satish-setty

https://satish.com.in - mostly Hindu philosophy and programming

I'm replying to the person who shared link on BBC website about tax raids on BBC office by Indian authorities

Sampling bias? I know plenty of leftist publications like The Wire, Scroll, News Laundry and even NDTV who are free to express their opinions without censorhip. It's just that the majority of Indians don't ,trust any documentarists anymore (leftist or rightist) because they all push their own agenda.

Is there something special about "international" documetarists? BBC fought tax evasion in the courts and lost the case.

> They used to have edgy ads quoting Ghandi and ... It's funny they used to be so devoted to that Ghandi quote ...

It is Gandhi, not Ghandi!

Could someone (@dang ?) fix the title please? It is /etc/shadow , not /etc./Shadow

Yes, indeed. It is mentioned in the wikipedia link ("गोपीभाग्यमधुव्रात..."). I first read it in the "Vedic Mathematics" book by HH Bharati Krishna Tirtha Swamiji. Since he didn't give any attribution, I suppose he was the first one to reveal it.

UI with minimalism, open source and cross-platform (Win, Lin, Mac) -- what's not to like about it?!

And a great name too. Kavita means poem or poetry in Sanskrit and pretty much all Indic languages.

I'm sure others will point out the pros/cons vis-a-vis Calibre reader. But each serves a different niche. This one seems particularly geared towards comics. So cannot expect all the bells and whistles of Calibre.

Of course, it can be customized.

     (put 'dired-find-alternate-file 'disabled nil)

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DiredReuseDirectoryBuffer

Typo there, it should be colab.research.google.com

> 0x6. I like monospaced fonts.

Author doesn't follow his own advice?

http://fabiensanglard.net/git_code_review/index.php

May be he forgot to update his php pages, which are all in proportional fonts.

Not Octave, but the other Matlab-clone Scilab has a package called Xcos which is similar to Simulink.

Hence, to avoid confusion, the table should be updated as "C and C++" (or worse, "C/C++").

That said, any index which conflates C and C++ cannot be taken seriously.

No C++ in Top 10?

There is std::array<T, N> in modern C++ standard. It is meant for static arrays which know their own length.

http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/container/array

> I was a longtime user of KeePassX.

Probably you mean KeePass (the "original" one), which is written in C# and requires Mono in Linux ? KeepassX has always been native C++ and cross-platform.

This looks like blog spam. The actual article has more analysis:

https://blog.data.world/do-state-department-travel-warnings-...

Also, https://mail.zoho.com.

They have a 5GB free-tier if you've got a custom domain. I've been a customer for years and very happy overall.

As a customer of Gitlab who uses custom domains, I haven't got any email notification about this. Especially when the post says it requires user action. As much as I love gitlab, this negligence is unacceptable.

Seems everybody here has switched to rg but I haven't because it's not available in Debian repos (yet) unlike ack/ag. So, do such folks use Arch or just download a pre-built binary ? How about updating rg when a new version is out ?

> Vedic Sanskrit has three ways of pronouncing it (similar to the Chinese four accents)

Just a nitpick: Vedic Sanskrit has pitch accent, not tone. Chinese is tonal. And I'm a huge fan of ghana patha as well!

This is precisely one reason I like Mercurial over Git. Hg has commands which are more meaningful than those of git.

The article doesn't state it, but

    '(lambda (x) x)

is actually shorthand for

    (quote (lambda (x) x))

And then the distinction between them is explained right inside emacs. C-h f quote and C-h f lambda

Just discussed two days ago (260 points): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15922043