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The author of the first book listed there explains there was no ancient Silk Road. This concept was dreamt up in 1877.

https://youtube.com/shorts/Ki4UQ20tWQk

Another "maybe" to consider: maybe it's the wrong format for you. Years ago, I got yearly subscriptions at a gym that was right below my office, and showed up less than 10 times. This was followed by many more years of no subscription and no physical exertion. A few years ago, I got introduced to group classes at Cult Fit. This format fits me perfectly: just show up, and follow instructions just like everyone else. If I'm doing something wrong, the instructor comes to me and sets me right. I show up everyday. This brought about many changes - many serum biomarkers are under control, and I can do things that I couldn't do at half my age.

Canada logic: "Let's take in people who have links to Canadian crime gangs, and when things go bad, let's just blame India"

it's literally the 'garbage logic' that the majority of 'good people' are trying to escape.

Thank you very much!! Please take more 'good people'! I heard "asylum crackdown began in Canada" by someone else right here. Please go protest it. I suppose these people are all upstanding model citizens of Canada now. You are most welcome to blame the murder of Harpreet Singh Uppal on India too. Just keep taking more 'good people'.

Stop trying to defend the indefensible.

OK. I will personally accept all future blame, just like Jesus Christ. Only if you promise to keep taking more 'good people'.

You are resistant to all the actual information I have provided you. Your terrorists are killing more of your own citizens. But, I suppose Indian government should straightaway accept guilt for all such murders including that of Harjeet Singh Dhadda and an upstanding citizen Harpreet Singh Uppal. Mark Carney is cosying up to the same Indian government. I wonder which strategy of Carney will work on you: supply kool-aid or pretend there was never any problem. I'm betting on the latter.

Calling out hypocrisy is fair game. What rebuttal? Why even talk about irrelevant "clippings"? On whom is the onus of providing evidence?

If it's such an insignificant movement

It is a significant movement in Canada. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_India_Flight_182

Also, the veracity of a claim does not depend on who is making it or who is disputing it. The accusing investigation agency has do a proper investigation and submit proofs and ask for extradition.

These are literally murders by Indian nationals on other Indian nationals

They are all in your immigration pipeline or already through it. The crimes are all on Canadian soil. Who has jurisdiction in the so-called "rules-based international order"?

involving Indian government

This is your fantasy. You're playing fast and loose with accusations, just like Carney and Trudeau were while calling it "rules-based international order".

We want nothing to do with this.

Then stop providing asylum. Stop courting them for votes. Prosecute criminals.

Crucially - has nothing to do with this post.

Refer to the first line that I quoted.

India's claims of Mr Nijjar of being a terrorist was not.

But I'm not talking about this claim. I'm talking about the fact that Trudeau accused the Indian government being responsible for his murder. The onus was always on the Canadian government to prove it.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-indian-government-n...

It is that simple. Canada is not learning. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G76aXJOWkAA4CNy?format=jpg&name=...

Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalistan_movement is not a significant movement in India. I have plenty of connections with Sikhs and Sikhism in India. Apart from a very tiny minority of people, who quickly set off to Canada, this movement does not exist in India. They are courted by Canadian parliamentarians, which included Trudeau.

This book has more details about the movement: https://www.amazon.in/Blood-Fifty-Global-Khalistan-Project/d...

nobody in Canada wants anything to with your 'ethno nationalist wars'

Absurd. These are YOUR 'ethno nationalist wars' because your country has given them a safe haven. This problem does not exist in India. Not one Sikh I know sympathizes with these separatists, and I have plenty of Sikh friends, been to their homes, been to their hometowns.

For decades, countries like Canada prospered under what we called the rules-based international order.

As an Indian listening to this, this comes across as absurd. Trudeau constantly invoked this phrase when dealing with India about the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar. It basically meant Trudeau could level allegations, not provide any evidence, and strut as if he as won. In due course, the murderers turned out to be their own terrorists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardeep_Singh_Nijjar#Diplomati...

Weasel words, basically. All too common in journalism. It's also common on Wikipedia but Wikipedia acknowledges it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word

There is a talk called "Java for Small Coding Tasks" by the author of Core Java: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04wFgshWMdA

Apparently, this is the way to do it:

    ///usr/bin/env java --source 25 "$0" "$@" ; exit $?

You will not build reading stamina or make yourself well informed with sappy stories. Learn some basic statistics and try reading research papers directly. "I have read more words" is a measure of only that, and nothing else. Maybe also a measure of the ability to not be able to separate wheat from chaff.

A friend of mine told me a few days ago that he thinks LLMs are already smarter than most humans. I agreed with him instantly.

Amy Bies was recovering in the hospital from injuries inflicted during a car accident in May 2007

When an article starts like this, I instantly close it and wait for proper sources. Anyway, the phrase "metabolic syndrome" has been gaining currency for the last few years. For those who don't want to read journal papers and meta-analyses, there are plenty of doctors and fitness coaches (on YouTube) who have made videos on how to get metabolic syndrome under control or even reverse it. And many of the doctors do a good job of filtering and summarizing the research.

