scientific gadgets, sources said.

So while the 'standard anthropology' part is most likely true, the manner in which science is being done in the India, I willing to bet:

a. The funding for the project is being provided under the pretext that the 'conclusions' of the 'study' would be in line with the agenda of the current administration

b. Regardless of the actual discovery made, the results would be spun to offer legitimacy to the cockeyed histories that the current administration likes to peddle.

Edit: a quick search for the Rakhigarhi Research Project (led by the person conducting this 'study') should tell you all you need to know about this 'Aryan-washing' exercise :

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffcm&q=Rakhigarhi+Research+Project

Note that there are other 'cues' as well that casteists use to identify your caste, such as the food you eat (veg/non-veg), the social rituals/ceremonies or religious practices you engage in. In fact, you'd see enough Brahmins (in the US!) wear the scared thread[1] and embrace the entire identity of being at the 'top' of the caste system that knowing that you are a non-brahmin is sufficient for them to treat you as a Dalit.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upanayana

If you were born outside of India, it would be pretty much like any other national /racial identity -- inferred from family (based on family names for instance). Like mentioned in the GPs write-up:

> Unlike race, it’s easier to hide your caste, especially in a new country. Many dalits change their official last name to something common enough that it’s hard to identify them.

> It's also a tacit admission that they have a QA process that is dogshit and simply expect users to catch bugs

Since when did we expect OSS to have QA process that is not the users ? It's telling that the co-opting of OSS by business led to this expectation that OSS is something to consume rather than participate in.

Not directly related, but for a long time now, I've been using per project specific $HISTFILE (set automatically when I start using, ie: cd into, the project dir) and that simple change, by itself, has greatly improved the quality of the cli history.

> an infamous troll on comp.lang.lisp

And on the python mailing lists. The last I recall seeing that name was in context of crowd funding after going through some tough times. It was quite sad. Hope things are better now.

I thought the same until I realized that the example picture is attempting to demonstrate the effect using the direction of the flow of the puddle of water in the foreground (the caption reads : Water appearing to run uphill at Magnetic Hill in New Brunswick).

Well, to be fair, they do recommend that you "keep this under your pillow" [1]

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/

> Reading code can be a complementary activity that can bring insights but it's not a way to level up.

Counter-point: As a professional developer one might spend far more time reading code than writing code. In my experience, all the good developers I've worked with have the ability to skim through large code bases and quickly zone into the parts that interest them. It is a very deliberate skill to cultivate.

I once put down my thoughts on this : http://lonetwin.net/20090829/hacks-you-can-live-without/on-r...

So you haven't actually read the post?

Isn't skipping the preceding statement:

> Unless you get inside the activity and identify with it, you are not going to be good at it.

..taking the statement you quoted out of context ?

I don't quite agree it is a terrible generalization. I do not think you can become good at something without actually identifying as a 'do-er' of the said thing; without actually getting so involved with the thing that it becomes part of your identity.

Also, on the thing you say about educators -- who else, if not educators, would you listen to if the person telling you that math education needs to be impress upon students, mathematical thinking (as opposed to than bland mathematical procedures )? Wouldn't they have the most context ?

PS: also, unless you are a mathematician and/or an educator, I hope you do see the irony of your comments dismissing as 'exceeds his field of expertise', the opinions of someone who is both.

So I take it you didn't read the post you commented on, else you'd know that the post describes the distinction between mathematical thinking and doing mathematics.