FlyingSnake

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by FlyingSnake 2mo ago
> If proof free speculations are your thing… Funnily enough I’ve given enough examples and sources already in this thread. I think it’s better than “I know someone who knows” and “it’s expert vetted research”. I’ll stick to my theory abo
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by FlyingSnake 2mo ago
This isn’t a black and white case where “proofs” exist. Indian history is notoriously hard to study due to lack of primary sources. > historical changes in Sanskrit used in the Vedas. This is just one small corpus of Sanskrit linguistic
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by FlyingSnake 2mo ago
Comparing Sanskrit to the status of Latin in 17th CE is bit disingenuous and a sign of presentism. Sanskrit enjoyed scholarship since 6th BCE and it was prevalent and commonly used for more than a millennia after that. The various inscripti
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by FlyingSnake 2mo ago
With all due respect, are they historians of Sanskrit linguistics or professors of Sanskrit language? That makes a big difference. Diglossia is very common in Indian culture and it is not far fetched to imagine Indians speaking Sanskrit and
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by FlyingSnake 2mo ago
The majority of surviving Sanskrit literature is actually secular like Poems, Dramas, science and mathematics. Sanskrit was widely spoken and understood just like Latin or Avestan, in its heyday. Otherwise it wouldn’t be part of the liturgi
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by FlyingSnake 3mo ago
> can travel up to 125 kilometers (77 miles) on a single charge This would be a big hit in European cities. I own VW e-Up! and it's a perfect EU city car. With it's 375KM range, I rarely charge it more than once a month.
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Scaling Security Insights at Cloudflare(blog.cloudflare.com)
2 points by FlyingSnake 3mo ago|0 comments
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by FlyingSnake 4mo ago
Which “entire industries” has ChatGPT upended?
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by FlyingSnake 4mo ago
Great article. Hacking old kindles is fun! I encourage everyone to give it a try. The retro feel of eink makes it special for me. I wrote about my experience in cross compiling zig on an old kindle some time ago. https://samkhawa
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by FlyingSnake 4mo ago
Used Vivaldi for years but it kept breaking my workflows and would wipe out my meticulously assembled tab groups. After few such gaffes I switched to Brave. I really wanted Vivaldi to work but can’t let it break workflows.
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by FlyingSnake 4mo ago
Adding C++ to the project wasn't unprecedented TBH. The app was blazing and we didn't have any issues with perf in the project. The app failed for a different reason.
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Bug Archeology: Solving a decade-old Swift/C++ mystery with LLMs(samkhawase.com)
9 points by FlyingSnake 4mo ago|5 comments
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by FlyingSnake 4mo ago
PiZero is a pretty solid machine. I run my micro-homelab on a Pi Zero from 2018. It’s behind Cloudflare tunnels. It runs the apps i need on a DietPi OS within 180MB and it’s uptime is ~8 months.
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Email Is Crazy(samkhawase.com)
14 points by FlyingSnake 5mo ago|0 comments
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by FlyingSnake 5mo ago
All good brother, we all are going through interesting times. You seem to be in the arena and have skin in the game. Would love to read your blog on these topics.
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by FlyingSnake 5mo ago
> Mughals palace households were mainly speaking Persian language They actually spoke Chagatai Turkish in the households and Persian was the court language. Urdu developed independently, mostly outside the royal patronage, and much late
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by FlyingSnake 5mo ago
May I ask what kind of study did you do on the Mughals? What stands out the most for you? Fun fact: They called themselves "Gurkhaniye" and not "Mughals". It was a term mostly popularized by rivals like Marathas (which i
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by FlyingSnake 5mo ago
Ignoring your snark, I'm in agreement with what you said. It is indeed a complex topic and I see no John Fairbanks like figure championing the cause.
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by FlyingSnake 5mo ago
I have nothing against Mughals, they had a great impact on the subcontinent history esp during 17th century. However the center of gravity was the Indian Ocean Spice trade network which was the South. This is what the Portuguese and various
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by FlyingSnake 5mo ago
Text is Lindy. It has withstood the test of time and it's as ubiquitous as SQL or TCP/IP. Reminds me of this decade old post (and discussion) by Graydon Hoare, "Always bet on text". [1]: https://news.ycombinat
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by FlyingSnake 5mo ago
True that. There is no interest in objectively studying history in India. It is just a tool to further the agendas of various parties involved.
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by FlyingSnake 5mo ago
The unwavering focus on the Mughal empire by the West, is a curious phenomenon. Is it because they built highly visible monuments like the Taj? Mughals didn’t even reach their zenith until 1680s and were vastly reduced by 1730s. The Deccan
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by FlyingSnake 5mo ago
I've traveled to Hanoi and absolutely loved the phở there. One perk of living in Berlin is the exceptional Phở we get here. Thanks to the large Vietnamese community we have great phở, Bahn mí (esp at the Dong Xuan center). The phở we g
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by FlyingSnake 5mo ago
> "Actually…" or "But wait!" You’re absolutely right! Jokes apart, I did notice GLM doing these back and forth loops.
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by FlyingSnake 5mo ago
At this point drawing these Pelicans must be in the training data sets.
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by FlyingSnake 5mo ago
I tried GLM5.1 last week after reading about it here. It was slow as molasses for routine tasks and I had to switch back to Claude. It also ran out of 5H credit limit faster than Claude.
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by FlyingSnake 5mo ago
Spandau occupies a commanding position on the wide confluence of Spree and Havel river. It is part of the wider river networks and one can easily navigate to Elbe and Danube. The coin might have ended up here via trade. https://m
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by FlyingSnake 5mo ago
“Each agent gets its own identity from a single domain.“ That too on the edge, along with the futuristic CF Dev primitives. I had the same thought when I read this part. The $6MM investment on Agent Mail is in serious trouble right now.
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by FlyingSnake 5mo ago
yay -S llama.cpp I just installed llama.cpp on CachyOS after reading this article. It’s much faster and better than Ollama.
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by FlyingSnake 5mo ago
There is hope. India's Central Rice Research Institute is quite active and is working on some of the problems. https://icar-crri.in/popular-nrri-varieties/

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