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This kind of data is good to have. The post is admirably restrained for such a sensitive topic. But I would urge the original poster to reconsider the wording they used in the RTI query for the IITs. The query says "category of reservation", which is different from caste. People of all castes are allowed to apply in the "general category", while the other categories are "reserved" for their respective castes. The data would be much more reliable if the query said "caste declared by the applicant", and not the category they chose to apply in.

EDIT: s/cast/caste/

The question doesn't specify any language, so FWIW, I first learned "serious" programming by reading the sources for GNOME Glib, about 18 years ago.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib

So the real problem is that Google forces you to sign in to your browser with your Google account?

I am a parent of two, and I honestly don't understand these kind of posts. When a child comes home excited about some great marks, all we say is "Awesome, good for you" and celebrate the moment. Then at 7pm when the child comes back from play, we sit down for home assignments and whatever needs to be studied next.

EDIT: minor typo

Did you forget a "/s" tag? Because that pretty much sounds like ten years of AMD history!

To use a very imprecise comparison, the fridge that my parents purchased way back when, cost them three months of savings, while the fridge that I purchased would cost half a month's savings for a similar job.

I wonder how that works in other fields. Is it an appeal to authority if one buys things by reading reviews? Does everyone always afford the time or the money to try each thing themselves to decide this is the one they want? Should people never look at the manufacturer brand before making a purchase?

Same in India. And not just when speaking or writing English, but in some the regional languages too.

A lot like a git merge, then :)

I am sure this is out of context, but I regularly use a thesaurus to find names for patterns in my code/design/architecture. Applies to class names, variables, even functions.

Grandparent's focus was on "growth". And clearly, the report says CPU is "down".

I am confused. It's still around, right? It might be disabled by default on Windows, but you can always modify the power setting to enable hybernation? I set mine up and replaced "sleep" with "hibernate" in every setting I could find, like power button, lid close, idle timeout.

Isn't it possible that someone else messaged the Smith's about the conversation, and mentioned OP's name, and then some algorithm made the connection?

Why is that not good advice for a novice too? I do this by reflex every time I install Debian or Ubuntu, and to my experience it did not create a situation that needed "expertise in apt".

Does it work to just "accept all" every time, and then rely on ad blockers to actually keep the cookies out?

Totally my life. I keep the middle one fixed, and then see-saw on the other two!

TBH, my first reaction to this comment was "somebody's wrong on the Internet". But luckily, reflection won over reaction, and gave me enough pause to realize what's really happening.

I have no idea where this notion of "shunning the mouse" came from. The simple fact is that when you're "in the zone", the mouse gets in the way. After having read and re-read other peoples code, and occasionally also having read half a dozen research papers, you are finally ready to dump all the code that has been brewing in your head. At that point, you are a typist. All the for-loops and switch-cases and function calls are jostling around in your head, and you want to serialize them into source code as fast as you can. When you're doing that, forget the mouse even the arrow keys are too far away. All you want is "do what I mean" with "the thing at point". Everything else just disappears outside your region of focus.

So yeah, the mouse is awesome when you're browsing and reading code. But when you're typing code, the home row is the fastest way to get it all out.

EDIT: s/two/too/ far away

It would be nice if every Indian managed to get vaccinated. And it's easy to get distracted by the observation that 290 million is smaller than a billion. But the important thing is that those 290 million are concentrated around urban areas. That goes a long way in breaking the chain. It's okay if logistics makes it very difficult to reach every remote rural place for now. We'll get there eventually.

even better: slash dot dot dot big bang dot com

You can see where this going :)

Not the GP, but I used to commute two hours each way for college in Mumbai (including a switchover and long walks to/from the train stations). Used some of that time to finish assignments if I got a seat!

I wonder how many will catch on to that "ghati" username! Good one, though!

From the GP comment:

> Engineers design bridges with built-in safety margins in order to guard against unforeseen circumstances (unexpectedly high winds, corrosion causing joints to weaken, a traffic accident severing support cables, et cetera)

I am not a mechanical engineer, but none of these examples look like smooth functions to me. I would expect that an unexpectedly high wind can cause your structure to move in way that is not covered by your model at all, at which point it could just show a sudden non-linear response to the event.

And the whole point of cornering data at rest is that your client can "no longer access it". It's not about the authorities being able to decrypt that data. It's about hurting your business by making it difficult to continue operations.

> Correcting someone in a public venue isn't for the audience of one that is spouting stupid things, it's for the rest of the world that is reading the thread.

Whenever I have seen this happening, the rest of the audience generally viewed the negative feedback as "unnecessarily punishing" the original poster. From their perspective, the original poster was "just human", and the one who corrected was just trying to "show off".

"reflexive rather than reflective". Thanks. I learned something very useful. I'll always try to recall it when I can't understand why I am having an argument at all.

I think there's a problem worth solving here. With the DNS, people didn't have to bother remembering IP addresses or even know what they mean. With search engines, people no longer have to bother remember URLs or even know what they mean. That's a good thing, IMHO.

All we need now is to create a syntax for "internet identifiers" which is instantly recognizable as such. Enter ... drumroll ... @burrito.catering?

The choice of generic words like "burrito" and "catering" is a marketing decision. The original example was mostly a placeholder.

Exactly. I would much rather have these sensors embedded in elsewhere where I can make a conscious decision to activate the sensor as a part of my routine. Something that sits on my body all the time is just to anxiety-inducing.

I think those custom TLDs will work just fine. It might confuse customers a bit, but most of them will just type "burrito.catering" in Google and miraculously reach the correct website anyway.

EDIT: In case it's not obvious, the fact is that most people don't type the website address in the URL bar. They type it in the Google search bar.

Nights are merely day minus light. The days are just ... long.

I know my request might be off-topic ... the original article is from a blog that does not export an RSS/Atom feed. I am looking for recommendations for a service which can let me scrape a feed by guessing the structure of the articles.