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wces··on CUDA Books
This is highly condensed video of all important concepts in CUDA from Stephen Jones, one of the CUDA architects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQceTDjA4f4

Understand everything he talks about and you understand CUDA.

wces··on SQLite changed temp file prefix after McAfee users called devs to complain (2006)
The relevant comment here: https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite/blob/e8346d0a889c89ec8a78e6...

2006-10-31: The default prefix used to be "sqlite_". But then Mcafee started using SQLite in their anti-virus product and it started putting files with the "sqlite" name in the c:/temp folder. This annoyed many windows users. Those users would then do a Google search for "sqlite", find the telephone numbers of the developers and call to wake them up at night and complain. For this reason, the default name prefix is changed to be "sqlite" spelled backwards. So the temp files are still identified, but anybody smart enough to figure out the code is also likely smart enough to know that calling the developer will not help get rid of the file.

wces··on Cricket is changing for many reasons, one of which is AI
You can compare T20, OneDay and Test cricket to Classical, Rapid, Blitz and Bullet chess. At the highest level, players consider them to be completely different games needing different strategies.
wces··on Cricket is changing for many reasons, one of which is AI
Big shout-out to jomboy media (https://www.youtube.com/c/jomboyvideos) for explaining Cricket using Baseball terms.
wces··on The dystopian world of software engineering interviews
I've multiple colleagues who got offers from all of FAANG. They tell me about solving 500 problems on LeetCode 2 or 3 times before appearing for interviews.
wces··on The Most Gender-Switched Names in the U.S.
Krishna is a river in India. It's very common to name daughters after rivers in India. Ganga, Yamuna, Godavari, Kaveri are more common feminine river names than Krishna, though.
wces··on In praise of xlogo
Long time back (when xhost by default accepted all connections) in my college lab, I used to redirect DISPLAY to an unsuspecting user sitting on my favorite machine and and bombard them with `while true; do xlogo & done;`
wces··on Chess-playing neural network LC0 beats Stockfish in 100-game match
100 games: https://cd.tcecbeta.club/archive.html?season=15&div=sf&game=...
wces··on By the book: reflections on an Indian childhood reading Soviet hardbacks
I started loving Physics with Marathi translation of this book: https://www.amazon.com/Physics-Entertainment-Yakov-Perelman/...
wces··on Singular ‘They’ Is Word of the Year
South Asian languages routinely employ plurals to refer to/call a person with added respect. Even when speaking English many South Asians won't find anything amiss when he/she is replaced by they.