You're right. MISRA is a cult. Actual studies[1][2] have shown many of their rules to be harmful rather than helpful. I have worked in multiple safety-critical industries. MISRA is almost always enforced by bureaucrats who don't understand source code at all, or by senior developers who rose up ranks as code monkeys. One such manager was impressed with Matlab because Matlab-generated C code was always MISRA compliant, whereas the code my company was giving them had violations. Never mind the fact that every function of the generated, compliant code had variables like tmp01, tmp02, tmp03, etc.

There are many areas of software where bureaucracy requires MISRA compliance, but that aren't really safety-critical. The code is a hot mess. There are other areas that require MISRA compliance and the domain is actually safety-critical (e.g. automotive software). Here, the saving grace is (1) low complexity of each CPU's codebase and (2) extensive testing.

To people who want actual safety, security, portability, I tell them to learn from examples set by the Linux kernel, SQLite, OpenSSL, FFMpeg, etc. Modern linters (even free ones) are actually valuable compared to MISRA compliance checkers.

[1] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/4658076

[2] https://repository.tudelft.nl/record/uuid:646de5ba-eee8-4ec8...

I have family members with health conditions that require periodic monitoring. For some tests, a phlebotomist comes home. For some tests, we go to a hospital. For some other tests, we go to a specialized testing center. They all give us PDFs in their own formats. I manually enter the data to my spreadsheet, for easy tracking. I use LLMs for some extraction, but they still miss a lot. At least for the foreseeable future, no LLM will ever guarantee that all the data has been extracted correctly. By "guarantee", I mean someone's life may depend on it. For now, doctors take up the responsibility of ensuring the data is correct and complete. But not having to deal with PDFs would make at least a part of their job (and our shared responsibilities) easier.

One state in India is particularly strong with its labour centric protectionism. As far as I have seen, most families' earnings come from one family member working in "Gulf". The labour unions there are a big reason why industry hardly ever takes root. One example: https://x.com/Bharatiyan108/status/1948757576427901138

I have had my hearing tested at an audiologist. My hearing curves are identical with air conduction and bone conduction. There are very few cases where bone conduction might be better, like when something is obstructing air conduction. But with most people, bone conduction headphones will not help. I have been a regular user of Shokz for around 4 years now. They have other advantages (and disadvantages).

There will be no course-correction in India. The usual mindset is "how can I be the bigger a-hole?" With accessories becoming more and more affordable, there has been a rise in super bright LEDs, and even flashing LEDs. In cities, the police sometimes imposes fines, but apparently, no one pays fines. We have louder horns too. And psychopaths openly displaying their psychopathy. Bangalore's police at least responds on Twitter (https://x.com/blrcitytraffic), but when I look around, it seems like their efforts are a drop in the ocean. The police of other cities are all completely ineffective. The only exception is Chandigarh, but no one wants to follow their example.

I have them all installed, but I use WezTerm most often because it is fastest to give me a window when I hit the assigned shortcut key. Ghostty is a hair slower. Kitty takes 2-3 seconds. I keep launching terminals pretty frequently, so this matters to me a lot. The only other feature that it must have is truecolor.

I live in India. Nearly all parties appoint literal thugs as ministers. Let alone English literacy and fluency, they are not even competent in their own language. Here we have a minister of Kannada & Culture, whose first language is Kannada, struggling to write a common word in Kannada: https://x.com/tulunadregion/status/1886675464221286414

I mean many bars wont give you a job without passing english interview.

We have a very similar situation in India. But ministers (and their supporters) now take perverse pride in not being good at English. They use our brief British rule as a scapegoat for half the things that are wrong with India. The other half is blamed on Mughal rule.

This is India. If people are informally reporting corruption in some institution, you'll be on the right track if you believe it to be true. There will never be any formal studies of such cartels. Journalists who attempt to report on such things are regularly murdered. Most people are simply oblivious. You saw in the main e-waste story how the journalist seemed oblivious to the cartel in front of his eyes. If you stay in an independent house, not a flat, you might want to look into cartels of water tankers too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukesh_Chandrakar

“Our forefathers did this. … No one else can do it,” he continued. “If someone tried, he will be beaten black and blue.”

It's telling that the journalist did not investigate and elaborate on this. The ancient feudal structures that pervaded India for millennia continue to this day. There is a veneer of democracy, but those who live here know how thin the veneer is. For example, even the choice of ISPs available in some locality is controlled by cartels. If an ISP tries to serve a locality that already has a few ISPs, their cables will be severed and their workers will be beaten up. I am talking about a city with a relatively good police presence. In smaller cities, towns, and villages, many more aspects of business are controlled by feudal structures. Every political party has a hierarchy of feudal structures, and most of them have gang-lords at lower levels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia_Raj

If you don't mind, could you export and share one chat thread so I could see how it's working out for you?

I have it installed. But the only thing I get updates for is Obtainium itself. There's no catalogue of apps, so I haven't installed anything via Obtainium.

I have worked on projects (research, not production) where doing "ls" on some directories would crash the system. Some processes generated that many data files. These files had to be fed to other programs that did further processing on them. That's when I learned to use xargs.

This is the first time I'm seeing the book. The author is solid! He has just the right sense of humour for a programming book.